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Poets featured include Nigel McLoughlin, Tim Liardet, Jane Weir, Pat Winslow, Rob Hindle, Dawn Wood, Jane Routh, Pat Borthwick and Jo Haslam. Four new pamphlets are launched by Siobhan Campbell, Mike Barlow, Katrina Naomi and Maggie O’Dwyer and anthology poets are reading from their work at events hosted by Angela Cleland. All ten newly published titles are available from the Festival Bookshop with our previously published poetry and a wide selection of second hand books. The Bookshop is open throughout the festival in the Arkwright Suite. Along with the Bookshop are stands and displays from poetry magazines and other presses and an exclusive exhibition of original paintings by Artist in Residence, Karen Isherwood. The Festival events all take place in the Arkwright and Archive Conference Suites located above the Working Textile Museum at Masson Mills. 2008 Festival Programme: Friday 17th October Festival Reception and Presentation: 6.00pm Arkwright Suite Templar Poetry invites you to celebrate the opening of the second Derwent Poetry Festival with the presentation of the prizes to the four winning pamphlet poets and the anthology poets by the Judge of the 2008 Templar Poetry Pamphlet and Collection Competition, Jane Weir. Guest Poet: 8.00pm Arkwright Suite Nigel McLoughlin |
| Festival Programme: Saturday 18th October Anthology Poets I: 11.00am Archive Suite Hosted by Angela Cleland Some of our best contemporary poets submitted their work to the 2008 Templar Poetry Pamphlet & Collection Competition from across the British Isles and beyond. Thirty nine poets are published in the anthology Buzz which contains excellent poetry well worth hearing and reading. Many of the writers have come to the Festival to read from their work at three Anthology Poetry readings, all hosted by Angela Cleland. An excellent opportunity to experience the diverse voices of contemporary poetry. The 2008 Pamphlet Poets: 1.00pm Arkwright Suite Maggie O’Dwyer, Katrina Naomi, Mike Barlow & Siobhan Campbell The 2008 Pamphlet and Collection Competition received submissions from across the British Isles, many of an excellent standard.Jane Weir, who read the submissions and judged the competition, found it impossible to narrow the final list to three winners, so there are four winners this year who read at this event which launches the winning pamphlets. They are Yes, I’d love to Dance by Maggie O’Dwyer, Lunch at the Elephant and Castle by Katrina Naomi, That Water Speaks in Tongues by Siobhan Campbell and Amicable Numbers by Mike Barlow. The Collections: 3.00pm Arkwright Suite Rob Hindle & Pat Winslow Rob Hindle, reads from his first collection, Neurosurgery in Iraq. Ian McMillan writes ‘Rob Hindle writes movingly of Spain and South Yorkshire and Beyond, captured and then liberated in a language that sings.’ Pat Winslow reads from her new collection, Unpredictable Geometry. Penelope Shuttle writes of Pat Winslow’s new collection, ‘.. we see how this poet explores her ‘geometries’ of place and events with wit, delicacy of perception and panache.’ Both poets are previous winners of the Templar Poetry Pamphlet & Collection Competitions. Anthology Poets II: 5.00pm Archive Suite Hosted by Angela Cleland A second selection of poems read by anthology poets. Guest Poets: 8.00pm Arkwright Suite Tim Liardet & Jane Weir Tim Liardet was born in London, is Senior Lecturer at Bath Spa University and has written five full collections of poetry including Competing with the Piano Tuner and To the God of Rain. His most recent collection, The Blood Choir, was shortlisted for the 2006 TS Eliot Prize. Tim Liardet is the Judge for the 2009 Templar Poetry Pamphlet and Collection Competition. Jane Weir is Anglo Italian, grew up in Salford, and lives in Derbshire and Italy. Her published work includes,The Way I Dressed During the Revolution which was shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award in 2006 and Before Playing Romeo, a Pamphlet, Alice, a short monograph on the poet Charlotte Mew and a poetic biography, Walking the Block, on the creative lives of Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher, two modernist textile artists. She was the winner of the 2008 Wigtown Poetry Competition. |
| Festival Programme: Sunday 19th October Anthology Poets 3: 11.00am Archive Suite Hosted by Angela Cleland The final reading from the 2008 anthology poets published in Buzz, continuing the tradition of publishing some the best individual poems from the annual competition and making these accessible to wider audiences. Poetic Biography: 12.30pm Archive Suite Jane Weir Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher met shortly after the First World War and went on to design and make a range of handblock printed textiles using natural dyes on linen, cotton, silk and wool. Jane Weir has worked with archives at the University for the Creative Arts at Farnham and the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester to create a unique and innovative poetic biography, Walking the Block. She reads from this new book and discusses the affinities of textiles, poetry, politics and life writing. Guest Poets: 2.00pm Archive Suite Jane Routh & Jo Haslam Jane Routh has published two collections, Circumnavigation and Teach Yourself Mapmaking and a Pamphlet, Waiting for H5N1. Jo Haslam has published a collection, The Sign for Water and a Pamphlet, Lunar Moths. The Collections: 3.30pm Arkwright Suite Dawn Wood & Pat Borthwick Dawn Wood, in her first collection, Quarry, ‘ ..shows an impressive range and versatility with poetic form - a persuasive and highly distinctive new voice.’ Pat Borthwick is, writes Roger Garfitt, ‘a poet with real stars up her sleeve.’ Her new collection, Admiral FitzRoy’s Barometer, follows her pamphlet Wave, a popular winner in the 2007 Templar Poetry Pamphlet Competition. Closing Reception & Launch of the 2009 Templar Poetry Pamphlet & Collection Competition: 4.30 Arkwright Suite |
| Nigel McLoughlin Tim Liardet Jane Weir Pat Winslow Dawn Wood Rob Hindle Angela Cleland Mike Barlow Pat Borthwick Jane Routh Jo Haslam Maggie O'Dwyer Siobhan Campbell Katrina Naomi with Anthology poets. Artist in Residence: Karen Isherwood |
Derwent Poetry Festival 2008 |
