INSPIRE POETRy FESTIVAL 2017

Tuesday 11 – sunday 16 July

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WelCoMe To THe Tickets for events can be booked online at inspireculture.org.uk/poetry-festival iNSPire PoeTry or by phone or in person at the FeSTivAl 2017 individual libraries. For full booking and BRInGInG PoeTRy venue informa tion please see page 11. To souTHWell, WesT BRIdGFoRd, MansFIeld CenTRal and WoRKsoP lIBRaRIes d r o f

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anniversary this year - and with the support of P national lottery funding through arts Council , the festival presents brilliant poetry iNTroduCiNg our digiTAl events at four of our libraries across the county. PoeT iN reSideNCe

We are proud to host headline appearances from Julia Bird is Inspire’s first digital poet in Jackie Kay , Hollie McNish , Paul Farley and Henry residence; tweeting, posting and updating Normal , along with other great poets, in a packed before and during the festival weekend. programme of readings, performan ces, For poems, reviews, reading ideas and workshops , family activities and special events. more, look out for her festival posts on our Facebook and Twitter. she will also appear in perso n at three of our venues with fre e Poetry readers and writers can hone their skills in poetry activities . one of our practical workshops, while even absolute beginners will find inspiration in our Julia grew up in Gloucestershire and now programme of talks and performances which lives in where she works for the combine poetry with an array of subjects including Poetry school and as an independent live history, motherhood , Byron, bereavement, music, literature producer. she has two poetry autism, conservation and inspiration. collections published by salt and one forthcoming from The emma Press in september. With performances for children from Joseph Coelho and A. F. Harro ld , our digital poet in residence Julia Bird popping up to post, tweet and make origami birds, a special book launch nottslibraries #inspirepofest celebrating a new Charter of the Forest, Mahendra Solanki and Candlestick Press sharing poems on the theme of Home, and much more besides, aa l alargrgee p prirnint tv veersrsioionn o of ft hthisis b brorocchhuurere we’ re looking forward to a busy week of wise, isis a avvaailialabblele o onn t hthee w weebbssitiete, ,a anndd c caan n witty , wonderful words. bbee m maaddee a avvaailialabblele a at tt hthee l ilbibrararireys. .

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WorKSHoP iN CoNverSATioN PerForMANCe iNSPirATioNS: WriTiNg JoANNe liMBurg: HeNry NorMAl ANd PerForMiNg THe AuTiSTiC AliCe WorKSoP liBrAry PoeTry WiTH in association with Five leaves 7.30pm £10 / £8 KeviN FegAN WeST BridgFord liBrAry 7.30pm Booking strongly advised MANSField CeNTrAl liBrAry £8 / £6 Age 14+. under 18s to be 2pm - 4pm Booking advised accompanied by an adult £5 under 18 s to be accompanied Booking essential by an adult nottingham-born Henry normal makes a welcome return to the What are your inspirations? Join Joanne limburg will be in county. Better known as co-writer Mansfield-born poet and conversation with independent of award-winning TV and film hits playwright Kevin Fegan to publisher Ross Bradshaw of Five including The Royle Family, The explore writing poetry based on leaves and reading from The Mrs Merton Show, The Parole your own passions, and learn tips Autistic Alice (Bloodaxe), her latest Officer and Coogan’s Run, and on how to deliver it to an collection which examines her producer of Gavin and Stacey, audience. What ever your passion own experience of autism and the Alan Partridge and – from football to fiction, heritage loss by suicide of her br other. oscar-nominated Philomena, to horses, sketching to steam Henry returns to his first love; trains, or collecting to crafts – Joanne limburg has published poetry. discover how to bring it to life poetry, fiction and non-fiction for through poems. Staring Directly at the Eclipse is his both adults and children. Her first collection for over twenty memoir, The Woman Who Thought use the library’s own collections years. It features poems from his Too Much , explores her to feed your poetry, and enjoy the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 experience of oCd and anxiety. chance to share your poems at a programme A Normal Family , she has recently completed a Phd reading later in the week (see together with new and selected in Creative Writing at Kingston page 4). poetry from his performance university, on the subject of work. sibling suicide loss. Her creative Taking part in the reading isn’t project Small Pieces: A Book of essential, but workshop Lamentations will be published by “Succinct, heartrending and participants are entitled to free atlantic Books this July. peppered with gentle entry. punchlines.” The guardian

