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
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
17th September 2017
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
Martin Malone
Caroline Heaton
Sue Boyle
Connie Voisine
Carrie Etter
Matthew Stewart
Alison Lock
Stephen Payne
Rose Flint
Robin Houghton
Emily Wills
Alasdair Paterson
Matt Merritt
Deborah Harvey
Sue 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
Carrie Etter
Guest Poet: Carrie Etter
American expatriate Carrie Etter has published three collections: The Tethers (Seren, 2009), winner of the London New Poetry Award; Divining for Starters (Shearsman, 2011); and Imagined Sons (Seren, 2014), shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry by The Poetry Society. She also edited Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman, 2010) and Linda Lamus's posthumous collection, A Crater the Size of Calcutta (Mulfran, 2015). She has lived in the West Country since 2005 and is a Reader in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
The finals night of the 2017 Bradford on Avon Arts Festival Poetry Competition, in association with Words & Ears. Come to hear the finalists read their poems, and find out who won our £500 prize - with comments on the entries by our judge, Carrie Etter, who will also give us a reading of her own work. £4 on the door.
© Dawn Gorman 2015
