Come and enjoy the Walled Garden in the peaceful ‘after hours’, listen to poetry, meet poets, browse and buy poetry books and pamphlets, and enjoy conversation and good company.

Readers will include Stewart Carswell, Jehanne Mehta and Kathryn Southworth. Jehanne is well known in Stroud and farther afield as a singer, songwriter and poet,
and she will read from her recently published selected poems, Entering the Narrows.

Stewart’s pamphlet Sleeping through the Stars is a collection of recent work which deals in fresh ways with both the crises in our lives and the joys.

Kathryn’s new Yew Tree Press pamphlet How I Became a Witch addresses the persecution as witches of Lancastrian women in the seventeenth century. It has a dramatic quality as well as an elegiac one.

Introduced by Philip Rush of Yew Tree Press.

Doors open at 7.30pm, event starts at 8pm.

All welcome, free entry, books for sale, drinks available for a donation (please bring cash). No need to book, just come along.

The Society of Wood Engravers’ exhibition will also be open from 7pm, giving you a last chance to see it (last day 21st June).

This event takes place in the Walled Garden Pavilion room at the top of the garden. Entrance/exit via Museum reception. If you need directions, or accessible parking, please call the Museum on 01453 763394.