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The Poetry Prom 2011
We’re delighted to announce that this year The Poetry Prom (Tuesday 23 August at 7.30pm) will feature a unique trio of great British women poets: Helen Dunmore, Jackie Kay and Alice Oswald, and celebrate once again the range and pleasures of the spoken word. The Poetry Prom is part of The Poetry Trust’s ongoing partnership with Aldeburgh Music, and takes place in the beautiful Snape Maltings Concert Hall. It really is a wonderful setting for a poetry reading and we hope to see you there. In the meantime, here’s some more info about this year’s Poetry Prom Three:
Helen Dunmore is one of this country’s major literary talents. Best known as a novelist – she won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction – she also writes short stories, children’s books, radio plays and, of course, poetry. Winner of the National Poetry Competition in 2010, she has published eight collections of richly lyrical and humane poems.
In these times, we should be glad of this voice.
The Guardian
Another of our most acclaimed, all-round writers – memoir, short stories, books for children, plays and a first novel which won the Guardian Fiction Prize – Jackie Kay also began with poetry. Her searching explorations of identity and belonging are courageous and often very funny. She has published seven collections and is an irresistibly natural and warm performer.
Kay’s humour and optimism are transcendent.
Sunday Herald
Alice Oswald is a born poet, embracing and extending the canon of English poetry. Innovative and accomplished, she won the T S Eliot Prize in 2002 for the second of her five collections. Her powerful poems demonstrate a love of the oral tradition, a passionate concern for the planet and a deep affinity with the natural world. And her on-stage delivery is mesmerising.
Oswald emerges as an inheritor of some of Britain’s greatest poetic voices, an heir to Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill.
The Times
Performance suitable for adults and teenagers.
Tickets £14, £12, £10, Prom £6
(General booking opens Monday 6 June)
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