Jenni Fagan & Iona Lee: Calling to Mind

  • Sat 17 Aug 16:00 - 17:00
  • EFI Courtyard Theatre
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Jenni Fagan & Iona Lee: Calling to Mind

Anamnesis is Greek for ‘recollection of the past’. It’s also the title of Iona Lee’s latest poetry collection which prompted Darren McGarvey to write, ‘Lee performs open-heart surgery on the English language’. Similar could be said for Jenni Fagan’s A Swan’s Neck on a Butcher Block – poems of startling honesty that return to and reimagine night-time to magical effect. The poets discuss dipping into the realm of memory with Samuel Tongue.

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Jenni Fagan

An award-winning Scottish poet and critically acclaimed novelist who also turns her talents to photography and screenplays…