Something very special on Wednesday 1 July at 7.30pm!
Jen Hadfield, 'surprise' winner (but not to us!) of the T S Eliot Prize this spring, is making a special stop-off on her tour to read in Dumfries as part of DGAA's short season of Poetry Prizewinners in July. Poetry Prizewinners will also include winner of the McCash Prize this year, Rab Wilson.
Tickets available from DGAA on 01387 253383.
‘Nigh-No-Place’, her winning collection, was described by the former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion as “a revelation; jaunty, energetic, iconoclastic - even devilmay- care”. Jen's poems evoke the natural landscape through her witty and playful use of sound.
Read this short poem, and then book your ticket!
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In sun the moor turns harlequin and whisky sours.
The road runs down to single-track.
In rain, headlamps bloom chrysanthemum
but she sleeps on, sways
with lax complexity of bladderwrack.