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reAdiNgS ANd TAlK PerForMANCe reAdiNg NeWSTeAd ABBey: Hollie MCNiSH iNSPirATioNS WiTH PoeTry ANd PeACoCKS WeST BridgFord liBrAry KeviN FegAN WiTH BeCKy CulleN 7.30pm MANSField CeNTrAl liBrAry £10 / £8 WorKSoP liBrAry 2pm Booking essential 2pm £4 (Free to inspirations Age 16+ (adult content) £3 workshop participants) under 18s to be accompanied Booking advised Booking advised by an adult Join former newstead abbey Kevin Fegan reads from his work, Join us for an evening with Hollie poet in residence Becky Cullen to and invites participants from our Mcnish - a poet whose honest explore one of nottinghamshire ’s Inspirations workshop to share take on being a mum has gained most treasured historical gems. their own poetry based o n their her a huge online following. Becky will chat about all things passions. Hear the acclaimed local poet talk about his own newstead, including architecture, Hollie is widely considered one of inspirations and enjoy a relaxed peacocks and ghosts, sharing the most important poets of the afternoon of poetry and chat. poetry by George Gordon, lord new generation, and has thrilled Byron and her own poems audiences all over the uK with her Kevin Fegan has published ten inspired by the wonderful house compelling and powerful collections of poetry and edited and grounds. performances. Her hugely several anthologies. He is a successful book Nobody Told Me, regular performer of his own Becky Cullen is a a collection of poetry and diary poetry and a prolific playwright nottingham-based poet, entries tackling the joys and workshop leader and Phd challenges of parenthood with for both stage and television, student. From J anuary - July 2016 incisive honesty, was recently including the award-winning she was poet in residence at awarded the Ted Hughes Prize for slave and several plays and newstead abbey. Her poems Poetry . Her latest collection, Plum , drama serials for BBC Radio 4. have been published in journals is a wise, sometimes rude and such as PN Review and New Walk, piercingly candid account of her and she was longlisted for the memories from childhood to Bridport prize. attempted adulthood.

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“Her poetry is welcoming, galvanising and beautiful. She’s always been one of my favourites.” Kate Tempest 04 THurSdAy 13 July InsPIReCulTuRe.oRG.uK/PoeTRy-FesTIVal

WorKSHoP Jonathan davidson won an eric WriTiNg For Gregory awar d in 1990. Books PerForMANCe include Early Train WiTH (smith/doorstop, 2011) and Humfrey Coningsby (Valley Press, PANyA BANJoKo 2015). He has had seven radio WeST BridgFord liBrAry HeriTAge plays broadcast on BBC Radio 3 5 - 6pm THe Tree liNe and 4, along with radio £5 SouTHWell liBrAry adaptations of Geoffrey Hill’s Booking essential 6.30pm Mercian Hymns and W.s. Free Graham’s The Nightfishing . Join Panya Banjoko for this Booking advised workshop where you’ll use under 18 s to be accompanied the theme of ‘relationships ’ by an adult to craft a piece with a live audience in mind. Whether on the 800th anniversary of the you ’re a poetry beginner or sealing of the Charter of the Forest, more experienced, you can enjoy the chance to explore the Woodland Trust is leading a the creation of writing with natio nwide campaign to create a performance at its heart. new ‘Charter for Trees, Woods and See overleaf for details of People ’ to preserve our woodlands Panya Banjoko and Abii’s s i

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to contribute to The Tree Line, an o t o h anthology of poems about trees, P forests and our interactions with them. Carol rowntree Jones won the inaugural overton Poetry Prize sponsored by Join County archivist Ruth Imeson, with her sequence This Is Not Charter Project leader Matt Normal Behaviour , published by larsen-daw and poets Jonathan lamplight Press. Her work has also appeared in The North , davidson and Carol Rowntree Staple , Assent and 1110 . she runs Jones at this special launch event. creative writing and poetry learn about the 1217 Charter and workshops at the nottingham the exciting plans for its 2017 Writers studio and in prisons in incarnation , and hear a selection of the east Midlands . poetic responses to this essential part of our natural heritage. Glass of wine or soft drink courtesy of our sponsors LSA . 05 THurSdAy 13 July FridAy 14 July

