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This special ‘Country Voices’ reading focuses on rural matters, nature and the environment and features Tom Allsopp, Nicky Hetherington & Simon Fletcher. These rural poets have written extensively about life in the countryside, yesterday and today. 

Tom Allsopp is from Hednesford, Staffordshire, a poet and playwright who has had work staged in theatres across the country. He spends a lot of time walking on Cannock Chase and had two pieces included in 'In The Sticks'. One of Offa’s ‘New Voices’. 

Nicky Hetherington lives in mid-Wales and spends a lot of time gardening and cultivating trees. She won the Oriel Davies Open Poetry Competition, 2017, and 2nd place in Writing Magazine's haiku competition the same year. She’s  had work in magazines including Earth Love and in the anthology In the Sticks. She’s also published an entertaining pamphlet Cultivating Caterpillars. 

Simon Fletcher grew up on a smallholding in the Wyre Forest and has written many articles and poems about life in the countryside. He lives in north Shropshire and enjoys walking in the Oswestry Hills. His pamphlet, Wild Orchids, includes material ‘commended’ in the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year Award, 2022. www.simonfletcherwriter.com