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Aberystwyth Arts Centre presents a special evening with the UK’s leading poets |
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarkeat Aberystwyth Arts Centre Thursday 18 April, 2013. Carol Ann Duffy was appointed Britain’s poet laureate in May 2009. Her award winning work addresses issues such as oppression, gender, and violence, in an accessible language. She has received many awards including the Somerset Maugham Award; the Whitbread Poetry Award; the Dylan Thomas Award from the Poetry Society and in 2012 the PEN/Pinter Prize. Her most recent book of poetry is The Bees (2011), winner of the 2011 Costa Poetry Award and the 2011 T.S. Eliot Prize. National Poet of Wales since 2008, Gillian Clarke was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2010, and the Wilfred Owen Award 2012. Early booking is strongly recommended. This event forms part of the first Architecture Festival & the Arts Centre’s 40th Anniversary. To book please contact Aberystwyth Arts Centre on 01970 62 32 32 or go online www.aber.ac.uk/artscentre Gillian Clarke will also be part of the judging panel for the first Aberystwyth Arts Centre prize for poetry writing. POETRY WRITING COMPETITION The competition is open to all pupils aged between 15 and 18 years who are pupils at Ysgolion Uwchradd Penglais, Penweddig and Tregaron. The competition is on the theme of ‘Architecture’ - the poem could be about a favourite building or room, visions of designs of the future, the importance of shelter to people through the ages and across the world, the materials people build their homes with – the possibilities are endless. Poems can be of any length and in English or Welsh. The poems will be judged by National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, Richard Marggraf Turley and Damian Walford Davies of the School of English and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University. Poems should be submitted in advance to Gill Ogden at Aberystwyth Arts Centre by e-mail (ggo@aber.ac.uk/artscentre) or by post. The closing date for entries is Thursday 25th April. The competition is a joint initiative of Aberystwyth Arts Centre, The School of English and Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University, and the Wales Festival of Architecture. Prizes donated by Aberystwyth Arts Centre Bookshop. |
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