Festivals, Readings & Other Events

In order to promote poetry, acumen organises readings, tours, poetry festivals etc. Please keep an eye on this page for further information.  

 

ACUMEN OCCASIONAL PAMPHLETS 2010

                                                                         

             

HELEN ASHLEY’s poetry arises from her lifelong love of manipulating words, along with a philosophical contemplation of the natural world and human
interaction with it. She grew up in Hampshire  and has had a varied career as a primary school teacher and adult basic education tutor. Since 1982, she has considered South Devon to be her home and now lives in Totnes with her husband, Mike Hannaford.

LUCY LEPCHANI is a poetry activist; writing and performing her own work, encouraging and collaborating with other poets, and working as a ‘Writer in Education,’ with children, youth and adults. Her poems are vivid and sensuous, and move easily from established to free-form, from fable to family; from pointed satire to moving nature poetry. The Beckoning Wild encapsulates that force which shifts and shapes itself within her work. She lives in Devon.

MARTIN LYON was born in 1954 and lives in London, where he works as a librarian at the School of Oriental and African Studies. He began writing poetry in adolescence, and his poems have appeared in a wide variety of magazines. Sandcastles at Evening is his first collection.

£3.50 each or all three for £10.00. post free

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Acumen poets to read at the Holst Museum, Cheltenham, Friday, November 19th 2010.

More details to follow.