This event will take place on Zoom. It will begin at 7.30pm. Please book tickets OR an Open Mic slot through the Eventbrite link which will appear on our Home Page about ten days before the date.
Anna Saunders is the author of Communion, (Wild Conversations Press), Struck, (Pindrop Press) Kissing the She Bear, (Wild Conversations Press), Burne Jones and the Fox (Indigo Dreams), Ghosting for Beginners, Feverfew, The Prohibition of Touch, (all Indigo Dreams). Her latest book is Eurydice in the Ruined House, ( Indigo Dreams).Anna has been described as ‘a poet who surely can do anything’ by The North, ‘a modern myth maker’ by Paul Stephenson, and Tears in the Fence said of her ‘Anna Saunders’ poetry is reminiscent of Plath – with all its alpha achievement and radiance’. She is also the Founding Director of Cheltenham Poetry Festival.
Zoe Brooks is a writer and performer of poetry from Gloucestershire, where she is a director of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival.Zoe’s long poem for multiple voices Fool’s Paradise won the EPIC award for best poetry ebook 2013. Her first collection was Owl Unbound (Indigo Dreams Publishing), and Fool’s Paradise (Black Eyes Publishing) was published as a print book in 2022. Zoe’s latest collection Something In Nothing (Indigo Dreams) has been described as “an utterly electrifying read!” and weaves together the lives of various fairytale characters in a contemporary setting to explore universal issues. At the heart of the sequence is the story of the serial killer Bluebeard and the Luminous Girl. Other characters include the elderly couple Beauty and Beast, the Slavic witch and ex-goddess Baba Yaga, a non-magical Godmother and a useless angel.