POETRY
AT THE MUSEUM IN THE PARK
STROUD

Wednesday February 5th 2025
7.30 for 8 pm

Just over an hour of poetry from five poets.
Sarah Brooker, Frank McMahon, Rowan Middleton,
Philip Rush & Caroline Shaw.
Five books for sale,
including four new pamphlets
from Yew Tree Press.
Refreshments.
Free entry and everybody welcome.

In Double Edge, Sarah Brooker combines rich and colourful artwork
with honest poems about pain and difficulties, poems
which are leavened by humour and wry language.
Frank McMahon lives in Cirencester.
His most recent book, The Light will Always Return, was published last April;
Frank is “a poet with a rare sensitivity to place and experience”.
Rowan Middleton's poems are quiet meditations in a soft voice.
A good poem lingers in the mind
and these poems gently invite us to spend some time
considering our local environment.
Philip Rush’s new pamphlet, Salon des Refusés,
complements his Garlic Press book, Camera Obscura.
With a certain ironic distance
his poems celebrate ritual, the countryside and memory. 
The poems in Caroline Shaw’s new pamphlet, Night Walking, 
capture her reading voice in their language and rhythms
and in their humorous and occasionally self-deprecating honesty;
they are truthful and resonant.

POETRY WALKS
DIALECT POETRY WALKS IN STROUD

“The hare limp’d trembling through the frozen grass”
‘The Eve of St. Agnes,’ John Keats

Three walks with poems, each walk about three miles,
taking about an hour and a half.
The poems will echo something in the walk and the place,
and will include both old and new texts.
The walks are to be led by Philip and Caroline Rush.

Winter mud and frost almost certainly guaranteed.
Mittens essential, gaiters or boots desirable, prize for best hat.

Meeting places with parking and so on
will be sent out shortly before the walk.
(Walks will be postponed in the event
of orange or red weather warnings,
and possibly after yellow warnings;
they will be rescheduled.)

Monday 20th January St Agnes’ Eve 11 am: Oxlynch and Standish Woods

Everyone is very welcome. 

Tickets are £30 for three; £12 for a single walk
(see Dialect website for booking).

If you’re on a low income
or experiencing financial difficulty for any reason,
we can offer 'pay what you can' and free spaces on each walk.
Please contact juliette.morton@dialect.org.uk to request.