Carol Ann Duffy, Imtiaz Dharker
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“If there were to be a World Laureate, then for me the role could only be filled by Imtiaz Dharker.” – Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy is one of Britain’s best known and most admired poets, her poems are “… at once accessible and brilliantly idiosyncratic and subtle”. (The Observer) The current Poet Laureate, she has won the Forward, Whitbread and T.S. Eliot prizes.Imtiaz Dharker is ILF Poet in Residence. Brought up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, her themes are rooted in a life of transitions. An acclaimed poet, artist and documentary filmmarker she holds the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
The evening begins with a short reading by Lizzi Hawkins, former member of Ilkley Young Writers, winner of The Ted Hughes Young Poets Award and the Poetry Business New Poets Prize.
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Ilkley Literature Festival is the north's oldest and best literature festival! 17 days of events with headline names including Alan Bennett, Nadiya Hussain, Dan Snow, Susan Calman, Jacqueline Wilson, Moeen Ali, Carol Ann Duffy, Kate Mosse, Terry Deary, John Simpson and many more.
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Carol Ann Duffy
Appointed Britain's Poet Laureate in May 2009, Carol has also won many awards including the Forward Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award and the TS Eliot…
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Imtiaz Dharker
Imtiaz Dharker describes herself as a 'Scottish Pakistani Muslim Calvinist' and, with a lifelong experience of cultural displacement, she investigates…
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Carol Ann Duffy, Imtiaz Dharker image © Carol Ann Duffy
King's Hall And Winter Garden
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