UNSPEAKABLE
Written, spoken and newly made words at Wainsgate
SUNDAY OCTOBER 11TH 11AM-10PM
A whole day of words for everyone aged 6-106
World-class poets • Family events • Workshops • Bold New Voices Performances • Café
Bar, Hot food at lunchtime, Cocktails and Canapes from 5pm.
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11 – 12.30pm: Creative Writing with KIM MOORE workshop 16+
2.30pm – 4.15pm: JOHN HEGLEY: BISCUIT OF DESTINY.
Poems, songs, drawings, projection, a cardboard camel and an interval. For adults and families.
11 – 12noon: Word Explorers with Winston Plowes
share your favourite word and hunt for new ones to make your individual wheel of words. Family workshop 6+
5.30pm – 7pm: BOLD NEW VOICES.
Pop-up performances from some of the country’s most exciting next-generation poets, with The Writing Squad, surprise guests and music.
12.15 – 1.15pm: I Am a Poetato Print with Amanda Allan
inspired by John Hegley, words meet print (and potatoes). Family workshop 6+
Cocktails, canapés and tunes in the chapel from 5pm
AN EVENING WITH CAROLYN FORCHÉ & KWAME DAWES
Including Raffle Prize Draw -‘Laureate to Laureate’ .
Kwame Dawes will pick the winning tickets for a highly prized bottle of Simon Armitage’s Laureate’s Sherry, and an exciting book bundle from publishers Bloodaxe and Peepal Tree Press.
An unmissable chance to experience two of the world’s most illuminating poets on a rare visit from the US. Interval , raffle prize drawand book signing.