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Madcat this weekend. See you there!! Follow the link for tickets: https://madcat.bigcartel.com/product/madcat-mini-music-festival

On the day of Glenn’s funeral…….https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/25/glenn-storhaug-obituary …………………………….
Two poems for Glenn

Hey Glenn, they tell me you’ve gone
Fell from a heart attack, found
In your dressing gown
Coffee beans at the ready. 

Hey Glenn, I’m not sure I believe them. 
Well for one, we’ve only just met 
And another thing, I waited nearly 30 years 
To talk with you. You can’t have gone already.

And Glenn, it’s true what I said 
The only thing I knew about this county before
I settled here, was that you and Watkins, 
The ley line man, lived here. 

Glenn, you published Gary Snyder
And Frances Horovitz and you were out there
Somewhere in the wilds of the county 
Or Green Street, as it turned out. 

Dear Glenn, you were my too-temporary
Mentor, Ulysses braving the seas, smiling, 
Encouraging, intoxicating me with your
Heaving shelves and book-lined stories.

Hey Glenn, they tell me you’ve gone
I’m not sure I’m ready to believe them. 


There’s no etiquette with grief, it’s
 a brute who turns up for dinner without
 warning and sits there mute all evening, waits
 until you’re cleaning the dishes before it
 whispers a name. It knows as you sag
 you can never perform the surgery
 separating gasp from smile or
 the hole from that which filled it.
 Grief plays the long game.

With much love from Rick Goldsmith

Dear all

We wanted to let you all know the sad news about Glenn Storhaug, poet and publisher (Five Seasons Press) who passed away on Saturday. You may be aware that my wife Julia and I recently made a film about this generous and deeply literary man.

His ex-wife Liz asked me to inform people. He suffered a severe heart attack, after undergoing a third course of chemotherapy for his cancer. It is thought to have been mercifully quick.

I feel like I had only got to know Glenn properly since Spring 2024, before there was any idea of making the film. I wanted to get to know him better as I was so impressed with his publishing work and the roster of fine people that Five Seasons had featured with over the years. He was a fabulous raconteur, and name-dropped people that I admired so I was doubly star-struck.

He was widely read, had a profound love of poetry and felt deeply about environmental issues and lived his life accordingly. Julia and I, and so many more of the people whose lives he touched will miss him very much.

I had spoken to him about doing a small exhibition at Hereford Library, but maybe that cannot happen now. We’ll see.

The film is free to view: https://www.catchermedia.co.uk/

With love and sadness, Rick & Julia x

These lovely and highly characteristic photographs of Glenn were taken at Hay Festival for the Q&A after our film screening. He was among friends, family and poetry lovers from across the world.

Thanks to: Adam Tatton-Reid.

Following 3 packed houses we are pleased to announce that 'Printing Poetry Aloud' is now available to view in full on our website. The film features Herefordshire's Glenn Storhaug talking about his lifetimes work - Five Seasons Press. We hope you enjoy it if you missed it on it's rounds or enjoy re-watching it. https://www.catchermedia.co.uk/portfolio/printing-poetry-aloud/

Rob Reiner RIP https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/rob-reiner-obituary

A big thank you to everyone who came to see our Catcher Media film ‘Printing Poetry Aloud’ yesterday. A lovely audience and a really enjoyable Q&A. Glenn and .goldsmith were buzzing all evening!

It’s over and out for our debut sound and listening extravaganza ‘A Kind of Hush’. It’s been a blast and we have enjoyed bringing this new experience to Hereford. Those of you who joined us told us you loved it - with quite a few saying it should be a permanent fixture. We can’t promise you that but here’s to more play and recalibration moments to come. Thanks to: .goldsmith who brought us faces to contemplate, for the restorative gong baths, Jus'jay Yoo Kay for liberating our ears at the Kissa Bar, for encouraging connections in her den, Bear Kenchington for releasing our playfulness with the ping pong orchestra/bells and to Richard Hastings who warmed our souls with his beautiful rugs and blankets.

Thanks to who crafted our social media posts and kept us sane, for photography support, .francesca.1 for being our fab helpers.

Thanks also to our funders for having faith in our idea. And to for hiring out the great space and all their help.

Getting ready for the Listening Bar….

A Kind of Hush got off to a wonderful start today despite with a visit from this morning and more visitors in the afternoon