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Join us either Live or Online for our Brewery Poets Reading. Brewery Poets Jeremy Platt, Jenifer Copley & Barbara Hickson are joined by guest Dove Cottage Young Poets Muhammed Amin & Matthew Arnold.
Jeremy Platt
Jeremy Platt is based in the Lake District. He writes fiction, poetry and essays which are often, but not always about music. His poetry explores the way in which new things arise in the region of play between interior and exterior worlds. His story “Playing Bass At A Wedding” was published in Dreamcatcher Magazine. Jeremy is a musician and is active in the field of jazz, funk and related music.
Jennifer Copley
Jennifer Copley is the author of 4 full collections – Unsafe Moments (Arrowhead, 2006), Beans in Snow (Smokestack, 2009), Sisters (Smokestack, 2013) and What Happens to Girls (Pindrop, 2020). In 2018 she won the Cinnamon Pamphlet Competition with Being Haunted. She has been published by The North, Poetry Review, the Sunday Telegraph, The Rialto, The Forward Prize Anthology (twice) and on-going in GCSE Poetry Revision Papers.
Barbara Hickson
Barbara Hickson’s poems have appeared in anthologies and journals including Poetry Salzburg Review, London Grip, Channel, Echtrai and Finished Creatures. They have also won prizes in several major competitions. In 2019 she had twelve poems published in a shared collection with Bev Morris and Gabriel Griffin entitled Rugged Rocks, Running Rascals – poems for complicated times, published by DragonSpawn Press.
Her own debut pamphlet A Kind of Silence was published by Maytree Press in 2021, and this was followed by her second pamphlet, Only the Shining Hours (also published by Maytree Press) in 2024.
Dove Cottage Young Poets
Muhammed Amin
Muhammed is a young writer from Buckinghamshire. His poem ‘Alan Kurdi’ won the Timothy Winters Competition and was subsequently published in ‘Charles Causley: A Portrait of a Poet’ in 2018. His poem ‘Homeless’ won the St Petroc’s Poetry Competition in 2018.
He has been invited to read his poetry at The Poetry Society, The Sharjah Reading Festival, COP26 in Glasgow, RHS Wisley and The Kendal Poetry Festival.
Muhammed won the Journalism category of the Young Muslim Writers Awards in 2022. Additionally, his play ‘The Lollipop Lady’ won first place in the Playwriting category in 2023.
He has been an Ambassador for The Tree Council since 2021, a member of the Dove Cottage Young Poets since 2022 and was selected to be part of the inaugural Youth Council at Kew Gardens in 2025.
Matthew Arnold
Matthew is 16 and has been writing poetry for five to six years. The main inspiration for much of his work is his Christian faith from which comes his passion for justice. Justice is another key force in his work.
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