Brewery Poets Reading – May 2025

Name: Brewery Poets Reading – May 2025
Start: 2025-05-30T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Brewery Arts

Schedule

Fri, 30 May, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Brewery Arts | Kendal, EN

Brewery Poets Reading | 30 May | Starts 7.30pm | Live Tickets £7 | Online £4.50
Join us either Live or Online for our Brewery Poets Reading with guests Matt Sowerby, Jeremy Platt and Barbara Hickson.
Matt Sowerby is a writer and climate activist from Cumbria, trying to find the words for living in a climate crisis. Matt is the winner of the Nature Chronicles Prize 2024. As a poet, Matt has won both the 2018 National Youth Slam Championships and the 2023 National University Slam Championships. He has performed in the Houses of Parliament and on BBC Radio 3, and his work was exhibited by the United Nations in 2022.
Jeremy Platt is based in the Lake District. He writes fiction, poetry and essays which are often but not always about music. His poetry explores the way in which new things arise in the region of play between interior and exterior worlds. His story “Playing Bass At A Wedding” was published in Dreamcatcher magazine. Jeremy is a musician and is active in the field of jazz, funk and related music.
Barbara Hickson’s poems have appeared in anthologies and journals including Poetry Salzburg Review, London Grip, Channel, Echtrai and Finished Creatures amongst many more. They have also won prizes in several major competitions.
In 2019 she had twelve poems published in a shared collection with Bev Morris and Gabriel Griffin entitled Rugged Rocks, Running Rascals – poems for complicated times, published by DragonSpawn Press.
Her own debut pamphlet A Kind of Silence was published by Maytree Press in 2021, and this was followed with her second pamphlet, Only the Shining Hours (also published by Maytree Press) in March this year.
Barbara lives in Lancaster with her husband and is a keen fell-walker, organic gardener and nature conservation volunteer.