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Latest news from east sussex county council, e is for eastbourne – laureate’s library tour 2023.

The E to G Libraries Tour, which runs from March 17 to March 23, is the latest leg of Simon’s ten-year adventure celebrating UK libraries.

Using the alphabet as a compass, his journey celebrates the library as one of the great and necessary institutions.

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage said: “I want to celebrate the physical space of libraries and take my work back into places that have given me so much.”

At the event in Eastbourne on Tuesday, March 21, Simon will read solo from a range of his work and answer questions from the audience.

Cllr Claire Dowling, lead member at East Sussex County Council, said: “I am delighted we are able to welcome Simon to Eastbourne library as part of his decade long celebration of libraries.

“East Sussex libraries offer our communities so much, from providing books to borrow and computers to use, to being places to study, talk and be creative.

“I encourage all our residents to visit their local library and enjoy everything libraries have to offer.”

The Eastbourne leg of the E to G Libraries Tour 2023 is fully booked. People are advised to check online for the latest information on availability – https://eastsussex.gov.uk/SimonArmitage

Details of Simon Armitage’s Laureate’s Library Tour is available at https://www.simonarmitage.com/how-to-book-e-to-g-libraries-tour-2023/

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Simon Armitage continues his ten-year alphabetical tour of the nation’s libraries with the E - G stage in March

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National Poet Laureate comes to Ellesmere Port Library

Simon Armitage. Credit Peter James Milson.

National Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has made Ellesmere Port Library the final stop on his 2023 leg of his ten-year Laureate's Library Tour.

He will be appearing at the free live poetry event on Thursday 23 March, from 7pm to 8pm along with national Canal Laureate Roy McFarlane and two young poets from the town's Boaty Theatre Company and newly refurbished Theatre Porto.

Cheshire West and Chester Council Leader and Cabinet Member for Wellbeing, Councillor Louise Gittins, said:

Every spring during this decade, Simon Armitage gives 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 celebrates the library as one of the great and necessary institutions. Ellesmere Port is part of this year's 'E to G Libraries'. We're honoured he is coming to Ellesmere Port as part of this year's tour.

The event is free but booking as early as possible is advised. Please book online:

Poetry can contain strong language so this event is advised as most suitable for those 11+.

Two local poets, Patrick Gambles ( Theatre Porto ) and Mia Kellett ( The Boaty Theatre Company ), have been selected to read one of their poems each for the event.

The E to G Libraries Tour is supported by the T. S. Eliot Foundation and Mark Pigott KBE. It is also supported by Simon's long-time publishers Faber & Faber.

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Poet Laureate Simon Armitage is to embark on the next leg of his 10-year tour of UK libraries. 

Each spring this decade, Armitage will give readings across the UK, from the flagship libraries of the big cities to smaller libraries serving rural and remote communities. His first tour last year took in libraries in towns whose names started with the letters ’A’ and ’B’ 

This spring’s ’C’ to ’D’ Libraries Tour, which will run from 24th March to 1st April, launches in Chadderton Library, Oldham, one of the UK’s first Libraries of Sanctuary, and will be followed by visits to Caerfyrddin (Carmarthen), Clevedon, Colyton, Chatham and Clydebank. The week includes a reading celebrating Cambridge University Library’s poetry archive featuring its former poet-in-residence Imtiaz Dharker.

Part of the tour will travel along the route of the mobile library through Càirinis (Carinish) in the Western Isles. The finale, with Hebridean writer and poet Kevin MacNeil, will be co-hosted by Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre in North Uist. The centre houses a visual arts reference library. 

Other guest poets during the week include the National Poet for Wales, Ifor ap Glyn, Scottish Makar Kathleen Jamie, spoken word artists Patience Agbabi, Keisha Thompson and Tawona Sitholé, eco-poet Elizabeth Jane Burnett and four-times Foyle Young Poet winner Phoebe Stuckes.   

"My experience of reading and writing began in the village library where I grew up, then in the nearby town library, then in libraries at various places of study and teaching," Armitage said. "For many people they are an invaluable aspect of everyday life, giving access not just to books but to services, learning, conversation and creative thinking. I want to pay my respects to these unique institutions. By planning readings up to a decade in advance I’m being optimistic about the future of our libraries, and challenging those authorities who would consider closing them down.

