At One with Love 2 - Denmead Parish Council

At One with Love 2 - Denmead Parish Council

Joan McGavin
Stephen Boyce
John Haynes
Lynda O’Neill
Hampshire Poet 2014.
Author of Flannelgraphs
(Oversteps 2011)
Winchester Poetry Festival
presents
Winner of the Costa
Award for Poetry 2006 for
Letter to Patience. Author
of You (Seren 2010)
shortlisted for the TS Eliot
prize 2010.
Author of Desire Lines
(Arrowhead 2010) and
The Sisyphus Dog
(Worple 2014)
Regularly published in
poetry magazines, her
work has appeared in the
anthologies The Ticking
Crocodile and This Island
City.
at one with Love
at one with Grief
Poetry of the First World War and today
A special evening of poetry featuring four leading
Hampshire poets
Saturday 2 August 2014 6.00pm
All Saints Church, Denmead
Hambledon Road, Denmead, Hampshire PO7 6NN
Tickets £3.50 on the door, to include a drink
A preview event for the Winchester Poetry Festival (12 - 14 September 2014)
See www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org for details
at one with Love, at one with Grief
Saturday 2 August 2014 6.00pm
All Saints Church, Denmead
On Saturday 2 August Winchester Poetry Festival presents an evening
of poetry featuring four leading Hampshire poets. The event is an
‘appetiser’ for the main festival in September whose interwoven themes
reflect the poetry of the First World War, Hampshire’s contribution to our
national literary heritage and the best of contemporary poetry.
Joan McGavin is an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Winchester and is a
trustee of Winchester Poetry Festival. Her poetry has been widely published and has appeared on
Radio 4′s Poetry Please. She is the author of Flannelgraphs (Oversteps 2011) – “… poems which
are crafted, intelligent and, above all, keenly compassionate.” Joan was appointed Hampshire Poet
2014 in which role she is undertaking a number of poetry commissions as well as advocating the
pleasures of reading and writing.
Stephen Boyce lives in Winchester. He has published two collections, Desire Lines (Arrowhead
2010), “Highly visual, carefully detailed … always with a feel for the music of nature and a sense
of the urgency of time's passing"; and The Sisyphus Dog (Worple Press 2014) “… poignant,
exquisitely phrased poems full of thoughtful observations of everyday life … ”. He is a trustee and
Co-Artistic Director of Winchester Poetry Festival 2014.
John Haynes spent several years teaching in Nigeria before returning to settle in Cowplain. His
book-length poem, Letter to Patience (Seren 2006), won the Costa (formerly Whitbread) Award,
You (Seren 2010) was short-listed for the TS Eliot Prize. He has also won the Troubadour poetry
prize 2007, the National Poetry Competition and the Arvon Competition among others. John’s
poetry has been widely published in magazines and he has written on African poetry and on the
craft of writing.
Lynda O’Neill was born and brought up in Portsmouth, where some of her poems are located. Her
poems have been placed in several competitions and published in poetry magazines as well as the
anthologies The Ticking Crocodile (Blinking Eye 2004) and This Island City: Portsmouth in Poetry
(Spinnaker Press 2010). She is a member of Second Light, the network of women poets.
The four poets will be reading from their own work and reflecting the themes of the forthcoming
Winchester Poetry Festival including work specially commissioned in response to the poetry of the
First World War.
Get to know Hampshire’s poetry now, with an evening of entertainment and reflection.
This event is part of a short series supported by Winchester City Council and Hampshire County
Council that is also visiting Bishops Waltham, Denmead and Romsey.
The Winchester Poetry Festival takes place 12-14 September 2014.
Full details of the programme, venues and booking arrangements can be found at
www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org