Next Buzzwords Sunday February 8th

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday February 8th

 Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

 7pm Workshop lead by Alison Brackenbury

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet  Alison Brackenbury

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

 

Alison Brackenbury was born in Lincolnshire, from a long line of skilled servants and farmworkers. She has received two major awards from the Society of Authors and has broadcast frequently on national BBC Radio. Her ten poetry collections are all published by Carcanet Press.  ‘Gallop’, her Selected Poems, was published in 2019. Her latest poetry collection is ‘Thorpeness’, published in 2022.

In 2025, Alison published her only prose book, a non-fiction account of her Lincolnshire childhood home. called ‘Village’. Nicola Chester, the Guardian Nature Diarist, described ‘Village’, in a recent review, as

 ‘a glorious, generous compendium. A selection box of delights and a romp through stories, and revelations, that overlap in layers, like a coloured tissue-paper lantern... full of the most beautiful, poetic language’.