Jenni Fagan: Writing as a Way of Being

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When you think of Jenni Fagan, so much comes to mind: bestselling novelist, acclaimed poet, fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is also a survivor of the care system. Her unforgettable memoir Ootlin, which she launches with us here today, tells of the young person who – by age 16 – had more than 27 placements within ‘the system’. In this exclusive event, Fagan joins Caroline Sanderson to talk about how she “found her way to books and found in a world of words the only place I ever actually belonged”.

Categories: Biography/Memoir

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Poetry & Performance

Our line-up this year is a brilliant demonstration of everything exciting in UK poetry: diverse, eclectic in form and content, and ranging from ‘the best words, in the best order’ (to quote John Donne) to poems which demand to be spoken and lifted from the page completely…

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