Next Buzzwords
Sunday December 8th
Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
7pm Workshop lead
by Michael Bartholomew Biggs and Nancy Mattson
Open mic and readings 8pm
Guest poets Michael Bartholomew Biggs and Nancy Mattson
pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.
As always for the December meeting, if you would like to read somone else's work at the open mic, please do. It has been suggested that some may like to read Ann Drysdale's poems as she died in August and was such a good friend to Buzzwords.
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs is poetry editor of the online magazine London Grip. He began writing poetry, rather unexpectedly, about half-way through a career as a professional mathematician; he has now retired from the latter but not from the former. He has published six full collections, the most recent of which are Fred & Blossom (2013, a narrative sequence set in the 1930s), Poems in the Case (2018, a hybrid of poetry collection and murder mystery) and Identified Flying Objects (2024, contemporary responses to the prophet Ezekiel). For over twenty years he and Nancy Mattson have organised poetry readings at St Mary’s church in Islington – originally under the title Poetry in the Crypt but now elevated to Poetry above the Crypt.
