Stage Preview - Bristol Poetry Festival 2009
Thursday 3rd until Sunday 13th September 2009 @ Arnolfini and other venues, Bristol
Bristol Poetry Festival brings together the most entertaining, inspirational and award winning poets and performers from Bristol, the UK and the world in an annual celebration of language, imagination and life. Expect poetry slams, exhibitions, music, open mics, films and lots and lots of inspiring poetry!
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September 2nd, 2009 at 6:20 pm
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BRISTOL POETRY FESTIVAL 2009
organised by Poetry Can
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A Night for Linda
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SWEET WARNING:
This is one of those events people will be talking about for a long time,
please don’t miss out!
Price: £7
Date: Saturday, 12 September 2009
Time: 20:00 - 21:30
Location: Arnolfini
Phone: 0117917230001
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/events/details/404
PLEASE USE CODE ‘AS’
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FLEUR ADCOCK
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“Probably one of the coolest, funniest, wisest and most loving poets you
will ever meet, Fleur Adcock has changed the way many people think about
how poetry should and could be. ”
Fleur Adcock predates the new wave of poetry that the 60s poets were attributed for,
think “Advice to a Discarded Lover”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rajKLHreKVE
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GLYN MAXWELL
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A Next Generation poet, who’s had verse monologues made into feature
films, and work included in several anthologies of the best English poetry of the 20th century, incl. the latest edition of the Norton Anthology of English Poetry.
Maxwell has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize several times. The most
recent TS Eliot shortlisted collection was Hide Now (Picador, 2008).
Hide Now is now shortlisted for the 2009 Forward Prize for Best Collection.
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DENNIS O’DRISCOLL
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“One of the best loved and critically respected poets in Ireland. It is a
joy to be sitting in the theatre when Dennis O’Driscoll is on the stage.”
Probably almost everyone in an audience has said this of him - Alan Summers
“O’Driscoll is a real poet: his lines stay with you.”
- Clíodhna Carney, Poetry Ireland Review
“His terrain is, in effect, without borders: mordant, open, sharp,
generous, and sad.”
- George Szirtes, The Guardian
“One of the most interesting poets now writing in English.”
- Adam Kirsch, Slate