Celebrating National Poetry Day, the incomparable punk bard John Cooper Clarke will be live by satellite at the Exeter Picturehouse on Thursday 3 October at 6.15, for a screening of a new film about his life, Evidently... John Cooper Clarke.
In a one-off live broadcast from Newcastle’s Tyneside Cinema, the poet will answer questions in interview and present Evidently... John Cooper Clarke - Live!, a film about his life including contributions from Bill Bailey, Steve Coogan and the Arctic Monkeys.
The punk poet and Bard of Salford has been writing and performing his own...
Two of British poetry’s leading lights, together in Exeter, for one night only.
Sean O’Brien first six individual poetry collections all won awards, most recently the Drowned Book, which won both the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes. Sean’s work explores issues at the heart of contemporary Britain. His recent poem Oysterity , published on the eve of the Government’s last pre-budget statement, scrutinizes the topical themes of consumption and regret. The Guardian calls him ‘ a poet of unabashed political engagement, wit and humour’ . His Collected Poems was published in 2012.
Local company Chandni Chowk are giving the arts a boost this summer in their support of a new Anglo/Indian dance production show at Exeter Phoenix 15 August, 2013.
Antara combines the talents of international artist Ajeesh K Balakrishnan, fresh from the Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts in Bangalore, with Exeter-based dancer Kay Crook.
Antara is a truly inter-continental collaboration that interweaves dance and narrative poetry into a powerful love story.
Chandni Chowk, which specialises in textiles, hand-made in India and Bangladesh, are a Fairtrade company...
Exeter poet Richard Skinner will read his new Easter poem, "Utterly Staggering", on Thursday 28 March (Maundy Thursday) and Saturday 30 March (Holy Saturday) in St Stephen's Church, Exeter High Street at 12.00noon. The reading will last approximately 30 minutes, and there is free admission.
As a poet and performer Richard has published seven books, the most recent being Invocations. He also gives regular readings of his work, appearing at the Exeter Festival since 1989, and has twice been on tours sponsored by South West Arts.
Preventative medicine, cancer and body image are the issues which will be explored in a creatively focused event at the University of Exeter on 27th November. ‘Self Portrait without Breasts’ will look at how art can be used to help those who have undergone life-changing medical procedures, as well as discuss the use of language and image to represent people’s experience of surgery.
Visiting poet Clare Best has a family history of breast cancer; she nursed her mother through two radical mastectomies and in her late 40’s, the age at which her mother first had the...
Mark Grist Rogue Teacher In 2012, millions watched an ex-English teacher defeat a teenage grime artist in a rap battle. But it’s a lot more complicated than that. Mark Grist (Dead Poets) has been walking the fine line between stupidity and bravery. Mid-recession, he quit his teaching job to embark on a series of challenges, leading him to become ‘an internet sensation’ (Sun) and ‘unlikely heart-throb’ (Guardian). But when teachers expressed concern about having him in to meet the kids, Mark began to wonder if in all the excitement he’d left...
The archive of a West Country author, Ronald Duncan, who lived in north Devon all his writing life, has been acquired by the University of Exeter. Its arrival will be celebrated by a special display at Exeter library during this year’s Poetry festival on 5 October.
The collection is a record of the life of Ronald Duncan who came to Welcombe in the 1930s and lived and farmed breeding pigs and horses until his death in 1982. He was a wartime pacifist who travelled to visit Gandhi in India in 1937 aged only 22. While there he met the mystic Rabindranath Tagore. Duncan wrote...
