Poets on the Underground - 40th Anniversary Celebration

Poets on the Underground - 40th Anniversary Celebration

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About the show

Join the founder of Poets on the Underground to celebrate 40 wonderful years of poetry to brighten your day; with three remarkable poets, some surprise guests, and musical interludes from the Apollo Quartet.


With Judith Chernaik (The Lyrics of Shelley; Schumann: The Faces and the Masks); Imtiaz Dharker (Tissue, Blessing and Purdar) George Szirtes (The Photographer at Sixteen).

Featuring

Imtiaz Dharker

Imtiaz Dharker describes herself as a 'Scottish Pakistani Muslim Calvinist' and, with a lifelong experience of cultural displacement, she investigates with warmth and candour what it means to belong.

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George Szirtes

A poet who was born in Budapest and spent his early childhood in Hungary before coming to the UK as a refugee. He won the 2001 New Statesman book of the year for 'An English Apocalypse'.

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