A event on Saturday 2nd April. The event starts at 15:30.
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15:30 - 17:00pm. £5.
The sonnet is one of the most famous and beloved forms of poetry worldwide, and continues to find new ways to adapt and respond to modern day themes and issues. This event will bring together three poets and sonnet collections; Terrance Hayes (American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin), Luke Kennard (Notes on the Sonnets) and Jacqueline Saphra (One Hundred Lockdown Sonnets).
Each poet will read from their work, followed by a discussion and Q&A exploring their relationship to the sonnet form as a tool for 21st century poetic expression.
Terrance Hayes is the author of six poetry collections: American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin, a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and TS Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series, and Wind in a Box. His prose collection, To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Hayes has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Whiting Foundation, and is a professor of English at New York University.
Jacqueline Saphra’s All My Mad Mothers was shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot prize and was followed by Dad, Remember You are Dead in 2019, both from Nine Arches Press. A Bargain with the Light: Poems after Lee Miller (2017) and Veritas: Poems after Artemisia (2020) are both published by Hercules Editions. Her most recent collection is One Hundred Lockdown sonnets (Nine Arches Press 2021). She teaches for The Poetry School.
Luke Kennard is a poet and novelist who teaches at the University of Birmingham. His 6th collection of poetry, Notes on the Sonnets won the Forward Prize in 2021 and his 2nd novel The Answer to Everything has just been released in paperback by 4th Estate.
Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2022.
Entry requirements:
15:30 - 17:00pm. £5.
The sonnet is one of the most famous and beloved forms of poetry worldwide, and continues to find new ways to adapt and respond to modern day themes and issues. This event will bring together three poets and sonnet collections; Terrance Hayes (American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin), Luke Kennard (Notes on the Sonnets) and Jacqueline Saphra (One Hundred Lockdown Sonnets).
Each poet will read from their work, followed by a discussion and Q&A exploring their relationship to the sonnet form as a tool for 21st century poetic expression.
Terrance Hayes is the author of six poetry collections: American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin, a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and TS Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series, and Wind in a Box. His prose collection, To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Hayes has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Whiting Foundation, and is a professor of English at New York University.
Jacqueline Saphra’s All My Mad Mothers was shortlisted for the 2017 T.S. Eliot prize and was followed by Dad, Remember You are Dead in 2019, both from Nine Arches Press. A Bargain with the Light: Poems after Lee Miller (2017) and Veritas: Poems after Artemisia (2020) are both published by Hercules Editions. Her most recent collection is One Hundred Lockdown sonnets (Nine Arches Press 2021). She teaches for The Poetry School.
Luke Kennard is a poet and novelist who teaches at the University of Birmingham. His 6th collection of poetry, Notes on the Sonnets won the Forward Prize in 2021 and his 2nd novel The Answer to Everything has just been released in paperback by 4th Estate.
Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2022.
Entry requirements:
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