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

Poet-in-Residence, Beached, Stoke-on-Trent

Arctic Convoys Project

Beached

The Iron Duke Returns

Poet in Residence at Greenhill Cottage Gallery

Unexpected Excesses

Wiltshire at War: Community Stories

The Now in Then: Contemporary Writing from History project

The Watercycle Project with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Poet-in-Residence, Beached, Stoke-on-Trent

Back to the Beach, April 9th - May 11th 2018, for a further residency, this time in Stoke-on-Trent at the fabulous Valentine Clays venue, with masses of new pieces by Liz Watts. The light in the mezzanine-level gallery is superb - and every time Liz sets up this exhibition, it becomes more beach-like! Her new work includes a piece about plastics in the sea... a poem to follow, perhaps.
Also running a poetry workshop based on the exhibition (April 13th) and a satellite version of Words & Ears (April 27th) as a platform for the workshop-ers to come to read their poems written in the session, plus readings by guest poet Cora Greenhill, and work by Liz Watts - and me!