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Newcastle Poetry Prize Readings and Presentations 14:30-15:30 | Northern Stage, Stage 2
7 Mar 2019

Newcastle Poetry Prize Readings and Presentations

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

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  Join us for this special event celebrating the inaugural Newcastle Poetry Competition and Young People’s Poetry Prize. Judges Deryn Rees-Jones and Phoebe Power will announce the winners in both categories who will read from their prize-winning work. With generous … Continued

Martin Kratz, Marjorie Lotfi Gill, Sean Hewitt, & Susannah Dickey 12:30-13:30 | Northern Stage, Stage 2
7 Mar 2019

Martin Kratz, Marjorie Lotfi Gill, Sean Hewitt, & Susannah Dickey

12:30-13:30 | Northern Stage, Stage 2

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  The pamphlet is an important stepping stone in a poet’s development. As a showcase of promise, it gives a focussed and exciting insight into a poet’s particular world. These four upcoming and widely-published poets – Martin Kratz, Marjorie Gill, … Continued

MA in Writing Poetry Readings 11:00-12:00 | Northern Stage, Stage 2
7 Mar 2019

MA in Writing Poetry Readings

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

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  Come and hear the inspiring work of current Newcastle University MA in Writing Poetry students basedat the Poetry School in London and at Newcastle: Diana Cant, Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, Natalie Crick, Madelaine Culver-Goldstein, Caroline Davies, Anne Gill, Arpit Kaushik, Lydia … Continued

Miriam Gamble , Liz Berry & Deryn Rees-Jones 15:45-16:45 | Northern Stage, Stage 2
7 Mar 2019

Miriam Gamble , Liz Berry & Deryn Rees-Jones

15:45-16:45 | Northern Stage, Stage 2

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  The Festival’s penultimate reading welcomes back Deryn Rees-Jones, whose new collection Erato is just out from Seren. Deryn is a poet, critic and editor of the Pavilion Poetry list. Liz Berry, whose debut Black Country (Chatto, 2014) was described … Continued

Ishion Hutchinson & Aleš Šteger 17:00-18:00 | Northern Stage, Stage 2
7 Mar 2019

Ishion Hutchinson & Aleš Šteger

17:00-18:00 | Northern Stage, Stage 2

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  We’re thrilled to conclude with two leading international poets. Slovenian writer Aleš Šteger has published seven books of poetry, three novels, and two books of essays. A Chevalier des Artes et Lettres in France and a member of the … Continued

Workshop with Aleš Šteger10:00-12:00 | Newcastle University
7 Mar 2019

Workshop with Aleš Šteger

10:00-12:00 | Newcastle University

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  This workshop investigates what happens when poets use different forms of writing. Together we will be reading and commenting on short prose texts by Baudelaire and Tranströmer, as well as engaging in two or three playful writing exercises.  

Ilya Kaminsky and Fanny Howe 19.00-20.30 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £7.50/£5 (students)
9 Mar 2018

Ilya Kaminsky and Fanny Howe

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

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              Join us for a fantastic closing event with voices from America. Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, Ukraine and came to America with his family in 1993. He is author of Dancing in … Continued

Nuar Alsadir, Luke Kennard and Emily Berry16.15-17.45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £7.50/£5 (students)
9 Mar 2018

Nuar Alsadir, Luke Kennard and Emily Berry

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

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              New-York based Nuar Alsadir is a psychoanalyst and poet whose second collection Fourth Person Singular (2017) was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the … Continued

Ten: Poets of the New Generation with Karen McCarthy Woolf, Raymond Antrobus, Momtaza Mehri and Degna Stone14.30-15.45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £6/£4 (students)
9 Mar 2018

Ten: Poets of the New Generation with Karen McCarthy Woolf, Raymond Antrobus, Momtaza Mehri and Degna Stone

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

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              This event celebrates the latest instalment of the Bloodaxe Books series Ten: Poets of the New Generation, which presents the work of exciting British poets from diverse backgrounds. Editor Karen McCarthy Woolf will … Continued

Royal Literary Fund Lecture by Sasha Dugdale: ‘Pushkin is Our All!’13.00-14.00 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE
9 Mar 2018

Royal Literary Fund Lecture by Sasha Dugdale: ‘Pushkin is Our All!’

13.00-14.00 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE

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              We are delighted to present the Royal Literary Fund Lecture by Sasha Dugdale on the theme of translation, entitled ‘Pushkin is Our All!’ Pushkin, unlike Chekhov, Dostoyevsky and Turgenev, remains relatively unknown in … Continued

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