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Poetry 2019 Programme lynnlitfests.com Programme INFORMATION All events take place at The Town Hall, Saturday Market Place, King’s Lynn PE30 5DQ The Poetry Festival presents some of the best contemporary writers in a congenial and informal setting. The authors read and discuss their work and will be available to chat and sign your purchases from the festival’s well stocked book stall. You are welcome to join them and the festival organisers for lunch at restaurants near the festival venue - details given at the morning events. Ticket Prices Please arrive in good time to be seated. Readings will commence All events £8.50 promptly at listed start time Bargain Season Ticket £37.50 Tickets for students £1 (£5 BST) Doors will open around 30 minutes in advance We cannot guarantee that all the Booking writers will take part in the plenary sessions By post with stamped addressed envelope to All seats are unreserved Events and writers are correct at time of printing Hawkins Ryan Solicitors 19 Tuesday Market Place The organisers reserve the right to King’s Lynn PE30 1JW make changes without notice Please tell us if you have changed By telephone your address or wish to join the mailing list 01553 691661 (office hours) In person at the above address, by website or at the door on the day The Poetry Festival Please make cheques payable to is grateful for support from The Poetry Festival Hawkins Ryan Solicitors Programme and website advertisers Monthly Draw Club members You can contribute to help fund future Raffle Prize literature festivals. Join the Monthly Draw Club this weekend. Subscriptions only £5 per The festival closes with the raffle month with valuable literary and cash prizes to be won, and you’ll receive one discounted draw for our unique prize - a book festival weekend pass each year handwritten by all the writers in the festival THE WEEKEND’S EVENTS Friday 27th September Saturday 28th September 7.30pm 8.00pm Elisabeth Sennitt Clough Jo Shapcott Matthew Caley Tim Liardet Helen Ivory Saturday 28th September Sunday 29th September 11.00am 11.00am Discussion John Greening Is Poetry Better Served By Readers or Listeners? Adam Feinstein Chaired by John Lucas will present his translations of the great Chilean poet, With contributions from the writers and audience Pablo Neruda Saturday 28th September Sunday 29th September 3.00pm 3.00pm Sue Burge In Memorium Matthew Sweeney with Mary Noonan Kit Fan Chaired by John Lucas Nick Drake with contributions from the writers The festival will close with the raffle draw Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, PhD, is an alumna of the Arvon/Jerwood Mentorship scheme 2016 and Toast Poets 2017. She was also a Ledbury Emerging Poet 2017. Her debut pamphlet, Glass, was a winner in the Paper Swans inaugural pamphlet competition in 2016. It went on to win Best Pamphlet at the Saboteur Awards 2017. Her debut collection, Sightings, was published by Pindrop Press in December 2016. It won the Michael Schmidt Prize for Best Portfolio. A poem from that collection was highly commended in the Forward Prize and published in the Forward Book of Poetry 2018. Her second full collection, At or Below Sea Level, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Matthew Caley’s Thirst (1999) was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He’s published five more since then, with his sixth, Trawlerman’s Turquoise, launching at King’s Lynn. His work has featured in many anthologies including Poems of The Decade (Forward Editions); Identity Parade : New British and Irish Poetry and The Picador Book of Love Poems. Matthew has read his work from Morden Tower, Newcastle to The National Portrait Gallery, London; from Galway to Novi Sad. In previous lives he was on the fringe of the Small Press revival in the 1980’s; designed record sleeves; lived in squats in Brixton during the 80’s-90’s; has taught in art schools. Recently, he’s tutored for The Poetry School and been Associate Lecturer in Contemporary Poetry/Creative Writing at The School of English, St Andrews University. He lives in London with the Czech artist Pavla Alchin and their two daughters, Iris and Mina. Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her fifth Bloodaxe collection, The Anatomical Venus (May 2019), examines how women have been portrayed as ‘other’; as witches; as hysterics with wandering wombs and as beautiful corpses cast in wax, or on mortuary slabs in TV box sets. She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and is a tutor for the UEA/ NCW online creative writing programme. Fool’s World, a collaborative Tarot card project with Tom de Freston (Gatehouse Press) won the 2016 Saboteur Best Collaborative Work award. A book of mixed media poems, Hear What the Moon Told Me, appeared from KFS in 2016, and a chapbook Maps of the Abandoned City was published by SurVision Press (Ireland) earlier this year. She lives in Norwich