Dawn Gorman believes poetry should be everywhere - puts it on beermats, uses it to
work with people with memory loss, facilitates writing workshops, organises poetry
events and runs international poetry competitions. She is widely published, and has
performed in New York, Paris, London - and lots of smaller places in between.

“Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket;
you put your life into it and make something out of that.” Mary Oliver

Past Events

5th November 2016

The Derwent Poetry Festival

5th November 2016, 3:30pm - 4:30pm, Masson Mills, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire DE4 3PY

Delighted to have three poems included in this year's annual Templar poetry anthology, and also to be invited to read these, and others, at the Derwent Poetry Festival, where the anthology will be launched, alongside many of the new Templar pamphlets and collections. This year's festival is taking place between November 4-6th. It is held in Masson Mills, Matlock Bath in part of Richard Arkwright's original mill complex on the banks of the River Derwent. That's particularly apt for me, as I'm not only a Derbyshire girl, born and bred, but my Mum worked in one of the Masson Mills sister factories, in nearby Belper, as a young woman.
I will be reading on the Saturday afternoon.