PAST EVENT Tam Lin of the Winter Park Sunday 12th June 4-5:30pm
PAST EVENT Tam Lin of the Winter Park Sunday 12th June 4-5:30pm
Join poet Eleanor Rees in the newly renovated therapeutic community walled garden at Sudley Walled Garden to launch her fifth collection of poems, Tam Lin of the Winter Park (Guillemot Press, 2022).
Many of the poems in the collection were written in Sudley Park.
Eleanor will be joined by award-winning folk singer, Emily Portman.
Refreshments available. Books and CDs for sale.
The event is supported by Growing Sudley and The Windows Project.
FREE EVENT
Tam Lin of the Winter Park is Eleanor Rees’s fifth poetry collection, following The Well at Winter Solstice (Salt, 2019), Blood Child (Pavilion, 2015), Eliza and the Bear (Salt, 2009), and Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, an Irish Glen Dimplex New Writers’ Award and a Northern Writers’ Award, and a senior lecturer at Liverpool Hope University.
Some outdoor seating available but please bring a rug or folding chair. In event of heavy rain, the reading will be postponed. You will be emailed via eventbrite with further details.
The walled garden is an outdoor space, apart from the toilet. Please dress according to the weather.
We have a compost toilet and handwash facilities. Public toilets are available inside Sudley House during opening hours.
The garden is semi accessible, there are accessible, circular paths that have been designed to create an environment everyone can move through.
Some areas, such as grassed or woodchipped parts, may be difficult to navigate with some mobility issues.
Please contact us for further advice if required.
The book itself is made from Arena and Tintoretto Ceylon papers and Toile Ocean book cloth, made from recycled ocean plastics. If you would like to buy the book, you can do so on the Guillemot Press website here.
