Please join us at Lavenham Literary Festival to hear Rebecca Goss read from her newest collection Latch. She will be joined by two other Suffolk poets; Emily Hasler and Joanna Ingham, who will also be reading from their respective collections.

Tickets are available here.

Landscape, Language and Lineage: Readings by Three Suffolk Poets

Rebecca Goss is a poet, tutor and mentor living in Suffolk. Her first full-length collection, The Anatomy of Structures, was published by Flambard Press in 2010. Her second collection, Her Birth (Carcanet/Northern House, 2013), was shortlisted for the 2013 Forward Prize for Best Collection, won the Poetry category in the East Anglian Book Awards 2013, and in 2015 was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Writing and the Portico Prize for Literature. In 2014, Rebecca was selected for the Poetry Book Society’s Next Generation Poets. Her second pamphlet Carousel, a collaboration with the photographer Chris Routledge, was published by Guillemot Press in 2018. Rebecca’s third full-length collection, Girl, was published with Carcanet/Northern House in 2019 and shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2019. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff University and a PhD by Publication from the University of East Anglia. She was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge 2020-22 and at the University of Suffolk 2022-23.

Emily Hasler is a Hawthornden Fellow. Her latest publication Local Interest maps the friable landscapes of Suffolk and Essex to expose the constantly shifting courses of rivers and lives.

Joanna Ingham writes poetry and fiction. Her second pamphlet Ovarium was shortlisted for the East Anglian book awards. Her work has appeared in the Sunday Times and been published widely in journals, anthologies and online.