Beeston WORD! with George Szirtes and Friends: Po-Fest Special
This PAST event happened on: Mon, Nov 14, 2022
- Venue:Beeston Library Foster Ave, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 1AE
- Time:7pm
- Cost:£6/ £8
- Web Address:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rescheduled-word-with-george-szirtes-and-friends-poetry-festival-special-tickets-443248938507?aff=erelexpmlt
Join George Szirtes and friends for this much anticipated - post-Po-Fest-tastic, post-pandemic first one back in Beeston WORD!...Poet, translator, biographer and former Man Booker International, Judge - George Szirtes was born in 1948 in Budapest, and came to England following the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. His many awards include: the Faber, T S Eliot and International Man Booker Translators' Prize (twice).George will be joined by WORD!s Lydia Towsey ‘funny, irreverent and rude, thanks to her mum, God bless them both’ (Mark Gwynne Jones) - and the acclaimed Panya Banjoko, author of the recently released, (Re)Framing the Archive (Burning Eye Books, 2022). Come and have a unique evening. Book early to avoid disappointment.To perform on the open mic - and/or to sign up for an online WORD! workshop with George on September 14th, 10.30-12pm email [email protected]
Please do get in touch if you have any access needs*Please note: this event is in the past.Images by David Wilson Clarke*‘I know of no other poet who combines activism and archive the way that she does” - Henderson Mullen, Writing East Midlands, on Panya Banjoko“Szirtes is increasingly revealed as a major English poet - one of those in whom insight and technique combine to focus more and more productively as the years go by.” - Hugh Macpherson, Poetry Review
