Pelé’s Poetry Series: Rachel Spence, Meditations on "Medea’s Song"

Name: Pelé’s Poetry Series: Rachel Spence, Meditations on "Medea’s Song"
Start: 2025-03-13T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-03-13T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Oscars

March 13, 2025 @ 7:30 PM

Pele's Poetry Series: Rachel Spence, Meditations on "Medea's Song"

Rachel Spence, Meditations on ‘Medea’s Song’, Mothers and The Battle for the Museum

Spence, FT arts writer and poet, will discuss and read from new works. Her meditations on motherhood and the myths surrounding it are central to her life in Ludlow. ‘Daughter of the Sun,’ a collection of elegies composed to her mother, while she swam in the River Teme. She will explore how poetry and protest, like a river, offers a space of solace and transformation allowing us to make our own myths, and discover truth, happiness and freedom in places that we may never have imagined. Her recent book ‘Battle for the Museum’ about the crisis in the arts has been selected for the FT books of the year.

Rachel Spence is based in London, Ludlow and Venice. Her poems explore themes including time, absence, quantum physics, motherhood and water.

She is an arts writer for the FT and has published three pamphlets, Furies (Templar, 2016), Call & Response (Emma Press, 2020), and Uncalendared (Coast to Coast Journal Winner 2023).

Her debut collection Bird of Sorrow (Templar, 2018) was highly commended in the Forward

Prize 2019. Her prose poem ‘Venice Unclocked’, in collaboration with photographer Giacomo Cosua, was published by Ivory Press in 2022. Her lastest poetry collection is Daughter of the Sun (The Emma Press, 2025). She has recently completed her cycle of poems ‘Medea’s Song’.

Her non-fiction book, Battle for the Museum, which explores the relationship between art, power and money, was published by Hurst in 2024 and has been selected for one of the FT books of the year.

Dinner and a Show!

Bill’s Kitchen, within Ludlow Assembly Rooms, is now offering a 2-course meal before the show for only £15 (if booked 24 hours in advance). Book your table directly with Bill’s Kitchen and come along any time after 5.30pm to eat before the show starts – the earlier you come the bigger the menu selection. Please note that due to the popularity of these events you may be invited to share a table with other diners on the night.

_For information about the meals, please contact Bill’s Kitchen directly on 01584 877956 or please book via the _Bill’s Kitchen meal-deal booking page