Don Paterson and Christopher Reid in Woodstock
The Woodstock Bookshop and Tower Poetry are organising an evening of poetry in Woodstock on Thursday 19 April 2012 in The Woodstock Arms at 7pm when Don Paterson and Christopher Reid will be reading from recent works. This is a rare opportunity to hear two of our very best poets reading together.
Tickets £4 (students free) MUST be booked in advance from The Woodstock Bookshop: 01993 812760 or
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Rachel Phipps
The Woodstock Bookshop
23 Oxford Street
Woodstock OX20 1TH
01993 812760
www.woodstockbookshop.co.uk |
The Woodstock Bookshop and Tower Poetry organised an evening of poetry in Woodstock on Thursday 7 April 2011 in The Woodstock Arms at 7pm when David Morley and Peter McDonald read from recent works.
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(Saturday 27 March 2010)
Don Paterson teaches at the University of St Andrews and is poetry editor for Picador. His most recent poetry collection, Rain, was the winner of the 2009 Forward Poetry Prize. Stephen Romer is a lecturer at the University of Tours in France and will be Visiting Fellow at All Souls in Trinity Term 2010. A translator and an anthologist of modern French poetry, his latest collection is Yellow Studio (2008), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
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Poetry and War (Friday 26 March 2010)
Winner of the 2005 Forward Poetry Prize with Legion, David Harsent's poetry includes versions of the work of Bosnian poet Goran Simic, notably Sprinting from the Graveyard (1997), written during the siege of Sarajevo. Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford, Jon Stallworthy's works include seven volumes of poetry, and biographies of Wilfred Owen and Louis MacNeice and most recently Survivors' Songs. Elaine Feinstein is a prizewinning poet, novelist and biographer. She has written more than thirty books. Her latest collection of poems, Cities, comes out from Carcanet in June 2010. Tim Kendall is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter, and author of a collection of poems, a war-poetry blog, and several books on modern war poetry.
Francine Stock presents Radio 4's The Film Programme and is currently writing her third novel.
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(Thursday 25 March 2010)
Former Head of English and Director of NATE (the National Association for the Teaching of English) and the creator of the Poetry Place website, Trevor Millum showed teachers, parents - indeed anyone with an interest in words - how to encourage the more able (and motivate the more reluctant) student to enjoy the reading and writing of poetry.
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