Brewery Poets Reading | 30 May | Starts 7.30pm | Live Tickets £8.50 | Online £5
Join us either Live or Online for our Brewery Poets Reading with guests Jennifer Copley, Jeremy Platt and Barbara Hickson.
Jennifer Copley is the author of 4 full collections – Unsafe Monuments (Arrowhead, 2006), Beans in Snow (Smokestack 2009), Sisters (Smokestack 2013), and What Happens to Girls (Pindrop 2020).
In 2018 she won the Cinnamon Pamphlet Competition with ‘Being Haunted’. She has been published by The North, Poetry Review, PN Review, The Sunday Telegraph, The Rialto, The Forward Prize Anthology (twice) and on-going in GCSE Poetry Revision Papers.
Jeremy Platt is based in the Lake District. He writes fiction, poetry and essays which are often but not always about music. His poetry explores the way in which new things arise in the region of play between interior and exterior worlds. His story “Playing Bass At A Wedding” was published in Dreamcatcher magazine. Jeremy is a musician and is active in the field of jazz, funk and related music.
Barbara Hickson’s poems have appeared in anthologies and journals including Poetry Salzburg Review, London Grip, Channel, Echtrai and Finished Creatures amongst many more. They have also won prizes in several major competitions.
In 2019 she had twelve poems published in a shared collection with Bev Morris and Gabriel Griffin entitled Rugged Rocks, Running Rascals – poems for complicated times, published by DragonSpawn Press.
Her own debut pamphlet A Kind of Silence was published by Maytree Press in 2021, and this was followed with her second pamphlet, Only the Shining Hours (also published by Maytree Press) in March this year.
Barbara lives in Lancaster with her husband and is a keen fell-walker, organic gardener and nature conservation volunteer.
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