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

26th November 2020

Clare Best
Robert Hamberger

29th October 2020

Martyn Crucefix
Phil Kirby

24th September 2020

Julia Deakin
Jackie Wills

27th August 2020

Veronica Aaronson
Jean Atkin

30th July 2020

Alyson Hallett
Penelope Shuttle

25th June 2020

Raine Geoghegan
Jennie Osborne

28th May 2020

Graham Burchell
Rosie Jackson

30th April 2020

Maria Jastrzebska
Louise Warren

26th March 2020

Dominic Fisher
Deborah Harvey

27th February 2020

Stephen Boyce
Dawn Gorman

30th January 2020

John Greening
Susan Jane Sims

19th December 2019

Moira Andrew
Neil Richards
Tom Sastry

28th November 2019

Claire Crowther
Carrie Etter

31st October 2019

Martin Figura
Helen Ivory

26th September 2019

Sue Boyle
Maggie Harris

29th August 2019

Michelle Diaz
Jonathan Edwards

25th July 2019

Alison Brackenbury
Shirley Wright

27th June 2019

Martina Evans
Aoife Mannix
Richard Douglas Pennant
Stuart Silver
Helen Moore

30th May 2019

James Davey
Jinny Fisher

25th April 2019

Rachael Clyne
Janet Sutherland

28th March 2019

Philip Gross
Lesley Saunders

28th February 2019

David Cooke
Ian Royce-Chamberlain

31st January 2019

Ben Banyard
Carrie Etter

20th December 2018

Kevan Manwaring
Jan Noble

13th December 2018

Stephen Seabridge

29th November 2018

Pey Pey Oh
Alasdair Paterson

9th November 2018

Martin Malone

25th October 2018

C L Dallat
Anne-Marie Fyfe

27th September 2018

Ross Cogan
Anna Saunders

30th August 2018

Josephine Corcoran
Lesley Saunders

26th July 2018

R V Bailey
June Hall

28th June 2018

Elizabeth Parker
Julia Webb

31st May 2018

Susan Richardson
Claire Williamson

27th April 2018

Cora Greenhill

26th April 2018

Tony Curtis
Cora Greenhill

29th March 2018

Paul Deaton
Ramona Herdman

22nd February 2018

Alyson Hallett
Julie-Ann Rowell

25th January 2018

Angela France
Robert Walton

28th December 2017

Stephen Daniels
Hazel Hammond
Dru Marland

30th November 2017

Tania Hershman
Pam Zinnemann-Hope

26th October 2017

Jonathan Edwards
Sarah Watkinson

28th September 2017

Zelda Chappel
Peter Robinson

17th September 2017

Carrie Etter

31st August 2017

Rachel Curzon
Helen Evans

27th July 2017

John Greening
Penelope Shuttle

29th June 2017

Lisa Brockwell
Beatrice Garland
Kate Noakes

24th June 2017

Moira Andrew
Maggie Harris
Ruth Marden
Crysse Morrison
Patrick B Osada
Peter Wyton

25th May 2017

Elephant's Footprint
Jodie Hollander
Liz Watts

27th April 2017

Rishi Dastidar
Susan Utting

17th April 2017

Rebecca Gethin

30th March 2017

Charles G Lauder Jr
Jennifer A McGowan

23rd February 2017

Wendy Klein
Daniel Sluman

26th January 2017

Ira Lightman
Ruth Sharman

3rd January 2017

Angela France
Roy Marshall

15th December 2016

John Hawkhead
Elizabeth Parker

24th November 2016

Claire Dyer
Hannah Teasdale

27th October 2016

Brokenborough Poets
Liz Carew
Atherton Gray
David Lukens
Matthew Oates
John Richardson
MM Season

29th September 2016

Deborah Harvey
Kieron Winn

16th September 2016

Harry Man

25th August 2016

Various contributors to the new book Salt on the Wind

11th August 2016

Georgi Gill
JL Williams

28th July 2016

David Clarke
Rachael Clyne

30th June 2016

Alison Brackenbury
Rosie Jackson

28th June 2016

Sam Loveless
Alan Summers

26th May 2016

Martyn Crucefix
Linda Saunders

5th May 2016

Cristina Navazo-Eguia Newton

28th April 2016

Graham Burchell
Maggie Sawkins

31st March 2016

Caroline Heaton
Martin Malone

25th February 2016

Sue Boyle
Connie Voisine

28th January 2016

Carrie Etter
Matthew Stewart

4th January 2016

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

25th January 2011

Special Event

13th December 2010

Muriel Lavender

17th November 2010

Karen Hoy
Alan Summers

23rd September 2010

Carrie Etter

31st August 2010

Jay Ramsay

Martyn Crucefix

Guest Poet: Martyn Crucefix

Martyn Crucefix's recent publications are Cargo of Limbs (Hercules Editions, 2019), These Numbered Days, translations of the poems of Peter Huchel (Shearsman, 2019) and The Lovely Disciplines (Seren, 2017). O. at the Edge of the Gorge, was also published by Guillemot Press in 2017. Martyn has translated the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke and the Daodejing - a new version in English (Enitharmon, 2016). He blogs regularly on poetry, translation and teaching at http://www.martyncrucefix.com

Guest Poet: Phil Kirby

29th October 2020, The Swan Hotel, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire BA15 1LN

EVENT POSTPONED. APOLOGIES. IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED AS SOON AS IT IS SAFE TO DO SO! Meanwhile, you can hear guest poets, and join the virtual open mic, on the West Wilts Radio programme The Poetry Place, which is aired on the final Sunday of every month. To hear previous programmes, go to: https://westwiltsradio.com/shows/the-poetry-place/

Come and join us at Bradford on Avon's popular reading series, Words & Ears. Bring a poem, story or song to share, or just bring yourself. All performers and listeners welcome: open mic slots always available. £5 on the door.