Sue Leigh

Sunday 29th - 17:30

Poetry renews and deepens the imagination and that is as essential to public life as it
is to private life. Imagination is so close to compassion and that surely ia the greatest
virtue of all.

Sue Leigh will be reading poems inspired by islands and from newer work. She will
also read from a brief essay inspired by one of her poems.

Afterwards, there will refreshments in the Priory Garden and a chance to buy her latest
pamphlet Simmer Dim, poems inspired by time spent on Shetland.

Sue Leigh is a poet and writer who lives in the valley of the Windrush in Oxfordshire.
She has had two collections of poetry published and two pamphlets. A book of poems
and paintings (with the Cornish painter, Alice Mumford), Conversations in Colour was
published last year.

Sue teaches at Rewley House, Oxford University’s Department for Continuing
Education. She runs her own poetry courses and leads writing workshops in schools.