For the second time this the season, please join us in the bar (which will indeed be open) for the Barn poetry night. Our three featured poets will each be doing a short set. Barn member and playwright, Glyn Maxwell will be back with some new poems and there is also a chance to perform yourself. There will be an open mic slot at the start of the evening for anyone who wants to read one of their own poems to the assembled throng. All you need to do is let me know in advance and I will reserve you a slot.

Glyn has won several awards for his many poetry collections, including the Somerset Maugham Prize, the E. M. Forster Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His work has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize (three times), Forward and Whitbread Prizes. His collections include How the hell are you (2020); Pluto (2013); One Thousand Nights and Counting: Selected Poems (2011); Hide Now (2008); and The Nerve (2002). Many of his plays have been staged in the UK and USA and even at the Barn itself. He published On Poetry, a general reader’s guide to the craft, in 2020.

Please join us in the bar (which will indeed be open) for the Barn’s second poetry night. Line up is still to be confirmed, but it looks to be another enjoyable evening.

There will be an open mic slot at the start of the evening for anyone who wants to read one of their own poems to the assembled throng. All you need to do is let Danny Swanson know in advance and he will reserve you a slot. [email protected]