The second season of Poetry in Presteigne’s monthly readings continues on Monday, June 12 at the Radnorshire Arms, Presteigne at 7.30pm. with three exceptional poets Isabel Palmer, Rebecca Bilkau and Rhiannon Hooson.

Isabel was born in Presteigne, and now lives in Wiltshire. After a career in teaching she now works as a freelance writer and is the new co-editor of Flarestack Poets. Her first full-length collection, Atmospherics, with a forward by Sir Andrew Motion, was published by Bloodaxe Books in a four-poet book entitled Home Front.

Rebecca Bilkau is co-creator, with her husband, of an Anglo/German project prompted by the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War: The Book of Hopes and Dreams, which won the Grundtvig Award in 2014.

Rhiannon is a poet and academic living near Presteigne, who studied, and later taught, at Lancaster University - her work has variously been described as uncompromising and sharp-edged, compelling and provocative, and at the forefront of literary female voices. She has won major accolades for her poetry, including an Eric Gregory award. Her first full length collection, ‘The Other City,’ is published by Seren , to much acclaim.

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