"It would have been easy to stream these events from my office or garden shed but at a time when libraries are under threat and have been out of bounds during lockdown, reading from inside their physical structures feels like an act of solidarity–with books, with poetry, and with communities."

Armitage will continue to use the alphabet as the framework for the tour. "The alphabet is the DNA of language and gives us the basic building blocks of all literature," he said. "It’s also the system by which many elements of our lives are organised and ordered, not least books on shelves. During the decade-long tour, I also want to find a way of including alphabet letters from other languages spoken in these islands such as Welsh, Urdu or Chinese, and to involve communities where English might not be the first language."

Armitage is also professor of poetry at the University of Leeds and his collections include S eeing Stars, The Unaccompanied, Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic, Magnetic Field and his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , all published by Faber.

His programme for the laureateship includes the establishment of a National Poetry Centre and the launch of The Laurel Prize, an annual prize for environmentally themed poetry.

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Simon Armitage announces H-K Libraries Tour

By Faber Editor, 18 January 2024

Each spring this decade, Simon Armitage will give readings in libraries across the UK, from the flagship libraries of big cities to the smaller ones that serve 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 Simon on the next leg of his ten-year adventure, from 5–12 March 2024, for a series of free live poetry readings in libraries, with different special guests in each location.

‘I want to celebrate the physical space of libraries and take my work back into places that have given me so much.’

The H to K Libraries Tour launches in Harlesden Library, Brent, and will visit a variety of libraries during the week, calling on the reading group in HMP East Sutton Park Library in Kent, then stopping in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, The Hive in Worcester (renowned as Europe’s first fully integrated public and university library), Kirkcudbright in rural Dumfries & Galloway and Haltwhistle, Northumberland.

The launch at Harlesden Library showcases Somali folklore and history through poetry and dance. Simon Armitage is joined by Asha Lul Mohamud Yusuf and her translator, the poet Clare Pollard, for their bilingual reading from  The Sea-Migrations: Tahriib  (Bloodaxe/Poetry Translation Centre), named Poetry Book of the Year by the Sunday Times in 2018.

The week includes a performance with BAFTA and Grierson-nominated Welsh poet, novelist and playwright Owen Sheers and one of the Representing Wales poets, Bethany Handley, at Haverfordwest’s The Riverside Library. The evening will open the new exhibition that celebrates the life and work of Dylan Thomas, with a particular focus on his poetry and iconic play for voices,  Under Milk Wood . The exhibition is hosted by Pembrokeshire Library Service in association with the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Other guests reading with Simon along the way include Worcestershire’s current Young Poet Laureate Amelie Simon and Lydia McMillan, one of Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makars.

The tour’s finale on 12 March at Haltwhistle Library is a joint celebration of Northumberland Libraries’ centenary and the tenth anniversary of Northumberland National Park as an International Dark Skies Park. This performance features award-winning poet Katrina Porteous who writes from a deep commitment to place and community, often using Northumbrian speech, and Dr Sheree Mack, the first writer-in-residence at Northumberland National Park.

For further information on the Laureate’s Library Tour and how to book, visit www.simonarmitage.com . The events are free of charge but booking is essential.

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Laureate’s Library Tour 2023 comes to Eastbourne on Tuesday

THE POET Laureate, Simon Armitage, will be visiting Eastbourne library later this month as part of his decade long tour of UK libraries.

The E to G Libraries Tour, which runs from March 17 to March 23, is the latest leg of Simon’s ten-year adventure celebrating UK libraries.

Using the alphabet as a compass, his journey celebrates the library as one of the great and necessary institutions.

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage said: “I want to celebrate the physical space of libraries and take my work back into places that have given me so much.”

At the event in Eastbourne on Tuesday, March 21, Simon will read solo from a range of his work and answer questions from the audience.

Cllr Claire Dowling, lead member at East Sussex County Council, said: “I am delighted we are able to welcome Simon to Eastbourne library as part of his decade long celebration of libraries.

