Festivals, Poetry Events & Workshops

Poetry Carousel, Rydal Hall, Grasmere

with Kim Moore, Hannah Lowe, Roy McFarlane and John McCullough
1st-4th February 2022
To book, please ring Rydal Hall on 015394 32050

£420 single room

Includes accommodation, breakfast, lunch, three-course evening meal and all workshops and readings

During the Poetry Carousel, each participant will take part in a two hour workshop with each tutor. In the evenings there will be poetry readings from the tutors and invited guest poets. Workshop groups will be limited to a maximum of ten participants, creating an intimate atmosphere in the workshops, and a festival atmosphere in the evening, when we come together for dinner and readings. The four tutors are Kim Moore, Hannah Lowe, John McCullough and Roy McFarlane. A guest poet will join us mid-week and their name will be announced very soon, along with details of the workshops the tutors will be running.

Tutor Biogs

Hannah Lowe is a poet, memoirist and critic. She was named a Poetry Book Society Next Generation Poet in 2014 and won a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2020. Her latest poetry collection is The Kids, a PBS Choice for Autumn 2021. She is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Brunel University. Her website is www.hannahlowe.me

John McCullough lives in Hove. His third book of poems Reckless Paper Birds (Penned in the Margins, 2019) won the Hawthornden Prize and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. John’s previous collections have been Books of the Year for publications including The Guardian and The Independent, and he also won the Polari First Book Prize. Most recently, his poem ‘Flower of Sulphur’ was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. He teaches creative writing at the University of Brighton and for organizations including the Arvon Foundation. His fourth collection, Panic Response will be published in Spring 2022 with Penned in the Margins.

Roy McFarlane is a Poet, Playwright and former Youth & Community Worker born in Birmingham of Jamaican parentage, former Birmingham Poet Laureate, Starbuck Poet in Residence and presently Birmingham & Midlands Institute Resident Poet. His debut collection, Beginning With Your Last Breath, was followed by The Healing Next Time, (Nine Arches Press 2018) nominated for the Ted Hughes award and Jhalak Prize. Jazzed to the bone and can be found in Brighton working on his third collection coming out Autumn 2022.

Kim Moore’s pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves was a winner in the 2011 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition. Her first collection The Art of Falling (Seren 2015) won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her second collection All The Men I Never Married was published by Seren in 2021. Her first non-fiction book What The Trumpet Taught Me will be published by Smith/Doorstop in March 2022.