Fiona Moore, our visiting poet for June will lead a writing workshop at Taigh Chearsabhagh on Friday 27th June, 10.30am-12.30pm. All are welcome to join us for this session in creative writing to learn from Fiona’s guidance. Tickets should be booked via our online booking system below, as spaces are limited.
A poet, editor and environmental campaigner based in Greenwich, Fiona Moore reviews poetry as well as writing her own compositions and blogs. Her first collection The Distal Point (Happenstance) was a PBS recommendation and shortlisted for the TS Eliot and Seamus Heaney prizes. A second book Okapi came out from another Scottish press, Blue Diode, in autumn 2024. It’s mostly set in Harris, where she went to live for six months in autumn 2019 and got (very fortunately) stuck there during the pandemic. As a member of the team at Magma poetry magazine, Fiona has edited issues on climate change and islands. She is a member of the new Poetry in Aldeburgh festival committee.
Fiona will also read a selection of her work at our Poetry Evening on Thursday 26th June, at 7.30pm. There’s no need to book for the poetry evening, and you are welcome to bring a favourite poem on the theme of ‘Islands’ if you wish to read for us at the Open Mic session.
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