Festival Programme - Sunday 13 th May 2012
11.00 am
Dame Gillian Beer: the poems of Lewis Carroll
Gillian Beer is King Edward VII Professor Emeritus at the University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. Her books include Darwin's Plots (third edition, 2009) and Virginia Woolf: the Common Ground (1996). She has twice been a judge for the Booker Prize. In recent years she has written a number of essays on rhyming and is editing a collected and annotated edition of Lewis Carroll's poems for Penguin Classics (publication date, July 2012).
Her talk and readings will reveal the extraordinary charm, wit and range of Carroll's verses beyond the 'Alice' books.
Tickets £ 10.00 : Friends £8.00 excluding postage costs.
2.00 pm
Open Floor John Coleridge Event
(incl. 2012 Competition Winners)
(Introduced by Competition Adjudicator GRAHAM HIGH)
Graham High is a sculptor, painter, and poet who divides his time between London and Norfolk. He has exhibited widely, undertaken many public commissions in the UK and abroad, and spent eight years as a scientific model maker for the Natural History Museum’s Exhibition Department. Graham worked in the film industry for over twenty-five years, variously as an animatronics model designer, prosthetic make-up artist, design sculptor, and effects consultant on over forty major film productions. His poetry has been widely anthologised including a number of specialist haiku magazines, and he edited Blithe Spirit, the British Haiku Society journal from 2005 to 2008. Graham has a particular interest in the development of British haiku and haibun. His latest book The Range-Finder’s Field Glasses was published by Oversteps Books in 2011.
The competition adjudication and awarding of prizes will be followed by our traditional Open Floor Event in which we invite hopefuls of all ages to take to the stage and share their work with us in a supportive and enthusiastic setting.
If you would like to read simply sign up at the door on arrival. In order to accommodate all comers, we would politely request that readers should limit their reading time to a maximum of three minutes.
The programme will close with an affectionate and witty tribute to our festival founder, John Coleridge - who sadly died last December – performed by Graham High and Bob Ward.
Tickets £ 5.00 : Friends £3.00 excluding postage costs.
Season Ticket (giving entry to all events) £45 |
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Season Ticket - Friend of PNTS £40 |