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join our free event this week! (opens the original)
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Hosted by Dialect, the Indie Press Network Poetry Salon returns to Museum in the Park this Thursday, 1st October, for an evening of readings, conversation and independent publishing on National Poetry Day.The evening brings together writers, editors and readers who value the imagination and experimentation that small presses make possible. Expect lively readings and a welcoming space to meet others shaping today’s poetry landscape. An ideal way to join the national celebration.Our readers for Oc
Launching tonight! (opens the original)
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Join us online tonight for the equinox launch of Claire Carroll & Andrew Hykel Mears’ wry new pamphlet Treatment, from Dialect Press. We are also delighted to be presenting (the sea within), three new poems by our DIRT poetry competition winners Morag Anderson & Nasim Luczaj, Karen Dow
Nothing is sacred (opens the original)
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Andrew Hykel Mears and Claire Carroll met at Bath Spa University on a module called Writing & The Environment. Andrew suggested a joint writing project, in which nothing was sacred. The result of that project is TREATMENT, the forthcoming book length text released this Autumn Equinox with Dialect Press.Below is a Q & A session Andrew and Claire held with each other about the production of the text … in which neither of them are clear on who is questioning whom.<a class="ima
Open mic opportunities! (opens the original)
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We have been sure to include some open mic opportunities at the Dobunni Poetry Festival which will be up and running in exactly four weeks! Fancy getting involved? Check out the details below.<img alt="a person standing in fr
The Practice of Place (opens the original)
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How do we listen to the ancient world beneath our feet? How do museum collections, archaeological traces, and shamanic practices help us engage with the deep histories of our local landscapes - and how might poetry translate that knowledge into something that feels resonant today?At the Dobunni Poetry Festival, The Practice of Place brings together an group of curators, poets, celebrants and and custodians of place to explore these questions.Buy
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