The Green Room has returned from its summer break with New Works on 29th September, with readings from Angela Graham, Robert Minhinnick and Phil Cope along with open mic regulars, short films and music.

The next Green Room will be a CELEBRATION of DANNIE ABSE at 100

FRI. OCTOBER 27, 8pm above SUSSED. With LYNNE HJELMGAARD, launching ’The Turpentine Tree’ (Seren, available at SUSSED), and others sharing memories... Croeso cynnes i bawb/Warm welcome for all. £4 BYOB.
Previous Green Room events are available as an audio podcast.

https://www.serenbooks.com/seren-author/lynne-hjelmgaard/

Lynne Hjelmgaard

Lynne Hjelmgaard was born in New York City and lives in London. She taught Creative Art for children in various schools and institutions before she started writing poetry. She left the States in 1990 for the second time and has been living permanently in the UK since 2011. As a result of crossing the Atlantic in a sailboat with her husband she wrote the poems that were collected in Manhattan Sonnets (Redbeck Press, 2003) and was later released in CD format. After her husband died in 2006, she received a residency grant for the Danish Academy in Rome where she wrote poems that later appeared in her second collection The Ring (Shearsman Books, 2011). Her third poetry collection, A Boat Called Annalise, was published by Seren in 2016 and accounts for the journey Lynne took with her husband by boat across the Atlantic to the Caribbean and Europe.  Her new collection A Second Whisper is available now.