To help celebrate the launch of this year’s Fenland Poet Laureate Competition, we sat down with five former Fenland Poet Laureates, to find out a bit more about them: Who are you and when did you win the Fenland Poet Laureate Competition? My name is Poppy Kleiser. I am a poet and writer from Suffolk, now living in Fenland. I have performed in various places around the UK, from art exhibitions and festivals to museums and weddings. Mostly inspired by place, nature and the hist

To help celebrate the launch of this year’s Fenland Poet Laureate Competition, we sat down with five former Fenland Poet Laureates, to find out a bit more about them: Who are you and when did you win the Fenland Poet Laureate Competition? I’m Jonathan Totman and I was Fenland Poet Laureate in 2015. I’ve always enjoyed poetry but started writing more seriously in my early twenties. I was living in London at the time and joined a local writing group, the Highgate Poets. That gr

To help celebrate the launch of this year’s Fenland Poet Laureate Competition, we sat down with five former Fenland Poet Laureates, to find out a bit more about them: Who are you and when did you win the Fenland Poet Laureate Competition? Hello, my name’s Leanne Moden. I’m a poet, writer and performer from Wisbech – capital of the Fens! I started performing my poetry in 2010, and I’ve performed in loads of different places across the UK, including the Aldeburgh Poetry Festiva