A Midsummer Night’s Poetry

Readings from Rosalind Easton, Elizabeth Parker, Tim Scott and Natalie Whittaker. Bios Rosalind Easton – poet and English teacher from SE London. Has won prizes including The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition and the Bridport Prize. Pamphlets are Black Mascara (Waterproof) (Smith Doorstop/The Poetry Business) and Man Overboard (Paper Swans). Currently working on full collection. Tim Scott – university lecturer from London – has been widely published in journals. Won the 2022 Magma Editors’ Prize and was shortlisted for the 2024 Magma Pamphlet Prize. He has twice been longlisted for the National Poetry Competition. Natalie Whittaker – poet, English teacher and freelance editor from SE London. Pamphlets are Shadow Dogs (ignition, 2018) and Tree (Verve, 2021). Her debut full collection The Point Is You Are Alive was published by Broken Sleep in 2025. She has been placed and shortlisted in numerous competitions including the Bridport Prize, and was a London Library emerging writer from 2020-21. Elizabeth Parker is a poet and writer from Bristol. She has published two full collections with Seren (In Her Shambles – 2018 and Cormorant – 2024). She has been widely published in journals including Magma and Agenda, and is a former prizewinner in the Troubadour Poetry Prize. She has also been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Potential content warnings: stillbirth, illness of elderly parents, grief and loss