Dandelions Poetry is very pleased to be back at Five Leaves for our special event between Christmas and New Year. We’re also very pleased to have Gregory Woods reading for us. If you’ve heard Gregory read before, you’ll know that it’s the kind of reading where you are so caught up in the words, you forget everything else. What better way to mark the in-between time, when one year is becoming another. We’ll also have an encouraging and friendly open mic, so email dandelionspoetry@gmail.com if you’d like to read.

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Gregory Woods is the author of six poetry collections from Carcanet Press, the latest being Records of an Incitement to Silence (2021). His booklet, They Exchange Glances: Gay Modernist Poems in Translation (2024), is with Hercules Editions. His main books on gay cultural history are with Yale University Press.

“Perhaps the most sexily literate poet writing in England” – Neil Powell