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

R V Bailey

Guest Poet: R V Bailey

R V Bailey has published five poetry collections: Course Work (Culverhay Press,1997), Marking Time (Peterloo Poets, 2004), Credentials (Oversteps 2012), From Me To You (Peterloo / Enitharmon 2007, with U A Fanthorpe), and A Scrappy Little Harvest (Indigo Dreams, 2016). The Losing Game (Mariscat 2010) was written following the death of her long-term partner the poet U.A. Fanthorpe. Co-editor []iA Speaking Silence: Contemporary Quaker Poetry (with Stevie Krayer) and The Book of Love & Loss: Poems for Today (with June Hall).

June Hall

Guest Poet: June Hall

26th July 2018, The Swan Hotel, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire BA15 1LN

A packed house, including lots of new faces, enjoyed a wonderful night's poetry at the Swan yesterday. Guest poets June Hall and RV Bailey are, as we know from previous readings at Words & Ears, a great poetry pairing, with the deeply heartfelt, moving work of the one sitting comfortably alongside the gentle humour, wisdom and raconteur's ease of the other, and there were some great poems, too, from open mic-ers, including John Hawkhead, Dru Marland, B Anne Adriaens, Pey Oh, John Powell, Martin, Ann Phillips, Deborah Harvey, Mark Sayers, Sylvia Novak, Kate Semple, Paul Brokensha and Martin Davies. Thank you to everyone for coming along and sharing their words, and ears.