Poetry with Jenny Mitchell

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Join award-winning poet Jenny Mitchell for a summer reading in beautiful Thompson's Park

Described as 'powerful and deeply moving', Jenny Mitchell brings to life a cast of 'silenced women' through poetry.

Her work tells stories of enslavement and empowerment, of journeys between the Caribbean and Britain, and celebrates the joyful, healing power of stories.

Join Jenny in beautiful Thompson's Park for a reading of her work, hosted by Roberto Pastore.

Refreshments will be available courtesy of Lufkin Coffee.

Praise for Jenny Mitchell:

"Her tactile, cinematic poems leap into life, and their rich language lifts at times into magic realist flights of imagination. This collection vibrates with heart.”

- Maggie Butt

Jenny Mitchell is a winner of the Ware Prize, Folklore Prize, the Segora Prize, the Aryamati Prize, the Fosseway Prize, a Bread and Roses Award and Joint Winner of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize.

Her collections, Map of a Plantation and Her Lost Language, are available via Indigo Dreams Publishing.

About your hosts:

Roberto Pastore is a Cardiff-based poet and school crossing guard.

His first full collection of poetry, Hey Bert, was published by Parthian in 2019:

"a clarion call to open our eyes a little bit wider, of poetry’s capacity to find new ways of looking at our own lives. Poems that speak intensely of the everyday, of nostalgia, friendship and love, the body, the sacred..."

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