The Forest Finds its Voice

Gloucester

Sunday 27 October 2019

2:30-3:30pm

Venue: Olympus Theatre, 164-172 Barton Street, Gloucester, GL1 4EU

 

 

Join us for an afternoon of poetry to celebrate the Forest of Dean poets. Come and hear Forest poets for the very first time at the Gloucester Poetry Festival. Guest poets include:

Dick Brice

‘One of the best-loved forest poets and song-writers, whose song ‘The Land Between Two Rivers’ was the theme music for Dennis Potter’s ‘The Changing Forest’, when it was broadcast on BBC Radio Four. It has since become a ‘Forest Anthem’ having been sung by choirs from as far away as Holland and Zimbabwe.
From the mid-sixties to early eighties Dick and his wife Di sang with ‘The Farriers’, an award-winning Birmingham based folk group; but once back in the forest, the history, characters and dialect have provided material for an astonishing range of poetry and song, which goes all the way from lamenting the lost world of the mines to celebrating the forest heritage – a gift to be treasured and passed on to future generations’

Annie Cavill

‘Annie was Bard in 2009, daughter of a free miner, born in the Forest of Dean and has always written poetry. She won Bard of the Forest and has been successful in organising Junior bard for the Forest Faddle. She runs a series of workshops with several local schools encouraging primary school pupils to write poetry.’

Maggie Clutterbuck

‘Maggie is a forester born & bred and a well known part of the contemporary writing scene. She won the Forest Bard award in 2005, with her poem ‘Tribute to a Vurrist Miner’, dedicated to her father. She regularly performs her poetry in and around the Forest and last year her long-awaited second book of poetry ‘Full Circle’ was published by Yorkley A&E. Maggie has taught creative writing for many years at evening classes and workshops.’

Keith Morgan

‘Keith was born in Coleford in 1942, has lived in the forest all his life and was encouraged to write by the late Harry Beddington, one of the best writers of the forest dialect. Keith’s love of the Forest of Dean, its people, humour, heritage – and all that makes it special – is reflected in his work. That includes of course the sheep, the real kings of forest roads and the subject of his dialect poem ‘Varest Ship’’

Carol Sheppard

‘Carol Sheppard is a poet and playwright who has lived in the Forest of Dean for over 20 years. She has had poetry published in literary journals, most recently Borrowed Solace and Art Ascent and exhibited in the Biggar Poetry Garden, Her play The Drop of a Pin toured Gloucestershire in 2016 and then had a two week run in New
Zealand. She came runner up in the International Film Festival in 2008 with a short film script. She has two further stage plays which are due to tour next year and is currently involved in a six month radio play project with Little Wonders Radio Plays. She loves living in the Forest of Dean and it inspires much of her poetry.’

 

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