Next Buzzwords Sunday June 8th

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday June 8th

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

 

7pm Workshop lead by Anna Saunders

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Robin Gilbert

 

 pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

 

 Robin Gilbert has lived for over fifty years in the “Wide Valley”, which stretches beneath the Cotswold escarpment from Cooper’s Hill in the south to Shurdington Hill in the north.  In 1971, he moved to Gloucestershire on joining GCHQ, where he worked for 35 years, the last fifteen of them in international relations.  He had written poems, on and off, for most of his life, and, soon after retirement in 2006, he started to attend meetings of the Cheltenham Poetry Society, Holub and Buzzwords. He has two previous (self-published) collections, My Own Dragon (2006) and DaDa & the Dark Lady (2012), and has enjoyed modest success in the Buzzwords and Cannon’s Mouth Sonnet or Not competitions. From 2013 to 2019, he was co-Director of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival.