Raised Voices: a Poetry Celebration of International Women’s Day
Discover DeCrypt Southgate Street, GloucesterCome and enjoy an afternoon of poetry for International Women's Day hosted by Josephine Lay for the Gloucestershire Poetry Society. Speakers will include: Alby Stockley, Angela France, Sharon Larkin, Sharon Savoury, Tish Camp and Zoe Brooks with others. There will be a collection for The Nelson Trust, supporting disadvantaged women in Gloucestershire. International Women's Day is …
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Dweller in the Shadows
Discover DeCrypt Southgate Street, GloucesterIvor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the First World War and composed some of the greatest works in the English song repertoire, such as “Sleep.” Yet his life was shadowed by the trauma of the war and mental illness, and he spent his last fifteen years confined to a mental …
