Poetry

A book launch of Shook Up! by Ric Hool Ric Hool has 13 collections of published poetry and is widely featured in poetry magazines & anthologies. His poetic themes include psychological and geographical impact of place, time and space on experience. He has run the reading series Poetry Upstairs in Abergavenny for 30 years. Ric Hool is from Northumberland.

Graham Hartill moved to the Black Mountains in 1992.  He has published seven co-translations with Wu Fusheng (of the University of Utah) from classical Chinese.  Graham teaches post-graduate students Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes for the Metanoia Institute in London  and was a writer-in-residence at HMP Parc, Bridgend.   clare e. potter is a poet and radio presenter who studied and taught in The Deep South (USA). She has had poetry residencies  with the Landmark Trust, performed at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC and was a Hay Festival Writer at Work.  Healing the Pack (Verve Poetry Press) her second poetry collection was [...]