Poetry at the Snape Proms
Venue: Snape Maltings Concert Hall
'Alastair Reid is a word magician.' Bill Buford, The New Yorker
'Atwood is a poet whose vision of life is so daringly original that she creates her own mythology.' Glasgow Herald
For the octogenarian Scot and tireless traveller Alastair Reid, language has been his constant home and poetry - "language at its most thrilling" - his way of rejoicing in the world. He is the author of more than forty books of poetry and prose including definitive translations of many Latin American writers, Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda in particular. Observant, witty and memorable, his own poems invite us on journeys of discovery and delight.
Canada's world-renowned Margaret Atwood has published more than thirty-five books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Although best known for her novels, her first publication was a book of poetry - The Circle Game (1964) - and a further fourteen volumes have followed, most recently The Door (2007). Here is a rare chance to experience the power and range of the poems that she has been writing steadily throughout her glittering literary career.
