Friday

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

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