Thursday | Newcastle Poetry Festival 2020

7 Mar 2019

Transformations: Music and Poetry

19:00-20:45 | Sage Gateshead, Sage 2

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Gone Westering | Sinéad Morrissey and Catriona Macdonald Inspired by Norwegian folklorist Arne Bjørndal’s visit to Shetland in 1949, Irish poet Sinéad Morrissey joins forces with Shetland fiddler and composer, Catriona Macdonald, to explore, through a complex interweaving of voice … Continued

7 Mar 2019

Northern Poetry Symposium: Inter/Play

10:00-17:00 | Sage Gateshead, Barbour Room

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Inter/Ventions: Art and Poetry | 10:15 – 11:15 Irene Brown, Head of Fine Art at Newcastle University, leads the discussion on cross-art collaborations between poetry, film and visual arts with artist and poet Sophie Herxheimer, who illustrates Poetry London magazine; … Continued

9 Mar 2018

Free-Forms: Tyehimba Jess and Binker & Moses, Fernando Valverde and Juan Pinilla

20.00-21.45 | Sage Gateshead | Sage 2 | £21.80/£19.60 (students)

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Jugar con Fuego ‘Playing with Fire’ with Fernando Valverde and Juan Pinilla This is the long awaited UK premiere of the Latino Grammy-nominated performance of Jugar con Fuego, a collaborative album by poet Fernando Valverde … Continued

9 Mar 2018

The Northern Poetry Symposium

10:30-18:30 | Sage Gateshead Northern Rock Foundation Hall | £25/£20 (students)

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The Northern Poetry Symposium will be a day of lively debates, workshops and readings exploring poetry in translation with leading poets, publishers and translators. In the current age of political turbulence – the vote for Brexit, the presidency of Donald … Continued

9 Mar 2018

Translating Poetry with Poets: PoetTrio Parallel Workshops

9.00 – 10.30 | Northern Rock Foundation Hall | Sage Gateshead | £15

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Part of the Northern Poetry Symposium. An exclusive opportunity for ten people to join a collaborative translation session with renowned poets W. N. Herbert, Sean O’Brien, Elma van Haren and Hélène Gelèns, with language … Continued

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

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

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

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