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On the Border Presents…

Glyn Maxwell and Stephen Knight

Saturday 6 February 2010, 7.30pm   
The Drill Hall, Lower Church Street, Chepstow NP16 5HJ
Tickets: £12.00 / £10.00 (concs)

On the Border presents a new season of poetry readings starting on Saturday 6 February when Glyn Maxwell and Stephen Knight read at the Drill Hall in Chepstow.

Glyn Maxwell was born in 1962 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. He studied at Oxford and Boston University and later taught at Amherst, Columbia and the New School, New York City. He is one of the most prolific of the “New Generation Poets”, writing plays, verse dramas and opera libretti. He is one of the few British poets to have successfully bridged the gap between Britain and America – an EM Forster award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Fellowship of the Society of Literature. His return to the UK coincides with a deepening seriousness and maturity in his work that now extends far beyond his brilliant and bravura beginnings.

Stephen Knight was born in Swansea in 1960 and studied at Oxford and Bristol. He is an acclaimed tutor and mentor, having taught at the University of Glamorgan and Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has won both the National Poetry Competition and the TLS/Blackwell’s Poetry Competition and his collections have both been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. He has published one novel Mr Schnitzel and his most recent book was a poetry collection for children. His detached, and “benignly satirical” poetry, invoking Swansea accents, self conscious language and black humour, transfers brilliantly to live readings.  

On the Border’s Spring Season also includes readings by Brian Patten and Ann Drysdale (6 March); A Celebration of Dannie Abse with Tony Curtis, Elaine Feinstein, Chris Meredith, Owen Sheers and friends (3 April); Les Murray and Pascale Petit (1 May); Fleur Adcock and Tiffany Atkinson (5 June) and Imtiaz Dharker and Rowan Williams (Monday 28 June ).

Tickets

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

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

Or call: 01291 625011

Visit www.poetryontheborder.org for more information and updates.

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