Poetry Clinic | Annual Literary Festival

We are delighted to announce that celebrated poet, Paul Sutherland, will be holding a poetry clinic at the Annual Literary Festival on the 5th February from 10am.

To book your 20 minute slot with Paul email: admin@hammondhouse.org.uk

Paul is a Canadian-British poet who has lived in the UK since 1973. He has published eleven collections of his own poetry and edited several others. The founding editor of Dream Catcher, a popular international poetry journal which is now in its 35th issue, Paul runs creative writing workshops, seminars and writers’ retreats. His New and Selected Poems (Valley Press, 2017), taken from 45 years of his writing, has been described as ‘an unflinching and forensic exploration of a life lived through language.’ It was listed by PBS for winter 2017 and selected as a choice for The Morning Stars’ books of 2019.