4:20pm Thursday 26th August 2010
By Adrian Mullen
GUEST poet Pat Borthwick opens the next chapter of A Poem and A Pint on Saturday, September 11 (7.30pm) at a fresh venue - Rampside Village Hall, near Barrow.
Pat is a Hawthornden Fellow and a winner in the 2007 Templar Pamphlet Competition with Wave. Her latest collection is Admiral FitzRoy’s Barometer (Templar 2008) and she’s just recorded a CD of poems entitled Napier’s Bones.
Pat enjoys working with recorded sound and received an Arts Council Award to explore its poetic potential and having previously been writer-in-residence for prisons, libraries, schools and hospitals (as well as for a canal, a coalmine, a chalk cliff and a cabbage patch) she has just been made poet-in-residence for the RSPB Centre at Bempton Cliffs.
Pat is also keen on seeing her poetry appear in places other than the pages of a book, the most unusual being a 400-feet poem in luminous paint strung inside a tunnel on the Chesterfield Canal. She lives in rural North Yorkshire and her work reflects her interest in the way that terrestrial landscape and man have shaped each other. Highly thought of in poetic circles Simon Armitage describes her as “a mapmaker with whose poems you can truly find your way.”
Meanwhile, on the music front, PP also offers something out of the ordinary in the form of brass and keyboards duo Kim and Liz.
Liz is head of junior music at Chetwynde School and teaches music at Vickerstown Primary, while Kim - also a fine poet - can be found sitting in cafes across the county writing poems while ‘on her way’ to one of the 20 schools in which she teaches children how to play a brass instrument.
As usual, there will be floor slots available (apply at the door) and the ever-popular poet and bluesman, Mark Carson will be MC.
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