“East Sussex libraries offer our communities so much, from providing books to borrow and computers to use, to being places to study, talk and be creative.

“I encourage all our residents to visit their local library and enjoy everything libraries have to offer.”

The Eastbourne leg of the E to G Libraries Tour 2023 is fully booked. People are advised to check online for the latest information on availability –  https://eastsussex.gov.uk/SimonArmitage

Details of Simon Armitage’s Laureate’s Library Tour is available at  https://www.simonarmitage.com/how-to-book-e-to-g-libraries-tour-2023/

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There has been very high demand for these tickets. Please email [email protected]  to be placed on the cancellation list. You might also want to check Simon's other Library Tour dates - including a stop at Ellesmere Port Library - as tickets may still be available for these.  Click here for more info .  Poetry and Place with Simon Armitage and Hanan Issa Thursday 23rd March 2pm-3pm We are very pleased to welcome  Simon   Robert Armitage,  playwright, novelist and British Poet Laureate, and Hanan Issa , National Poet of Wales, to Gladstone's Library.  The two poets will deliver an hour-long reading themed around poetry and place  at Gladstone’s Library on Thursday 23rd March from 2pm to 3pm. Tickets are free (but for processing purposes have to be set to one penny as a token payment). As a charity, we reply on public support so we hope that those who book will consider donating to support our work with readers and writers. The suggested donation is £10 per person, which would help us to maintain our Grade 1 listed building and keep our collections accessible to all. This event is part of Simon's library ongoing library tour, which sees the Poet Laureate appear at libraries across the UK in alphabetical order.  Gladstone’s Library has been selected as one of his stops during 2023, when he is exploring libraries whose names or locations begin with the letters E, F or G.  Simon Armitage has published more than 30 books of poetry, novels, non-fiction works and drama over a career that has so far spanned four decades. One of his most recent works was   Tribute , a trio of commemorative poems published following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Hanan Issa is a Welsh-Iraqi poet and writer based in Cardiff.   Her publications include her poetry collection  My Body Can House Two Hearts  and  Welsh Plural: Essays on the Future of Wales . She was the recipient of the 2020 Ffilm Cymru/ BBC Wales commission for her short film  The Golden Apple . She is also the Hay International Fellow. 

This event takes place at 2pm to 3pm in the Gladstone’s Library Reading Rooms Booking is essential. The advisory age is 15+ as there may be strong language. Tickets are limited - you can secure up to  four seats. Attendance is in-person only. -- Ticket purchasing: TICKETS ARE CURRENTLY SOLD OUT. See above 1) Select the required number of seats (up to four). Then click 'continue'. 2) You can add information on this page (e.g., additional guest names, if you need an accessible seat, a hearing loop etc). Leave this blank otherwise. Press continue.  3) On this next page, you will be asked to confirm your details and you will be invited to add a donation and giftaid this. Then press continue. 4) Now you will be asked to input payment details.  5) Once the purchase is complete, you will receive a receipt email. 

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Simon Armitage – Libraries Tour

Feb 28, 2023

Does your library’s name  or location in the UK (village, town or city, but not street) begin with the letters H, I, J or K? If so, you’re welcome to submit an invitation by [date tbc], asking Simon Armitage to visit during the next Tour in 2024.

Simon Armitage has already visited many libraries throughout the UK, including Community Managed Libraries. To find out more information and to register your interest for Simon to visit your CML, please visit the official website here .

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A Poet Laureate’s love for libraries

Posted by Iain Luxford | Mar 29, 2023 | Education , News | 0 |

Written by Elaine Weddle.

On National Poet’s Day, Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate, came to Eastbourne on the latest leg of a UK tour and described the pleasure of visiting his village library and how he now hopes to put something back …

It’s not every day that the Poet Laureate drops into Eastbourne library. On his first visit to the town, the softly spoken Yorkshireman is determined to get a glimpse of the sea despite the drizzle and dark of a March evening “I’m a landlubber,” he explained.

Armitage is an award-winning poet, professor, author, songwriter, playwright, musician, translator and in the last few years an accomplished interviewer of guests, such as JK Rowling, Jo Whiley and the then Prince of Wales in his own Radio 4 series, The Poet Laureate has Gone to his Shed.

