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Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi, Adelaide Ivanova and Rachel Long 13:00-14:00 | Northern Stage, Stage 2
7 Mar 2019

Kim Hyesoon and Don Mee Choi, Adelaide Ivanova and Rachel Long

13:00-14:00 | Northern Stage, Stage 2

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  Join us for the festival’s annual poetry in translation reading. This year we’re excited to welcome Kim Hyesoon, one of the most prominent and influential contemporary poets of South Korea, and poet and translator Don Mee Choi, author of … Continued

Launch of Redactions/Redirections & Poetry Prints 11:00-12:00 | Northern Stage, Stage 2
7 Mar 2019

Launch of Redactions/Redirections & Poetry Prints

11:00-12:00 | Northern Stage, Stage 2

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  Poets Andrew McMillan, Phoebe Power and Miriam Gamble present their new poems inspired by explorations in the Newcastle University archives. Artists Erika Servin and Irene Brown present their unique and exclusive artist prints of poems by Mary Ruefle, Terrance … Continued

A reading by and conversation with Mary Ruefle 19:30-20:30 | Northern Stage, Stage 2
7 Mar 2019

A reading by and conversation with Mary Ruefle

19:30-20:30 | Northern Stage, Stage 2

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  Mary Ruefle is a renowned American poet, essayist and erasure artist whose numerous books include the landmark collection of essays Madness, Rack, and Honey (Wave Books, 2012) and Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), which won the William Carlos Williams … Continued

Toby Martinez De Las Rivas, Marilyn Hacker, Hannah Sullivan17:30-18:30 | Northern Stage, Stage 2
7 Mar 2019

Toby Martinez De Las Rivas, Marilyn Hacker, Hannah Sullivan

17:30-18:30 | Northern Stage, Stage 2

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Marilyn Hacker has, in a career spanning more than 40 years, established herself as a pre- eminent poet and translator. She is renowned for her use of form, and her mixing of colloquial and high culture, and has been aptly … Continued

Royal Literary Fund Lecture: Ishion Hutchinson 16:00-17:00 | Northern Stage, Stage 2
7 Mar 2019

Royal Literary Fund Lecture: Ishion Hutchinson

16:00-17:00 | Northern Stage, Stage 2

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  We are delighted to present the Royal Literary Fund Lecture by Ishion Hutchinson entitled “The fire thus kindled, may be kindled again: A Reading of Robert Hayden’s ’Frederick Douglass’.” The American orator Frederick Douglass never leaves the civic imagination; … Continued

Emily Hasler, Phoebe Power & Andrew McMillan 14:30-15:30 | Northern Stage, Stage 2
7 Mar 2019

Emily Hasler, Phoebe Power & Andrew McMillan

14:30-15:30 | Northern Stage, Stage 2

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  Our afternoon reading brings together three diverse and experimental voices. Emily Hasler reflects on how our world is made in her expertly-crafted debut, The Built Environment (Pavilion, 2018); Phoebe Power mixes poetry, prose, image, language and narrative to question … Continued

The Art of the Un-possible: Workshop with Sasha Dugdale10:00-12:00 | Newcastle University
7 Mar 2019

The Art of the Un-possible: Workshop with Sasha Dugdale

10:00-12:00 | Newcastle University

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This workshop combines poems by John Clare, recordings of birdsong and transliterating the song as a radical metaphor for the act of translationand writing. Please bring a smartphone if you own one (don’t worry if not), plenty of fantasy, a … Continued

Ciaran Carson, Sean O’Brien and Leanne O’Sullivan19.00-20.30 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £7.50/£5 (students)
9 Mar 2018

Ciaran Carson, Sean O’Brien and Leanne O’Sullivan

19.00-20.30 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £7.50/£5 (students)

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              For this event, we welcome multi-award-winning Irish poet, Ciaran Carson, to Newcastle for the first time. Carson is the author of over a dozen books spanning poetry, translation and prose, and is a … Continued

Imtiaz Dharker, Sasha Dugdale and Karen McCarthy Woolf16.15-17.45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £7.50/£5 (students)
9 Mar 2018

Imtiaz Dharker, Sasha Dugdale and Karen McCarthy Woolf

16.15-17.45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £7.50/£5 (students)

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            Imtiaz Dharker was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014 and her most recent collection, Luck is the Hook (2018), contemplates the fickle nature of fate and chance. Sasha Dugdale’s long poem … Continued

The Caught Habits of Language: Rachael Boast, Andy Ching and Nathan Hamilton  with Emily Critchley, Ian Duhig and Denise Riley14.30-15.45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £6/£4 (students)
9 Mar 2018

The Caught Habits of Language: Rachael Boast, Andy Ching and Nathan Hamilton with Emily Critchley, Ian Duhig and Denise Riley

14.30-15.45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £6/£4 (students)

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                          This event celebrates The Caught Habits of Language (2018), an anthology containing 100 commissioned poems written for the centenary of Greenock-born poet W.S. Graham. Editors Rachel Boast, … Continued

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