If you fancy an evening of poetry in the lovely, intimate setting of Sladers Yard, West Bay, then a BridLit event on Tuesday 4 November should be just up your street.

Miranda Cowley Heller is in conversation with Daisy Goodwin about What The Deep Water Knows, a debut poetry collection which paints a moving portrait of a rich life from childhood to love to marriage to motherhood to divorce and beyond.

The collection is a series of exquisite reflections on love in all its seasons. In poetry that is lyrical and quick-witted, gentle and devastatingly frank, Cowley Heller contemplates time, marriage, and motherhood in almost a memoir told in vignettes.

Tickets are £12 from Bridport Tourist Information Centre or £18 to include a one-course supper.

Miranda grew up in New York before moving to LA, leaving her job as a magazine editor to become head of drama at HBO, overseeing numerous successful series including The Wire and The Sopranos.

Her debut novel, The Paper Palace, written in 2021, sold more than 2 million copies and was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller.

Her first collection of poetry reflects on the love, life and loss that captures a woman’s life, and is described as ‘raw, honest and thought provoking’.