E is for Eastbourne

Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage at Eastbourne Library.

He accepted the Laureateship in 2019, a ten-year role, but, as he’s quick to point out, there’s no requirement to do anything at all. His tenure was interrupted, as it was so for many others, by a certain virus, but he’s back now making eight or ten visits to libraries each spring, using the alphabet as a compass, travelling to big cities and remote communities.

“I think there’s a tendency among some people to think of libraries as simply a place where books are borrowed and returned, and my feeling is that they are very much more than that. I mean they’re that as well, but I think especially for kids the idea of coming into an emporium that is full of books that you can take away is still quite a magical experience,” he said.

National treasure

Armitage’s smart and witty words about British life, and more often life in the north, has made him a national treasure. The tour is booked out. He treats the Eastbourne audience, sitting in the freshly-painted, high-ceilinged room, to a selection of pieces, including his latest work, Never Good with Horses , and reflects on the difficulties of the last few years.  Finding himself trapped like millions of others within his own four walls, he found himself writing three poems about the window in the roof above his desk.

“We spend too much time in our own cells these days, it’s too easy to live your life from the settee. I think it’s vital we experience other people and learn how to be around them, and I think you can do that in a library. They occupy a really important place in a lot of communities – venues for events, for comings together, for happenings and its where people meet and learn how to behave and acknowledge each other. Libraries are now so welcoming, not hush, hush.”

Libraries a “real lifeline”

A probation officer for eight years in Manchester, Armitage also understands the daily struggle so many people experience: “Libraries are a real lifeline, you can get access to the internet and we all need that now it’s a utility. We sometimes forget how expensive it is to be connected-up with phones and subscriptions and everything else.”

His love affair with libraries began in the village he grew up in, Marsden, West Yorkshire, at a library in the Mechanics’ Institute.  “I remember the little kids’ area and the tiny seat you could pull up next to the shelves. It was strange to know that you could just take a book. I liked folk and adventure stories, magic and mystery. The first poem I wrote as a child was at school about Christmas and it didn’t get chosen as one of the best in class.”

During his time in the prison service, his writing improved “I got better at it, I found it [poetry] compelling and engaging. It was a way of having close contact with the world, describing how the world looks to me through a medium, a way of expressing myself.”

Today, his many roles include Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds, his advice to students and would-be writers is simple “The trick is to read.  You can’t be a writer unless you’re a reader, it’s like trying to make a fish without knowing what one was.

He concludes: “I’m just supporting the library as a great institution; it’s been under the cosh for quite a few years.  The Laureateship is an opportunity, a mouthpiece, I want to speak up for libraries. It was the birthplace of my reading and therefore my writing I feel as if I want to put something back.”

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'I want to celebrate the physical space of libraries and take my work back into places that have given me so much.’

Join Poet Laureate  Simon Armitage  and special guest Imtiaz Dharker , Cambridge University Library’s former poet-in-residence, to celebrate historic poetry archives in this unique free event hosted as part of the Laureate’s Library Tour C-D. Both poets will read some of their poems and be in conversation with Cambridge University Library Librarian and Director of Library Services, Dr Jessica Gardner.

Over the centuries, the Library has become a storehouse of poetical manuscripts, holding treasures ranging from unique medieval survivals of a Chaucer poem, to texts by John Donne, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Siegfried Sassoon. Our work in this area is ongoing, and in recent years we have greatly extended our holdings of archives of contemporary poets, including papers of Anne Stevenson, D. J. Enright, George Szirtes, Denise Riley and J. H. Prynne. 

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.

The C-D Libraries Tour is kindly supported by the T.S. Eliot Foundation, Mark Pigott KBE and Faber & Faber.

