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Messenger: poetry between life and science14:00–14:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 3 | FREE
8 Mar 2017

Messenger: poetry between life and science

14:00–14:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 3 | FREE

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Tickets: FREE Join poet Christy Ducker as she reads from her new pamphlet, Messenger, written in residence at York’s Centre for Immunology and Infection. Her reading is accompanied by film-poems by Kate Sweeney.

Clinic presents Edward Doegar and Rebecca Tamás13:00–13:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE
8 Mar 2017

Clinic presents Edward Doegar and Rebecca Tamás

13:00–13:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE

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Tickets: FREE Small press Clinic brings poets Edward Doegar and Rebecca Tamás to celebrate the publication of their pamphlets, For Now and Savage. Both poets will read from their new publications.  

The Cold Boat 0.312:00–12:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE
8 Mar 2017

The Cold Boat 0.3

12:00–12:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE

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Tickets: FREE In this ‘Poetry of Witness’ reading, the Cold Boat hosts, Joanne Clement and Tracy Gillman, invite a selection of authors to share poems in response to unsettling current affairs. Featuring an extract from a new documentary film with … Continued

Lisa Matthews and Melanie Ashby: A Year in Beadnell11:00–11:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 3 | FREE
8 Mar 2017

Lisa Matthews and Melanie Ashby: A Year in Beadnell

11:00–11:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 3 | FREE

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Tickets: FREE Elegy | Poetics for a beleaguered sea Open your window and let the stars fall. / The tide is coming and for it we will wait. – Lisa Matthews Join poet Lisa Matthews and visual artist Melanie Ashby … Continued

In Praise of Wonkiness with Wayne Holloway-Smith10:00–12:00 | Newcastle University | £15
8 Mar 2017

In Praise of Wonkiness with Wayne Holloway-Smith

10:00–12:00 | Newcastle University | £15

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Workshops are held on the Newcastle University campus. Exact location TBC.   We have all experienced the restrictions of the English language, as it is used in the everyday. I want to tell you I am sad, but there are … Continued

Ekphrastic Poetry with Sinéad Morrissey16:00–18:00 | Newcastle University | FULLY BOOKED
8 Mar 2017

Ekphrastic Poetry with Sinéad Morrissey

16:00–18:00 | Newcastle University | FULLY BOOKED

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Workshops are held on the Newcastle University campus. Exact location TBC.   In this workshop we will be exploring ekphrasis: poetry which responds to visual art. We will consider the complex relationship between word and image, and work specifically with … Continued

Source and Sauce with Ahren Warner14:00–16:00 | Newcastle University | £15
8 Mar 2017

Source and Sauce with Ahren Warner

14:00–16:00 | Newcastle University | £15

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Workshops are held on the Newcastle University campus. Exact location TBC.   This workshop will look at the use of “source materials” – from archival papers to literary allusion; pop culture, translation and centos – to explore the act of “poetic … Continued

Film and Poetry with Kate Sweeney11:00–13:00 | Newcastle University | FULLY BOOKED
8 Mar 2017

Film and Poetry with Kate Sweeney

11:00–13:00 | Newcastle University | FULLY BOOKED

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Workshops are held on the Newcastle University campus. Exact location TBC.     A workshop outlining techniques and creative methods for making ‘poetryfilm’. For writers, filmmakers and artists or anyone interested in the potential of combining images, text and sound, … Continued

Poetry and Documentary with Carolyn Forché9:00–11:00 | Newcastle University | FULLY BOOKED
8 Mar 2017

Poetry and Documentary with Carolyn Forché

9:00–11:00 | Newcastle University | FULLY BOOKED

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Workshops are held on the Newcastle University campus. Exact location TBC.     This workshop will focus on new movements in Documentary Poetics: the use of archival materials; interleaving of lyric, journalistic and other textual forms; redaction, erasure, cut-ups and … Continued

Gillian Allnutt and Rachael Boast19:00–20:15 | Northern Stage | Stage Two | £6 (£4 conc)
8 Mar 2017

Gillian Allnutt and Rachael Boast

19:00–20:15 | Northern Stage | Stage Two | £6 (£4 conc)

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Tickets: £6 (£4 conc) available from webstore   A chance to hear two distinguished poets read their work. Rachael Boast’s first collection, Sidereal, won the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize, 2012. Void Studies, realising a project that Arthur Rimbaud … Continued

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