Hwaet!
20 Years of Ledbury Poetry Festival
Ledbury Poetry Festival celebrates its 20th birthday in July 2016.Britain's biggest and liveliest poetry festival happens over ten days each July in the Herefordshire market town of Ledbury. Poets from all over the world join audiences drawn from near and far for an annual celebration of poetry in England's rural heartland. There are live readings, performances, workshops, open mics, music, exhibitions, films, family events, schools visits, street happenings, a slam, a poetry competition, and much more. 'Hwaet!' (rhyming with cat) is the opening word of the great Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf and other poems of that time. It means 'Listen!' or 'Ho…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78037-314-0
- EAN: 9781780373140
- Produktnummer: 20333226
- Verlag: Bloodaxe Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'122 KB
Über den Autor
Mark Fisher was Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central from 1983 to 2010, becoming opposition spokesman on arts and media following the 1987 general election, and later Minister for the Arts in 1997-98 before his sacking by Tony Blair. In 1992 he introduced his Right to Know private member's bill, the forerunner of the Freedom of Inform-ation Bill. He read English Literature at Cambridge, and before entering politics worked as a ¿lm producer and screenwriter, and from 1975 was principal of the Tattenhall Centre of Education in Cheshire, where Adrian Henri was Arts Council Poet in Residence (1979-81), succeeded by Liz Lochhead (1980-83).One of his first engagements as Arts Minister was to open the ¿rst Ledbury Poetry Festival in 1997, and he has maintained his support for the festival as an active Patron over many years, and latterly also as editor of this anthology. His other publications include Whose Cities (with Ursula Owen, Penguin Books, 1991), A New London (with Richard Rogers, Penguin Books, 1992) and Britain's Best Museums and Galleries (Allen Lane, 2004). He lives in London.
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