The second Cornwall Contemporary Poetry Festival brought together leading contemporary poets for three days of readings, workshops, discussions and symposia. Held in November 2016 in Falmouth, it included a symposium on poetry and illustration, a poetry project for schools in collaboration with Falmouth Art Gallery, a poetry slam and an open-mic event on a boat on the River Fal. The festival was a project of Falmouth Poetry Group in collaboration with Falmouth University and Falmouth Art Gallery, and with the Support of Arts Council England and The Tanner Trust

Cornwall Contemporary Poetry Festival

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-CORNWALL CONTEMPORARY POETRY FESTIVALI2-I3 NOVEMBER 2016 I FALMOUTH HOTEL, FALMOUTH, CORNWALL%,i-r ,TA,ta*?rI / ALISON BRACKENBURY was born in Lincolnshire andnow lives in Gloucestershire. Her ninth collection of poems, Skies, waspublished in March 2016 and was The Observert Poetry Bool< Choiceof the month. She has been widely published in many newspapersand journals, including The Guardion, The Sundoy Times, Acumen, TheListener, The London Review ofEooks, The Spectotor and fhe I[S. Sheis a regular broadcaster and her poems have featured in many radioprogrammes. Competitions she has judged include the National PoetryCompetition in 2005. We are delighted that Alison has agreed to judgethe Cornwall Contemporary Poetry Prize that accompanies this year'sfestival. alisonbrackenbury.co.uk"Alison Bracl<enbury loves, lives, hymns and rhymes the natural worldand its people lil<e no other poet." Gillian Clarke3 / JOHN GREENING's most recent books include Heoth (NineArches Press, 2016), a verse collaboration with Penelope Shuttle aboutthe area near Heathrow, the Rack Press pamphlet Nebomun's Tomb,and his verse letters To the War Poets (Carcanet, 2013). He has iustbrought out a new edition of Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War(OUP 2015) and the classical music anthology, Accompanied Voices(Boydell, 2015), and is preparing a selection of Geoffrey Grigson'sverse for Greenwich Exchange, who have brought out several of hisearlier critical bool<s along with his Hunts: Poems 1979-2009. He iswinner of the TLS and Bridport prizes, recipient of a CholmondeleyAward, and a judge for the Eric Gregory Awards. Currently he is RLFWriting Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. johngreening.co.uk"Beyond the admirable craftsmanship that characterises almost all of hiswork, one of Greening's great strengths is his historical imagination."Glyn Pursglove, Acumen2 / STEVE ELY is a poet from the West Riding of Yorkshire. Hisfi rst bool<, Oswald's Book of Hours, is published by Smokestack and wasnominated for the Forward Prize for Best New Collection in 2013 andthe Ted Hughes Award for New Worl< in Poetry in 2014. Englaland,his second book, was published in 2015, also by Smokestack. Hispoems have appeared in many journals, includingAmbitandThe PoetryReview. He is currently writing poems about football, genocide and themediaeval hermit, Richard Rolle. His novel, Rotmen, is published byBlackheath Books. Ied Hughes's South Yorkshire: Mode in Mexborough,a biographical work about Hughes's neglected Mexborough period,was published in 2015. steveely.co.uk"Steve Ely is one of the most exhilarating poets working in the UK."Poetry lnternational4 / MEIRION JORDAN was born in Swansea. His debutcollection,Moonrise (Seren, 2008), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for BestFirst Collection, and his pamphlet Strongers Hol/ (Gatehouse, 2009),was shortlisted for the Jarrold East Anglia Book of the Year Award.His most recent collection, Regenerotion, was published by Serenin 2012. He has performed at many festivals, including Ledbury andHay. Meirion has been published in Poetry Wales and fhe fES. Heis an editor for Gateway Press, and its literary journal, Lighthouse, anon-profit-making enterprise that provides opportunities for newwriters in the UK. Meirion is also an accomplished fiddle player.serenbool<s.com/author/meirion-jordan"l can't call a more impressive debut to mind."Sarah Crown, The Guardian"45 / PASCALE PETIT was born in Paris, grew up in France andWales, and now lives in Cornwall. Her sixth collection, Fouverie,wasshortlisted for the 2014 TS Eliot Prize. Five poems from the