Midsummer reading with Dandelions Poetry and Cathy Grindrod

Dandelions Poetry is back at Five Leaves for our special midsummer reading.

We are very pleased to have Cathy Grindrod as our featured poet.
We will have our usual friendly and supportive open mic, so come and share your poems with us. No need for your poems to be about midsummer unless you wish to. But do book in advance!
Cathy Grindrod has published six collections of poetry, the latest being Surrender, published by Five Leaves. She is a former Derbyshire Poet Laureate, also writes memoir and plays, and wrote the libretto for the oratorio, More Glass Than Wall, in collaboration with composer James Redwood, which was shortlisted for a BBC Radio 3 Composer of the Year Award. In 2014

Cathy was awarded an Honorary Degree for her work enhancing wellbeing through writing across Derbyshire communities. She currently directs a programme of support for writers, The Writer Highway, and is a writing facilitator, mentor and coach. In 2024, she received an Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice Award to write a book of auto-fiction.

To book a space in the open mic please email: ZGFuZGVsaW9uc3BvZXRyeSB8IGdtYWlsICEgY29t

In support of Nottingham Poetry Festival

Refreshments included

You may also like the following events from Five Leaves Bookshop:

• This Wednesday, 21st May, 07:00 pm, Robin Ince on his adventures in neurodiversity in Nottingham
• Next Sunday, 1st June, 04:45 pm, Stonehenge and the Battle of the Beanfield, an illustrated talk with Alan Lodge “Tash” in Nottingham
• Next month, 12th June, 07:00 pm, The Radical Jane Austen, a talk by Deirdre O’Byrne in Nottingham

Also check out other Arts events in Nottingham, Literary Art events in Nottingham, Festivals in Nottingham.