Inspire Poetry Festival 24: Five Leaves New Poetry Launch: Julie Gardner and Julie Burke

Please join us for the launch of the ninth and tenth pamphlets in the Five Leaves New Poetry series, by Julie Gardner and Julie Burke.

Julie and Julie will be joined by other poets published in the Five Leaves New Poetry series.

For adults (16+). With licensed bar. Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult.

Julie Gardner is an ex-primary school teacher who enrolled on a Creative Writing MA when she retired and liked it so much she's now studying for a PhD. She will read from her collection of poems about human connections, written for her granddaughters in the hope that they will read them and know she loved and was loved. The collection includes a series of poems about her half-sister who she has never met, and her husband who died several years ago.

Julie Burke worked as an au pair, toy maker, library assistant, biscuit inspector, sandwich vendor and balloon-shopkeeper before at last returning to her native Nottingham. Her poems have appeared in many magazines, as well as in anthologies, exhibitions, websites, a podcast - even on a building. The poems in her pamphlet Kindling flicker with the people, places and all those little things that spark stories from the embers of unreliable memory.