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage  was born and grew up in West Yorkshire. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the PEN Prize for Translation.  He has published over a dozen poetry collections, including  Magnetic Field: the Marsden Poems,  and acclaimed medieval translations of  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight  and  The Owl and the Nightingale .   He is the author of two novels and three non-fiction bestsellers:  All Points North, Walking Home  and  Walking Away .  A regular broadcaster, Armitage presents the popular BBC Radio 4’s series  The Poet Laureate has Gone to his Shed .  He writes extensively for television and radio, most recently for BBC 2’s  Where Did The World Go, A Pandemic Poem.    An award-winning dramatist, his play  The Last Days of Troy  was performed at Shakespeare's Globe. He writes, records and performs with the band LYR and has received an Ivor Novello Award for his song writing. His new book Never Good with Horses (April 2023) will feature his song lyrics. Armitage is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.  A Vertical Art  brings together the vibrant and engaging lectures from his tenure as Oxford Professor of Poetry (2015-2019).   www.simonarmitage.com

Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and video film maker, awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014. She has been Poet in Residence at Cambridge University Library and worked on several projects across art forms in Leeds, Newcastle, Manchester and  Hull as well as the Archives of St Paul’s Cathedral. Her six collections include Over the Moon and the latest, Luck is the Hook, with poems featured on radio, television, the London Underground, Glasgow billboards and Mumbai buses. She has had eleven solo exhibitions of drawings and scripts and directs video films, many of them for non-government organisations working in the area of shelter, education and health for women and children in India.   www.imtiazdharker.com/

Dr Jessica Gardner has spent her career in university libraries, and has been the University Librarian for Cambridge since 2017. Before coming to Cambridge, Jessica was the Director of Libraries at the Universities of Bristol and Exeter, and started her career working in archives and special collections at the University of Leeds in the 1990s. She holds a PhD (in British & Commonwealth Literature), MA (in Commonwealth Literature) and BA (in English) from the University of Leeds. Jessica is Chair of Research Libraries UK (RLUK), a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and one of the University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellors for ceremonial events.

L ocation: This event is being hosted in-person at Cambridge University Library, in the Milstein Seminar Rooms. For information about how to find us, please click here . This event is not being live streamed or recorded.

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Registration : Booking is essential. This event is free and open to all, advisory age 11+ (poetry may contain strong language). REGISTER HERE

Date: Wednesday 8th February 2023

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Poet Laureate Simon Armitage embarks on a new leg of his ten-year tour of the UK’s libraries

‘I want to celebrate the physical space of libraries and take my work back into places that have given me so much.’

Each spring this 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 Simon in the next stage of his 10-year adventure for a series of  free poetry  readings live  in libraries.  

Armitage says: ‘My experience of reading and writing began in the village library where I grew up, then in the nearby town library, then in libraries at various places of study and teaching. For many people they are an invaluable aspect of everyday life, giving access not just to books but to services, learning, conversation and creative thinking. I want to pay my respects to these unique institutions. By planning readings up to a decade in advance I’m being optimistic about the future of our libraries, and challenging those authorities who would consider closing them down.

It would have been easy to stream these events from my office or garden shed, but at a time when libraries are under threat and have been out of bounds during lockdown, reading from inside their physical structures feels like an act of solidarity –  with books, with poetry, and with communities.’

C to D Libraries Tour : March 24 – April 1

Sut i archebu: Taith Llyfrgelloedd C i D yn ystod 2022 ~  Turas Leabharlannan C gu D: Màrt 24 gu Gibl ean 1

Welcome! All performances will be live-streamed for free online viewing during the event only. Free in-person seats are on offer at one or two libraries ( details below), insofar as space and Covid-safety measures allow. Booking is essential whether you would like a virtual seat or in-library seat.  

Tour Audience Advisory: Age 11+ (poetry can contain strong language)

Croeso!  Bydd pob perfformiad yn cael ei ffrydio’n fyw ar gyfer ei wylio ar-lein yn rhad ac am ddim yn ystod y digwyddiad yn unig.  Mae rhai seddi rhad ac am ddim ar gael i unigolion mewn rhai o’r llyfrgelloedd (gweler y manylion isod), cyn belled â bod lle a bod cyfyngiadau Covid yn caniatáu.  Mae’n hanfodol i chi archebu lle p’un a fyddech chi’n hoffi sedd rithwir neu sedd yn y llyfrgell. Cyngor ynglŷn â Chynulleidfa’r Daith:  11 oed+ (gall gynnwys iaith gref)

