Gásadalur

This month’s poem, Gásadalur, was written by Iris Anne Lewis, a founder member of the Somewhere Else Writers group.

Published in print and online and nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Iris has been featured in the Silver Branch Series of Black Bough Poetry, won 1st prize in the Gloucestershire Poetry Society competition 2020 and was highly commended in this year’s Poetry Wales Award. She won 1st prize in the last-ever Graffiti competition and is a runner-up in this year’s GWN competition. She’ll be reading at the Cheltenham Literary Festival this year for the seventh time. In 2018 she founded Wordbrew, a Cirencester-based group of poets. Gásadalur was first published in Wildfire Words. You can read it by clicking here. Iris will be among the writers representing Somewhere Else at The Huddle at the Cheltenham Literary Festival on Sunday, 15^th October at 4.30pm.