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lynnlitfests.com Programme
I N F O R M AT I O N
All events take place at The Town Hall,
Saturday Market Place, King’s Lynn PE30 5DQ
The Poetry Festival presents some of the best contemporary writers in a congenial and informal
setting. The authors read and discuss their work and will be available to chat and sign your
purchases from the festival’s well stocked book stall. You are welcome to join them and the festival
organisers for lunch at restaurants near the festival venue - details given at the morning events.
Ticket Prices Please arrive in good time to be
seated. Readings will commence
All events £8.50 promptly at listed start time
Bargain Season Ticket £37.50
Tickets for students £1 (£5 BST) Doors will open around 30 minutes
in advance
We cannot guarantee that all the
Booking writers will take part in the plenary
sessions
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The festival closes with the raffle month with valuable literary and cash prizes
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draw for our unique prize - a book festival weekend pass each year
handwritten by all the writers in
the festival
THE WEEKEND’S EVENTS
Friday 27th September Saturday 28th September
7.30pm 8.00pm
Elisabeth Sennitt Clough Jo Shapcott
Matthew Caley Tim Liardet
Helen Ivory
Saturday 28th September Sunday 29th September
11.00am 11.00am
Discussion John Greening
Is Poetry Better Served By Readers
or Listeners? Adam Feinstein
Chaired by John Lucas will present his translations
of the great Chilean poet,
With contributions from the Pablo Neruda
writers and audience
Saturday 28th September Sunday 29th September
3.00pm 3.00pm
Sue Burge In Memorium Matthew Sweeney
with Mary Noonan
Kit Fan
Chaired by John Lucas
Nick Drake with contributions from the writers
The festival will close with the
raffle draw
Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, PhD, is an alumna of the
Arvon/Jerwood Mentorship scheme 2016 and Toast
Poets 2017. She was also a Ledbury Emerging Poet
2017. Her debut pamphlet, Glass, was a winner in the
Paper Swans inaugural pamphlet competition in 2016. It
went on to win Best Pamphlet at the Saboteur Awards
2017. Her debut collection, Sightings, was published by
Pindrop Press in December 2016. It won the Michael Schmidt Prize for Best Portfolio. A
poem from that collection was highly commended in the Forward Prize and published in the
Forward Book of Poetry 2018. Her second full collection, At or Below Sea Level, is a Poetry
Book Society Recommendation.
Matthew Caley’s Thirst (1999) was nominated for the
Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He’s published five
more since then, with his sixth, Trawlerman’s Turquoise,
launching at King’s Lynn. His work has featured in many
anthologies including Poems of The Decade (Forward
Editions); Identity Parade : New British and Irish Poetry and
The Picador Book of Love Poems. Matthew has read his
work from Morden Tower, Newcastle to The National Portrait Gallery, London; from Galway
to Novi Sad. In previous lives he was on the fringe of the Small Press revival in the 1980’s;
designed record sleeves; lived in squats in Brixton during the 80’s-90’s; has taught in art
schools. Recently, he’s tutored for The Poetry School and been Associate Lecturer in
Contemporary Poetry/Creative Writing at The School of English, St Andrews University. He
lives in London with the Czech artist Pavla Alchin and their two daughters, Iris and Mina.
Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her fifth Bloodaxe
collection, The Anatomical Venus (May 2019), examines
how women have been portrayed as ‘other’; as witches; as
hysterics with wandering wombs and as beautiful corpses
cast in wax, or on mortuary slabs in TV box sets. She edits
the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and is a tutor for the UEA/
NCW online creative writing programme. Fool’s World, a
collaborative Tarot card project with Tom de Freston (Gatehouse Press) won the 2016
Saboteur Best Collaborative Work award. A book of mixed media poems, Hear What the
Moon Told Me, appeared from KFS in 2016, and a chapbook Maps of the Abandoned City
was published by SurVision Press (Ireland) earlier this year. She lives in Norwich with her
husband, the poet Martin Figura, where they help run Café Writers – a live literature
organisation.
Sue Burge is a Norfolk-based poet and freelance teacher of
writing courses since 2007. Previously, she taught Creative
Writing at UEA for 20 years. She also writes and teaches
courses on film, and her pamphlet Lumière was inspired by
films set in Paris from 1895 through to the French New
Wave directors. Her first full collection, In the Kingdom of
Shadows (2018), was shortlisted for the Live Canon First
Collection Prize. Heidi Williamson wrote of “widely travelled poems both culturally and
historically, journeying deep into territories of collective memory and individual psyche”.
Born in Hong Kong, Kit Fan moved to Britain at 21. He is a
poet and fiction writer. His first book, Paper Scissors
Stone, won the inaugural HKU International Poetry Prize.
Kit’s second collection, As Slow As Possible, is a Poetry
Book Society Recommendation and chosen by the
Guardian as one of the biggest books in 2018 and The
Irish Times Best Poetry Book of the Year. He won a Times
Stephen Spender Poetry Translator Prize. He was shortlisted for the Guardian 4th Estate
BAME Short Story Prize consecutively in 2017 and 2018. Kit won a 2018 Northern Writers
Award for Diamond Hill, a novel in progress.
Nick Drake was born in 1961, grew up in Hertfordshire,
studied at Cambridge University and is based in London.
