During the COVID 19 lockdown when her brother Jon died alone of COVID in January 2021 aged fifty-three, Maggie Parsons wrote out poems that gave her strength and helped to express her feelings. She hung the poems on a tree outside her house for others to read and has been doing this every year for 6 weeks from the end of May. The idea for the Poetree was inspired by the poem I Hung a Poem on A Branch by Yevgeny Yevtushenko which includes the lines: if we have trouble on the way we’ll remember that somewhere bathed in light a tree is waving a poem and smiling we’ll say “We have to go on”…

Join Maggie to find out more about the project, to read some of the poems, to take away poems you find helpful, and maybe to share your own.

This is a drop in event, so come along anytime between 2 and 4pm

Booking appreciated here just we can know vague numbers. Thanks