Monday 1st August - Saturday 7th August 2009
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Poetry Evening with
Esther Morgan | Kevin Crossley-Holland | Matthew Hollis
Tuesday 4th August 2009
An evening of poetry with three poets that included readings and a discussion chaired by John Smart.
Kevin Crossley-Holland is an acclaimed poet. His published collections include 'Selected Poems' and 'Moored Man: Poems of North Norfolk' (with engravings and watercolours by Norman Ackroyd). 'The Mountains of Norfolk: New and Selected Poems' will be published next year. Highly-acclaimed for his children's, books Kevin Crossley-Holland also published his memoir of childhood, 'The Hidden Roads', earlier this year.
Esther Morgan is a writer, editor and creative writing teacher. Her first collection, 'Beyond Calling Distance', won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize in 2001 and her second, 'The Silence Living in Houses', appeared from the same publisher in 2005. She is currently working on a third collection.
Matthew Hollis was born in Norwich in 1971. 'Ground Water' (Bloodaxe, 2004) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He is co-editor of '101 Poems Against War' (Faber, 2003) and 'Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry' (Bloodaxe, 2000), and is currently preparing a biography of Edward Thomas for publication in 2010.
Literary Lunch with Diana Athill OBE
Hosted by Michael Brunson OBE
Friday 7th August 2009
Presented by The Holt Bookshop >
Diana Athill will be 91 in December 2009. Her latest book, 'Somewhere Towards the End', which won the 2008 Costa Biography Award, is a truly sparkling treasure full of candid wisdom and uninhibited truth. In it she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. Written with the sharp wit and intelligence that has permeated all of Athill's writing, this is her sixth memoir.
Michael Brunson was born in 1940 in Norwich. He was educated at Bedford School and read Theology at Queen's College, Oxford. He began his broadcasting career at the BBC and later served as the Washington Correspondent and Diplomatic Editor of ITN. He is best known for serving as the Political Editor of ITN between 1986 and 2000 and as an occasional ITN newscaster. Since his retirement after 32 years at ITN in March 2000, he has regularly appeared as a political commentator on Sky News, GMTV and elsewhere.