Northern Voices Annual Poetry Party & Awards
Bridge Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne
Thursday 25th January 2007
Burns Night special in association with Tyneside Irish Cultural Society,
featuring the launch of Northern Voices publication The Hive of Liberty,
on Newcastle radical Thomas Spence (1750-1814), with guest speakers and
readings. Plus the Newcastle launch of the new anthology from Selkirk
Lapwing Press, Both Sides of Hadrian's Wall, with poets from North East
England & Scotland and Ann Sessoms & Paul Knox on Northumbrian pipes.
Plus special guests from Galway: performance poet Trish Casey and
novelist and short story writer and raconteur Ré Ó Laighléis, and from
Teesside, Smokestack poet Gordon Hodgeon with performance poet Trev
Teasdel and top lady vocalist Izzy Isgate. Plus the presentation of
Northern Voices Poetry Awards.
Poets Liz Lochhead and Cynthia Fuller
Alington House, Durham
Friday 26 January 2007
Scottish poet and playwright Liz Lochhead's first collection of poems,
Memo for Spring, was published in 1972 and won a Scottish Arts Council
Book Award. Her poetry has been published in a number of collections
including Penguin Modern Poets 4 (1995). She translated and adapted
Molière's Tartuffe (1985) into Scots, premiered at the Edinburgh Royal
Lyceum in 1987, and the script of her adaptation of Euripides' Medea
(2000) for Theatre Babel in 2000 won the Saltire Society Scottish Book
of the Year Award. Her latest work is a new collection of poetry, The
Colour of Black and White: Poems 1984-2003 (2003). Cynthia Fuller was
born in Kent in 1948, but has lived in the North East since the 1970s,
working as a teacher of literature and creative writing in adult and
higher education. A co-editor of the magazine Writing Women, her
collections Moving Towards Light (1992), Instructions for the Desert
(1996) and Only a Small Boat (2001) were published by Flambard, and her
poetry has appeared in such anthologies as the Bloodaxe New Women Poets.
For more details of venue and time on both these events, please visit
http://www.literaturenortheast.co.uk/events.
