Poetry Night

Doors 7:30pm

Planned order of poetry nights:

• Guest poet reads

• Open mic for people to either read their own material or read from published material available to hand in the shop (or brought from home) - hosted by Ellora Sutton

• Guest poet closes

No tickets - please just turn up and enjoy, but we ask that everyone pay a nominal £2 fee which we charge for all events.

For poetry nights, the shop and bar will be open to all. Contact ellorawrites@gmail.com and gary@goldfinch-books.com for more information.

Pratibha Castle, an Irish poet living in W. Sussex, is a Pushcart, Michael Marks and Best of The Net nominee. Highly commended in The Welsh Poetry Competition 2024, short listed in The Bridport Prize 2023, and a number of competitions, she is widely published – including forthcoming in Under The Radar – in journals, ezines and anthologies. A headline reader for Tears in The Fence Festival this September, her second pamphlet Miniskirts in The Waste Land was a Poetry Book Society Winter Selection 2023. Her debut pamphlet A Triptych of Birds & A Few Loose Feathers was joint winner in the Hedgehog Poetry Press Competition Nicely Folded Paper 2019.