Welcome
Fire River Poets is a small group of Somerset poets who share their work in monthly meetings.
We also organise public poetry events and work with schools.
Read more in About Us
Please note, our Guest Readings and Open Mic events will continue on Zoom for the present.
Visit our Event Registration page to register for any of these events and to see joining instructions.
Most of our Guest Reading Evenings allow space for limited Open Mic slots. You can request this when you register to attend. (Only one poem per poet, please, or two provided they fit one side A4.)
News
June 4th 2026 – PAM THOMPSON
Fire River Poets are delighted to welcome poet Pam Thompson for the guest reading in June.
Pam Thompson is a writer, educator and reviewer based in Leicester. Her works include include The Japan Quiz (Redbeck Press, 2009) and Show Date and Time, (Smith|Doorstop, 2006). Her collection, Strange Fashion, was published by Pindrop Press in 2017. Pam was winner of the 2023 Paper Swans Pamphlet Competition and her prize-winning pamphlet, Sub/urban Legends (Paper Swans Press) was published in March 2025. Pam is a Hawthornden Fellow.
May 7th 2026 – MARTIN MALONE
Fire River Poets are delighted to welcome poet Martin Malone for the guest reading in May.
Martin Malone lives on Inishowen in County Donegal. He has published four poetry collections: The Waiting Hillside (Templar, 2011), Cur (Shoestring, 2015), The Unreturning (Shoestring 2019), Gardenstown (Broken Sleep Books 2024) and a Selected Poems 2005 – 2020: Larksong Static (Hedgehog 2020). He’s also published 5 pamphlets: 17 Landscapes (Bluegate Books), Prodigals (The Black Light Engine Room), Mr. Willett’s Summertime (Poetry Salzburg), Shetland Lyrics (Hedgehog) and Sonnets for my Mother as Lear (Mariscat, 2025). He is an editor at Poetry Salzburg Review and was, for a number of years, a Poetry Ambassador for the Scottish Poetry Library. His rock band, Innocents Abroad, released their third album, Late Spring, in 2025 and this year released Slow Time: 1984-1988.
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