Poetry 'Doubles' in York: Wednesday 25th October

Gillian Clarke and Imtiaz Dharker

Friargate Theatre, Lower Friargate, off Clifford Street, York
7.30pm
25 October 2006

Box office: 01904 613000
Admission £7.50, concessions £5.00
all major cards accepted

The publicity material for this event says:

Poetry Doubles is a series of readings featuring an established poet and his or her own choice of a second poet - an exciting, emerging talent - to present some of our most influential and our most promising new writers side by side.

The series, launched in May 2003 by Poet Laureate Andrew Motion with Colette Bryce, has since featured Douglas Dunn with Henry Shukman, Wendy Cope with Joanne Limburg, Fleur Adcock with Julian Stannard, Bernard O'Donoghue with Helen Farish, Anne Stevenson with Angela Leighton and Alice Oswald with Sean Borodale.

"I'm a strong supporter of the idea that writers who have been around for a long time and who are in a position to 'help' other writers, if that's the right word, should do so. The premise of Poetry Doubles is a very good one."
Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate