2011 programme
Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts: Edgelands
Two well-known poets turn geographers to explore the richly mysterious terrain of out of town gravel pits, business parks and landfill sites, and do for our wild places what Coleridge and Wordsworth once did for our mountains and lakes.
The result, Edgelands, presented this evening at St Chad’s College Chapel, explores a wilderness that is much closer than you think: a debatable zone, neither the city nor the countryside, but a place in-between – so familiar it is never seen for looking. Edgelands forms a critique of what we value as ‘wild’, and allows our allotments, railways, motorways, wasteland and water a presence in the world, and a strange beauty all of their own.
Paul Farley is the author of four collections of poetry and has won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Whitbread Poetry Award. Michael Symmons Roberts has published two novels and four collections of poetry, including Corpus, which won the Whitbread Poetry Award.
Event supported by St Chad’s College
Wednesday 19 October at 7.30pm
St Chad's College
18 North Bailey
Durham
DH1 3RH
Tel: 0191 334 3358
www.dur.ac.uk/StChads
Booking info
Tickets: £8/£6 (concs & Friends) ?4 (students)