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Ripon Poetry Festival

Ripon Writers’ Group and Write-On! Ripon were both well represented at the open mic, which we co-hosted this year at the Arts Hub on Allhallowgate.  It was good to see some new faces as well as many of the regular participants and hear a wide variety of poetic styles and subject matter. 

Having attended the launch of this year’s children’s anthology – I was very pleased to have been one of the judges for the 12-18 category – I met fellow Swanwickers Penny Blackburn and Susanna Lewis in the bar.  In the photo, kindly taken for us by Tony Lewis, we’re all brandishing copies of the main Festival anthology in which we each have a poem. Actually Penny has two and Susanna has the added kudos of coming second in the annual competition. Well done, ladies!

We took to the stage in turn to read our poems to an appreciative audience composed of other contributors to the anthology and their guests. As ever, there was a great variety of poetic styles and themes and it was a very enjoyable evening.

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