Sep 2023
Poetry reading at Monkscroft Care Centre to celebrate book launch
Residents and guests gathered at Monkscroft last week to hear poems read by resident Judith Green and other members of the home’s poetry club.

Judith, a former lecturer in creative writing at Gloucestershire College, started a poetry club at Monkscroft and now residents have published their first collection.
Mayor of Cheltenham, Matt Babbage, attended, along with friends and family of the poetry club, and even former students of Judith, to hear residents and staff read aloud from the book.
Judith said of the process: “I just want to give thanks to all the members of the poetry club. I pushed the ball, but they keep it rolling. We sit together, we write, we go wandering off and then come back and stitch it all together into a poem. Sarah types up our work, I edit it, and then we print it out to share the following week.”