Poetry Doubles 2007Jen Hadfield & Vivien Jones
Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre
Monday 3rd September 7.00pm
Tickets £7.00 (£5.00 concession) from andrew@dgaa.net
This week, Poetry Doubles welcomes one of Britain’s most exciting young poets. Jen Hadfield was born in Cheshire and spent time in Canada before moving to Shetland where she currently lives. She has won both an Eric Gregory award and a Donald Dewar Award for younger artists. Her first collection Almanacs was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2005 and she will follow this with a new collection, Nigh No Place, in February next year. She also won the Robert McLellan Poetry Competition last year, and came third in the second annual Wigtown Poetry Competition with her poem ‘Odysseus and the Sou’Wester’. Much of Jen’s first collection is inspired by Shetland, and her work has been described as a wild, imaginative road movie. She is also passionate about involving words with other art forms, and combines her poems with photography, lino cuts and woodwork in her artists’ books.
Jen shares the stage with Vivien Jones. Vivien is making a welcome return to Poetry Doubles, after taking part in the very first series back in 2004. Since that time her work has gone from strength to strength. She has published poems in numerous magazines and anthologies and, most recently, developed and performed in Making Waves, a sublime performance of poetry and music on a watery theme that took place at Broughton House in Kirkcudbright, and can also be seen during the Wigtown Festival. Vivien is also one of the driving forces behind the Crichton Writers, Dumfries and Galloway’s largest writers’ group. Her work is included in their new anthology, ‘Windfall’, featuring poems on the theme of gardens.
