Here it is! The programme for this year's Woodstock Poetry Festival, our seventh. Booking is now open - please note, tickets can be bought for each separate event or, if you plan to attend several events, you can buy a festival ticket for the whole weekend.
Friday
9 November
7pm Wendy
Cope reads from her latest
collection, Anecdotal
Evidence – poems
about childhood, friends, love and growing older: 'Wendy Cope is
without doubt the wittiest of contemporary English poets, and says a
lot of extremely serious things' - Rowan Williams. £10
8.30pm Kayo
Chingonyi - Unfortunately Kayo is no longer able to read at this year's festival.
Saturday
10 November
12pm Niall
Munro, director
of Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre, introduces three poets published by
ignitionpress,
the poetry pamphlet press established by the Centre in 2017. Mary
Jean Chan's
A
Hurry of English
was the Poetry Book Society's Summer Pamphlet Choice; her first full
collection is published by Faber next year. Natalie
Whittaker's
first pamphlet is Shadow
Dogs.
Belinda
Zhawi
was a 2015/16 London Laureate and the 2016/17 Institute of
Contemporary Arts Associate Poet. Her debut pamphlet is Small
Inheritances.
£6
2.30 pm
Christopher Reid – Old
Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs.
A
'companion volume' to T S Eliot's Book
of Practical Cats,
discussed by Eliot and written at the request of the Eliot estate,
Old
Toffer's Book
celebrates a variety of dogs in similar spirit. Christopher Reid is a
former poetry editor at Faber and the author of many books of poems.
Come and meet Flo the Philosophical Foxhound, Frazzlesprat, who'd
rather be a cat, and other consequential dogs. Family
event, followed by tea. £5
4pm Liz
Berry & Esther Morgan.
The
Republic of Motherhood, Liz
Berry's
first
collection since Black
Country,
sings of the rawness and joy of new motherhood.
Esther
Morgan's
fourth book, The
Wound Register,
explores her family's response to her great grandfather's death at
the Somme & her own experience of motherhood. £10
6pm
James Harpur & John F. Deane. John F. Deane
founded Poetry Ireland and the Dedalus Press. Dear
Pilgrims uncovers
a map of spiritual pathways, both external and internal.
James
Harpur's
The
White Silhouette meditates
on the divine, and explores pilgrimage and loss.
Both
poets are members of Aosdana, established by the Arts Council to
honour artists whose work has made an outstanding contribution to the
arts in Ireland. £10
7.30pm
Treelines:
launch
of the fourth
anthology
selected by Janie Hextall & Barbara McNaught, who brought you
Washing
Lines, Shorelines
&
Strings of Pearls
– this time, poems about trees, woods & orchards; introduced by
Esther
Morgan. £5
Sunday
11 November
3.30pm Sean O'Brien &
Jamie McKendrick address
timely and contemporary issues in their new collections. Europa,
Sean O'Brien's
ninth collection, looks at the shared heritage of European identity;
Anomaly,
the
seventh collection from poet and translator Jamie
McKendrick, tackles
interconnectedness.
£10
5.30pm Isabel
Galleymore, Abigail Parry & Imtiaz Dharker.
Isabel Galleymore's
first full-length collection, Significant
Other,
is published next year. Jinx
is Abigail
Parry's
first book: 'These
are outstanding poems' – Jo Shapcott; Imtiaz
Dharker won
the Queen Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014
and her
latest book is Luck
is the Hook:
‘If
there were to be a World Laureate, then for me the role could only be
filled by Imtiaz Dharker.’ - Carol Ann Duffy.
£10
7.30pm
Jenny Lewis of The Poets House,
Oxford, will introduce open mic, the
popular platform for local and unpublished poets, following the
launch of Gilgamesh
Retold, her re-telling
of the world's oldest poem, composed in Mesopotamia four millenia
ago. Open mic is open to all but should be booked in
advance. £5
Tickets
and information: 01993 812760 or info@woodstockbookshop.co.uk
Festival
ticket giving entry to all events - £60, children
and students half price
Tea and cakes are included in the price of all afternoon
events
Friday's readings are held in St Mary Magdalene Church
Saturday and Sunday readings take place upstairs in
Woodstock Town Hall
Saturday and Sunday readings take place upstairs in
Woodstock Town Hall
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