Prize-winning poet and experienced tutor Esther Morgan will be leading the next Poetry Reading Group in Halesworth, Suffolk between September and November 2009. 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. Further details will be available in June 2009. If you’re interested to be part of the next Reading Group, please make sure you’re on the mailing list.

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

Poetry Reading Group dates: 24 Sep, 8 Oct, 22 Oct (half-term break) 12 Nov, 26 Nov, 10 Dec

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.”