Translating the Silence – A poetry reading with Maggie Sawkins and Blake Everitt.

Maggie Sawkins is the recipient of a Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Her fourth collection The House Where Courage Lives compassionately addresses concerns that haunt us all: isolation and freedom, hope and despair, the ways we fill our time. Central to this collection of narrative and spiritual verse, is the question asked of Quarr Abbey monks: ‘Why did you come; why did you stay?’

Blake Everitt is an Isle of Wight poet whose work is a testament to his communion with the natural world. His meditative poems, arising from close observation and an appreciative ear for the ‘music of wildness’, are fine-tuned hymns to nature. His new collection is The Grammar of Ferns.