FANTASTIC POETS READING AND GLORIOUS WORKSHOPS FOR POETRY LOVERS!

POETRY READINGS and WORKSHOPS with award winning poets

with funding from the T S ELIOT FOUNDATION 

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S U N D A Y 

12 – 1 pm RUTH SHARMAN AND STEPHEN BOYCE readings and discussion in main tent (FREE)

STEPHEN BOYCE: Prize-winning poet Stephen Boyce ‘makes it real in a seamless weave of thought, perception and emotion’ (Philip Gross). Stephen will read from his new collection Marnhull Solitudes, which evokes the natural spirit of Dorset’s countryside, and other recent work. Author of three previous collections and three pamphlets Stephen is co-founder of Winchester Poetry Festival, former chair of ArtfulScribe and a resident of north Dorset. ‘No-one else I have ever read has made me exclaim over a description of gravel! Wonderful!’ (Robyn Bolam). stephenboycepoetry.com

RUTH SHARMAN: Ruth Sharman is a prize-winning poet and freelance translator whose work has been published widely in national newspapers, magazines and anthologies, including Bloodaxe’s Staying Alive series of world poetry. She is the author of Birth of the Owl Butterflies (Picador) and Scarlet Tiger(Templar’s Straid Collection Award for 2016). In 2019, she received a Society of Authors Foundation Grant to revisit South India – where she was born – and produce the poems for her third collection, Rain Tree (Templar, 2022), and she is currently working on a fourth.

1.20 pm JEN FEROZE, reading in main tent (FREE) 

Jen Feroze will give a workshop on Sunday 6th (£15) and also a reading (FREE), AND SHE WILL BE WRITING POEMS ON THE SPOT at her table, on her manual typewriter, all day, that she will the give you, on a ‘pay what you feel’ basis! Last year this was a hit! Don’t miss a chance to have a piece of bespoke poetry wisdom written for you, or someone of your choosing, by Jen.

Jen Feroze will be joined by poet RHIAN THOMAS who will ask some questions and read a short selection of her own work too.

RHIAN THOMAS (pic above) grew up in North Wales and lives and writes in Stroud. She has been shortlisted for the New Welsh Review’s Borzello Prize and the Laurie Lee Prize, and was join winner of the Gloucestershire Poetry Society Prize. Her work has appeared in Poetry Wales, the New Welsh Review, IS&T, the Alchemy Spoon and Gentian Journal.

JEN FEROZE WORKSHOP £15  2.15 – 3.45 pm tickets on sale now!

Jen Feroze, pictured 

“P O L I T I C A L   D R A M A   &   O R D I N A R Y   J O Y” 

4pm Elvis McGonagall and Tony Kerrins TALK and EXHIBITION  

TICKETS ON SALE BELOW £8

TWO brilliant creatives at the top of their game local artist Tony Kerins who has spent his life documenting people and landscapes outside as they happen and is now unrivalled in his deftness and economy of line and yet enormity of expression and feeling. Plus stand-up poet, comedian and broadcaster, armchair revolutionary and walking shortbread tin, Elvis McGonagall who resides at The Graceland Caravan Park somewhere in the back of beyond where he scribbles satirical verse whilst drinking malt whisky and listening to Johnny Cash. Award winning poet, stand up and general absorber and poetic translator of this crazy thing called life.

Join Tony and Elvis in conversation. An exclusive event celebrating their collaboration on a new book, CASK STRENGTH, they’ll talk about little black books, and how words do one job and pictures another. They’ll probably mention persona and our public figures. Elvis will read and Tony might draw. They’ll answer questions and hopefully laugh, because it’s those real world inter-reactions that will save us

Political Drama and Ordinary Mess: An exhibition, in Room 14 at Sandy Hill Arts, of Tony’s original artwork illustrating the work of performance poet, Elvis McGonagall. Featuring ‘Cask Strength’, the third and latest collaboration between the two.

with Fiction and Documentary: Fifty years of Tony Kerins’ drawings everyday life. Painting the here and now. And illustrating book covers, children’s books, countryside maps …

THIS TALK WILL ACCOMPANY THE EXHIBITION OF ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY TONY KERINS FEATURING ALL THREE COLLABORATIONS BETWEEN TONY AND ELVIS, AND TONY’S FIFTY YEARS OF DRAWING THE HERE AND NOW.

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS FOR TONY KERINS AND ELVIS McGONAGALL

After the talk stay, have a drink, enjoy the exhibition, listen to some live music and soak up our site. BAR OPEN UNTIL 6pm.

Buses 40 to Poole, Wareham, Swanage. Train from Wareham.

S A T U R D A Y

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Running order

SAT 5TH SEPT

PM: ISABELLE BAAFI READING AND WORKSHOP

RACHEL LONG – READING AND WORKSHOP

Local Performing Poets

Open Mic

7.30 pm EVE: MUSIC AND POETRY VARIETY EVENT – WILD, INSPIRATIONAL AND NOT TO BE MISSED!

FEATURING: ELLA CRUZ with GRADY MOOMAW

+ BAZ LEWIS + RIWA SAAB + RICK FOOT …

SUN 6TH SEPT

12 – 1pm  RUTH SHARMAN + STEPHEN BOYCE – READING

1.20 pm JEN FEROZE – READING and TALK

2.15 – 3.45pm JEN FEROZE WORKSHOP + POEMS ON THE SPOT ALL DAY

4 pm ELVIS MCGONAGALL  and TONY KERINS reading and discussion to tie in with

Tony’s EXHIBITION ON SITE, more info and TICKETS ON SALE 

TICKETS FOR WORKSHOPS ON SALE NOW !

We are hugely grateful to the T S Eliot Foundation for their support and funding, without which this poetry weekend would not be possible ♥ 

Jerk Chicken and Veggie Curry and BAR on site all weeeknd!

No Parking on site except for accessible needs in which case please email info@sandyhillarts.co.uk to reserve a space. Parking NT carpark nearby.