Arts Q&A: Colin Hassard on Sylvia Plath, singing the national anthem and making Tim Wheeler nervous
Jenny Lee puts performers and artists on the spot about what really matters to them. This week, poet and spoken word artist Colin Hassard? Colin Hassard is the current writer in residence at north Belfast s Duncairn Arts Centre 23 December, 2020 01:00
Poet Colin Hassard – the secret s out
1. When did you think about a career as a poet and spoken word artist and what were your first steps into it?
I’ve been writing poems since I was a teenager, albeit secretly, and I didn’t take it seriously until I was around 26 or 27. When I first moved from Banbridge to Belfast, I lived around the corner from Bookfinders Café on University Road. In early 2008 I attended one of Bookfinders’ open mic poetry nights and was enthralled by the poets and by the excitement and romance of it all. I was also delighted to find that there were other people like
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