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
Things We Should Have Said
Clare Best
Robert Hamberger
Martyn Crucefix
Phil Kirby
24th September 2020
Julia Deakin
Jackie Wills
Veronica Aaronson
Jean Atkin
Alyson Hallett
Penelope Shuttle
Raine Geoghegan
Jennie Osborne
Graham Burchell
Rosie Jackson
Maria Jastrzebska
Louise Warren
Dominic Fisher
Deborah Harvey
Stephen Boyce
Dawn Gorman
John Greening
Susan Jane Sims
Moira Andrew
Neil Richards
Tom Sastry
Claire Crowther
Carrie Etter
Martin Figura
Helen Ivory
Sue Boyle
Maggie Harris
Michelle Diaz
Jonathan Edwards
Alison Brackenbury
Shirley Wright
Martina Evans
Aoife Mannix
Richard Douglas Pennant
Stuart Silver
Helen Moore
James Davey
Jinny Fisher
Rachael Clyne
Janet Sutherland
Philip Gross
Lesley Saunders
David Cooke
Ian Royce-Chamberlain
Ben Banyard
Carrie Etter
Kevan Manwaring
Jan Noble
Stephen Seabridge
Pey Pey Oh
Alasdair Paterson
Martin Malone
C L Dallat
Anne-Marie Fyfe
Ross Cogan
Anna Saunders
Josephine Corcoran
Lesley Saunders
R V Bailey
June Hall
Elizabeth Parker
Julia Webb
Susan Richardson
Claire Williamson
Cora Greenhill
Tony Curtis
Cora Greenhill
Paul Deaton
Ramona Herdman
Alyson Hallett
Julie-Ann Rowell
Angela France
Robert Walton
Stephen Daniels
Hazel Hammond
Dru Marland
Tania Hershman
Pam Zinnemann-Hope
Jonathan Edwards
Sarah Watkinson
Zelda Chappel
Peter Robinson
Carrie Etter
Rachel Curzon
Helen Evans
John Greening
Penelope Shuttle
Lisa Brockwell
Beatrice Garland
Kate Noakes
Moira Andrew
Maggie Harris
Ruth Marden
Crysse Morrison
Patrick B Osada
Peter Wyton
Elephant's Footprint
Jodie Hollander
Liz Watts
Rishi Dastidar
Susan Utting
Rebecca Gethin
Charles G Lauder Jr
Jennifer A McGowan
Wendy Klein
Daniel Sluman
Ira Lightman
Ruth Sharman
Angela France
Roy Marshall
John Hawkhead
Elizabeth Parker
Claire Dyer
Hannah Teasdale
Brokenborough Poets
Liz Carew
Atherton Gray
David Lukens
Matthew Oates
John Richardson
MM Season
Deborah Harvey
Kieron Winn
Harry Man
Various contributors to the new book Salt on the Wind
Georgi Gill
JL Williams
David Clarke
Rachael Clyne
Alison Brackenbury
Rosie Jackson
Sam Loveless
Alan Summers
Martyn Crucefix
Linda Saunders
Cristina Navazo-Eguia Newton
Graham Burchell
Maggie Sawkins
Caroline Heaton
Martin Malone
Sue Boyle
Connie Voisine
Carrie Etter
Matthew Stewart
Alison Lock
Stephen Payne
Rose Flint
Robin Houghton
Emily Wills
Alasdair Paterson
Matt Merritt
Deborah Harvey
Susan Jane Sims
Jeremy Young
Carole Baldock
Lesley Saunders
Susan Utting
Sue Chadd
Josephine Corcoran
Special Event
Stephen Elves
Daisy Behagg
Special Event
Peter Wyton
Rosie Jackson
Misha Carder
Richard Skinner
Allison McVety
Martin Malone
Hilda Sheehan
Deborah Harvey
Chrissie Gittins
Dawn Gorman
Fiona Moore
Special Event
Alan Summers
Kevan Manwaring
Lynne Sedgmore
Peter Wyton
Jay Ramsay
Linda Saunders
Helen Moore
Frances-Anne King
Rose Flint
Lesley Saunders
Special Event
Jay Ramsay
Special Event
Stephen Boyce
Kevan Manwaring
David C Johnson
Crysse Morrison
Philip Lyons
Sue Boyle
Special Event
Liv Torc
Stephen Payne
Kevan Manwaring
Linda Snell
Special Event
Julie Mullen
Gabriel Bradford Millar
Special Event
Muriel Lavender
Karen Hoy
Alan Summers
Carrie Etter
Jay Ramsay
Julia Deakin
Guest Poet: Julia Deakin
Julia Deakin was born in Nuneaton and worked her way north to Yorkshire via Shropshire, the Potteries and Manchester. A compelling reader, she has won numerous prizes and featured twice on Poetry Please. Her collections are praised by leading UK poets. 'Crafted, tender poems, written with passion and purpose,' said Simon Armitage of her first; her latest, Sleepless (Valley Press 2018) is commended by Gillian Clarke. When not writing, or editing Pennine Platform, Julia enjoys walking and ice skating.
Jackie Wills
Guest Poet: Jackie Wills
Jackie Wills has spent her working life as a journalist, editor and teacher. She's a lifetime member of the National Union of Journalists, former Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the universities of Surrey and Sussex and a Lector, leading reading groups in Brighton and in hospital for young people with mental health problems. Wills' work as a tutor includes projects for multinational corporations, orchestras, museums, a children's secure unit, refugees, homeless people, older people and substance misusers. She has collaborated with many artists and long-term with Jane Sybilla Fordham and Fabrica Gallery in Brighton. She's organised poetry events and fundraisers, has had an allotment for more than 20 years and in 2019 worked with the Garden Museum and RHS at Wisley. Wills has published short stories, a handbook on how to run writing workshops and has been blogging since 2005. Her most recent collection of poems is A Friable Earth (Arc, 2019).
Photo: Giya Makondo-Wills
© Dawn Gorman 2015
