Look Again: home and the inner landscape, a poetry workshop with Cathy Galvin

Name: Look Again: home and the inner landscape, a poetry workshop with Cathy Galvin
Start: 2026-03-10T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-10T20:30:00+00:00
Location: Nottingham Central Library

Schedule

Tue Mar 10 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Nottingham Central Library | Nottingham, EN

Look Again: home and the inner landscape.
'There are places – like this one – that are so thin that you meet yourself in the still point. No matter the past, the present or what is yet to come. There is nothing you can do but listen for the gap in the silence, the change in the wind'.

Join poet Cathy Galvin as she invites you to find a space to look again, and more deeply, at the all-too-familiar landscapes of home. Whatever your chosen literary form, whether you are an experienced writer or simply want to try something new, this relaxed 90 minute session is aimed at helping you discover the still points and the surprising in the everyday concept of home. Using texts from her own work and those of other writers, and drawing on her Irish heritage growing up in Coventry, she will help you consider what lies beneath and within the landscapes we think we know.
This event is suitable for writers of any background, landscape or “home”
Poet, editor and journalist Cathy Galvin has roots in Coventry and Connemara. Her collection, Ethnology, A Love Song for Connemara, is due from Bloodaxe Books in the UK and Ireland in February 2026. Her poetry is widely published and includes the sequences Walking the Coventry Ring Road With Lady Godiva (Guillemot Press), Rough Translation and Black and Blue (The Melos Press). She is founder of the Word Factory and the Sunday Times Short Story Award.
Book details: https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/ethnology-1387
You can follow her on Instagram @cathygalvinwords. Word Factory can be found on Substack substack.com/@thewordfactory
Cathy will be reading her own work the previous day – 9th March – at Five Leaves Bookshop, see separate listing
15 places only available
Refreshments included
Doors 10.00am for coffee/juice, 10.30 prompt start.