Reading by Matthew Sweeney and Ben Parker
This event on 5th May 2017 at 19:00 has past.
Contact: www.cheltenhampoetryfest.co.uk/festival-2017
Matthew Sweeney is one of our greatest living poets, renowned for the visionary brilliance of his work and his bold and lyrical voice. Ted Hughes praised him for the “playful free, dream flight” of his poems. Horse Music was described as “a wonderful collection, madcap, laconic, and provocative too” (The Independent), and Manchester Review described Sweeney as “a hugely talented poet writing at the height of his powers”. Matthew reads new poems from My Life as a Painter alongside prose poems from King of a Rainy Country, which explore the current edgy state of Paris and respond to Baudelaire’s prose poems, Le Spleen de Paris. Ben Parker reads from his startling and energetic first collection The Amazing Lost Man (Eyewear 2016), in which he explores real and imagined territories and reports back in poems that are both darkly funny and vividly descriptive.
One of many unmissable events from the Cheltenham Poetry Festival 2017 (4-15 May)
Price: £8.00 / £6.00
Time: 7:00pm
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