Independent Chair/South Coast Music Partnership; Chair/Winchester Poetry Festival; Trustee/Nordoff-Robbins. MA (Distinction) - 2025 @UCL @IOE_London.
England, United Kingdom
Joined June 2017
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So much transformative work in the @policysouth area. Thank you @ArtsworkLtd @zoielogic @In_Focuset @ChichesterFT @WinPoetryFest @southampton2025 @Mayflower400SC @PlayToTheCrowd @ace_southwest @ace_southeast and so many others.
@JaneVBryant has written the first of an occasional series of articles about some of the challenges our communities face in the South and how they’re being tackled. Jane's fascintating blog focuses on the value of the arts and culture ow.ly/tE5k50Fkkdu
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🥰“Friendly, inclusive, accessible”
🧠“Insightful, open-minded, creative”
✨“... my first time attending… I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity + platform to share a piece of my work, + for witnessing the beautiful work of others..."
We 💗 Winchester Poetry Day attendees
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💭 We are delighted once again to co-present the annual F.T Prince Lecture with @unisouthampton
Guest poet this year is Denise Riley. Whose lecture will be posing the question "Does the poem think?"
📌 Tues 27 Oct | 6pm
Online AND #Southampton
Info: winchesterpoetryfestival.org…
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Thank you @hantschronicle for covering Winchester Poetry Prize ceremony 2026
Read all about it, below:
Watch - Winning poem from Winchester Poetry Prize with record 2,524 entries ift.tt/ZQasvcL
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💙 Winchester Poetry Prize 2026
Commended Poems
👏🏽 With many thanks to our sponsors @ParisSmithLLP and @Writing5chool alongside @OliverGolding6, for supporting the competition this year. And to @NewburyBS for their support of the Ceremony at which the winners were revealed.
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For the 4th annual Chayer Adda poetry competition, in collaboration with us here at WPF and @Unity101FM we celebrated competition winners in the studio!
Great to join @Susmitatweets and Hants Poet, Damian, @Unity101FM for live radio broadcast discussing poetry and @WinPoetryFest and Unity 101’s joint Chayer Adda Poetry Competition. Congratulations to submitted entries in both Bengali and English - honoured to announce winners!
Great to join @Susmitatweets and Hants Poet, Damian, @Unity101FM for live radio broadcast discussing poetry and @WinPoetryFest and Unity 101’s joint Chayer Adda Poetry Competition. Congratulations to submitted entries in both Bengali and English - honoured to announce winners!
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🥾🍃📝 Our Haiku Walk on @PoetryDayUK !
Our poetic explorers (in perfect weather!) explored Winchester's rolling hills and wrote short poems inspired by the landscape - and shared them at the end.
With many thanks to Mark Rutter @_UoW
🔷 Next up - Winchester Poetry Day on Sat
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😍 @winchesterhods today!
A delight to sit in this beautiful space and create poems with you all.
#HampshirePoet Damian brought archaelogical prompts and created exercises on the @heritageopendays theme Everyday Histories, and we shared our writings at the end.
Thank you!
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With many thanks to the #Winchester indie venues and shops who are hosting Winchestwr Poetry Day posters and leaflets this year!
Your support is invaluable 🙌
#hellowinchester
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We’re hiring! 📣
Join us as a Relationship Manager, Music (17.5 hours per week) and help support music organisations, artists and communities across the North.
Apply by 7 September 👇
bit.ly/4xj1rNE
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Our 4th poetry comp for @Unity101FM's listenership is open in Bengali + English!
Theme: celebration
Closes: 15th Sept
Winners announced: 4th Oct with @JaneVBryant
Judges: @Susmitatweets + #HampshirePoet Damian Kelly Basher
Send your poem to: [email protected]
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📦🚚Special delivery!
This is what 13.5kg of poems looks like!
After many hours of logging, printing + numbering poems from all over the world... they're now off to 2026 comp judge @JuliaCopus
🍀 Good luck poets!
Thank you sponsors @ParisSmithLLP @Writing5chool @OliverGolding6
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👋 Hello Summer, and welcome to #HampshirePoet blog for August!
In the #NationalYearofReading Damian explores 'Reading for Writing'
Damian believes that reading: "... can help you express your personal experiences in a fresh way"
👀 winchesterpoetryfestival.org…
#HelloWinchester
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🎬 That's it for another year!
Winchester Poetry Prize 2026 is closed
Thank you for trusting us with your poems!
@JuliaCopus's longlist will be announced mid-Sept, with winners revealed LIVE at Winchester Poetry Day 2026. Details to follow.
Thanks @ParisSmithLLP @Writing5chool
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Closes tonight!
💎 Winchester Poetry Prize 2026 is open💎
Judge: @JuliaCopus
Prizes: £1k, £500, £250
Kathryn Bevis Prize for best poem from #Hampshire
Closes: 31/07/26
Read the rules and enter: winchesterpoetryfestival.org…
🤝 @ParisSmithLLP @Writing5chool
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In case you missed this - there's still time to enter Winchester Poetry Prize, and if you're based in #Hampshire UK do read up on our special Kathryn Bevis Prize category.
It honours our friend and supports the winning entrant from our county.
🌟Kathryn Bevis Prize honours strongest poem from #Hampshire entered into our global comp
🦋 Named after deeply missed poet + teacher who contributed so much to WPF + beyond
ℹ️winchesterpoetryfestival.org…
So many orchids at Noar Hill today - just beautiful - including pyramidal, common spotted, fragrant, musk and the remains of the Twayblades. A joyousness of orchids!