with her husband, the poet Martin Figura, where they help run Café Writers – a live literature organisation. Sue Burge is a Norfolk-based poet and freelance teacher of writing courses since 2007. Previously, she taught Creative Writing at UEA for 20 years. She also writes and teaches courses on film, and her pamphlet Lumière was inspired by films set in Paris from 1895 through to the French New Wave directors. Her first full collection, In the Kingdom of Shadows (2018), was shortlisted for the Live Canon First Collection Prize. Heidi Williamson wrote of “widely travelled poems both culturally and historically, journeying deep into territories of collective memory and individual psyche”. Born in Hong Kong, Kit Fan moved to Britain at 21. He is a poet and fiction writer. His first book, Paper Scissors Stone, won the inaugural HKU International Poetry Prize. Kit’s second collection, As Slow As Possible, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and chosen by the Guardian as one of the biggest books in 2018 and The Irish Times Best Poetry Book of the Year. He won a Times Stephen Spender Poetry Translator Prize. He was shortlisted for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize consecutively in 2017 and 2018. Kit won a 2018 Northern Writers Award for Diamond Hill, a novel in progress. Nick Drake was born in 1961, grew up in Hertfordshire, studied at Cambridge University and is based in London. He is a screenwriter, playwright, librettist, novelist and poet, with his first collection, The Man in the White Suit (Bloodaxe Books, 1999), being a Poetry Book Society Recom- mendation, and winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. In September 2010 he travelled to the Arctic to explore climate change. From that journey arose poems and texts for the ground-breaking installation High Arctic at the National Maritime Museum (2011). Together with other poems inspired by the Arctic and its voices, they are gathered in his collection The Farewell Glacier (Bloodaxe Books, 2012). Other recent projects include the screenplay for the film Romulus, My Father, which won best Film at the Australian Film Awards, and a trilogy of crime novels set in 18th Century Dynasty Egypt which are currently being adapted for television. His fourth poetry collection, Out of Range, was published by Bloodaxe in 2018. Jo Shapcott was born in London 1953. She was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin and later studied at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. From there, she received a Harkness Fellowship to Royal Holloway College, London, where she is today Professor of Creative Writing. Her awards for collections include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Forward Poetry Prize, and in 2011 she received the Costa Prize for Of Mutability. She has twice won the National Poetry Competition. Jo has worked with musicians on collaborative projects, and in 1997 had her poems set to music and has presented poetry programmes for BBC radio. Her book Tender Taxes includes her versions from Rilke’s French Poems (2001). She is President of the Poetry Society and is considered one of Britain’s leading poets. Born in London in 1959, Tim Liardet is a respected critic and Professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University. He has reviewed poetry for such journals as The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, and Poetry Review and The Guardian. He has produced eleven collections of poetry - his third, Competing With The Piano Tuner, was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and long listed for the Whitbread poetry prize in 1998. The Blood Choir, his fifth collection, won an Arts Council England writers’ award, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the 2006 TS Eliot prize. His New & Selected Poems, Arcimboldo’s Bulldog, was published last year and spans nine of his ten award-winning collections, and adds some new poems. Adam Feinstein is an acclaimed British author, poet, translator, Hispanist, journalist, film critic and autism researcher. His biography of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life, was first published by Bloomsbury in 2004 and reissued in an updated edition in 2013 (Harold Pinter called it ‘a masterpiece’) along with his book of translations from Neruda’s Canto General. He also wrote the introduction to Jorge Luis Borges’ Labyrinths, 2007. His own poems and his translations (of Neruda, Federico García Lorca, Mario Benedetti and others) have appeared in magazines, including PN Review, Agenda, Acumen, Poem and Modern Poetry in Translation. He lectures worldwide and broadcasts regularly for the BBC and writes for the Guardian, the Observer, the Financial Times and the Times Literary Supplement. Arc published his latest book of translations, The Unknown Neruda, in August 2019. John Greening was born in Chiswick, 1954.
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