Our festival launch event featuring Alison Brackenbury, Bard of Dobunni, Kate Potts, Zoe Brooks and more. Held at Lansdown Hall.
Alison Brackenbury has published ten poetry collections, enriched by Gloucestershire’s hills, horses, hares and history. Her poems have received two major awards, and frequent broadcasts on Radio 4. Her latest collection is Thorpeness, (Carcanet). Alison’s new non-fiction prose book, ‘Village’, which Nicola Chester, (Guardian Nature Diarist), calls ‘wonderful’, features a legendary Gloucestershire villager, speaking perfect Anglo-Saxon...
Kate Potts is a poet, mentor, editor and founder of online poetry community Poetical Workshop. Feral (Bloodaxe 2018) was a PBS recommendation and a Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month. Her latest book Pretenders (Bloodaxe 2025) is a multi-voice exploration of imposter feelings. She has taught creative writing for Oxford University, Royal Holloway, Arvon, The Poetry School and elsewhere.
Zoe Brooks is a writer and performer of poetry from Gloucestershire, where she is a director of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. Zoe’s latest collection Something In Nothing (IDP) weaves together the lives of various fairytale characters in a contemporary setting to explore difficult issues.
Our festival launch event featuring Alison Brackenbury, Bard of Dobunni, Kate Potts, Zoe Brooks and more. Held at Lansdown Hall.
Alison Brackenbury has published ten poetry collections, enriched by Gloucestershire’s hills, horses, hares and history. Her poems have received two major awards, and frequent broadcasts on Radio 4. Her latest collection is Thorpeness, (Carcanet). Alison’s new non-fiction prose book, ‘Village’, which Nicola Chester, (Guardian Nature Diarist), calls ‘wonderful’, features a legendary Gloucestershire villager, speaking perfect Anglo-Saxon...
Kate Potts is a poet, mentor, editor and founder of online poetry community Poetical Workshop. Feral (Bloodaxe 2018) was a PBS recommendation and a Telegraph Poetry Book of the Month. Her latest book Pretenders (Bloodaxe 2025) is a multi-voice exploration of imposter feelings. She has taught creative writing for Oxford University, Royal Holloway, Arvon, The Poetry School and elsewhere.
Zoe Brooks is a writer and performer of poetry from Gloucestershire, where she is a director of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. Zoe’s latest collection Something In Nothing (IDP) weaves together the lives of various fairytale characters in a contemporary setting to explore difficult issues.
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