Fierce Light - Event

A World Premiere event and major national co-commission from 14-18 NOW, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Writers’ Centre Norwich opens the 2016 City of Literature programme.

As we approach 100 years since the Battle of the Somme, Fierce Light brings together outstanding international poets with filmmakers and visual artists to explore the war and its legacy in the 21st century. Simon Armitage, Paul Muldoon and Daljit Nagra will give live readings of their poems alongside work by Yrsa Daley-Ward, Jackie Kay and Bill Manhire and excerpts from a series of specially commissioned short films.