Poetry Workshop

Led by local poet Judith Shaw this will be an opportunity to read poems together and explore doing your own writing in response to the poems and the beautiful and intriguing environment of the Clergy House. Beginners welcome. No experience needed.

Judith Shaw is a poet and artist. She has lived in St Leonards on Sea since 2004 when she returned from a year living and working in Iceland. She has a practice as a psychotherapist and educational specialist supporting with people with issues around neurodiversity. Judith’s poetry has been published in magazines including The Frogmore Papers, Ink Sweat and Tears, Black Iris and Magma. She won the Hasting Book Festival Sussex Prize for Poetry, 2023. One of her poems is in Ten Poems about Getting Older by Candlestick Press and her work appears in the 2025 Live Canon anthology. She graduated with distinction from the Masters in Writing Poetry at the Poetry School/Newcastle University in 2023. She is currently Poet-in-Residence for the Cuckmere Pilgrim Path https://www.cuckmerepilgrimpath.org.uk Follow her on Instagram: @juditheshaw / website www.judithshawcreative.uk