Poetry festival 2017 archive

Friday 22nd September 7.30pm

Martin Figura, Pascale Petit

Elisabeth Sennitt Clough

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Saturday 23rd September 11.00am

Discussion, chaired by Professor John Lucas

Notwithstanding the Nobel Prize,

why has poetry become seen as an elitist art here and 

elsewhere in the world?

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Saturday 23rd September 3.00pm

Adnan al-Sayegh 

with his translator, Stephen Watts

Jean Boase-Beier

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Saturday 23rd September 8.00pm

Michelle Cahill, Robert Crawford, George Szirtes 

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Sunday 24th September 11.00am

Penelope Shuttle, Sarah Day, Rosie Jackson

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Sunday 24th September 3.00pm

Poetry and Jazz

Roger Garfitt will perform

In All My Holy Mountain

a celebration in poetry and jazz of the life of English 

novelist and poet, Mary Webb (1881-1927)