Poeting the Past with Andrew Graves

Join Notts poet and author Andrew Graves for this relaxed workshop where you’ll be encouraged to use resources from the library’s local heritage collection to inspire your poetry and writing. With particular emphasis on the mining industry and its links to Mansfield and the surrounding area, you’ll be encouraged to create new work, encompassing the language, experiences and sights and sounds of this fascinatingly rich local industrial history.  

About Andrew Graves

Andrew Graves has appeared on TV and radio, including BBC Radio 6 Music’s Cerys Mathews Show, BBC Inside Out and the documentary Evidently John Cooper Clarke. His third collection Not Dancing with Ingrid Pitt was published by Burning Eye Books in 2021. He has performed with the likes of Sleaford Mods, John Hegley and Henry Normal and has been commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, BBC Radio 4, Edinburgh International Literature Festival and National Poetry Day.