This year Carol Ann Duffy became the first female Poet Laureate and dedicated her appointment to women poets everywhere. 

To celebrate this and National Poetry Day come and hear some of this region’s finest women poets read from their work.

Elizabeth Barrett, Liz Cashdan, Debjani Chatterjee, Nell Farrell, Sally Goldsmith, Geraldine Monk, Ann Sansom and River Wolton will combine their talents to celebrate the passion, energy and intelligence behind women’s poetry now.

To make an advance booking email info@signpostssouthyorks.org.uk, or Tel. 0114 253 6722 (ansaphone, please state name of event). 

The event is co-sponsored by the University of Sheffield School of English, which ran the successful New Ground poetry readings by Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage and Ciaran Carson earlier this year. 

The event has been organised by Signposts – a literature development project funded by Arts Council England. 

A free anthology of the poets’ work is available as a special edition in this quarter’s Inky. Copies are available on request from info@signpostssouthyorks.org.uk.