Name: Jenny McRobert at Poetry Platform 14/01/25
Start: 2025-01-14T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-14T23:00:00+00:00
Location: The Railway Inn

💖 Jenny McRobert @ Poetry Platform at The Railway
📌 Upstairs at Railway Inn, Winchester
🗓️ Tues 14th Jan 2025
We are excited to be joining forces with Poetry Platform for a very special edition of their open-mic night to kick off 2025.
We are proud to present as guest poet for the evening - Jenny McRobert, the winner of the inaugural Kathryn Bevis Prize 2024 with her poem 'Oslo June 2022'
Jenny McRobert’s journey from Psychologist to poet has been her most enjoyable. Her poems have appeared in many publications. In 2024 she won The Kathryn Bevis Prize (best poem by a Hampshire poet) and the International Welsh Poetry Competition in 2023. She was shortlisted for both The Bridport Prize and The Rialto. Her debut collection, Silver Samovar, was published by The High Window Press in 2021 and was shortlisted for the Poetry Book Awards.
Open-mic sign up from 7:30pm.
The Kathryn Bevis Prize celebrates the strongest poem by a Hampshire-based poet entered into Winchester Poetry Prize. The inaugural Kathryn Bevis Prize was judged by Clare Shaw and the winner was announced on Sat 5th Oct as part of Winchester Poetry Day 2024.
The winner receives a year of development opportunities and coaching to help them develop their poetic career, just as Kathryn supported so many new writers to develop their own talent.
Read more about the Kathryn Bevis Prize here: https://www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/kathrynbevisprize

FREE to attend
The Railway Inn is an 18+ venue, under-18s can be admitted with written permission.
Full venue details, including accessibility information can be found here: https://railwayinn.pub/venue-details