Awen Publications

Helen Moore’s third major collection of poems, The Mother Country, is published by Awen on 1 May 2019. Helen is a poet of passion, power, and precision. She writes with a commitment to the world – the ecological, the political, the spiritual...

Join us on Saturday 4 May for Jay Ramsay: A Celebration of his Life in Music, Poetry and Words at St Lawrence Parish Church, Stroud at 7pm (6pm for vegetarian Indian food)...

On Wednesday 5 December Awen was delighted to host the launch in Stroud at the ever-wonderful Black Book Café of two of our newest books....

by Anthony Nanson Green Man Dreaming: Reflections on Imagination, Myth, and Memory is a definitive gathering of Lindsay Clarke’s...

On 19 August 2018 we gathered in the Ale House in Stroud to celebrate two things: the launch of Awen’s newest title, Silver Branch:...

Jay will be reading from the book at Hawkwood College, Stroud, on 20 April as part of an event with Andrew Harvey on the theme of sacred...

by Ken Masters ‘Hello everybody, assuming you can hear me! I am the ghost of Aristotle, and I haunt the Elwin room at BRLSI, especially...

By Irina Kuzminsky June 3, Waterloo Festival, St John’s Waterloo On a spectacularly sunny English summer day some of Britain’s best poets...

LIVING A WRITER’S LIFE an evening with Devon poet & author Roselle Angwin BookStop event at The Bedford Hotel, Tavistock, Devon, Friday...

We’d like to draw your attention to a future event organised by poet Jay Ramsay – a day pilgrimage to Culbone  with meditation, writing ...

Ballad Tales, while published by The History Press features a number of Awen authors and Fire Springs members, so we’re giving it a shout...

By Dawn Gorman How appropriate for a Words & Ears falling on a hot, hot evening that we should find ourselves among Liz Watts’ Beached...

Today we’re reblogging from Kevan Manwaring’s Bardic Academic blog. This is about The Bard of Hawkwood – a recent bardic competition...

Poets, thinkers, writers and people who care for the natural world will gather in Waterloo on Saturday, June 3, 2017 for a unique...

By Dawn Gorman It was a packed and dynamic evening last Thursday at Words & Ears, when Susan Utting and Rishi Dastidar took up the guest...

By Nimue Brown Isambard Kerne may be an Edwardian gentleman rather than a Victorian, but there are many reasons the Windsmith series...

The next Frome Poetry Cafe on Monday 24th features two major names, both reading from their new publications: Whitbread-winning author...

Bradford on Avon’s reading series, Words & Ears continues to offer a popular combination of open mic and strong guest poets, this month...

On the 9th of March 2017, Lindsay Clarke read from his poetry collection A Dance With Hermes at the Chapel Arts Cafe in Bath. it was a...

On 9 March 2017, Lindsay Clarke will be reading some poems from his new book A Dance with Hermes, alongside writers Peter Please and...