Roger McGough + Edson Burton at ONLINE - YouTube
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A event on Thursday 30th June. The event starts at 21:00.


Available to watch on-demand until June 30th. £5.

An excerpt from President of the Poetry Society, Roger McGough, reading live at St. George's Bristol as part of Lyra Festival 2022. Plus footage from support act Edson Burton, Lyra's 2022 Festival Poet.

Safety in Numbers is a new collection from the nation’s favourite poet. What will we have learned from stillness and silence? From sharing, not taking? Waiting, not pushing? Whispering, not shouting? Dawdling, not rushing? Traversing rocky terrain with the assurance of a poetry Rover on Mars, McGough brings down to earth the strangeness of a time on hold. Staycations, adultery in lockdown, ghosts and gamblers, as well as playful advice to up and coming poets. (Don’t do it!)

Filmed at Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2022, by Bath Spa University's Iris TV crew.

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