Jackie Kay
On Tuesday October 7th, in the evening, we shall be at the Wordsworth Trust with Jackie Kay who will be giving a reading and we shall show a film from the In Person 30 Poets DVD book. It is a 45 min film with 20 of the poets edited together in a narrative "driven" by the work and the poets themselves.
I am really looking forward to it very much. Dove Cottage has one of the best poetry reading series in the country and I have enjoyed many of them over the years. We are almost neighbours living in Northumberland as we do and the drive to the lake district in Cumbria only takes a few hours.
Jackie is formidable and fabulous. She is a writer with a rainbow breadth; poetry, plays, novels, short stories, children's books and she is also a wonderful human being. I love her!
If you are anywhere near do not hesitate to come I think the evening starts at 6.45pm and takes place in the Waterside Hotel, or so I believe it is called. Afterwards there is a dinner in the nearby restaurant and we all go "Dutch".
Hope to see you there!
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