Fàilte! Thèid gach tachartas a shruthadh beò an-asgaidh gus sealltainn air air an Lìon dìreach aig àm an tachartais fhèin. Tha suidheachain an-asgaidh air an làraich gan tabhann aig feadhainn de na leabharlannan (fios gu h-ìseal), a rèir mar a cheadaicheas àite agus bacaidhean Covid. Tha e riatanach gun cuir thu àite an dara taobh eadar gu bheil thu ag iarraidh àite-suidhe air an Lìon no air an làraich.  Comhairle mu Luchd-èisteachd an Turas: Aois 11+ (faodaidh gum bi cainnt bhorb ann).

Thursday, March 24

2.00-3.00pm  –  Chadderton Library & Wellbeing Centre , Chadderton, Oldham, OL9 0JW. 

To launch the Tour, Simon Armitage reads with Mancunian performance artist Keisha Thompson and two poets from Oldham Academy North,  Fateha Alam and Lawdy Karim

• Free live-streamed event, to book online viewing : www.crowdcast.io/e/chadderton
• No in-library seats available for the public here.

F riday, March 25 / Dydd Gwener, 25ain  Mawrth

11.00-12.00 noon –  Llyfrgell Caerfyrddin / Carmarthen Library , SA31 1LN

Simon Armitage reads with Ifor ap Gl y n , Bardd Cenedlaethol Cymru / National Poet of Wales. Ifor ap Glyn will also read some of his poetry written in Welsh. 

• Free live-streamed event, to book online viewing:   www.crowdcast.io/e/caerfyrddin
• No in-library seats available for the public here.  

Simon Armitage yn darllen gydag Ifor ap Glyn , Bardd Cenedlaethol Cymru / National Poet of Wales .  Bydd Ifor ap Glyn hefyd yn darllen ychydig o’i farddoniaeth a ysgrifennodd yn y Gymraeg.

• Digwyddiad wedi’i ffrydio rhad ac am ddim; er mwyn archebu ei weld ar-lein ewch i: crowdcast.io/e/caerfyrddin
• Nid oes unrhyw seddau yn y llyfrgell ar gael i’r cyhoedd yma.

F riday, March 25

7.00-8.00pm –  Clevedon Library , North Somerset, BS21 6NN

Simon Armitage reads with Phoebe Stuckes , originally from Somerset and four times winner of Foyle Young Poets.

• Free live-streamed event, to book online viewing: www.crowdcast.io/e/clevedon

Saturday, March 26

3.00- 4.00pm –  Colyton Library , Devon, EX24 6NQ  

S imon Armitage reads with innovative eco-poet Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and three winners of the Our Future; Our Planet  poetry competition for local high schools, kindly organised by the Friends of Colyton Library.  

• Free live-streamed event, to book online viewing: www.crowdcast.io/e/colyton

Sunday, March 27

7.00-8.00pm – Chatham Library , Medway, ME4 4TX 

Simon Armitage reads with Patience Agbabi , former Canterbury Poet Laureate and poet-in-residence at Chatham Historic Dockyard, to launch the Medway Patchwork collaborative poem project, as part of Medway’s International Poetry Day celebration.

• Free live-streamed event, to book online viewing: www.crowdcast.io/e/chatham
• To book in-library seats , please click here

Monday, March 28

6.30-7.30pm –   Cambridge University Library , CB3 9DR

Celebrate historic poetry archives with Simon Armitage and Cambridge University Library’s former poet-in-residence, Imtiaz Dharker , as they give poetry readings and are in conversation in the Rare Books Reading Room with Dr. Jessica Gardner , Cambridge University Librarian and Director of Library Services. 

• Free live-streamed event, to book for online viewing: www.crowdcast.io/e/cul 

Wednesday, March 30

7.00-8.00pm – Clydebank Library , G81 1XH

To celebrate this newly refurbished Carnegie library, Simon Armitage reads with Scottish Makar, Kathleen Jamie and local poet Tawona Sitholé, UNESCO artist-in-residence at Glasgow University. This event is also part of West Dunbartonshire Libraries’ celebration with poetry of Scotland’s Year of Stories: the Te lling Tales: Voices in Verse   workshops and poetry competition. 

