Finale to Sefton writing festival with female poets

by Nick Webster. Published Tue 03 Nov 2009 13:34, Last updated: 2009-11-03

Four of Merseyside's leading female poets are closing the 2009 Sefton Celebrates Writing Festival.

Gladys Mary Cole, Mandy Coe, Pauline Rowe & Rebecca Goss take to the stage at Crosby Civic Hall on Sunday 15 November at 7.30pm, to read from some of their publications and talk about their work.

Gladys Mary Coles is one of the country's most prolific, admired and award-winning poets. She runs the hugely successful Headland Press, publishing new works by contemporary poets.

Mandy Coe is a nationally acclaimed award-winning poet writing for adults and children. Her poetry has appeared in The Guardian, Radio Times and on BBC television and radio.

Pauline Rowe's first collection "Waiting for the Brown Trout God" (Headland 2009) is a book of elegies - for childhood, for the experience of motherhood, for lost love. Pauline has been widely published in magazines and has two previous pamphlets, the most recent being "Playing Out Time" (Driftwood, 2005).

Rebecca Goss has been widely published in anthologies and magazines, including Ambit Stand, The Reader and Mslexia. Her work has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Slow Dancer Press also published a collection of her poems, Keeping Houston Time.

Four Merseyside Poets is just one of the events taking place during the 2009 Sefton Celebrates Writing Festival, taking place at Crosby Civic Hall from Monday 9 to Sunday 15 November.

For more information on all the events visit www.seftonarts.co.uk

Tickets are £7(£5 concessions) and are available by calling box office on 01704-540011/ 0151 928 1919 or by logging onto www.seftonarts.co.uk