These relaxed events are for parents with babies (pre-walkers). With grown-up poems about new parenthood (as well as life outside of that bubble), it's an opportunity to unwind and escape through the power of words. Maria Ferguson is a poet and multi-award-winning playwright whose second collection Swell is published by Penguin. Eloquent and uncompromising, Swell explores the triumphs and hardships of the journey to new motherhood – through pregnancy, miscarriage, birth, and beyond.

‘There is an honesty that is both heart-breaking and more hopeful than anything else I've read on this subject. She makes me weep and wonder in equal measure’ Hollie McNish

Part of Leeds Storytelling Festival 2025.

A pay-what-you-decide event for adults and their pre-walking babies. Includes refreshments.

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