So,..
Here's
the programme for this year's festival!
5th
WOODSTOCK POETRY FESTIVAL
Friday
to Sunday 11 - 13 November 2016
Friday
11 November
*8.30pm
Alice Oswald reads
from Falling
Awake and
recent work. £10
(wine
and sandwiches served between these readings)
Saturday
12 November
11am
– Free children’s event: John Foster ‘The Dinosaur Rap’,
reading & activities with puppets in Woodstock Library for
children aged 3-11. Tickets from the library.
1pm
Oxford Stanza 2 – welcome return of this group of local poets.
£5
2.30pm
Jenny Lewis leads an open mic session. £5
4pm
See How I Land. Anthology edited by Carole
Angier seven years ago, bringing together Oxford poets and exiled
writers. Several contributors join us today, including Yousif
Qasmiyeh, Palestinian poet and translator; Gregory Leadbetter (whose first full collection The Fetch has just been published by Nine Arches Press); Nigerian
poet Afam Akeh, founding editor of African Writing, and Vahni
Capildeo, whose Measures of Expatriation won this year’s
Forward Prize. £8, includes a copy of See How I Land.
Vahni Capildeo
6pm
Gillian Clarke, formerly National Poet of Wales, reads from her
recently published Selected Poems and from her
forthcoming book, Zoology. £8
*8.30pm
Lemn Sissay, Chancellor of Manchester University and official
poet of the 2012 Olympics, reading from his recent collection, Gold
from the Stone. £10
Sunday
13 November
2.30pm
Deryn Rees-Jones & Jamie McKendrick have both recently
published their Selected Poems. Jamie McKendrick
is a distinguished poet and translator from the Italian and ‘among
the most interesting, surprising and distinctive poets of his
generation’ (Sean O’Brien).
Deryn’s previous work Burying the Wren was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and she is Professor of Poetry at the University of Liverpool. £8
4pm
Oxford Stanza – readings by members of this long-established
Oxford-based group including Simon Altmann, Caroline Ashley, John
Elinger, Paulette Mae, David Olsen and Andrew Smardon. £5
6pm
Carrie Etter, Penny Boxall & Jane Draycott. Penny Boxall
recently won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award for her first collection,
Ship of the Line; For a recent interview with Penny see here.
Carrie Etter, an American poet living in England, is Reader in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and has published three collections of poetry, most recently Imagined Sons;
Jane Draycott’s previous collection, Over, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. She teaches at Oxford and Lancaster and last appeared at the festival with her remarkable translation of Pearl. She will read from her latest book, The Occupant. £8
Carrie Etter, an American poet living in England, is Reader in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and has published three collections of poetry, most recently Imagined Sons;
Jane Draycott’s previous collection, Over, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. She teaches at Oxford and Lancaster and last appeared at the festival with her remarkable translation of Pearl. She will read from her latest book, The Occupant. £8
8.30pm
Bernard O’Donoghue & Tom Paulin, with singer Mick Henry
and guitarist Nick Hooper. Traditional Irish singing and music, with
poems by Bernard O’Donoghue, including recent ones from The
Seasons of Cullen Church, and readings of Yeats and his own work
by Tom Paulin. Woodstock Social Club - drinks available at the bar.
£8
Tickets
and information: 01993 812760
Festival
ticket giving entry to all events - £60
Children
& students half price
Tea
and cakes are included in the price of all afternoon events
Most
readings are held upstairs in Woodstock Town Hall
Events
marked * are held in St Mary Magdalene Church
info@woodstockbookshop.co.uk
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