Friday
15 November
7pm Hugo
Williams reads
from
Lines
Off,
his first collection since 2014, written following transplant surgery
- 'haunting,
shining, untidy poems... vivid with emotion and experience' (Fiona
Sampson, Spectator);
'Williams
has a gift for making poetry read as effortlessly as conversation –
a huge accomplishment' (Kate Kellaway, Guardian).
£10
(Wine and
sandwiches will be served between this and the following reading and
a joint ticket for the evening is available at £15)
8.30pm Kei
Miller reads
from In
Nearby Bushes, his
highly
anticipated new collection that explores his strangest landscape yet
- the placeless place. Here is a world in which it is possible both to hide and to heal, a landscape as much marked by magic as it is by
murder. His previous collection won the Forward Prize.
£10
Saturday
16 November
5.30pm
Niall Campbell & Vidyan Ravinthiram, published
by Bloodaxe,
are shortlisted for this year's Forward Prize. Both collections
start from the domestic – Campbell's Noctuary,
a
diary for late hours, reflects on fatherhood; The
Million-petalled Flower of Being Here began
as personal sonnets for Ravinthiran's wife. £10
7pm
Patrick McGuinness & Giorgia Sensi, poetry
in translation. Giorgia
Sensi
has translated many British poets into Italian, including Carol Ann
Duffy, Jackie Kay, Liz Lochhead, Gillian Clarke and Kathleen Jamie.
She and Patrick
McGuinness
discuss
Déjà-vu, her parallel-text edition of his past and most recent poems. £8
Déjà-vu, her parallel-text edition of his past and most recent poems. £8
8.30pm
Julia Copus & Jane Clarke: Girlhood
('this
phenomenal collection', Kate Kellaway, Observer) exposes
the shifting power balance between things on the verge of becoming
and the forces that threaten to destroy them. Jane
Clarke's second collection with Bloodaxe, When
the Tree Falls,
bears witness to the rhythms of birth and death, celebration and
mourning, endurance and regrowth, £10
Sunday
17 November
2pm Laureate's Choice -
Faith Lawrence, followed
by Open mic. A
chance to hear one of the poets selected by Carol Ann Duffy read from
her new pamphlet Sleeping
Through.
Faith Lawrence is a producer on BBC Radio 3's The Verb.
Open
mic
is
introduced
by Jenny
Lewis of
The Poet's House, Oxford. This popular platform for local and
unpublished poets
is
open to all but should be booked in advance. £6
4.30pm Hannah Sullivan
& Mary Jean Chan. Mary Jean Chan's first
collection Fleche has just been published by Faber: 'Sparkling and
vulnerable... the arrival of an essential new voice' – Sarah Howe.
Hannah Sullivan was
the winner
of last year's T.S. Eliot Prize for Three
Poems,
her first collection: ' A magnificent debut...challenging the
parameters of what poetry can do' – Sinead Morrissey. £10
6.30pm
Raymond Antrobus reads
from The
Perseverance, winner
of the Ted Hughes award and the Rathbones Folio prize: '...an
insightful, frank and intimate rumination on language, identity,
heritage, loss and the art of communication. Ranging from tender
elegies about his father to frank interrogations of deafness,
Antrobus highlights the persistence of memory and our need to
connect' - Malika Booker.
£10
8.30pm Legendary folk singer and songwriter Peggy Seeger joins poets Bernard O'Donoghue & Tom Paulin with Judith & Nick Hooper (fiddle and guitar) for an evening of music and poetry. Both poets have published many collections with Faber. Tom Paulin is also well known for his appearances on BBC's Newsnight Review, and his readings of the poetry of W.B. Yeats. Bernard O'Donoghue is translating Piers Plowman. This
event is held in Woodstock Social Club; drinks are available from
the bar. £10
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 & Sunday readings take place upstairs in
Woodstock Town Hall
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