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.

Doors open at 7.30pm for an 8pm start in the Garden Pavilion. Books and drinks will be available to buy, entry is free, donations welcome. No need to book, just come and enjoy poetry and good company!

Please bring a torch to light your way to the Museum and through the Garden.

If you need directions or accessible parking, please call the Museum team on 01453 763394.