Rosie Jackson, a recent Kent & Sussex Open Competition prize winner, will read her poems, including from her latest collection Love Leans Over The Table (Two Rivers Press, 2023), after an Open Mic session. Royal Wells Hotel, Tunbridge Wells, 8 pm.
Rosie Jackson is a widely published poet and creative writing tutor. She has a first-class B.A. Hons degree in English & Comparative Literature from the University of Warwick, a D. Phil. from York, and has taught at the Universities of East Anglia, West of England, Nottingham Trent, Skyros Writers’ Centre, Cortijo Romero and many community settings. A Hawthornden Fellow in 2017 and nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2021, Rosie has won numerous awards and has collaborated with other poets, artists, sculptors, musicians and film-makers. She has worked with the creative arts in health care, and her spiritual life has taken her to India and the United States.
Passionate and affirming, the poems in her newest collection have at their heart an intense hunger for life, not only this side of death but after. Celebrating both human and divine love, they trace a path from personal loss to spiritual struggle and eventual epiphany, finding echoes in the vividly imagined experience of various mystics, including Rabia of Basra, John Donne and Simone Weil.
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