Poetry festival 2014 archive

30th Anniversary

Friday 26th September, 7.30pm

Kit Wright, Pascale Petit, 

Víctor Rodríguez-Núñez

Saturday 27th September, 11.00am

Tiffany Atkinson, George Szirtes

Manuel Forcano

Saturday 27th September, 3.00pm

Discussion: What do we want from poetry?

Should it be left to the academics?

Should Yeats have included poetry from the First World War in his anthology?

Saturday 27th September, 8.00pm

Tom Paulin, Hugo Williams

Sunday 28th September, 11.00am

Mary Noonan, Matthew Sweeney

Rennie Parker

Sunday 28th September, 3.00pm

Absent friends, with particular regard to John Hartley Williams who died earlier this year, and Laurie Lee, who died 100 years ago. 

Event chaired by John Lucas.