Poetry Evening with Nia Broomhall
by Shikha Bansal
Nia Broomhall is an award-winning poet and holds an MA with distinction in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She is Poet in Residence at Painshill Park in Cobham and won the 2023 Mslexia Women’s Poetry Pamphlet Competition for her debut pamphlet Backalong, published by Bloodaxe Books in September 2024.
In her two-hour workshop on 11 November, attended on Zoom by an intimate gathering of passionate poets and expertly moderated by Holly Sykes, Nia introduced […]
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