Fen Speak with Janet Sutherland
This month Fen Speak is on in the Babylon Gallery, with special guest Janet Sutherland. Janet Sutherland is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Messenger House (Shearsman Books, 2023). Her previous collections all from Shearsman are Home Farm (2019), Bone Monkey (2014), Hangman’s Acre (2009) and Burning the Heartwood (2006). The Messenger House, a hybrid collection, is about her great-great-grandfather’s travels to Serbia in the 1840’s. Widely anthologised, she is published in magazines such as New Statesman, The Spectator and The North. She won the 2017 Kent and Sussex Poetry Prize and received a Hawthornden Fellowship for 2018. https://www.janetsutherland.co.uk/
There’ll also be open mic slots for poems and stories. The slots are 2-3mins each, though may be shorter if the event is particularly busy. Let us know in advance if you’d like one, or sign up on the night.
There will also be a special event in the gallery beforehand. From 6PM, come along and meet the artists from Art in the Burrow who are exhibiting their artwork during June for a special Gallery Gathering. The theme is Fierce Tales: a group of Fenland female artists share their work and stories. Free entry, cash bar. Fen Speak will then begin afterwards at 7.30PM.