book wonthe 2013 Manchester Poetry Prize. Bloodaxe Books will publish herseventh collection, MomoAmozonico, in September20lT. Herfifth book,Whot the Water Gove Me: Poems after Frida Kohlo, was shortlisted forboth the TS Eliot Prize and Wales Book of the Year, and was a Bookofthe Year in The Observer. Pascale has had three collections chosenas Books ofthe Year in the fLS, The lndependent and The Observer. Shereceived a Cholmondeley Award in 2015 and has read at all the majorpoetry festivals. pascalepetit.co.uk"Pascale's Fauverie is astonishing, one of those books that breaks newground in how to approach writing about the unwritable." Ruth Padel7 / JANE YEH was born in America and educated at HarvardUniversity, IOWA Writers' Workshop and Manchester MetropolitanUniversity. Her first collection, Morobou (Carcanet, 2005), wasshortlisted for the Whitbread, Forward and Aldeburgh poetry prizes.Her latest collection, fhe Ninjos, was published by Carcanet in2014.She was a judge for the 2013 National Poetry Competition and wasnamed a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society in2014.Her poems have appeared in The Guardion, Gronta, fhe New RepublicPoetry Review and other journals, as well as in anthologies includingfhe Best British Poetry 2012 and The Forword Book of Poetry (2006 and2013). Currently Lecturer in Creative Writing at The Open University,she also writes for publicarions including fhe fLS, Time Out and fheVilloge Voice. She lives in London. janeyeh3.com"Poetry so unsettling, describing worlds so troubling and lonely is seldomas funny, clever and downright charming as Jane Yeh's." Aingeal Clare5 / PENELOPE SHUTTLE has lived in Cornwallsince 1970 andis the widow of Peter Redgrove, Falmouth Poetry Group's founder. Sheis now its President. At the Festival she will be launching, alongsideJohnGreening, Heoth, their collaborative, book-length sequence of poemsabout Heathrow Airport and Hounslow Heath (Nine Arches Press,2016). A pamphlet, Four Portions of Everything on the Menu for M'sieurMonet, appeared from lndigo Dreams Publications in August 2016. Hereleventh collection, Will You Wolk o Little Fosterl is published in May2017 by Bloodaxe Bool<s. She has read at many major festivals andher 2005 collection, Redgrovet Wife, was shortlisted for The ForwardPrize and the T S Eliot Award. penelopeshuttle.co.uk"Shuttle relates complex emotions with a light earnestness, humour,and electric imagination." Ben Wilkinson, The GuardianI / MOLLY NAYLOR writes for radio, television and screen,and performs her own live shows. Her poetry show Whenever I GetBlown Up I Think Of You was a hit at the Edinburgh fringe festival andhas since been broadcast on Radio 4. Her sitcom series After Hours,co-written with John Osborne, was broadcast by Sky in autumn 2015.She has just directed her first short film, Collback, starring MarcusBrigstocke, and is launching a new poetry collection, Bodminton, thisautumn. Molly, who grew up in Falmouth, will be hosting a poetry slamon Friday I I November and reading at Falmouth University on Thursdayl0 November - see festival website for details. mollynaylor.com"Naylor writes with a poet's ear for rhythm and metaphor, and deliverswith a stand-up's comic timing." The Times9 / ANDREW LANYON was born and still lives in Cornwall. Anartist, filmmaker, and creator of extraordinary books, his work is inprivate and public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museumand the Museum of Modern Art, New York. His limited-edition artist'sbooks include the Rowley series, as well as larger-run publications suchas A Fairy Find (Portobello Books) and Circulor Wolks Around RowleyHoll (Atlas Press), both 2006. He has written and produced numerousfilms, including SplottdheWertho (Plotfor Sale), which won the GoldenTorc award atthe lSth Celtic Film Festival in 1997. His solo show ofinstallations, paintings and writings with an accompanying book, VonRibbentrop in St lves, Art ond War in the Lost Resort, opened at KestleBarton in Cornwall in 20 l0 and went on to Kettle's Yard in Cambridgein 201 L andrewlanyon.com'An entirely new l<ind of literary medium, as much visual as verbal, andeach sparks off the other continuously in quite the most deliciousmanner." Lionel MiskinMAT OSMOND is an illustrator, poet and essayist, publishing