Cornwall Contemporary Poetry Festival

Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 June:
Cornwall Contemporary Poetry Festival
Falmouth Poetry Group presents this two-day celebration of the best in new poetry, including readings and workshops from some of the UK’s most exciting poets. A brand new poetry competition accompanies the festival, judged by internationally acclaimed poet Imtiaz Dharker.

A full programme will be announced soon, along with details of how to reserve tickets for the festival. In the meantime, here’s a taster of what’s to come:

Headlining the festival is Imtiaz Dharker, whose cultural experience spans Pakistan, Britain and India. Freedom, culture, politics – there’s nowhere her poetry doesn’t dare to go.

A stellar line-up will also include:

 David Morley, Professor of Poetry at Warwick University and an award-winning poet with a particular connection to the natural world and the world of the Roma.

 Kei Miller, a young Jamaican writer who has published three collections of poetry and whose work is guaranteed to raise the rafters.

 Greta Stoddart, another prize-winning poet, who trained in performance and worked for several years as a clown before turning to poetry.

There will also be panel discussions, workshops and field trips run by the poets, a wandering poet performing on stilts, open-mic spots for visitors to read their own work, and much conviviality in the surroundings of one of Cornwall’s most beautifully situated villages.

click here for the Cornwall Contemporary Poetry website