Four Merseyside Poets close Sefton Celebrates Writing Festival

Nov 5 2009 by Kathryn Carr, Crosby Herald

Four Merseyside Poets close Sefton Celebrates Writing Festival

FOUR of Merseyside's leading female poets will close the 2009 Sefton Celebrates Writing Festival.

Gladys Mary Coles, Mandy Coe, Pauline Rowe and Rebecca Goss will take to the stage at Crosby Civic Hall on Sunday, November 15 at 7.30pm, to read from some of their publications and talking about their work.

Gladys Mary Coles is one of the country’s most prolific, admired and award-winning poets. She runs the hugely successful Headland Press, publishing new works by contemporary poets. Mandy Coe is a nationally acclaimed award-winning poet writing for adults and children. Her poetry has appeared in The Guardian, Radio Times and on BBC television and radio.

Pauline Rowe’s first collection, ‘Waiting for the Brown Trout God’ is a book of elegies – for childhood, for the experience of motherhood, for lost love.

Rebecca Goss has been widely published in anthologies and magazines, including Ambit Stand, The Reader and Mslexia. Her work has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Slow Dancer Press also published a collection of her poems, ‘Keeping Houston Time’.

Four Merseyside Poets is just one of the events taking place during the 2009 Sefton Celebrates Writing Festival, taking place at Crosby Civic Hall from November 9-15.

For more information on any of the events visit www.seftonarts.co.uk

Tickets are £7(£5 concessions) and are available by calling the box office on 01704-540011/ 0151 928 1919 or by logging onto www.seftonarts.co.uk