Final day of the Sheffield Poetry Festival!
Dear Friends
Hope you can get along to some events, enjoy the bookstall, lunch, bars and soak up the atmosphere of all things poetry in Sheffield.
At The Showroom, Paternoster Row:
1pm: The marvelous poet laureates Ann Atkinson and River Wolton
2.15: The Templar Showcase features the Festival's very own Rob Hindle
3.30: TS Eliot prizewinner George Szirtes and the University's Agnes Lehoczky
4pm: The Ground Aslant anthology with the incomparable Harriet Tarlo
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At 5pm RONY ROBINSON IS BAMBER PAXMAN in University Challenge, where the Staff of Hallam and Sheffield Universities battle it out with some (quite funny) poetry questions, ad jingles, song lyrics. Come and cheer the teams on their way! Scarves and traffic cones optional.
Final event at the Showroom is
6pm: Fantastic: Linda Lee Welch & The Only Michael, poems with music
In the evening:
6.30pm (Mostly) Hallam-based and (wholly) brilliant Matter magazine Poets at Bank Street Arts
7pm The best of Sheffield Poetry Slam at the Lescar
8pm The (University MA) Pathway poets with real ale at The Red Deer
The Poetry Business receives financial assistance from Arts Council England.
