Anyone out and about in Worcestershire at the moment has the opportunity to see the work of Polly Stretton, current and long-standing chair of Open University Poets. Her poem Raw (see above)  is on display in Malvern at the outdoor exhibition by Malvern Spoken Word poets and at The Hive as part of the My Worcestershire project which includes poems from poets all over the world who are part of Worcestershire Libraries Poetry Bubble. The Malvern Spoken Word exhibition continues until February 2024.

Polly along with our Society’s Secretary, Karen Macfarlane, also has a poem in the anthology, I Bequeath (Seahorse publications, 2024), the poems prompted by  the late, great Kevin Higgins, Irish poet and a genius re politics and satire, who tutored an OUP workshop some months before he died.

Congratulations to Polly and to Karen!

If you like the poem above why not checkout our Editor’s Choice page where you can see more poems written by OUP poets and chosen by the Editors of our workshop magazine as the best of the bunch!