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On the Border presents

Tony Curtis and Helen Dunmore
 

Saturday 3 October 2009, 7.30pm
The Drill Hall, Lower Church St., Chepstow NP16 5HJ
Tickets: £12.00 / £10.00 concessions

On the Border welcomes the coming autumn on Saturday 3 October when Tony Curtis and Helen Dunmore read their warm and generous poetry at the Drill Hall in Chepstow.

Tony Curtis is one of Wales’s most influential and respected poets. He’s a fine critic, a regular broadcaster and a highly regarded Professor of Poetry at the University of Glamorgan. His poetry is clear, sharpe, inventive and unsentimentally Welsh, yet he manages to embody many of the qualities more commonly associated with American poetry – emotional honesty, and open-heartedness.

Helen Dunmore moves effortlessly from poetry to novels, to criticism, to reviews, to writing for children. Her poetry maintains a perfect balance between intimacy and strangeness, acknowledging the paradoxes of the human journey and holding a wide range of human emotion. She has also managed that most difficult of feats, the marriage of haunting, dreamy intensity and clear, compelling narrative.

Here then are two writers whose poetry sits well in the heart and lightly on the tongue. Join them for another evening of world-class poetry at Chepstow’s Drill Hall.

On the Border runs continuously on the first Saturday of every month.

You can book tickets online now by going to:
www.poetryontheborder.org
(N.B. there is a reduction for booking online).

Alternatively you can buy in person at
The Chepstow Bookshop in St Mary’s St., Chepstow.

For details of future On the Border events visit:
www.poetryontheborder.org

Supported by Academi