September 2007 - Wivenhoe's New
Season of Prize-Winning Verse
| The new “poetrywivenhoe”
season begins on Friday 21st September with a
prize-winning double bill. The
group is delighted to welcome Katherine Pierpoint, who has won the
Somerset Maugham Award, and been short listed for the Forward Poetry
Prize, and Pauline Stainer who has gained a Hawthornden Fellowship
and recently was short listed for the Whitbread poetry award.
Both are well travelled poets.
Katherine has performed in
Poland
,
Slovenia
and
Italy
. Ruth Padel , in The Poem and
the Journey , describes how her work “ luxuriates in the
physical strangeness of things…seeing familiar things enticingly
clearly and newly”. Her first book, Truffle
Beds( 1995) won her the title of
the Sunday Times Young Poet of the Year, as well as the Somerset
Maugham Award. In 2006 she was poet-in-residence at the King’s
School Canterbury. Her poems are well known for
their acute observation and inventiveness. |
Katherine
Pierpoint |
|
Pauline
Stainer |
Pauline has lived
and worked on Rousay, in the
Orkney Islands
, before recently moving to Hadleigh.
Her first collection of poetry
was not published until 1989 when she was in her mid-forties. Her
work has been praised for its “natural balance and maturity of
intelligence” ( Guardian 2003).
The New Statesman has described
her work as “electrifying….truly changing our perceptions”.
She was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 1987 and was shortlisted
for the Whitbread Poetry Award for
The wound-dresser's dream. |
“poetrywivenhoe”
launched in March this year. Since then it has held monthly events
in the town featuring many well
known poets including Martin Newell, Matt Harvey, Myra Schneider and Dean
Parkin. It’s proved to be a popular event, with many occasions
attracting a full house. For more information about “poetrywivenhoe”
click here
See
Katherine Pierpoint and Pauline
Stainer at The British Legion
Hall,
The Quay, Wivenhoe on Friday
September 21st at
8.00pm |
