Jane Draycott - Pearl
This event on 6th May 2017 at 17:00 has past.
Contact: www.cheltenhampoetryfest.co.uk/festival-2017
Part of the same 14th-century manuscript as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, also written in its dialect, Pearl is an intricately wrought 1200-line elegiac poem in which a father grieves for his small daughter, dead before her second birthday. This wrenchingly beautiful vision of love and bereavement has been translated by acclaimed poet Jane Draycott, and, according to The Independent, “The glamour, even glitz, of its view of paradise across the river of death dazzles as never before in modern English”. David Morley described it as “marvellously modulated yet stirringly wild.” The event also includes a reading from Jane’s new collection The Occupant and a chance for questions.
Another unmissable event from the Cheltenham Poetry Festival 2017 (4-15 May)
Price: £7.00 / £5.00
Time: 5:00pm
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