A Walk in the Park: A Leicester Poet

Shruti Chauhan is a poet from Leicester. She has created a reputation for sensitive and heartfelt performance poetry, first as part of ‘Three the Hard Way’, a national tour with Lydia Towsey and Jean Binta Breeze, and more recently with Yoni-Verse Poetry Collective (https://www.yoniversepoetrycollective.com) a group of female spoken word poets of South-Asian heritage.  She’sRead more

Happy New Year!

On my last visit to Bradgate Park, in December, the place was covered with sheet ice and the car parks were closed.  This was a shame, because I’d taken one of my creative writing students from Loughborough University for her first visit.  But one of the attractions of Bradgate is how the weather and seasonsRead more