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Dobunni Poets gathers two extraordinary voices - Adam Horovitz and Ronnie McGrath - whose work listens closely to land, memory and the surreal edges of experience. Their readings form the heart of an event dedicated to celebrating the creative pulse of our community.
With an open mic welcoming emerging poets, this event will be a meeting place: a space where established and new voices share the stage. Sign up for the open mic on the door - first come, first served!
Held at the Chapels of Rest - South Chapel. Stroud Cemetery, Bisley Rd, Stroud GL5 1HJ.
Adam Horovitz is a poet, performer and editor. He has published three collections of poetry, Turning, The Soil Never Sleeps and Love and Other Fairy Tales, a memoir, A Thousand Laurie Lees, and an album of poetry and music with Josef Reeve, Little Metropolis. He co-presented The Thunder Mutters, a podcast celebrating John Clare, with fiddle player Becky Dellow during lockdown. He appeared on Cerys Matthews and Hidden Orchestra’s album We Come From the Sun in 2021. His latest solo book, Slow Migrations, is out with Indigo Dreams (2025) and his recent collaboration with Ella Duffy Rock, Paper, Scissors (Dialect Press, 2026) is a Poetry Book Society Summer Pamphlet Choice.
Ronnie McGrath (aka “ronsurreal”) is a socially conscious visual artist, neo-surrealist poet, and novelist. He teaches creative writing in London, Gloucestershire, and Bath. Former creative writing lecturer at The University of The Arts. He is the author of the poetry collection Data Trace, published by Salt, His work has appeared in IC3 The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, as well as visual art in Callaloo: Journal of African American Arts and Letters. In 2008, he appeared in the BBC4 documentary Tales from the Front Room. As well as having his painting featured on the front cover of Vector, African and Afrodiasporic Science Fiction #289, Ronnie has published work in Black Lives Have Always Mattered, poetry anthology Filigree, Glimpse, an anthology of black speculative writing in Britain, and an essay in Encounters with James Baldwin, celebrating 100 years. His latest work is an epigrammatic experimental text about growing up Black in Britain, titled Watermelon: rivers of love speeches, a conceptual prose work of things unspoken.
Dobunni Poets gathers two extraordinary voices - Adam Horovitz and Ronnie McGrath - whose work listens closely to land, memory and the surreal edges of experience. Their readings form the heart of an event dedicated to celebrating the creative pulse of our community.
With an open mic welcoming emerging poets, this event will be a meeting place: a space where established and new voices share the stage. Sign up for the open mic on the door - first come, first served!
Held at the Chapels of Rest - South Chapel. Stroud Cemetery, Bisley Rd, Stroud GL5 1HJ.
Adam Horovitz is a poet, performer and editor. He has published three collections of poetry, Turning, The Soil Never Sleeps and Love and Other Fairy Tales, a memoir, A Thousand Laurie Lees, and an album of poetry and music with Josef Reeve, Little Metropolis. He co-presented The Thunder Mutters, a podcast celebrating John Clare, with fiddle player Becky Dellow during lockdown. He appeared on Cerys Matthews and Hidden Orchestra’s album We Come From the Sun in 2021. His latest solo book, Slow Migrations, is out with Indigo Dreams (2025) and his recent collaboration with Ella Duffy Rock, Paper, Scissors (Dialect Press, 2026) is a Poetry Book Society Summer Pamphlet Choice.
Ronnie McGrath (aka “ronsurreal”) is a socially conscious visual artist, neo-surrealist poet, and novelist. He teaches creative writing in London, Gloucestershire, and Bath. Former creative writing lecturer at The University of The Arts. He is the author of the poetry collection Data Trace, published by Salt, His work has appeared in IC3 The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, as well as visual art in Callaloo: Journal of African American Arts and Letters. In 2008, he appeared in the BBC4 documentary Tales from the Front Room. As well as having his painting featured on the front cover of Vector, African and Afrodiasporic Science Fiction #289, Ronnie has published work in Black Lives Have Always Mattered, poetry anthology Filigree, Glimpse, an anthology of black speculative writing in Britain, and an essay in Encounters with James Baldwin, celebrating 100 years. His latest work is an epigrammatic experimental text about growing up Black in Britain, titled Watermelon: rivers of love speeches, a conceptual prose work of things unspoken.