When: Monday 28th July 6.30pm
Where: MERL (Museum of English Rural Life), Redlands Road, Reading, RG1 5EX
Cost: £3
NB: booking necessary at +44 (0) 118 378 8660 or merlevents@reading.ac.uk
You are invited to come along to a summer’s evening of poetry readings for the launch of the new Two Rivers Press book, The Arts of Peace: An Anthology of Poems.’ Enjoy a glass of wine and take a stroll around the museum and garden.
Two Rivers Press’ latest anthology, The Arts Of Peace, collects together poems about peace and war from a whole list of local, not to mention living, poets.
The evening will be MC’d by Adrian Blamires and will include readings by:
Derek Beaven
Kate Behrens
Adrian Blamires
Vahni Capildeo
Peter Carpenter
Terry Cree
Tim Dooley
Claire Dyer
Isabel Galleymore
John Greening
A F Harrold
Ian House
Gill Learner
Allison McVety
Elaine Randell
Peter Robinson
Lesley Saunders
Simon Smith
Susan Utting
Jean Watkins
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* had a poem accepted for 
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