POETRY & PERFORMANCE 28 SEPT - 1 OCT 2017 PART OF THE HULL UK CITY OF CULTURE 2017 CELEBRATIONS INTRODUCTI0N Poetry is enjoying a renaissance. From moments POETRY & PERFORMANCE of national significance to mainstream advertising, 28 SEPT - 1 OCT 2017 poetry is being chosen to persuade, charm or express outrage, defiance and solidarity. One of the oldest art forms, it is being rediscovered The UK’s biggeSt poETRY anD as a versatile, dynamic and powerful mode of expression, enjoyed and created by young and performance fesTiVal of nEW old, on paper, phones and iPads, in digital spaces, wriTing Comes to HuLL AS pART on the streets as well as in books and magazines. Our new festival reflects this diversity by providing of THe UK ciTY Of cULTURe 2017 something for everyone. cElEBrATions. Bringing over 50 Contains Strong Language presents leading local, national, eVEntS To The ciTy ovER 4 DayS. international poets and world class spoken word artists alongside brand new voices. 17 poets will be resident in the city for four days. The Hull FIND oUT mORE AND ‘17 are an ensemble of exciting and innovative poets, commissioned to bOOK your TiCkETS aT create new work which will be premiered in the city during the festival. We also celebrate Hull’s status as a city which has inspired poets in the Hull2017.co.UK past, such as Philip Larkin, Andrew Marvell and Stevie Smith. bbc.co.uk/containsstronglanguage Contains Strong Language is the BBC’s new national poetry and #hull17CSL spoken word festival, with coverage in national and local, radio and TV programmes. It is a partnership between the BBC, Wrecking Ball Please see the website for information about live captioned events. Press, Humber Mouth, Hull UK City of Culture, The British Council, The Arts Council and a number of other poetry organisations. Festival Directors Susan Roberts and Shane Rhodes 2 3 Cover image: Isaiah Hull © Cesare De Giglio Cover image: THE HUll ’17 PoeTs ResiDenT in the CIty foR CONTains STRong langUagE, BOhdan piasecKi DeaN wIlSon JACOb POlley JOe haKim JOelLE TaYlor the Hull ’17 WILL Bohdan is a Polish poet based Dean Wilson was a postman for Jacob Polley is the author of four Joe Hakim is a writer, poet, and Joelle Taylor is a professional bring yOU NEW AnD in Birmingham. He has taken his twenty years and is now a security acclaimed poetry collections, The spoken word performer from published spoken word artist. She eXisTing poeTRY, AnD poems to venues ranging from guard as well as Hull’s fourth best Brink, Little Gods, The Havocs Hull. He has had residencies at is also the founder and Artistic an underground Tokyo club to a poet. He has been published in and Jackself. He received an Eric Contact in Manchester, Birmingham Director of SLAMbassadors UK. will be INvOlvED in tramway in Paris. In the UK, he various magazines including Pen Gregory Award in 2002. In 2004, REP, and in London at both the She has performed at a diverse regularly features at spoken word Pusher, The North, Smiths Knoll, Polley was named one of the ‘Next Battersea Arts Centre and the range of high profile venues eVEntS ThroughoUt nights, festivals and readings. Pennine Platform, The Slab, Rising, Generation’ of the best new poets Shunt Vault. including Buckingham Palace, the the festival . and The Wolf. in Britain. 02 Arena, and Glastonbury Festival. Fred VOSs HaNNAH siLVA HaRRY gIles KATe FoX KATe Tempest loUise WALLWEIn Whilst working as a steel-rule Hannah Silva is a poet, playwright Harry Giles / Aitch is a Scottish Kate Fox has been a stand-up Kate Tempest is a published Louise Wallwein was brought up in die maker, a steelcutter, and a and performer known for her writer and performer. Harry has poet for ten years. She is currently playwright, novelist, poet and 13 different children’s homes and machinist, Fred Voss wrote novels innovative explorations of form, featured in the SPILL National making #Lass War on the man- respected recording artist. Brand wrote her first play at the age of 17. and poetry. The factory experience voice and language in performance. Platform, toured North America heavy Northern Powerhouse. As a New Ancients, her self-performed A poet, playwright and filmmaker, became the theme of his writing, She won the Tinniswood Award and given feature performances stand-up she has been in demand epic poem to a live score, won her explosive work detonates her granting him a Wormwood Award for Best Radio Drama Script and at venues from the Bowery Poetry at literature festivals across the the Ted Hughes prize 2013 and audiences’ imaginations. She has in 1988. has been shortlisted for the Ted Club to the Soho Theatre. country. nominated for the 2017 Mercury written plays for BBC Radio. Hughes Award. music prize. HelEn MORT ImTiaz DhArkER IsaiAh HuLl MiChAel SYMMOns roberTs ViCky FOsteR ZenA eDWARds Helen Mort was born in Sheffield. Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist Isaiah Hull has supported Kate Michael Symmons Roberts is an Vicky Foster is a poet and pub Zena Edwards has become known Her first collection ‘Division Street’ and documentary-maker. She was Tempest, Lemn Sissay, and Skepta award winning poet and a writer of singer from Hull. Her first collection, as one the most unique voices of won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal at major events for the BBC. He’s fiction, libretti and scripts for radio. Changing Tides, has just been performance poetry to come out Her collection No Map Could Show for Poetry in 2014, recipient of the just 19. The Old Trafford writer His poetry has won the Forward, published by King’s England of London. She was nominated Them is a Poetry Book Society Cholmondeley Award and a Fellow and spoken word artist is one of the Costa and The Whitbread Press. She is the host of Women of for the Arts Foundation Award for recommendation. of the Royal Society of Literature. the Roundhouse and BBC Radio poetry Prize. His new collection Words which is an event for female Performance Poetry 2007 and won 1Xtra’s Words First finalists. Mancunia is published this year. performers of poetry, prose, drama, the Hidden Creatives Award 2012. and song. 4 5 ATTAchMent FReE ThINkiNg LIVE Andrew Marshall Photo © 1st ediTiON REading: RaDio 3 DOUglAs DUnN BReaKfasT THUR 28 SEPT THUR 28 SEPT THUR 28 SEPT WATERFRONT HULL CENTRAL LIBRARY HULL COLLEGE 12:00 - 17:00 THUR 28 SEPT 11:30 - 12:30 11:00 - 12:00 UNIVERSITY OF HULL LIVE Waterfront (check website for details) Albion Street, Hull HU1 3TF The Horncastle Building, FREE ADMISSION THE BRYNMOR JONES LIBRARY FREE ADMISSION (Ticketed) Charlotte Street, Hull HU1 3DG 6:00 - 9:00 FREE ADMISSION (Ticketed) Attachment is a poetic concept, a Douglas Dunn opens an exhibition of message in a bottle 2.0. Inspired by University Of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull-related first edition poetry books with Radio 3’s flagship arts and ideas the rusty machines of Swiss sculptor Hull HU6 7RX a reading from his ground-breaking first programme Free Thinking discusses the Jean Tinguely, the fully automatic poetic NO AUDIENCE FOR THIS EVENT collection, Terry Street, published in 1967. 17th century Hull poet Andrew Marvell’s machine gives physical form to digital A graduate of Hull University, Dunn worked ‘To His Coy Mistress’. Presenter Matthew messages. Conceived by Swiss designer The BBC Radio 3 Breakfast show comes in the library with Larkin who became his Sweet will be joined by Michael Symmons David Colombini, the machine allows live from Hull University. Petroc Trelawny mentor. Elegies (1985), written in response Roberts, Helen Mort and University of Hull people to send digital messages, images opens the Contains Strong Language to the death of his first wife, earned him academic Stewart Mottram. or videos into the air by attaching them to season on National Poetry Day for the BBC. further critical and popular success. biodegradable balloons. 6 7 Photo © Graeme Oxby LANdlines RaDio 5 Live THUR 28 SEPT HULL CENTRAL LIBRARY AFTeRNoON 14:30 - 15:30 EditION Albion Street, Hull HU1 3TF wiTh lIvE PeRF0Rmances FREE ADMISSION (Ticketed) BBC Radio Humberside and BBC Look North are at the heart of the UK City of Culture, broadcasting live every day from THUR 28 SEPT the studios in Queen’s Gardens. HULl 17 HULL COLLEGE Listeners to BBC Radio Humberside have 13:00 - 16:00 been composing ‘Poems on a Postcard’ GALa LaUnch LIVE about where they live in East Yorkshire The Horncastle Building, and Northern Lincolnshire. Resident Charlotte Street, Hull HU1 3DG ‘Landlines’ poets Dean Wilson and Vicky THUR 28 SEPT This special event split over two nights is FREE ADMISSION (Ticketed) Foster perform some of the 2017 poems a Gala showcase of the work of the Hull which will be strung on washing lines to KARDOMAH94 ‘17 Contains Strong Language poets. BBC Radio 5 Live Broadcast live from Hull form an art installation in many of the 17:00 - 18:30 This is an unbeatable opportunity to hear College. Sarah Brett talks to Hull ‘17 poets festival locations. a diverse range of work from our resident 94 Alfred Gelder Street, Hull HU1 2AN festival writers. Part 1 of 2 (see page 36). about their work. With performances, plus CONtains sTrOnG a focus on Hull as the City of Culture. LANguage COmmissiON FREE ADMISSION (Ticketed) 8 9 THE VeRb 35 years oF SpOKeN wORd THUR 28 SEPT JUBILEE CHURCH 18:00 - 20:00 62 King Edward Street, Hull HU1 3SQ FREE ADMISSION (Ticketed) Ian McMillan presents a special edition of Radio 3’s The Verb as we celebrate the story of spoken word in the UK, with Apples and Snakes on their 35th anniversary.