PerForMANCe PerForMANCe reAdiNg WorKSHoP PANyA BANJoKo MuMS’ NigHT ouT Five WAyS To ANd ABii: THey, THeM, WiTH Hollie MCNiSH reAd A PoeM THe oTHerS ANd We WorKSoP liBrAry WorKSoP liBrAry WeST BridgFord liBrAry 7.30pm 2pm 7.30pm £10 / £8 £3 £6 / £4 Booking strongly advised Booking advised Booking advised Age 16+ (adult content) under 18s to be accompanied under 18s to be accompanied Worksop-born poet Jacqueline by an adult by an adult Gabbitas joins us for this ‘reading workshop’ where you’ll explore a Panya Banjoko and abii combine Join us for a special mums’ night range of brilliant poetry, and ways their poetic skills and soulful out with Hollie Mcnish - a poet of readin g it. learn how you can sounds in a new collaboration whose honest take on being a use all your senses when you featuring words and music. mum has gained her a huge read poems and discover how experience an inspiring evening of online following . Embarrassed , a poetry can be hugely enjoyable handcrafted lyrical pieces which poem about breastfeeding, has and inspiring, even when we explore the theme of relationships been shared more than a million might not fully understand what it in its many guises, from chance times. means. meetings to family ties. Hollie’ s frank, funny and deeply Whether you’re a regular reader, Panya Banjoko ’s work appears in touching poems cover the journey or haven’ t picked up a book of various anthologies and she has of motherhood, from sleepless poems for years, this workshop performed widely, including at nights and scary responsibilities to will help you find out more about the 2012 olympic Games. In 2016 those moments of sheer joy. the pleasure of reading poetry C-Hub Magazine awarded her and get tips on what to read. Best Performer. she coordinates a Hollie McNish is widely writer’s network and is also Patron considered one of the most Jacqueline gabbitas is a poet of nottingham unesCo City of important poets of the new and editor who is interested in the literature. generation. she’ll be reading from language used in poetry, and Nobody Told Me: Poetry and sometimes writes in her Abii ’s work has international Parenthood - an award-winning hometown ac cent and dialect. reach, gaining airplay on le collection of poetry and diary Her short collections include Mid Rapologue, BBC Radio and entries. Lands , Earthworks and Small making the nRJ Radio Top 10 in Grass , and her poetry has been 2010 with Trust Me . she has Babes in arms welcome. published in The Forward Book of appeared at the stade de France, Poetry and Poetry Review. Fête de la Musique á orgeval, and "I can't take my ears off her." Zigfrid Von underbelly. Benjamin Zephaniah 06 FridAy 14 July SATurdAy 15 July s i d d e o s l e W

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ArT ANd WriTiNg WorKSHoP CHildreN ANd FAMilieS CHildreN ANd FAMilieS PorigAMi JoSePH CoelHo ANiMAl AgeNTS - WiTH JuliA Bird WorKSoP liBrAry 11am PoeTry ACTiviTy WorKSoP liBrAry MANSField CeNTrAl 3pm SouTHWell liBrAry 10.30am – 12.30pm £3 per child, accompanying 11am – 1pm MANSField CeNTrAl liBrAry adults free Free 2 – 4pm Booking advised Just drop by Free For a ges 5+ and their families Just drop by The festival celebrates the start of Families and all Performance this year ’s summer Reading poet Joseph Challenge for children. drop by The festival’s digital poet in Coelho has for fun activities inspired by the residence leads a workshop on appeared on animal agents theme - m ake Porigami! CBeebies animal shapes and write a line of Rhyme Rocket poetry about your animal to Poetry + origami = Porigami, and is the decorate the library wall! obviously! digital poet in winner of the residence Julia Bird will show 2015 ClPe you how to make origami birds Poetry award. which carry secret poetic Come along messages. leave one to roost on to enjoy a series of adventurous, display in t he library, and take one mysterious, laugh-out-loud and home. suitable for children and magical poems from his two adults: the origami’s not too fiddly, books : Werewolf Club Rules and and little fingers will get lots of Overheard in a Tower Block . His help. poems will get you singing poetic devices, wondering about mermaids and exploring poetic worlds where Gra ns can be folded up and where kids are made of bright sparks!

