When:
June 18, 2015 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
2015-06-18T19:00:00+01:00
2015-06-18T20:30:00+01:00
Where:
The Story Museum
Rochester House
42 Pembroke Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 1BP
UK
Rochester House
42 Pembroke Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 1BP
UK
Cost:
£6/£4 (concessions)
Contact:
Three prizewinning poets read poems about myths and monsters and discuss their experiences of writing poetry for children.
The readings will include poems about Sir Galahad, Medusa and St Francis, from the new Emma Press anthology Falling Out Of The Sky. Publisher Emma Wright will lead the discussion about different approaches to writing about myths for a younger audience. The discussion will be followed by Q&A.
About the poets: John Fuller is Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College and won the Forward Prize in 1996. Rachel Piercey is the editor at the Emma Press and won the Newdigate Prize in 2008. Andrew Wynn Owen is studying for an MSt in English 1700-1830 and won the Newdigate Prize and the Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize in 2014.