Poets Charlie Lee-Potter & Penny Boxall in conversation

For the past year, Charlie Lee-Potter has been writer in residence at the University of Oxford's Wytham Woods.

Book your ticket to join her for an in-conversation event with poet Penny Boxall as they discuss the inspiration Wytham brings to writers and artists alike.

Charlie will read from her new poetry collection, A Line is a Breathless Length, created during her residency.

The collection emerged from Charlie's walks in the woods, observing the patterns, timelines and occasional brutalities of nature. 

She's conjured an imaginary community of eccentrics, misfits, grammar obsessives, geometry lovers and loners. There’s the man who views the world through cylinders and cubes, the walker injured by a falling squirrel, the elderly actor who sings lines from a rice pudding recipe and the friendless romantic who reads her own knee. The cast of hapless characters sometimes mingle with the more-than-human, while algebraic topology, knitting patterns and a polysyndeton all play their part. Illustrated with Charlie’s drawings and etchings, the poems’ humour and wordplay bring warmth and humanity to these poignant, often moving micro-stories.

Copies of A Line is a Breathless Length will be available to buy on the day, along with works by Penny. It may be possible to offer a guided walk of the woods after the in-conversation event.