Forthcoming Events
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Poetry Platform: November 26 2021
We are looking forward to a great evening of poetry at The Folly, in Settle. Our guest poet is Julia Deakin who will be reading along with local poets Jean Stevens and John Raubenheimer. Tickets are available from Limestone Books, Market Place, Tel 01729 268180. Julia Deakin was born in Nuneaton and meandered north to Yorkshire where she taught, married, did a poetry MA and took up ice-skating. Her collections The Half-Mile-High Club – a 2007 Poetry Business Competition winner – Without a Dog (Graft, 2008) and Eleven Wonders (Graft, 2011) are praised by nationally renowned poets; her fourth, Sleepless, was published by Valley Press in October 2018. A compelling reader, she has featured twice on Poetry Please and won numerous prizes – none of them for skating. Simon Armitage (Poet Laureate) says of her work: 'Crafted, tender poems, written with passion and purpose'. John Raubenheimer was born in 1947 in South Africa, and now lives in Settle, North Yorkshire. At the age of 15 he won a short story competition in a popular magazine. His first poems were published in The Individual, a Witwatersand University student publication, and in a literary journal Donga. He says that he likes to tease an idea into a poem. His kite-building father lives on to bring delight to new generations. Two boys playing a tunnel game evoke a notorious era in the country’s past. He will be reading from his new pamphlet My Father the Kitemaker which is published by Fisherrow.
Jean Stevens is well known to as a member of Settle Sessions Poetry and is a familar face on the local poetry scene and beyond. She will be reading from her latest collection Nothing But Words (Naked Eye Publishing). You can read her full bio on this site.
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Julia Deakin
John Raubenheimer
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September 2021 - READINGS AND BOOK LAUNCHES
To celebrate coming out of lockdown we are having our first public reading by Settle Sessions poets at the Friends Meeting House here in Settle, at 7.30pm on 17th September. This will celebrate a triple launch: new full-length collections from Jean Stevens and Ann Pilling and a pamphlet of poems by members entitled Pages of our Days, to which they have also contributed.
Because of covid restrictions numbers are limited fro the event. Entry will be by ticket only, though these are free and can be picked up in person from Limestone Books, Market Place, Settle.
JOHN KILLICK
Because of covid restrictions numbers are limited fro the event. Entry will be by ticket only, though these are free and can be picked up in person from Limestone Books, Market Place, Settle.
JOHN KILLICK
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Laugh Lines: a celebration of humour in poetry
Friday, 24th April, Settle Victoria Hall Helena Nelson and Settle Sessions Chair John Killick preside over a discussion and illustration of the great variety of laughter-inducing forms (including dialect) that exist. Helena hails from Fife, where she writes, and runs a very influential small press – HappenStance – well known to the tribes of poets keen to place their work. Who, or why, or which, or what, is the Akond of Swat? Edward Lear knew, but if you want to find out you will have to come to the event on Friday, 24th April. Can you complete a limerick beginning: There was an old lady of Settle…. In such a way that you can make the Committee laugh? If so, there is a good chance it will be read out on the evening. Please email your effort to us via our Contact page. For details of tickets comeback soon or keep an eye on our Facebook Page. |
Settle Sessions Chair, John Killick
Helena Nelson
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Previous Events
Settle Sessions Chair, John Killick
Helena Nelson
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TWO POETS FROM CUMBRIA Friday, 15th November 2019 7.30 pm Friends Meeting House, Kirkgate, Settle. BD24 9DX Kerry Darbishire Kerry won our 2018 Poetry Competition. Her first publication is A Lift of Wings. Geraldine Green Geraldine's most recent publication is Passing Through. Tickets £5 |
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