Poetry Platform at The Woodstock Arms with Jenny Lewis

This is an open evening on Sunday 17 November at 8.30pm in The Woodstock Arms for local poets and is free entry to all - both poets and audience. It is the final event in this year's Woodstock Poetry Festival and should be a lovely way to round off the weekend.

Jenny Lewis is a poet, playwright, children’s author and songwriter who specializes in cross disciplinary work combining poetry with other art forms.

She first trained as a painter at the Ruskin School of Art before reading English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. She has published two books of poetry (When I Became an Amazon, Iron Press 1996 and Fathom, Oxford Poets/ Carcanet 2007) and has had several plays and poetry cycles performed at theatres across the UK including her verse drama, After Gilgamesh (for Pegasus Theatre, Oxford) published by Mulfran Press, 2011.

She teaches poetry at Oxford University and her next collection, Taking Mesopotamia, is forthcoming from Oxford Poets/ Carcanet. Jenny also runs poetry workshops and various collaborative projects.