Plans for this are well underway – so, watch this space! In the meantime, put the dates in your diary.
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Saturday 8 December 2 – 5pm in Folkstone
Jess Potter and Copy Press invite you to an afternoon of readings born from encounters between writing and the poetry of John Clare. At Strange Cargo, The Factory, Folkstone. For further detail, go to https://gallery.mailchimp.com/7e59bdcb2ef74b2d29cfb65dc/files/28bf8d1f-5c29-467f-86a2-c00ec2e22c06/R_R_FINAL_INVITE.pdf
Carry Akroyd – 2019 calendar and Tweet of the Day
If you go to Carry’s website (https://www.carryakroyd.co.uk), you find details of her Bird of the Month Calendar for 2019 – and if you go to the BBC website and type in Tweet of the Day, you’ll find a series of short radio 4 episodes by Carry.
Talk by Simon Kovesi June 2019
The Byron Society is holding a lecture at the Art Workers Guild, London, from 6.30 to 8pm, 27 June 2019. £7 for non-members. Professor Simon Kovesi on ‘Lord Byron, poh! the man wot writes the werses?: John Clare’s flights of fame with Byron’. All welcome. For more detail, visit http://www.thebyronsociety.com/lord-byron-poh-the-man-wot-writes-the-werses-john-clares-flights-of-fame-with-byron
National Poetry Day 4 October 2018
Bring your John Clare Poem. A reading of John Clare’s poetry. Guest speakers. On Thursday 4 October at 7 pm in the Guildhall Courtyard by the John Clare statue in Northampton.
Walk with John Clare 21 October 2018
An autumn walk with John Clare, on Sunday 21 October. A 5 mile circular walk around Swaddywell Pit Nature Reserve and into Castor Hanglands, led by Carry Akroyd (John Clare Society President) and David Cowcill (Langdyke Trust). Starts at Swaddywell Pit carpark and finishes at Willowbrook Farm at around 3pm
Programme includes a snapshot of John Clare’s life and works, with readings appropriate to the places visited and to the countryside he knew and loved, as well as a cream tea at the Willowbrook Farm. £6 per person, payable on the day. Places limited so booking will first come first served. Contact Simon at sby121@btinternet.com or 01733 253164.
Tennyson/Clare talk on 20 October
The Lincolnshire Landscape through the Eyes of Alfred Lord Tennyson and John Clare, a talk by Mark Seaward, at 2.30pm at Franklin Hall, Spilsby, Lincs. Tickets at the door – £5 including refreshments.
As part of the Wolds Words Festival, Professor Mark Seaward is giving a talk examining the connection between poet and landscape. Works by both Tennyson and Clare make extensive use of their knowledge and understanding of the natural world. This is a chance to gain an insight and understanding of the landscape in which both poets lived, wrote and worked.
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