He is a screenwriter, playwright, librettist, novelist and poet,
with his first collection, The Man in the White Suit (Bloodaxe
Books, 1999), being a Poetry Book Society Recom-
mendation, and winner of the Forward Prize for Best First
Collection. In September 2010 he travelled to the Arctic to
explore climate change. From that journey arose poems and texts for the ground-breaking
installation High Arctic at the National Maritime Museum (2011). Together with other poems
inspired by the Arctic and its voices, they are gathered in his collection The Farewell Glacier
(Bloodaxe Books, 2012). Other recent projects include the screenplay for the film Romulus,
My Father, which won best Film at the Australian Film Awards, and a trilogy of crime novels
set in 18th Century Dynasty Egypt which are currently being adapted for television. His
fourth poetry collection, Out of Range, was published by Bloodaxe in 2018.
Jo Shapcott was born in London 1953. She was an
undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin and later studied
at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. From there, she received a
Harkness Fellowship to Royal Holloway College, London,
where she is today Professor of Creative Writing. Her
awards for collections include the Commonwealth Poetry
Prize, the Forward Poetry Prize, and in 2011 she received
the Costa Prize for Of Mutability. She has twice won the National Poetry Competition. Jo
has worked with musicians on collaborative projects, and in 1997 had her poems set to
music and has presented poetry programmes for BBC radio. Her book Tender Taxes
includes her versions from Rilke’s French Poems (2001). She is President of the Poetry
Society and is considered one of Britain’s leading poets.
Born in London in 1959, Tim Liardet is a respected critic and
Professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University. He has reviewed
poetry for such journals as The Independent, The
Independent on Sunday, and Poetry Review and The
Guardian. He has produced eleven collections of poetry - his
third, Competing With The Piano Tuner, was a Poetry Book
Society Special Commendation and long listed for the
Whitbread poetry prize in 1998. The Blood Choir, his fifth collection, won an Arts Council
England writers’ award, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the
2006 TS Eliot prize. His New & Selected Poems, Arcimboldo’s Bulldog, was published last
year and spans nine of his ten award-winning collections, and adds some new poems.
Adam Feinstein is an acclaimed British author, poet,
translator, Hispanist, journalist, film critic and autism
researcher. His biography of the Nobel Prize-winning poet,
Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life, was first published by
Bloomsbury in 2004 and reissued in an updated edition in
2013 (Harold Pinter called it ‘a masterpiece’) along with his
book of translations from Neruda’s Canto General. He also
wrote the introduction to Jorge Luis Borges’ Labyrinths, 2007. His own poems and his
translations (of Neruda, Federico García Lorca, Mario Benedetti and others) have appeared
in magazines, including PN Review, Agenda, Acumen, Poem and Modern Poetry in
Translation. He lectures worldwide and broadcasts regularly for the BBC and writes for the
Guardian, the Observer, the Financial Times and the Times Literary Supplement. Arc
published his latest book of translations, The Unknown Neruda, in August 2019.
John Greening was born in Chiswick, 1954. He has
published 15 collections, most recently The Silence (2019)
and a collaboration with Penelope Shuttle, Heath (2016).
He won an Arvon Award (judged by Hughes and Heaney)
and Cholmondeley Award. A long time reviewer for the
Times Literary Supplement, he worked for many years as a
teacher, both in the UK and at Aswan, Upper Egypt, where
he was awarded the Alexandria Poetry Prize, and also in New Jersey, Mannheim and
Arbroath. Since retiring from teaching, he has held several fellowships, most recently for the
Royal Literary Fund at Newnham College, Cambridge. He has edited the work of Edmund
Blunden and Geoffrey Grigson, and written studies of Elizabethan Love Poems, Yeats,
Hardy, First World War Poets, Edward Thomas and Ted Hughes.
Mary Noonan was born in London but grew up in Cork. She
is an Irish poet and academic, lecturer in French at University
College Cork, focusing on French women playwrights and
film. Her poems have been widely published in journals and
her debut collection, The Fado House (2012) was written
during her travels and so has international settings: Paris,
Berlin, India, even Muscat (Oman). The collection was
awarded the Listowel Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for both the Seamus Heaney Centre
Prize for a First Collection (2013) and the Strong/Shine Award (2013). Her latest collection is
Stone Girl, published by Dedalus Press in 2019, after the death of her father but before that
of her partner, Matthew Sweeney.
A distinguished poet, novelist and critic, John Lucas is
Professor Emeritus at the Universities of Loughborough and
Nottingham Trent. He is the author of many academic works
and has published seven books of his own poetry. His
novels include The Good That We Do (2000) and
92 Acharnon Street (2007), which blend fiction, memoir and
social history. Other recent books include A Brief History of
Whistling, an esoteric study that attracted the attention of BBC’s Have I Got News For You,
and a charming and beautifully produced anthology of 10 Cricket Poems. John Lucas was
the winner of the Aldeburgh Festival Poetry Prize. He runs Shoestring Press and lives in
Nottingham.
Cover: The Custom House light show was created by Peter Cleary and photographed
by Matthew Usher. Poet photo credits: Iris Hobson-Mazur, Dave Gutteridge,
Rachel Shapcott, Linda Ibbotson. Others supplied.
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We look forward to welcoming you to the
Fiction Festival, 13-15 March 2020
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