Hosted by Dialect, the Indie Press Network Poetry Salon returns to Stroud with an evening of live readings at Museum in the Park on 30 April from 7pm to 9pm. Our featured readers for April are:
Jeremy Dixon
Suzannah V. Evans
Adam Horovitz
Vanessa Napolitano
Philip Rush
Kathryn Southworth
Find out more about each of these brilliant poets below! Writers, editors and poetry lovers are invited to gather in the Pavillion of the walled garden, a warm, informal setting to celebrate small press publishing and the creative communities it sustains. Expect fresh, exciting voices and a chance to connect with people shaping the contemporary poetry landscape.
An open, welcoming space for anyone curious about the vitality of indie presses today.
Details
Pavillion in the walled garden, Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, GL5 4AF.
7pm - 9pm
The event is FREE and books will be for sale - there is an option to buy a token on checkout to exchange for a book on the night. Please book your ticket below so that we can keep an eye on numbers.
Featured Poets
Suzannah V. Evans is a poet, researcher, and educator. Her debut poetry collection Under the Blue is shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and her work has received the Ivan Juritz Prize and a Northern Writers’ Award. Her poetry pamphlets are Brightwork and Marine Objects / Some Language. Suzannah teaches poetry in adult education and works with Poetry By Heart.
Adam Horovitz is a poet, performer and editor. He has published three collections of poetry, Turning, The Soil Never Sleeps and Love and Other Fairy Tales, a memoir, A Thousand Laurie Lees, and an album of poetry and music with Josef Reeve, Little Metropolis. His latest book, Slow Migrations, is out with Indigo Dreams (2025). His most recent collaboration is Rock, Paper, Scissors, a poetry pamphlet with Ella Duffy, out now with Dialect Press.
Vanessa Napolitano is a Yorkshire-based writer who has published four pamphlets including Various Magics (Black Cat Press) and the lives we had before (forthcoming with Stanchion in May 2027). Her first full collection is due out with Black Cat Press in 2027. She writes on themes of grief, nature, nostalgia and love.
Philip Rush is a retired English teacher who lives in Stroud. He oversees 'Yew Tree Press of Stroud’ which publishes small-run pamphlets from local and not-so-local poets. His own poetry has been published most recently by The Garlic Press in his book, Camera Obscura. His latest pamphlet is Dusk Code. He plays the fiddle enthusiastically.
Kathryn Southworth has spent most of her life as an academic at a number of universities in the West Midlands. Kathryn’s first collection, Someone was here was published by Indigo Dreams in 2018 and was a Poetry Kit book of the month. She has four further books of poetry with Paekakariki and Vole. Tonight she represents Yew Tree Press and will be reading (with some assistance) from her new pamphlet How I Became a Witch.