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The Rippling Out Sessions - John McCullough, award-winning poet

Sat 22 Feb

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The Creation Space, Sun Pier House

Join John McCullough, award-winning poet for an afternoon of poetry that will bang words together like stones and see what sparks.

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The Rippling Out Sessions - John McCullough, award-winning poet
The Rippling Out Sessions - John McCullough, award-winning poet

Time & Location

22 Feb 2025, 15:00 – 17:00

The Creation Space, Sun Pier House, Medway St, Chatham ME4 4HF, UK

About the event

John McCullough's latest book of poems is Panic Response (Penned in the Margins). It contains 'Flower of Sulphur', shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem, and this collection was also featured in The Times as a Notable New Poetry Book of 2022. John's previous collection, Reckless Paper Birds, won the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award.


John has won other awards including the 2012 Polari Prize and his collections have been named Books of the Year in The Independent, The Guardian and The Observer as well as his work often appearing in magazines such as Poetry London, Poetry Review and The New Statesman.


Our featured support poet is Bethany Goodwill.


Bethany Goodwill is a poet and artist from Somerset who lives and works in Kent. Along with their partner David, Bethany co-hosts Rochester poetry night Big Trouble. Their work has…


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