TWO poets with an interest in Medieval England will be joining forces to read their work at the Summer Poetry readings organised by the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere.
Irish Poet Bernard O'Donoghue will be joined by Matthew Francis for the latest in the regular fortnightly programme of readings at the Waterside Hotel tonight at 6.45pm.
Bernard O'Donoghue teaches Medieval English at Wadham College, Oxford.
Fab
er have just published his 'Selected Poems'. His other recent work includes a translation of 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' for the Penguin Classics series.
Matthew Francis is a a poet, novelist and Reader in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University whose latest collection is a sequence of poems celebrating Medieval traveller Sir John Mandeville, described as 'the greatest liar of all time'.
Literature officer Andrew Forster said: "This promises to be another fantastic evening. Matthew Francis presents us with a wildly imaginative world, while Bernard O'Donoghue is rooted in the rural Ireland of his memory, but they are both wonderful storytellers, and have a unique ability to find a poignant moments in the course of their narratives."
Bernard O'Donoghue won the Whitbread Prize for poetry and was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. He was born in Cullen, County Cork and later moved to Manchester and Oxford.
Much of his poetry deals with his memories of life in Ireland as well as the haunting sense that, as an Irishman living in England, he belongs to neither country.
The full article contains 251 words and appears in n/a newspaper.
