Poet in the City: Robert Hass and Kay Ryan
This event on 7th November 2011 at 18:30 has past.
Contact: Tickets: 020 7520 1490 www.kingsplace.co.uk
Note: in St Pancras Room at venue
An extraordinary opportunity to hear two of America's most engaging poets in person...
Robert Hass was US Poet Laureate (1995-1997) and has received many major accolades including the Pulitzer Prize.
Kay Ryan was Laureate from 2008 to 2010 and has won prestigious acclaim including the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
With his acute intelligence, emotional honesty and deeply moral sensibility, Robert Hass dissolves the usual boundaries between the personal and the political; his poems are at once intimate and of global significance. Also a brilliant translator, he is famous for his contrasting affinities with the poetry of Poland's Czeslaw Milosz and Japanese haiku masters Basho, Buson and Issa.
Often compared to Emily Dickinson, Kay Ryan writes simultaneously condensed and expansive poems - shot through with humour and her trademark love of surprising rhymes - explore the idiosyncrasies of language and the haplessness of the human condition.
Price: £9.50
Time: 6:30pm
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