The Poetry Trust has held a number of highly-rated, informal Poetry Reading Groups.  If you’re interested to be part of the next Reading Group, please drop us an email or call 01986 835950 for more details.

In November 2009 Prize-winning poet and experienced tutor Esther Morgan led the Poetry Reading Group in Halesworth, Suffolk. Six enjoyable, informal evenings of reading and discussion, held fortnightly in Halesworth Library - a friendly introduction to today’s poetry for anyone aged 16 to 100. 

Got to know new poets - fantastic! Enjoyed listening to how others experience the poem as it enriched my own experience and read poems in the group I would have perhaps skipped over if reading on my own…
Reading Group Member 2008

Esther Morgan was born in Kidderminster in 1970 and now lives in Bungay. She has worked as a writing tutor at UEA, an editor, a manager for The Poetry Archive and currently works for Renaissance, a region-wide museums project. Winner of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival First Collection Prize for Beyond Distance Calling (2001), her second volume The Silence Living in Houses followed in 2005. “These precise and understated poems” according to The Guardian “...throw the turmoil lurking just beneath the surface into sharp relief.”