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Happy National Poetry
Day from Durham Book Festival
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Join us at Durham
Book Festival 2015 to celebrate and enjoy some of the best poetry
from the North East and beyond. We’ve got workshops, opportunities for
participation, new commissions, readings and performances. There’s
something for every poet and every poetry reader.
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 Frances
Leviston
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...read more
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 Dead
[Women] Poets Society
Saturday 10 October, 5pm-6pm, Empty Shop HQ
Who are the Dead Women Poets? How “dead” are they? And what is our
relationship to them, as contemporary women, poets, artists, “queens of
the whole world”? Join four emerging women poets from across the
UK—Jasmine Simms, Sarah Fletcher, Helen Bowell and Katie Byford—for an
evening exploring the lost female voices of the poetic canon. Through a
process of readings and reflections, we will briefly re-examine the the
voices of four dead female poets, exploring their influence on our
writing and identities today...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 Ralph Dartford, Matt Abbott, Jenni
Pascoe (replacing Helen Mort) and Matthew Hedley Stoppard...read more
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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 and sessions last a maximum of 45 minutes. Time slots
will...read more
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 Living
Landscapes with Sean O’Brien and Laura Harrington
Sunday 11 October, 1.30pm-2.30pm, Durham Town Hall
(Burlison Gallery)
Sean O’Brien’s Notes
from Underground explores WH Auden’s relationship with the North
Pennines. Ahead of its world premiere, Sean will talk about the process
of putting this new song-cycle together and what inspired him to write
it. Artist Laura Harrington is similarly drawn to the North Pennines,
focusing in particular on peatland landscapes. Her work involves an
exploration of this dynamic and lively ecosystem through words, film and
sound. Together Sean and Laura will talk about...read
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 Poetry
Exchange: Conversations Through Poems
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 poem. In this event, find out more about this approach
and listen in on the stories behind the poems that have been brought to
The Poetry Exchange so far. In advance of the event, you are invited to
nominate/send in the title of a poem that has acted as a friend to you...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 event gives a rare insight into
the creative process...read
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 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, directed by
Melanie Rashbrooke, is a one-man spoken word show that explores the
themes of climate change, death, light and dark through a first person
narrative...read
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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 the
21st century, bringing to life a cast of women who are brave, bitchy,
sexy, horrifying, heartbreaking and surprisingly modern...read
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 Haggs
and High Places evening event
Wednesday 14 October, 6pm-8pm, The Norman Chapel, Durham
Castle
A shared passion for peat provided the impetus for a collaboration
between artist Laura Harrington and physical scientist Jeff Warburton.
Their joint project focuses on Moss Flats, an upland peat flat in the
North Pennines, and involves an exploration of this dynamic and lively
ecosystem through words, film and sound. The book, Haggs and High Places,
brings together their work, with poems by Josephine Dickinson, to explore
and illustrate the pull and experience of Moss Flats. With a reading by
Josephine Dickinson at 7pm and an opportunity to view the exhibition The Liveliest of Elements: An
Ordinary Extraordinary Material...read
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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 WH Auden’s
interest in the North Pennines and in particular in the lead mining
industry there. The place held a near-religious and deeply ambiguous
importance for Auden all his life. The song cycle...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 ranging from St Cuthbert to Grace Darling.
Cynthia Fuller will present Estuary,
which looks back to the shifting estuary landscape of her youth and its
continuing haunting presence...read
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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
College, Oxford, until 2011. He has published seven volumes of poems,
most recently Farmers Cross. His Selected
Poems was published by Faber in 2008...read
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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
programme. Sinéad will visit two County Durham secondary schools during
her visit, as well as reading for Durham University...read more
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