Imtiaz Dharker, Joe Dunthorne and John Stammers
What Are They Whispering
Location: Northern Stage, Newcastle
Time/Date: 1st November 2011, 19:00
What Are They Whispering? is a show made from poems about Power – personal, political, natural and technological – in poems that make you laugh, think and shiver. In association with Jaybird.
Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and documentary film-maker and all her books – Purdah, Postcards from God, I Speak for the Devil and The Terrorist at my Table and Leaving Fingerprints – include her own drawings.
Joe Dunthorne’s debut novel, Submarine (2008), won the Curtis Brown Prize. It has been translated in to nine languages and made into a film. He is also a poet and performer.
John Stammers’ first collection, Panoramic Lounge-Bar, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2001 and shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award 2001. His second collection, Stolen Love Behaviour, was a Poetry Book Society Choice.
Tickets for this event are priced at £6/£4. You can find tickets for all of our events at our webstore. Alternatively, please contact Melanie Birch for further details: Melanie.Birch@ncl.ac.uk, 0191 222 7619.
Published: 1st September 2011