New Readings by Pimento Poets on 11th September, 2015.

In connection with the recent exhibition 

‘Picture the Poet’ 

And the Summer School Photography event 

held at  Lincoln University

  Pimento Poets will be reading their poems on:  The Magna Carta, Freedom of Speech and Democracy.

  On Friday 11th September, 2015

  (10.30 – 12noon)

     At The Collection and Usher Gallery, Lincoln.

        

Poets reading will include:  Shirley Bell, Vernon Goddard, Susan Flower, Nic Lance, John Malvert, Celia McCulloch, Paul Mein, Gerry Miller, Paul Sutherland, Maureen Sutton,  and Susan Wallace. 

For free tickets please visit our Eventbrite page http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pimento-poets-tickets-18324328560 or call The Collection on  01522 782040   

Teas and coffees provided  

Free Event.

All welcome.

Pimento Poets: Shirley Bell, a new member this year……..

We have a new member: Shirley Bell.

Shirley joined us at the last couple of meetings and read some of her works.

Her biographical details reveal an interesting and diverse background:

Married for 42 years (!) with 3 adult children and 3 grandchildren. With her husband, Shirley Bell has run a cactus nursery for many years, written and illustrated gardening books for GMC publications, and worked as a wedding and social photographer.
In the past substantial selections of her poetry were published by Faber and Faber in Poetry Introduction 6, in Six the Versewagon Poetry manual, Anvil New Poets and Outside The Chain of Hands and she was published in magazines including Ambit, Poetry Review, The London Magazine, The Spectator and many others.

Her poetry has been broadcast on Radio 3 and she also had a small pamphlet published by the Wide Skirt. She has read her work widely throughout the country including at the South Bank and the Arvon Centres in Yorkshire and Devon.

Recently she completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Lincoln, and in 2013 she published a pamphlet ‘behind the glass’ as part of her course and compiled and edited an anthology of the work of the students on the course, The Black Path 1, which was published in June of that year.

Her poems have recently appeared in The Rialto and The North and in a new anthology 'fathers and what must be said', published by Rebel Poetry.

We will be posting some of Shirley's work in the next few days……...