DISCUSSION: DIVIDED SELVES    programme change
9.00 - 9.45am • Jubilee Hall • PF13 • £8
Where is home? Where you’re born or where you live? Durs Grünbein, Choman Hardi, Michael Hofmann, Naomi Shihab Nye and Alistair Reid all have powerful experiences of dislocation or escape from their original countries and cultures. How has this inspired and/or inhibited their writing lives?

CLOSE READING: FINUALA DOWLING
10.15 - 11.00am • Peter Pears Gallery • FREE
Join Finuala Dowling as she scrutinises a favourite poem (copies available).

GEOFF HATTERSLEY  read a poem
NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    read a poem
JON STALLWORTHY   read a poem
10.30am - 12.15pm • Jubilee Hall • PF14 • £12
Contrasting, essential voices. From factory floor to pub to front room, Geoff Hattersley chronicles the lives of the marginalised with relentless humour and truthfulness. Naomi Shihab Nye’s engaging and grounded poems celebrate our common humanity, confronting prejudice and reaching out across cultural and national divides. Breathing new life into an honourable English literary tradition, Jon Stallworthy writes with clarity, formal grace and heartfelt intelligence.

Supported by The Friends of The Poetry Trust