Midsummer Feast
Friday 19th May | 6–10pm at The Long Table Stroud
We’re getting excited about our Midsummer Feast this Friday evening!
Kicking off at 6pm with dancing in the courtyard from the brilliant Miserden Morris, we’ll then head into the Sanctuary to enjoy a delicious summer feast accompanied by performances from an incredible line up of local writers and musicians.
The writers joining us for the evening are:
Kate Young is a writer and cook, whose multi award-winning Little Library Cookbooks feature food inspired by beloved works of literature. She has written for various publications including the Guardian, The Times and the Telegraph. Her first novel Experienced was published in 2024.
Adam Horovitz is a Stroud based poet, performer and editor. He has released three full collections of poetry: Turning (Headland, 2011): The Soil Never Sleeps (Palewell, 2018 & 2019) & Love and Other Fairy Tales (Indigo Dreams, 2021), alongside Little Metropolis, a CD of poetry & music, a memoir of growing up in Cider with Rosie country, A Thousand Laurie Lees (History Press), and several pamphlets.
Martha Sprackland is a writer, editor and translator. Her debut collection of poems, Citadel, was published in 2020 by Liverpool University Press and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Costa Poetry Prize, and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. She has also published two pamphlets: Glass As Broken Glass (2017, Rack Press) and Milk Tooth (2018, Rough Trade Books).
JLM Morton is a writer, celebrant and editor. Her poetry has featured on BBC6 Music and appeared in Poetry Review, Rialto, Magma, Mslexia, The London Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Laurie Lee, Geoffrey Dearmer and Poetry Archive Worldview prizes and published her first poetry collection Red Handed on Broken Sleep Books in 2024.
Philip Rush runs Yew Tree Press in Stroud, a small press which focuses on poetry pamphlets. His own poetry has appeared in UK, US and Irish journals, including, perhaps most recently in Obsessed with Pipework. He hosts regular poetry events at the Museum in the Park and endorses poems which combine the surface appeal of well-composed prose with the meditative qualities of a period of silence or of a walk through familiar countryside.
Josh Bannister is a Gloucestershire based musician, poet and publisher. working within the style of personism. He runs Slight, a regular poetry and performance event in Stroud, as well as Slight Press, publishing limited runs of exciting new works.
The musicians joining us for the evening are:
Timings
6pm: Doors and bar open – Miserden Morris dancing in the courtyard!
7pm: Performances – music & poetry
7:40pm: Dinner service
8:40pm: Performances – music & poetry
Tickets are limited — If you’d like to join us, now’s the time to book a space as we’ve only got a handful left.
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