Salena Godden & Hannah Lavery: Poetry for the Future

  • Sun 11 Aug 17:00 - 18:00
  • EFI Spiegeltent
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Salena Godden & Hannah Lavery: Poetry for the Future

Edinburgh Makar Hannah Lavery opened our 2022 Festival with the poem ‘Edinburgh is a Story’. It features in Lavery’s new collection, Unwritten Women, alongside other poems inspired by the city. Beloved author Salena Godden also returns with a new collection of powerful poetry, With Love, Grief and Fury. Join the poets in conversation with Chitra Ramaswamy as they discuss looking to the past to imagine better futures.

Categories: Future Focus, Poetry

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Poetry & Performance
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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