We’re very excited to announce the launch of Iris Anne Lewis’ debut poetry collection ‘Amber’ at the Friends Meeting House in Thomas Street, Cirencester, next Sunday (29th September) at 2.45pm.
She will be sharing the stage with her friend, and fellow poet Gill Garrett, who will be launching her collection ‘The Photo I Didn’t Take.’
Iris was born in the Rhondda, Wales, and her work has been featured at the Cheltenham Literary Festival and the Bradford on Avon Arts Festival. She was awarded 1st prize in the Gloucestershire Poetry Society Competition in 2020 and was highly commended in the Wales Poetry Award 2022. She is widely published in magazines and anthologies, most recently Artemis, Black Bough Poetry, Ink, Sweat and Tears and The High Window.
She is an active participant in local poetry events and open mics. Her journey into creative writing started with a week’s residential course at Ty Newydd, the National Writers’ Centre of Wales. In 2018, she founded the Cirencester Poetry Group and 2020 marked her sixth appearance at the Cheltenham Literature Festival as a prize winner.
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