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WriTiNg WorKSHoP Myriorama originally CoMMuNiTy eveNT: referred to a 19th century WorKSHoP PoeTry MyriorAMA set of illustrated cards for WiTH children which could be CATCH Me A HAiKu MATTHeW WelToN reordered to create a WiTH PAul MeiN SouTHWell liBrAry myriad of different images. SouTHWell liBrAry 11am – 1pm In this workshop, rather than 2 – 3.30pm £10 images, we’ll look to create Free | Booking essential Booking essential a ‘myriad of words ’. at once concise and creative, award-winning poet Matthew this ancient Japanese poetry Welton is known for his playful liBrAry form is elegant in its simplicity. and experimental approach to lANdSCAPe: learn how to write haiku and language. Join him for this A MyriorAMA For enjoy creating a ‘Haiku Wall’ to workshop where you ’ll play with celebrate the Festival. The words and the patterns they make NoTTiNgHAMSHire session is led by Paul Mein, a to create a poetic version of a published poet and founder of ‘myriorama’ – whose parts can be The workshop is inspired by Writers live, the open mic arranged and rearranged to make the library landscape evening for writers of all genres an ever-changing poem. exhibition currently touring which meets at southwell Work alongside this highly- Inspire libraries, with a library. regarded poetic innovator, as you satellite exhibition on display make your own myriorama of at southwell library Gallery words and contribute to a during the festival. People CoMMuNiTy eveNT: TAlK collaborative piece in an exciting across nottinghamshire revoluTioN ANd group writing experiment. created a set of linocut BloodSHed images that can be SouTHWell Matthew Welton is the author of rearranged to tell different 4 – 5pm The Book of Matthew (Carcanet stories about the county. 2003), We needed coffee but… Free | Booking essential (Carcanet 2009) and The Number Poems (Carcanet 2016) . He has Focussing on the Russian won the Jerwood-aldeburgh Prize, Revolution of 1917 and the other the eric Gregory award, and is a revolutions it triggered, Gill lecturer in Writing and Creativity a t starkey of southwell library the university of nottingham. examines how poets responded Matthew uses repetition, patterns to the upheaval, and consider s and numbers in his work, and has its influence upon the poetry collaborated with writers, produced during these musicians and visual artists. turbulent, and often lethal, times. SATurdAy 15 July SuNdAy 16 July 10 s y t d l n o a s l

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reAdiNg droP iN ACTiviTy reAdiNgS ANd TAlK PAul FArley PoeMBolA WiTH ANNiverSAry SouTHWell liBrAry JuliA Bird AFTerNooN TeA: 7.30pm SouTHWell liBrAry AT HoMe WiTH £10 / £8 2 – 3.30 pm MAHeNdrA SolANKi Booking strongly advised Free under 18 s to be accompanied Just drop by | Suitable for all ANd CANdleSTiCK by an adult PreSS Help digital poet in residence Julia SouTHWell liBrAry Paul Farley makes his first Bird to write the Inspire Poetry 4.30pm appearance at southwell. He is Festival Weekend Twitter Poem - £10 / £8 the author of four collections of contribute a line, and watch it Booking strongly advised poetry, including The Boy from the grow. If you’re stuck for inspiration, Chemist is Here to See You pick a word from the Poembola! southwell library has been home (Picador), The Ice Age (Picador), to the much-loved poetry festival which was awarded the for an amazing 10 years, and what Whitbread Poetry Prize in 2002, CoMMuNiTy eveNT better way to celebrate than with and most recently Selected WriTerS live tea, cake and beautiful home-themed poetry. Poems. He is also the co-author of SouTHWell liBrAry Edgelands (Jonathan Cape, 2011). 7.30pm nottingham ’s a frequent broadcaster, he Free | Booking advised own presents BBC Radio 4 ’s poetry under 18s to be Candlestick programme The Echo Chamber . accompanied by an adult Born in in 1965, he now Press have a special session of Writers produced lives in north and is y b r i K live. set up two years ago by Ten Poems Professor of Poetry at lancaster h a r a

