Yew Tree Press present an evening of poetry readings in the Walled Garden Pavilion. All welcome, doors open at 7.30pm and readings start at 8pm, no need to book just come along for 8pm.

Matthew Barton's 'new and selected' book, Singing Lessons,  testifies to a lifetime's work in poetry, both as writer and as teacher of the craft in schools, prison and universities. Twice winner of the BBC Wildlife Poet of the Year, Matthew Barton addresses our relationships with nature and with each other.

The poet Philip Gross praises his "an extraordinary quality of attention to creatures, things and people".

Pip Heywood, known to many of us as a film maker and as 'Poet Laureate' of Nailsworth, has a new pamphlet of poems which talk frankly and kindly about growing old and which celebrate community and a sense of place. Pip Heywood stitches
an "embroidery of dialogue and recollection".

Lania Knight, whose new pamphlet, 'Some of Us', is her second with Yew Tree Press of Stroud writes about home and family and in perfectly fashioned elegies about the death of her father. Though these are far from cheerless poems. “When Thor stands at your cradle," she tells us,  "everyone takes notice. They pass with their clip charts, eyes forward, trying not to miss a step."

JLM Morton is a director of Dialect which promotes local and regional writers and provides platforms in which they can write, collaborate and share good practice. Her new book, 'Borrowed Ground', is out from Broken Sleep Books. Its poems offer a reckoning with land, climate grief, and the entanglement of human and more-than-human life. They are "rooted in the woodland and river country of the west of England".

7.30 for 8pm
Free entry and everyone welcome
Refreshments and books for sale

If you need directions or accessible parking, please call the Museum Team on 01453 763394. Bring a torch to light your walk across the park or from and to the car park.