Holly Corfield Carr: Poet in Residence Reading

When : 2nd February 2017 - 12:00pm
Where : Dove Cottage
Price : Free

Part of: Discover Contemporary Poetry @ Dove Cottage

Venue: Dove Cottage Tea Rooms

In 2015 Tony Harrison, Winner of the David Cohen Prize for Literature, nominated the Wordsworth Trust to receive the Clarissa Luard Award. This award, funded by Arts Council England, is given annually to a writer under the age of 35 or an organisation that supports young writers. The Wordsworth Trust has chosen to use the Award to fund a series of month-long residencies between November 2016 and March 2017. The second poet is Holly Corfield Carr

Dove Cottage Poets are delighted to be hosting a special poetry reading and lunch with Holly on Thursday 2 February at Dove Cottage Tea Rooms. Holly and some of the Dove Cottage Poets will read their own work for an hour and then enjoy an informal lunch together with their audience. All are welcome to join them.

Holly is based in Bristol and Cambridge, where she is completing a PhD in site-specific poetry. Her poems are often physically connected to particular places and recent commissions include poems for passenger ferries, public toilets and car parks as well as galleries, museums and broadcast for BBC Radios 3 and 4. Her pamphlet Mine documents her performances in an eighteenth-century crystal grotto. She has previously worked as writer-in-residence at Spike Island, the Curfew Tower, the Bristol Poetry Institute and the British Ceramics Biennial. Holly received an Eric Gregory Award in 2012 and the Frieze Writer’s Prize in 2015. You can find out more at hollycorfieldcarr.co.uk

Cost: free (lunch not included)

Please contact us if you plan to attend so that we can ensure you will have a seat. Refreshments are to be ordered individually at the counter.

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