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Mahendra chats to Candlestick veNueS BooKiNg iNForMATioN assistant editor Kathy Towers about the poems, their selection SouTHWell liBrAry online and what they mean to him. With The Bramley Centre Tickets for events can be readings from Mahendra and King street booked online at some special guests, it’s set to be southwell www.inspireculture.org.uk/ a wonderful afternoon of chat, nottinghamshire poetry-festival poetry and cake, in the festival’s nG25 0eH library home. Home includes in person poems old and new including 01636 812 148 Tickets can be purchased at work by Thomas Hardy, Imtiaz southwell.library the library where the event is dharker , Tony Harrison, Philip @inspireculture.org.uk taking place. larkin and W.B. yeats. By phone Mahendra Solanki ’s poetry has WeST BridgFord liBrAry For phone bookings contact explored notions of home and Bridgford Road the library where the event is belonging over thirty years and West Bridgford taking place: his work has been broadcast by nottingham the BBC and published in Britain nG2 6aT Tickets are non-refundable and abroad in magazines, except where an event is anthologies and in several 0115 9816 506 cancelled. Programme is subject volumes including Shadows of My westbridgford.library to change. Making (1986), What You Leave @inspireculture.org.uk Behind (1996) and The Lies We Tell Access information (published in 2014 by shoestring all venues are wheelchair Press). MANSField CeNTrAl accessible. For venue specific liBrAry access information visit the Candlestick Press is a small, Four seasons Centre website. Please contact the independent publisher based in West Gate venue if you have access nottingham. since 2008 they’ ve Mansfield requirements. been publishing poetry nottinghamshire pamphlets aimed at poetry lovers nG18 1nH About inspire and newcomers alike to wide Inspire is an innovative cultural acclaim. Their pamphlets make 01623 651 337 organisation launched by ideal alternatives to mainstream mansfield.library nottinghamshire County greetings cards, with matching @inspireculture.org.uk Council. We are a Community envelopes and bookmarks left Benefit society that is blank for a message. dedicated to inspiring people WorKSoP liBrAry to read, learn and enjoy culture In continuing the Candlestick Memorial avenue with the help of our services. tradition of supporting charities Worksop through pamphlet sales, for sales nottinghamshire Join us! of Home, a donation will be made s80 2BP It ’s free to join inspire and to Shelter. becoming a member will allow 01909 535 353 you to help shape the way our worksop.library services are managed. Visit the @inspireculture.org.uk website to find out more. inspireculture.org.uk

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SouTHWell liBrAry date & time event Type Price Page Thu 13 July, 6.30pm The Tree line Reading/Heritage Free 5 Fri 14 July, 7.30pm Jackie Kay Reading £12 / £10 7 sat 15 July, 11am – 1pm summer Reading Challenge: animal agents - Poetry activity Children and Families Free 8 sat 15 July, 11am – 1pm Poetry Myriorama with Matthew Welton Workshop £10 9 sat 15 July, 1 – 2pm exploring the Remains of elmet Community event Free 9 sat 15 July, 2 – 3.30pm Catch me a Haiku Community event Free 9 sat 15 July, 4 - 5pm Revolution and Bloodshed Community event Free 9 sat 15 July, 7.30pm Paul Farley Reading £10 / £8 10 sun 16 July, 2 – 3.30pm Poembola with Julia Bird drop in activity Free 10 sun 16 July, 4.30pm anniversary afternoon Tea: Readings and Talk £10 / £8 10 Home with Mahendra solanki and Candlestick Press sun 16 July, 7.30pm Writers live Community event Free 10

WeST BridgFord liBrAry date & time event Type Price Page Tue 11 July, 7.30pm Joanne limburg: The autistic alice Reading and Conversation £8/£6 3 Wed 12 July, 7.30pm Hollie Mcnish Performance £10/£8 4 Thu 13 July, 5 – 6pm Writing for Performance with Panya Banjoko Workshop £5 5 Thu 13 July, 7.30pm Panya Banjoko and abii Performance £6/£4 6 They, Them, The others and We sat 15 July, 10.30am a.F. Harrold Children and Families £3 7

MANSField CeNTrAl liBrAry date & time event Type Price Page Tue 11 July, 2 – 4pm Inspirations: Writing and Workshop £5 3 Performing Poetry with Kevin Fegan Thu 13 July, 2pm Reading: Inspirations with Kevin Fegan Reading £4 4 Fri 14 July, 2pm Poems Please! Readings and Talk £3 7 sat 15 July, 2 – 4pm Porigami with Julia Bird Workshop Free 8 sat 15 July, 3pm Joseph Coelho Children and Families £3 8

WorKSoP liBrAry date & time event Type Price Page Tue 11 July, 7.30pm Henry normal Performance £10/£8 3 Wed 12 July, 2pm newstead abbey: Poetry and Peacocks Readings and Talk £3 4 Thu 13 July, 7.30pm Mums’ night out with Hollie Mcnish Performance £10/£8 6 Fri 14 July, 2pm Five Ways to Read a Poem Reading Workshop £3 6 sat 15 July, 10.30am – 12.30pm Porigami with Julia Bird Workshop Free 8 sat 15 July, 11am Joseph Coelho Children and Families £3 8