Have you been to see HOST yet? Hop over to Gracefield to see this beautiful and very transient sight. And sign up for an excellent afternoon of free arts and lit events.
To book places for any (or all) of the events telephone 01387 262084.
2.30-4pm Poetry Workshop – ‘At home: living in the poem.’
With Helen Mort
What makes a landscape ‘home’? And how best to write about places we know well? Helen Mort, Poet in Residence with the Wordsworth Trust at Dove Cottage (Wordsworth’s home when he wrote much of his greatest work) will look at how to make familiar landscapes strange and how writers from Wordsworth to Philip Larkin and Ian McMillan have explored and reinvented the idea of ‘home’ in poetry.
6.30-7pm William Wordsworth: Selected Poems
Helen Mort and Andrew Forster, Poet in Residence and Literature Officer with the Wordsworth Trust, will read and talk about some of their favourite poems by Wordsworth along with new poems inspired by living and working in Wordsworth’s home.
7.15-8.15pm An illustrated artist talk by Charlie Poulsen
Charlie introduces the work in his exhibition and further afield. Find out how plants and landscapes have inspired some of his recent living installations.