• Free live-streamed event, to book online viewing: www.crow dcast.io/e/clydebank
• Note: the refurbished Clydebank Library is not yet open to the public, so bookings cannot be made in-person in the library itself.  

Friday, April 1 /  Dihaoine, 1 Giblean

Simon Armitage joins  Comhairle nan Eilean Siar’s mobile library service which travels the Càirinis / Carinish route on Isle of North Uist. As a finale, Simon reads with leading Hebridean writer Kevin MacNeil / Caoimhin MacNèill. Kevin will include some of his work written in Scottish Gaelic / Gàidhlig.

7.30-8.30pm / 7.30 gu 8.30f, Taigh Chearsabhagh , HS6 5AA

• Free live-streamed event, to book online viewing : www.crowdcast.io/e/carinish
• To be part of the on-the-spot audience , book free tickets here: www.taigh-chearsabhagh.org/events/

Tha Sìm Armitage a’ tighinn còmhla ri seirbheis nan leabharlannan-siubhail aig Comhairle nan Eilean Siar a’ siubhal slighe Chàirinis ann an Uibhist a Tuath.  Anns an dealachadh, bidh Sìm a’ leughadh còmhla ri sgrìobhadair is bàrd cliùiteach Innse Gall Caoimhin MacNèill. Bidh cuid den t-saothair aige air a sgrìobhadh ann an Gàidhlig aig Caoimhin.

• Tachartas an-asgaidh ga shruthadh beò, gus sealltainn air air an Lìon a chur air dòigh: www.crowdcast.io/e/carinish
• Gus a bhith san èisteachd air an làraich, cuir tiogaidean an-asgaidh air dòigh an seo: https://www.taigh-chearsabhagh.org/?p=52799

Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre champions heritage, visual arts and the Gaelic language and culture on the isle of North Uist. It is also hosts the Lews Castle College Reference Library.

Tha Taigh-tasgaidh agus Ionad-ealain Thaigh Chearsabhagh a’ cur air adhart dualchas, ealainean lèirsinneach agus Gàidhlig ann an Uibhist a Tuath.

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Tour Audience Advisory: Age 11+ (may contain strong language) / Cyngor ynglŷn â Chynulleidfa’r Daith:  11 oed+ (gall gynnwys iaith gref) /  Comhairle mu Luchd-èisteachd an Turas : Aois 11+ (faodaidh gum bi cainnt bhorb ann).

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Taith y Bardd Llawryfog i Lyfrgelloedd –  Defnyddio Crowdcast

Turas Leabharlannan Bàrd-cùirte na Rìoghachd – A’ cleachdadh Crowdcast

Support: The C to D Libraries Tour is kindly supported by the T. S. Eliot Foundation, Mark Pigott KBE, Faber & Faber and supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. We are grateful to our hosts at each of the libraries on this Tour for making this project possible.

Gyda chefnogaeth garedig gan y T.S. Eliot Foundation, Mark Pigott KBE, Faber & Faber a gan ddefnyddio cyllid cyhoeddus gan y Loteri Genedlaethol drwy Gyngor Celfyddydau Lloegr.

Le taic choibhneil bho Urras T.S. Eliot Foundation, Mark Pigott KBE, Faber is Faber agus a’ dèanamh feum de mhaoineachadh poblach leis a’ Chrannchar Nàiseanta tro Chomhairle Ealain Shasainn.

Privacy Policy: for Laureate’s Library Tour 2022 events requiring registration via Crowdcast ,  https://www.simonarmitage.com/laureates-library-tour-privacy-policy/

Taith Llyfrgelloedd y Bardd Llawryfog 2022 – Polisi Preifatrwydd ,  https://www.simonarmitage.com/taith-llyfrgelloedd-y-bardd-llawryfog-2022-polisi-preifatrwydd/

Turas a’ Bhàird air na Leabharlannan – Poileasaidh mu Phrìobhaideachd ,  https://www.simonarmitage.com/turas-a-bhaird-air-na-leabharlannan-poileasaidh-mu-phriobhaideachd/

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