Poetry festival 2017 archive
Friday 22nd September 7.30pm
Martin Figura, Pascale Petit
Elisabeth Sennitt Clough
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?
Saturday 23rd September 3.00pm
Adnan al-Sayegh
with his translator, Stephen Watts
Jean Boase-Beier
Saturday 23rd September 8.00pm
Michelle Cahill, Robert Crawford, George Szirtes
Sunday 24th September 11.00am
Penelope Shuttle, Sarah Day, Rosie Jackson
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)