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Rob Lock
Rob Lock has been writing for over twenty years and has benefitted greatly from membership of the East Suffolk Writing Group and subsequent contact with Michael Laskey, whose Garlic Press published a pamphlet for him. He was particularly pleased when a reviewer described this as being ‘alive with both love and the ordinary, with warmth…
Caroline Gill
Caroline Gill was Overall Winner in the inaugural Zoological Society of London Poetry Competition in 2014. She came 3rd in the 2017 Write Out Loud ‘Milestone’ Competition, judged by Brian Patten. Three poems feature in The Book of Forms, A Handbook of Poetics Including Odd and Invented Forms (Lewis Putnam Turco, University Press of New…
Kaaren Whitney
Kaaren Whitney, a professional homeopath, is a Poetry Advocate encouraging all to do with poetry. Born in the USA, she gained insight into the land, people and herself while living in London and for the last 30 years in Suffolk. Here she has been ‘educated’ by patients, life and being a guardian for her Tree…
Halesworth Swans
We are a lively reincarnation of Mike Bannister’s Pinky’s, then Swans, Poetry Café. We meet on the second Wednesday of the month, every other month, in theCommunity Room at Halesworth Co-op, Saxons Way, Halesworth, IP19 8LU. Entry £2 and plenty of free parking! As well as performing our own work or a favourite poem from any era, friends and…
Poetry Aloud, Bury St Edmunds
Poetry Aloud, Oakes Barn, St Andrews Street South, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3PH. £2.00. Meetings 19:30, third Tuesday of each month (except December). Contact: Colin Whyles, email: Poetry Aloud admin 01787 374516. Visit Poetry Aloud’s website here to read and hear poems from their poets.
Sudbury Café Poets
Sudbury Café Poets, Friends Meeting House, Friars Street, Sudbury CO10 2AA. Meeting second Thursday of each month 7:30pm . £3.50 Contact: Gillian Phillips 01787 377802 e-mail: derek.phillips1@btinternet.com or Jill Dawson 01787 379940
Waveney Poets
This local group (which formerly met at Bungay Library under the title Bungay Library Group) has a new venue and a new name, and now meets at The Waveney Centre, New Market, Beccles, Suffolk NR34 9HE on the last Tuesday of every month (except August and December) at 2.30 p.m. We share and discuss mainly but not…
Arlington’s Poetry Café, Ipswich
Arlington’s Poetry Café, Ipswich meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 7:00 pm. The poets meet at the Ipswich Institute. Usually it is a small group and people are welcome to share their poems by reading them or passing round copies. Coffee and cake included for £5 with wine and other drinks on…
Browser’s Poetry Café, Woodbridge
Current Venue: St Mary’s Church Hall, Market Hill, Woodbridge, IP12 4LP Day of Month: Third Friday Time: 7.00pm Contact: Fred Ellis, PoetryAnglia, 07946 529197
