27th August 2015, The Swan Hotel, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire BA15 1LN
Many thanks to everyone who came to hear our superb headliner poet Alasdair Paterson - and to all those who contributed to the lively and varied open mic. Alasdair read from several of his publications, treating us to an eclectic range of work, including intriguing villanelles in the voice of a mad king; poems with classical references - drawn with enviable lightness of touch; and, from his excellent latest collection, elsewhere or thereabouts, poems in the voice of a 'Famous Russian Poet'. There were empires, swifts, a witty re-editing of a tattoo, 'the gentle sine wave of revenge', and, to send us on our way, a 40-year-old poem ending on the great line: 'Everything that matters it just about to happen'.
