Centenary Events: East Anglia
Saturday 27 June: Sutton Hoo Poetry Festival
National Trust page: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-suttonhoo
There will be a tickets-only gala performance of Katrina Porteous's long poem about the fishermen of the Suffolk coast - Longshore Drift - accompanied by concertina virtuouso Alistair Anderson.
Venue: Tranmer House
Start time: 7pm for 7.30pm
This is limited to fifty people and bookings are now open.
Contact: Fred Ellis, PS Coast & Brecks Stanza, 7 Haylings Grove, Leiston, Suffolk IP16 4DU
Tel: 01728 833094
Mob: 07946 529197
Longshore Drift was first broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and performed to great acclaim at the 2008 Ledbury Poetry Festival.
Daytime visitors will also be able to enjoy the poetry trail created by the twenty writers who visited the site in January and wrote poems in response. These will be posted across the site.
A children's poetry competition has been launched, with readings and the presentation of the prizes to be made during the weekend.
Organiser Fred Ellis: "The fundamental aim is to create opportunities for the public to engage with the poetry and the heritage of the region that is extraordinarily rich in both. The festival weekend has quickly developed into both a regional and national event, celebrating both the Poetry Society's centenary and the 70th anniversary of the (Sutton Hoo) ship find. There have been three major archaeological digs on this site - we're calling this the fourth: a dig in to the imagination."
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