Jo Bell, Robert Peake, Jonathan Davidson, Jane Commane

We warmly welcome The Canal Laureate, Jo Bell, one of the most exciting and energetic voices on the poetry circuit today, alongside the illuminating and sharp-minded Robert Peake to Wenlock for 2015.

We are thrilled to announce that both Jo and Robert will be launching their new collections at this year's festival:

'Kith' by Jo Bell is her second collection spanning love, sex, boats and friendship and yet so much more, as these bold and generous poems interweave bigger questions of place, identity and community and what these mean to us, here and now.

'The Knowledge' by Robert Peake is a stunning a collection of stirring and delicately attuned poems that not only roam but actively seek – travelling to all manner of places but also moving through time, taking leaps of faith or journeys into memory and sensation.

A wonderful start to your festival evening!

Introduced by Jonathan Davidson with Jane Commane, Nine Arches Press