Ovid's Heroines with Clare Pollard
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Ovid’s Heroides, written in Rome some time around 20BC, is a series of letter poems in the voices of women from Greek and Roman myth. Women – including Medea, Penelope and Ariadne – address the men they love. Poet Clare Pollard’s new free verse translation (just published by Bloodaxe Books) rediscovers Ovid’s Heroines for the 21st Century, bringing to life a cast of women who are brave, bitchy, sexy, horrifying, heartbreaking and surprisingly modern.
Now Jaybird Live Literature brings the Heroines to the stage in a new live literature production. Clare reads, recites and performs her astonishing poems and love letters fly back and forth between the ancient world and modern Britain. The messages of longing, suffering and beauty they bear are universal and timeless.
Part of the Nottingham Festival of Literature
Entry: £8.95 - £10.95
Time: 6:30pm
The Old Chemistry Theatre
Nottingham Conference Centre Burton Street Nottingham, NG1 4BU, Nottingham, NG1 4BU, GB
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