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On the Border

Presents

Brian Patten & Ann Drysdale

Saturday 6th March – 7.30pm
The Drill Hall, Lower Church St., Chepstow NP16 5HJ

Tickets £12 (£10 concs)

On the Border welcomes two exceptional poets who have breathed new and vigorous life into the poetry of love and relationship.

Brian Patten “thinks and feels ferociously”. He first rose to prominence with Adrian Henri and Roger McGough in the nineteen sixties as one of the poets who created the groundbreaking Mersey Sound. This early work introduced us to a new and immediate poetry that arrested, amused and moved by turns, while his later explorations of love have become a benchmark of the modern genre. Brim full of joy, sadness, and magic, they prove him, again and again, to be a master-poet who always rings true. His high-energy readings are compelling, often moving and hugely entertaining.  

Ann Drysdale has explored the depths of love and relationship more than most – her searing accounts of love and grief in the gulag of the NHS should be required reading for all student doctors. “A stunning technician’ of form and a favourite of poets from Jeff Nuttall and Peter Finch to the late U.A Fanthorpe, Ann Drysdale brings a wit and startling honesty to her work which amuses, challenges and delights. A winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize for poetry in performance, she lights up her readings with an extraordinary intelligence and humanity – she can also make you laugh out loud.  

Join us for what promises to be another scintillating night of poetry as two consummate artists give us “rhapsodies and lamentations to the terrible beauty of love”…

Tickets available online at: www.poetryontheborder.org
or in person at: Chepstow Bookshop, St. Mary's Street, Chepstow.