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We are delighted to welcome Poet Laureate Simon Armitage to the Foxlowe Arts Centre.
Simon Armitage will be reading from his highly acclaimed 2009 translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This story, first told in the late fourteenth century, is one of the most enthralling, enigmatic and beloved poems in the English language.
Armitage's version is meticulously responsive to the tact, sophistication and dramatic intensity of the original. It is as if, six hundred years apart, two poets set out on a journey through the same mesmeric landscape ? physical, allegorical and acoustic ? in the course of which the Gawain poet has finally found his true translator.
In 2018, Faber published a new illustrated edition in which the medieval poem's key episodes have been visualised into a series of bold, richly textured screen-prints by British artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins. There will be a slideshow of these illustrations to accompany the reading.
This presentation comes through a collaboration between OUTSIDE Arts, The Foxlowe Arts Centre and is presented as part of Leek Loves Books and Leek Arts Festival.
Tickets are £15 + online booking fee
?I enjoyed it greatly for its kick and music; its high spirits, its many memorable passages. I enjoyed it because, like the Gawain poet, Armitage is some storyteller.' The Guardian
Foxlowe Arts Centre is a community run arts centre for the people of Leek and The Staffordshire Moorlands.
Leek’s arts centre is housed in the historic building, Foxlowe, at the top of Leek’s market place.
Foxlowe Arts Centre opened its doors in December 2011 and has already gained a strong following from the local community and is attracting attention from further afield as well. Funded by individuals’ pledges, donations and trading proceeds and with the majority of the staff volunteering, this is truly a community arts centre for the people of Leek and the Staffordshire Moorlands.
With a popular café, bar, gallery, live performance space for music, drama, comedy, talks and a cinema, the Foxlowe Arts Centre has rapidly established a reputation as the go to place in Leek.
Foxlowe arts centre has limited parking at the back of the building for permit holders and disabled users only. Some workshops will include a parking permit spaces are available. To access the car park follow parking signs on Stockwell Street signed ‘P Short Stay, Council Offices’ and turn left after the first parking bays – this is the entrance to Foxlowe arts centre car park for permit holders, disabled users and others with permission e.g. workshop attendees.
Market Place,
Leek,
Staffordshire,
England,
ST13 6AD.
01538 386112
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