Mar
20
3:30pm
Poetry Day Double Bill 2: Paul Farley & Colette Bryce
By Lancaster Litfest
Our second double bill of the afternoon brings together two poets who grew up in one distinctive place and have settled in another: poet and broadcaster, Paul Farley, moving from Knowsley to Lancaster, while Northern Irish poet Colette Bryce, born ‘between the Creggan and the Bogside/to the sounds of crowds and smashing glass’, now lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. Each has long since discovered and explored the wider world beyond that early place.
Paul Farley has published five collections of poetry, including The Boy from the Chemist Is Here to See You (1998), Tramp in Flames (2006) and Selected Poems (2009). His latest collection is the acclaimed The Mizzy (2020). A frequent presenter on BBC Radio 4’s The Echo Chamber, he has received numerous awards including Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, the Whitbread Poetry Prize and the E.M. Forster Award. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Lancaster University.
Colette Bryce moved to England in 1988 and lived in London for some years. She received the Eric Gregory Award for emerging poets in 1995, and took up a fellowship at Dundee University (2002–5). She was subsequently appointed North East Literary Fellow at the universities of Newcastle and Durham. She works as a freelance writer and editor, her books include The Whole & Rain-Domed Universe (2014) and The ‘M’ Pages (2020), ‘A brilliant, moving book’ Irish Times.
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