Roll up, roll up! The Fourpenny Circus comes to Keele

Fourpenny Circus is an innovative poetry roadshow touring the NW and Midlands in autumn 2009. It has had sell-out performances and comments include “mesmerizing – should be at the Edinburgh fringe!’ The company’s previous production, Bunch of Fives, appeared in the Independent’s Top Five feature and was described as ‘dynamic, charismatic and enchanting’.
Fourpenny Circus is [...]

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Keele University celebrates scientific and creative impact of Darwin’s work

A day celebrating the scientific and creative impact of Charles Darwin’s work is to be held at Keele University.
The interactive day will use creative writing, drama, laboratory visits and field walks to explore Darwin’s work, 150 years after the publication of the ground-breaking On the Origin of Species.
In association with the Maer Festival, the university [...]

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Poet Wendy Cope at Keele University

Award-winning poet Wendy Cope will give a reading of her work in Keele University’s fourth series of hugely successful, live poetry readings by outstanding poets, Poetry Live!
Wendy, who will be appearing at Keele on Tuesday, May 12, trained as a teacher and taught in London for many years until 1986, when she became a freelance [...]

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Poet David Harsent at Keele University

Award winning poet David Harsent will give a reading of his work in Keele University’s fourth series of hugely successful, live poetry readings by outstanding poets, Poetry Live!
David, who will be appearing at Keele on Tuesday, 31 March, has published nine collections of poetry. The most recent, Legion, won the Forward Prize for best collection [...]

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Poet Peter Didsbury to read at Keele

Award winning poet Peter Didsbury will give a reading of his work in Keele University’s fourth series of hugely successful, live poetry readings by outstanding poets, Poetry Live!
Peter will be appearing at Keele on Tuesday, 10 March. Peter has published a number of collections, including The Butchers of Hull (1982), The Classical Farm (1987) and That [...]

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