The start of a 10-year adventure.
This is an online event hosted on the British Library platform. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access .
“I want to celebrate the physical space of libraries and take my work back into places that have given me so much.”
Each spring for the next decade, Simon Armitage will give readings across the UK, from the flagship libraries of the big cities to smaller libraries serving rural and remote communities. Using the alphabet as a compass, his journey will celebrate the library as one of the great and necessary institutions. Join us online in the first week of his 10-year adventure for this headline event live-streamed from the grand British Library Entrance Hall.
Faber & Faber: Stephen Page Names Mary Cannam to Managing Director
The promotion of Mary Cannam to the operational leadership of Faber sees Stephen Page continuing to work with her, now as executive chair.
Mary Cannam. Image: Faber
Mary Cannam: ‘Creative and Committed People’
Today (March 31), we’ve seen another move in women’s leadership of a pivotal publishing house in the United Kingdom.
The 92-year-old Faber & Faber, one of the most honored of the UK market’s independents, has announced that Mary Cannam will become managing director of the company on Thursday (April 1) as longtime CEO and chair Stephen Page moves into the role of executive chair.
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Andrew McMillan, said, “Our shortlist celebrated the ways in which poetry is responding to profound change, and the stylistic freedom that today’s poets have claimed. From this impressive field, we unanimously chose Bhanu Kapil’s How to Wash a Heart as our winner. It is a radical and arresting collection that recalibrates what it’s possible for poetry to achieve.”
Bhanu Kapil was born in England to Indian parents, and she grew up in a South Asian, working-class community in London. She lives between the UK and the US, where she spent 21 years at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She is the author of six books of poetry/prose:
With extensive coronavirus mitigation measures in place in London, the TS Eliot Prize’s events set for Royal Festival Hall now will be streamed.
Shortlisted poets in the 2020 TS Eliot Prize program are, top row from left, Natalie Diaz, Sasha Dugdale, Ella Frears, Will Harris, and Wayne Holloway-Smith. On the second row from left, Bhanu Kapil, Daisy Lafarge, Glyn Maxwell, Shane McCrae, and J O Morgan
Greenlaw: ‘Resilient, Potent, Capricious, Universal’
Organizers of the United Kingdom’s TS Eliot Prize had planned to hold its shortlisted poets’ readings at London’s Royal Festival Hall on January 10 and an awards ceremony on the 11th.