This month’s featured poem is The Walled Garden in July by Iris Anne Lewis. Widely published, Iris has been featured in Black Bough Poetry and has won and been placed in a number of competitions, including being highy commended in the Wales Poetry Award and the Poetry Society’s ‘Stanza’ competition. Her first collection ‘Amber’ was published in 2024 and is available at £8.00 from Amazon here.
A founder member of the Somewhere Else Writers Group in Cirencester, Iris enjoys the group’s weekly meetings with their supportive atmosphere and constructive criticism of members’ creative writing.
She is also a leader of ‘Writers in the Library’, free to all at 2.00pm every second Monday of each month at Cirencester’s Bingham Library
You can read her poem, The Walled Garden in July by clicking here.
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