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 at Greenhill Cottage Gallery

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 at Greenhill Cottage Gallery

Martyn Slade of Greenhill Cottage Gallery invited me in September 2015 to become the poet in residence in this gorgeous artistic oasis on the countryside fringes of Southwick - and of course I said yes! The gallery - which sadly closed in September 2016 - had an excellent range of contemporary art - paintings, sculpture and jewellery - and some of those pieces were accompanied by my short poetic responses to them.
I was poet in more-or-less-literal residence at the gallery during Cloth Road Arts Week in 2016, when I wrote - and read - poetry 'live' to visitors to the gallery on that arts trail.

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Poet in Residence at Greenhill Cottage Gallery