Play (3): Nature and Nurture presented by the Poetry Society (E13), Sunday 15th November 2020, 5-6 PM
Our host for this event is Ben Rogers
Hear poems from last year’s National Poetry Competition. Charlotte Knight reads her commended poem ‘MOONDADDY’ and work from her exquisitely wrought Shut Up in a Cave, a collection concerned with grief, pregnancy, goats and the moon. And how would novelist Joe Dunthorne’s mutinous humour translate into poetry? The answer is: ‘brilliantly... There’s nothing his imagination cannot transform’ (The Observer). Hear him read from his collection O Positive and his commended poem ‘Due to a series of ill judgements on my part’. Like Joe, also a former Faber New Poet, Elaine Beckett, longlisted last year, takes us to the brink and back with her forthcoming first collection, described as a captivating fusion of poems, by turns witty, satirical, and melancholic. Ian Humphreys, whose first collection is Zebra, is described as having ‘an enviable gift of finding final lines of poems, many of which are seared on the surface of my memory’ (Mona Arshi). He reads his longlisted poem and new work, including the canal commission, inspired by local landscapes and exploring how my perception of these nearby places has changed as a result of recent travel restrictions. Hosted by Ben Rogers of the Poetry Society.
