Thursday, March 16, 2006

Gerry Cambridge at Poetry in the Woods



Saturday 25th March
10am - 3pm
Mabie Forest Education Centre

The Poetry in the Woods project comes to an end with a grand finale: a guided walk through Mabie Forest, followed by a workshop on writing about wildlife, taken by acclaimed poet and wildlife photographer Gerry Cambridge, followed by...

4:00
Lochthorn Library
Poetry in the Woods Final Reading with special guest Gerry Cambridge, Poetry in the Woods workshop leader Jackie Galley and readings by project participants of poems featured in the forthcoming Mabie Forest Poetry trail.

Gerry Cambridge is a poet, literary critic and editor of the literary magazine The Dark Horse.
He has published three full-length poetry collections: The Shell House, Madame Fifi's Farewell and Nothing But Heather, a collection of poems accompanying his own wildlife photographs, written while Writer in Residence at Brownsbank Cottage.

Jackie Galley is a poet and ecologist and has been the main workshop leader of the Poetry in the Woods project. Her poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies and she has featured in both series of Poetry Doubles, reading with Simon Armitage and Gillian Allnutt. She is on the editorial team of the forthcoming Southlight Magazine.


Admission to reading free. Book workshop with Ae Forest on 01387 860247 and book reading with Andrew Forster on 01387 253383 or andrew@dgaa.net.