Apologies for cross-posting where
applicable
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Wednesday 12 March 2008, 7pm: The Northern
Writers' Centre, Culture Lab, Grand Assembly Rooms, King's Walk, Newcastle upon
Tyne NE1 7RU
Join Alice
Quinn, Poetry Editor of The New Yorker from 1987-2007 and
Executive Director of the Poetry Society of America, and Sean
O'Brien, Forward-prize winning poet, critic and Professor of Creative
Writing at Newcastle University, to debate on poetry matters in the UK and the
USA.
Together they will
discuss the critical state of poetry, the poets who define the current scenes in
their respective countries, and share ideas about how poetry is engaging with
critics and with readers.
Chaired by
Jules Mann, Director of the Poetry Society.
Cost: £6/£4
concessions. Students £2. Special offer - 3 for the price of 2 on all full-price
tickets
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It seems people (poets?!) cannot get enough of
this identity/definition thing...
