Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/10/2025
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
Boundary Brook Nature Reserve
Categories
Poetry in Nature – Oxford Poetry Circle
Explore secret corners with all your senses and write nature poems with Laura, inspired by Boundary Brook’s beautiful flora and fauna. You’ll have the option to inscribe your favourite lines on a piece of wood and you’ll get to decide if you want to take your poem home with you or leave it hidden for others to find…
All ages welcome, no experience necessary. Please bring notebooks/paper and a pen.
Laura Theis’s work has been widely anthologised, appearing in The Irish Times, Poetry, Oxford Poetry, Magma, Rattle, Berlin Lit and others. She has received the Caterpillar Prize, Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize, Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize, the Poets & Players Prize, Hammond House International Literary Award, AM Heath Prize, the Mogford Short Story Prize, as well as a Forward Prize nomination. Her poetry debut How to extricate yourself, an Oxford Poetry Library Book of the Month, nominated for the Elgin Award, won the Brian Dempsey Memorial Prize with her collection A Spotter’s Guide To Invisible Things winning the Live Canon Collection Prize, receiving the Arthur Welton Award from the Society of Authors. Latest publications includeIntroduction To Cloud Care (Broken Sleep Books) and her children’s debut Poems From A Witch’s Pocket (The Emma Press).
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