Poems from pictures

I've always enjoyed working from other art forms - paintings, music, photographs - and an exhibition currently on display at the National Trust's Hanbury Hall near Droitwich provided plenty of inspiration for poems when I visited last week. Local artists have a tremendous variety of work on display in the Long Gallery there; along with some other poets, I was invited by Nina Lewis, the Worcestershire Poet Laureate, to create some poems in response to it. We'll be reading a selection of the resulting poems on November 14th at Parks Cafe in Droitwich (see the poster below for details) - if you're in the area, do come along and join us, it should prove a very interesting and enjoyable session.