Gillian Mairi Bailey 'To Know Me' Book Launch

Gloucester

Sunday, 20 October 2019

4:45-7:00pm

Venue@ St Mary de Crypt Church, Southgate Street, Gloucester GL1 1TP

 

 

The Gloucester Poetry Festival & Black Eyes Publishing UK in
collaboration with Discover DeCrypt invite you to join us to launch of the poetry of Gillian Mairi Bailey.
Sadly, this poet is no longer with us but her work has been discovered and we are happy to share her words with you all.
The event will be hosted by Josephine Lay and will feature guest poets Z D Dicks, Anna Saunders, Belinda Rimmer, Adam Horowitz, reading a selection of poems from the book as well as their own.
Other poets (Christine Griffin, Annie Ellis, Jason Conway & Duncan Forbes) will also be reading a poem from her book and one of their own.
£1 from each book sold will be going to Parkinson’s UK.

Some words on G M Bailey:

‘These poems are unearthed gems, concise and rich in crystal clarity. A treasure for any reader of poetry.

Z D Dicks
Founder/CEO Gloucestershire Poetry Society and Gloucester Poetry Festival.

‘Radiant and luminous poems written by a poet with a richly lyrical voice and more than a touch of Seamus Heaney in her vivid, earthy descriptions of rural life. Each poem is a little Eden or arcadia, seething with sensory detail and resonating with musicality. These are astonishing poems in which a dazzling use of imagery is fused with a masterful use of language and line break, in which every line, ever word, is breath-taking.  Immensely beautiful and potent poetry, which remains connected to the real world whilst transcending above it.’

Anna Saunders
Cheltenham Poetry Festival Founding Director.

‘Bailey shows a beautiful attention to detail in this writing. Her work boasts a crisp and observant voice that left me longing for the simplicity of youth, and her countryside descriptions had me itching to escape the city for a weekend of wonder and wilderness. This work has a rich taste to it, indeed.’

Dr Charley Barnes
Worcestershire Poet Laureate 2019-2020
Managing Director | Sabotage Reviews
Visiting Lecturer | Newman University and University of Worcester

‘I wish Bailey could have read these testimonials to her talent.  From the moment I read the first poem, 'Blackberry Jam' I knew we had found a jewel.  Working with her words gave me goose bumps...
It is an honour to finally fix her poems in print.’

Josephine Lay
Poet in Residence at Cheltenham Library
Creative Writing Adviser Black Eyes Publishing UK

 

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