As is traditional, our January meeting this year features three of the Society’s talented members reading their poetry. Come along to the Royal Wells Hotel at 8 pm on Tuesday January 21st, and hear poetry from A.K. Davidson, Christopher Horton and Veronica Beedham.
A. K. Davidson is a writer and editor who discovered poetry in 2022 when ill with Long Covid. In June 2024 she published her debut collection, Poetry for Life and Other Chronic Conditions (Straw Hat). She posts regularly on Instagram @mondayispoetry and is currently working on a new collection. For more information, visit her website: www.therightword.co.uk
Christopher Horton’s poems have appeared in The North, Poetry London, Acumen, Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, Ambit, Magma, Frogmore Papers, and in anthologies with Penned in the Margins, Broken Sleep Books, tall-lighthouse and Days of Roses. He was a prize winner in the National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Prize. He also won first prize in the South Downs Poetry Festival Competition and third place in the Frogmore Poetry Prize. His first pamphlet, Perfect Timing, was released by tall-lighthouse press in 2021 and a new pamphlet collection will be released by Broken Sleep Books at the end of 2025.
Veronica Beedham’s work has been widely published in magazines and literary journals and she’s won a number of prizes including ‘The Troubadour International Prize’ in 2011, the ‘Overton Pamphlet Prize’ in 2016 and second place in the ‘Acumen International Poetry Prize’ in 2021. Her first pamphlet, A Sense of Place was published in 2017 by Loughborough University. Recently she has collaborated with Italian art photographer Renzo Bertasi on a short sequence of poems and photographs which has been hand-printed in Italy by Janine Raedts at Blueprint Press, Vittorio Veneto.
Helen Calcutt on her pamphlet, A Sense of Place:
Accomplished in form and deeply lyrical; it has a fearlessness that I like. It gives you the sort of poetry that feels like it is being created right in front of you, that walks up and comes towards you …
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