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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

MA in Writing Poetry11.00-12.00 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE
9 Mar 2018

MA in Writing Poetry

11.00-12.00 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE

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              Come and hear the inspiring work of current MA in Writing Poetry students based at The Poetry School in London, and at Newcastle University. Readers include Elaine Baker, Diana Cant, Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, Natalie … 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

Poetry and Human Rights Discussion with Shami Chakrabarti, Carolyn Forché and Patricia Smith13.00-14.00 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE
9 Mar 2018

Poetry and Human Rights Discussion with Shami Chakrabarti, Carolyn Forché and Patricia Smith

13.00-14.00 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE

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            Taking as its starting point the themes of war, poverty and racism identified by Martin Luther King in his 1967 speech in Newcastle, and the focus of the poetry anthology, The Mighty Stream: Poems … Continued

Launch of Commissions: Sean Scully responses and Waves and Bones11.00-12.00  | Northern Stage | Stage 3 | FREE
9 Mar 2018

Launch of Commissions: Sean Scully responses and Waves and Bones

11.00-12.00 | Northern Stage | Stage 3 | FREE

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With the generous support of the Newcastle Unversity Institute for Creative Arts Practice (NICAP), we present an innovatve poetry/art collaboration between Newcastle Poetry Festival and the Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums Trust. As part of the festival, eight poets … Continued

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