Events from the Poetry Trust 2014

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Events from the Poetry Trust 2014

Poetry at the Pumphouse

Sunday 22 June 2014

Dylan Thomas – ‘In my art or sullen craft’ by Helena Nelson

We’ve lined up a timely jewel for our Poetry at the Pumphouse event as part of this year’s Aldeburgh (music) Festival. On Sunday 22nd June at 5pm, Helena Nelson will deliver an audio-illustrated talk on Dylan Thomas who she’s dubbed ‘the ultimate escape artist’. In this centenary year of the birth of the great Welsh poet, Helena promises to celebrate some of his glorious verbal tricks and contrivances, and to consider why biographers have had such difficulty in pinning him down.

Poetry Prom

Thursday 28 August 2014

John Hegley and Ian McMillan

If laughter is the best medicine, then doses of John Hegley and Ian McMillan should be prescribed by GPs up and down the land.

Poet, comic, singer, songwriter, mandolin-player and glasses-wearer, John Hegley has captivated and devastated audiences all over the country – in theatres and festivals and in numerous appearances on radio and television. His recent New & Selected Potatoes spans a thirty-year publishing career, drawing together new poems with greatest hits from 12 previous collections. Eccentric, irrepressibly droll and often subversive, he covers everything from love, family, France, art and the sea to dogs, dads, gods, taxidermy, carrots, spectacles and – of course – potatoes. He’s the stand-up man who brings the house down, our unofficial Comic Poet Laureate for whom ‘the aim is poignancy mixed with jiggery-poetry’ and imagination ‘the only nation worth defending’.