CORNWALL: St Ives Literature Festival: Fal Poets

Wednesday 14th May 2008
8pm, St Ives Arts Club,
Westcott's quay,
St.Ives Cornwall TR26 2DY

St Ives Literature Festival - A Pride of Publishers

DM Thomas, Victoria Field and Jane Tozer

Three of the fal poets will be reading from their various collections. DM Thomas' Dear Shadows celebrates a lost era of village life in Cornwall and won the Holyer an Gof Award for outstanding literary merit. His revised, The Devil and the Floral Dance, set at the Helston Flora combines poetry and prose. Victoria Field's first collection Olga's Dreams received warm reviews ('delicious' Poetry London) and her second Many Waters is based on a writing residency at Truro Cathedral. Jane Tozer's Knights of Love is a new translation of the 'lais' of Marie de France, the earliest named woman poet in the French language. Her lais are rollicking song stories in the tradition of the Canterbury Tales. The Times described them as 'faithful to the world of Marie, representing her tone of wistful admiration and earthy humour... intense, obsessive, sad, fey and movingly sexy.'.

For more information and booking, telephone Bob Devereux on 01736 795003

Port Eliot Lit Fest, Cornwall: 20th - 22nd July

Lit Fest in Cornwall

Next weekend

The fifth Port Eliot Lit Fest, at Port Eliot, Saltash, Cornwall, takes place next week from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd July.

The organisers have discovered ‘a host of eclectic, fresh, exciting new poets who are completely turning the art on its head’, and amongst others, you can now see the likes of Matt Harvey, Murray Lachlan Young and Aisle 16 on stage with self-styled Poet Laureate Luke Wright down there in sunny Saltash. There will also be a live 'seance' with spiritualist Margo Forbes. What more could you ask?

Find out more at http://www.porteliotlitfest.com