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Poetry at Durham Book
Festival
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Durham Book Festival proudly presents a wide range of poetry events,
from award-winning poets to a group of new writers, all aged under 21.
Come and join us to celebrate poetry in Durham.
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 The
Poetry Exchange: A poem recorded especially for you
Saturday 10 October, St Chad's College Chapel
You are invited to visit the Poetry Exchange team at St Chad’s Chapel
and share a poem that has been a friend to you. You will have a cup of
tea and talk about your poem, and in exchange for your nomination you
will receive a gift: a personal bespoke recording of your chosen poem
inspired by the conversation and your thoughts. People are invited to
come individually...read more
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 Firm
of Poets: The People’s Republic of Poetry
Saturday 10 October, Workshop: 1pm-3pm, Performance:
6.30pm-7.30pm, Empty Shop HQ
A cross between a poetic super-group and Whose Line Is It Anyway? the show is
fast-paced and never the same twice. As part of the show, participants
will be invited to submit one of their poems to an online document, ‘The
People’s Republic of Poetry’, which will grow as the tour makes its way
around the country. Poets will include...read more
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 Frances
Leviston: Disinformation
Saturday 10 October, 2.30pm-3.30pm, Durham Town Hall
(Burlison Gallery)
Frances Leviston’s first poetry collection, Public Dream, was
one of the most acclaimed debuts of recent years and was shortlisted for
the TS Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for First Collection. Her vivid
new collection, Disinformation,
addresses one of the key questions of the age: how have we come to know
what we think we know? Introduced by Dr Vidyan Ravinthiran...read more
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 Cuckoo
Young Writers Event
Saturday 10 October, 5pm-6pm, Empty Shop HQ
Ever read any Sappho? Flicked through a volume of HD recently? We
didn’t think so. Join four fabulous young poets—Jasmine Simms, Sarah
Fletcher, Helen Bowell and Katie Byford—for an evening exploring the lost
female voices of the poetic canon, as well as hearing their own work.
Also, an opportunity for some open mic action—are you brave enough? An
event in collaboration with The Writing Squad...read more
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 The
Poetry Exchange: Conversations Through Poems
em>Sunday
11 October, 11am-12pm, Durham Town Hall (Burlison Gallery)
Join The Poetry Exchange team of writers and actors for an event that
sparks conversations about poems and their place in our lives. The Poetry
Exchange invites people to nominate a poem that has been a friend to them
and in exchange creates a recording of the poem inspired by their
feelings about the...read more
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 A
Year in Beadnell: Lisa Matthews and Melanie Ashby
Sunday 11 October, 2.30pm-3.30pm, Empty Shop HQ
Part-performance, part-living artists’ journal and part-celebration of
the works of marine biologist Rachel Carson. Encounter the sights and
sounds of Northumberland’s coastline and participate in a spontaneous
voice installation that will become part of A Year in Beadnell. With new artworks
by Lisa Matthews and Melanie Ashby, this...read more
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 Original
commission: Stevie Ronnie: Arctica
Sunday 11 October, 4pm-5.30pm, Empty Shop HQ
In July 2013 Durham Book Festival supported writer and
multidisciplinary artist Stevie Ronnie to visit the Arctic Circle as part
of the Arctic Circle international residency programme. Arctica is a
year-long series of interlinked artworks on the subject of climate change
that Stevie has made in response to that experience. The performance,
Arctica...read more.
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 Clare
Pollard: Ovid’s Heroines
Sunday 11 October, 5pm-6pm, Palace Green Library (Wolfson
Gallery)
Ovid’s Heroides,
written in Rome some time around 20BC, is a series of letter poems in the
voices of women from Greek and Roman myth. Women—including Medea,
Penelope and Ariadne—address the men they love. Poet Clare Pollard’s new
free verse translation (Bloodaxe Books) rediscovers Ovid’s Heroines
for...read more
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 Sean
O’Brien, Agustín Fernández and Royal Northern Sinfonia present: Notes
from Underground
Thursday 15 October, 7pm-8.40pm, Gala Theatre
We are delighted to present a major new Durham Book Festival
commission as part of this year’s programme. Notes from Underground is a
collaboration between award-winning poet Sean O’Brien and composer
Agustín Fernández. This cycle of songs is inspired by poet...read more
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 Northern
Poetry with Jo Colley, Christy Ducker and Cynthia Fuller
Saturday 17 October, 3pm-4pm, Palace Green Library
(Wolfson Gallery)
This event celebrates some of the best in contemporary poetry, from
three poets who live and work here in the North East. Jo Colley will read
from her new collection Bones
of Birds, which looks at flying and falling, the earth and
the sky, a celebration of all those who achieve the miracle of flight.
Christy Ducker will introduce Skipper,
a collection with subjects...read more
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 Best
of Bloodaxe and Faber with Maura Dooley and Bernard O’Donoghue
Saturday 17 October, 4.30pm-5.30pm, Palace Green Library
(Wolfson Gallery)
Join two acclaimed poets, both published by Bloodaxe Books and Faber.
Maura Dooley’s collections include Explaining
Magnetism and Kissing
a Bone, both of which are Poetry Book Society
Recommendations. Life
Under Water (2008) was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize.
Bernard O’Donoghue was born in County Cork and was a tutor at Wadham...read more
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 Sinéad
Morrissey: Festival Laureate
Saturday 17 October, 6pm-7pm, Palace Green Library
(Wolfson Gallery)
We’re delighted to welcome award-winning poet Sinéad Morrissey as this
year’s Durham Book Festival Laureate. Sinéad will premiere a specially
commissioned poem inspired by her time in Durham, as part of her public
event at the festival. Produced in partnership with Durham University,
the Festival Laureate has become an established part of the festival...read more
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