Dead Poets Salon and Open Mic

Every month we host our Dead Poets Salon. In the first half of the evening we hear about and from our dead poet of the month: think of it as half-way between a talk and a reading. We call the poet back to life with us for a while. Then we refresh our glasses and the open mic begins. We are open to all forms of performance though largely we hear from poets and the occasional singer - that could be you. If you are a poet please pop something in your back pocket for the second half.

For centuries overshadowed by her brother William, Dorothy Wordsworth didn't publish anything during her lifetime but her journals and poems have been uncovered in a slow posthumous process to reveal a fascinating woman whose great concern in her writing was the natural world. She has become an inspiration for a perhaps surprising…