The latest in a series of eight events from the Royal Literary Fund, bringing together poets, playwrights, authors and screenwriters from across Northern England. In this event, award winning poets Tahmina Ali, Bob Beagrie and Harry Man discuss how poems can heal, do poems have some particular secret sauce that makes them memorable and can they change the direction of our lives? How do poetry readers access this change? How do poets see their artform’s impact in their own lives? All three writers will dip into the archive of the Royal Literary Fund, drawing on the words of some of the country’s leading poets, using what they find as a springboard for their discussion.

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Join poets Becca Drake and Erica Hesketh for an evening of poems that reflect on the place of humans in the more-than-human world, and that look for new ways to speak about our environment and the climate crisis. Becca and Erica will discuss and read from their recent pamphlets, Unstill Landscapes and To an Unknown Receiver: Sonnets & Cascades, both published by Guillemot Press.