Litfest regret to announce a late change to our line-up for Litfest’s Poetry Day on Saturday 20th March. Unfortunately, Sean O’Brien has had to withdraw from the our ‘Poetry Day Double Bill 1’ event at 2pm with Tara Bergin due to ill health. We wish Sean a speedy recovery and hope to welcome him back to Litfest again soon. In the meantime, you can hear him read extracts from his long poem ‘Hammersmith’ (part of his most recent collection It Says Here (2020) and marvel at Kate Sweeney’s wonderful images:
Hammersmith from K A Sweeney on Vimeo. A response to extracts from Sean O’ Brien’s same-titled poem, ‘Hammersmith’ is an elegiac, hand-drawn animation produced on a single piece of paper, through a process of mark-making and erasure. The starting point for the visual aesthetic was Sweeney and O’Brien’s shared love of film noir, and the imagery, sweeping through 1950’s London, references the iconic cinematography from Jules Dessin’s 1950 noir film, ‘Night and the City’.
However, Litfest are delighted to announce that Dr Kim Moore has stepped into the breach. Kim is currently leading the poetry strand of our New Writing Northwest workshop series.
Dr Kim Moore is one of the founders of Kendal Poetry Festival. Her first full-length collection, The Art of Falling (2015), won the 2016 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She was one of the judges for the 2018 National Poetry Competition and the 2020 Forward Prizes for Poetry. She recently completed her doctorate on poetry and everyday sexism at Manchester Metropolitan University and her second collection, All the Men I Never Married, is due in October 2021.
