Darwin Festival reading in association with the Great North Museum
Location: Great North Museum: Hancock, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Time/Date: 20th November 2009, 19:00
Reading for The Darwin Festival and in association with the exhibition The Cultural Life of Barnacles at the Great North Museum. Both writers will be reading specially commissioned poems.
Sean O’Brien, Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University, has won the most poetry prizes of his generation, winning the Forward Poetry Prize three times and the 2007 T.S. Eliot Prize. He is also an influential critic and editor, and has completed a wide variety of projects allied to music, film, radio and theatre.
Be memory, be conscience, will and rage,
And keep me cold and honest, cousin coat.
So if I lie, I’ll know you’re at my throat.
(from Cousin Coat)
Poet, journalist and broadcaster Ruth Padel is a renowned author of non-fiction and criticism as well six poetry collections including Voodoo Shop (2002), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award; and The Soho Leopard (2004), also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. In 2009 she published Darwin: A life in Poems, a poetic biography of her great-great-grandfather.
Give us three minutes more. Till she
Was sleep too; weed-swirl, out of depth
At one with the sea of his breath.
(from Pilot Light)
Rebecca Stott, who is professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, is the author of Darwin and the Barnacle (2003), Theatres of Glass (2003), a cultural history of the Oyster (2004) and a novel, Ghostwalk
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Published: 29th September 2009