Winchester Poetry Festival 2025
Poetry Platform at The Railway Inn: guest poet Hilary Davies
Winchester Poetry Festival presents Winchester Poetry Prize 2024 longlisted poet Hilary Davies as special guest at The Railway Inn’s monthly celebration of spoken word, Poetry Platform. In this special collaborative event, Hilary will be reading from her latest collection, Compass Light, which explores our relationships with both the human and natural world. As always, there will be an Open Mic for local poets to share their work too.
Hilary Davies will be reading from her forthcoming fifth collection, Compass Light (Renard Press). She is a former Chairman of the Poetry Society, and has been an RLF Fellow at King’s College, London and the British Library. In 2023 she was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year award.
This event takes place at The Railway Inn
5min walk from Winchester Train Station
Follow the signage :
The Railway Inn
3 St Paul's Hill
Winchester
So22 5AE
Suitable for: 18+ only
Duration: 3.5 hours approx
Format: poetry open mic, guest reading
Access: Relaxed performance, venue is up a flight of stairs, but there is access via the hill - ramp on request.