hiswork chiefly through Strandline Books, Dark Mountain and AtlanticPress. His chapbook Fly Sings (Strandline) won the British Library'sinaugural Michael Marks Poetry lllustration award in 2015. His mostrecent worl< is Stone, a collaboration with the poet Em Strang (AtlanticPress, 2016). Mat also teaches in the School of Art at FalmouthU niversity. strandlinebooks.co.ukDAVID DEVANNY's poetry has appeared in a wide variety ofmagazines and anthologies. His pamphlet Wosps on the Woy (MewsPress,20l2) was awarded the lctus Prize. He co-runs the New FireTree Press, for which he is editing a library of experimental digitalpoetries. This autumn, he is launching a locative multi-media poetryapp focusing on the Cornish coast. David also teaches in the School ofWriting and Journalism at Falmouth University. daviddevanny.co.ukALICE KAVOUNAS is a Shearsman poet and creator of thepoetry app Words in Air. This 'mApp of inspiration' enables you to enjoycontemporary and classic poems in the places which inspired them,from wherever you happen to be. Alice's poetry has appeared in LRB,Mogmo,ILS and on the BBC. Her short stories have been published inGranto and London Mogozine. Alice's forthcoming collection, AbondonedGordens: Selected & New Poems, follows Thin lce (2013) and Ornamentof Asio (2009). shearsman.comFALMOUTFI Supported byTHE TANNER TRUSTFALMOUTHPOETRY GROUPS '""r I oiiisiciur',c'tL.TTERYFUNDED I ENGLAND UNIVERSITY-FALMOUTH HOTEL, FALMOUTH, CORNWALL2CP0roo6 CO RNWALLNTE M PO RARYETRY F ESTIVALNOVEM BER 12 NOVEM BER I3SATURDAY10.00Doors open, registrationr0.30 - I t.30Readings: Steve Ely and Pascale Petit12.00 - 12.45Panel discussion: Poetry and technologyPanel: Meirion Jordan, Steve Ely,Alice Kavounas, Chair: David Devanny13.00 - 14.00Six-minute readingsShort readings by some special guest poetsr4.30 - t5.30Choice of workshops: Steve Ely,John Greening, Pascal Petit, Meirion Jordan(workshops must be booked in advance - see website)19.15 - t9.45Prize-giving and readings by shortlisted poetsr9.45 - 20. t5Break, drinks20.t5 - 2r.00Reading: Alison BrackenburySUNDAYr0.00Doors open, registrationr0.30 - r r.30Readings: Meirion Jordan and Jane Yeh12.00 - 12.45Panel discussion: Art and poetryPanel: Pascale Petit, Jane Yeh,Andrew Lanyon, Henrietta Boex,Chair: Mat Osmond13.30 - l4.lsReading: John Greening and Penelope Shuttler4.30 - t6.30Choice of workshops:Andrew Lanyon, Jane Yeh-or-Boat trip &'open micA short cruise on the River Fal,with words on the wavest7.00Reassemble atFalmouth Hotel for closePROGRAMME LISTINGS All events in the mainprogramme are at The Falmouth Hotel, Castle Beach.Check out the festival website for details of fringeevents in the days leading up to the festival. Please notethat workshops and the boat trip must be booked inadvance via the website.THE CORNWALL CONTEMPORARY POETRYFESTIVAL is an initiative of Falmouth Poetry Groupwith the support of Arts Council England, FalmouthUniversity, The Tanner Trust, Falmouth Town Counciland Falmouth Art Gallery.FALMOUTH POETRY GROUP was founded in 1972by the internationally acclaimed poet Peter Redgrove,and is one of the oldest poetry groups in the country. ltorganises regular readings and workshops by publishedpoets, and meets each month to read and critiquemembers'poems.FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY was rated the UK's No.I Arts University by the Sunday Times UniversityLeague Table in 2015 and 2016. The university's Schoolof Writing and Journalism is at the forefront of its field,delivering innovative courses in English, journalism, andcreative writing.\&j I {":: xHis Eclilfit,r-LoTTERYFUNDED ENGLANDFALMOUTHPOETRY GROUP FALMOUTFIUNIVERSITYSupported byTHE TANNER TRUSTAs well as the events listed in this programme, there will beseveral fringe events in the days leading up to the festival, includinga poetry slam, talks, readings, a symposium on poetry and illustrationat Falmouth University, and an exhibition of children's poetry atFalmouth Art Gallery. And the fabulous Poetry Postie will be makingher rounds on the streets of Falmouth on the morning ofSaturday l2 November. Check out our website for details.CORNWALLCONTEM PO RARY.WO RD PRESS.CO MFollow us on Twitter at @COCOPOFEST, and we're on Facebook too.

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