4.15pm – 5.15pm, 10 July. Burgage Hall. £8

“Alan Halsey will talk about his latest work, the Lives of the Poets, which he has been working on for the past eight years. As the typical literary biography gets heavier and denser, Halsey’s 191 lives take the opposite approach: each Life is a poem distilled in a few highly-concentrated lines. The famous (Chaucer, Wyatt, Milton, Pope) appear alongside the lesser known and many forgotten poets, including a large number of women, are saluted. Geraldine Monk is an electrifying performer of her poetry, which has appeared in many anthologies and maps the places she has lived with a visceral intensity, as if places possess her. This will be an event full of discoveries and contrasts.”

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