Tom Pickard Tony Lopez Amy Evans: Poetry Reading 4 July

Please join us for an evening of poetry at St Chad's College, Durham. The event will feature  readings from Tom Pickard, Tony Lopez and Amy Evans. A wine reception will follow.

From 6.30pm in The Williams Library. Free admission and all welcome.

Contact John Clegg j.r.clegg@durham.ac.uk for further details.

Programme

You can now access the programme of events - including the schedule for panels - on our blog under the tab 'Programme of Events' or by clicking here. Please get in contact with annabel.haynes@durham.ac.uk if you have any queries.

Confirmed: Tony Lopez

Further good news! We are very pleased indeed to inform you that Tony Lopez will also be joining us to read his poetry.

Tony Lopez is Professor Emeritus in Poetry at Plymouth University. His work on Bunting can be found in his book Meaning Performance: Essays on Poetry (Salt) and also appears  in the Durham University Journal, Basil Bunting Special Issue as a piece exploring Bunting's relationship with place: 'Under Saxon the Stone: National Identity in the Poetry of Basil Bunting'.

His recent poetic publications include False Memory (Shearsman, 2012), Only More So (UNO Press, 2011) and Darwin (Acts of Language, 2009).

Confirmed: Tom Pickard

Good news! We are excited to announce that Tom Pickard will join us to give a poetry reading.

Poet Tom Pickard was crucial to Bunting's revival in the 1960s. He helped set up the Morden Tower poetry centre in Newcastle where many well known poets, including Bunting, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Cobbing and Gregory Corso, as well as Pickard himself,  have read their work.

Details about further poetry readings that will take place at the conference will be posted soon. Readings will be open to all. A fee for non conference-delegates may be payable.