SETTLE Sessions will bring together young and mature poets next week.

Rising star Kim Moore will share the platform with doyenne Meg Peacocke, who is still publishing poems in her eighties.

Meg began publishing poems in her fifties, when she gave up everything she'd done before and started a new life as a smallholder in Cumbria. She had written since childhood, but academia, teaching, marriage and family and counselling work, buried the writing.

Meg won the highly prestigious Cholmondeley Award in 2005 and collaborated with her late brother, the composer Richard Rodney Bennett, on a number of musical and written pieces.

She has published five collections – a sixth should be out this autumn – but as she says "the most important poem is always the next, the one you’re trying to get to grips with now".

Kim was born in 1981 and lives and works in Cumbria. She has quickly caught the ears of the poetry world with her down to earth and accessible work.

She has just taken part in the Poetry and Songs Festival in Vlieland, Holland, and her first full-length collection, The Art of Falling, was published by Seren in April.

In 2014, Kim was poet in residence for Ilkley Literature Festival and digital poet in residence for The Poetry School. Her first pamphlet If We Could Speak Like Wolves was a winner in The Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition, judged by Carol Ann Duffy.

Other accolades include the New Writing North Award in 2014, an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2012.

The Settle Sessions event will take place at The Folly next Friday, September 11, at 7.30pm and tickets costing £6 (£5.50 members) are available from The Folly, The Courtyard Dairy, Cave and Crag or 01729 823305.

For more details, visit settlesessions.co.uk