Words of war and a wealth of poetry at StAnza festival

Saturday 8th March 2014 3:52 pm (first posted 6th March 2014)

StAnza, Scotland’s premier poetry festival, which this year stars Carol Ann Duffy, Paul Muldoon, John Burnside, and Louis de Bernières, has begun. The festival at St Andrews from 5-9 March has two themes this year – A Common Wealth of Poetry to tie in with the Commonweath Games being hosted by Glasgow later this year – and Words Under Fire, to mark the centenary of the first world war. The festival's events include poets from India, South Africa, Botswana, Jamaica, Canada, the Netherlands, Croatia, and the US. More details

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Bath literature festival, until 9 March

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York literature festival, 20-31 March

Cheltenham poetry festival, 28 March - 4 April

APRIL

Cheltenham poetry festival, until 4 April

Stamford verse festival, 10-12 April

Wenlock poetry festival, Shropshire, 25-27 April

MAY

Strokestown poetry festival, Co Roscommon, 2-4 May

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