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Gwyneth Lewis on Stevie Smith

The Poetry Society’s Under the Influence series has proved a popular and critical success in exploring how today’s poets engage with, learn from, explore and acknowledge poets of the past.  This year's series invites leading names in our current poetry world to expand on the influence of significant twentieth-century figures in shaping their own endeavours and poetic sensibilities. A glass of wine is included under the generous sponsorship of Averys Wine Merchants, www.averys.com 

29 November 2007 at 7pm
Gwyneth Lewis on Stevie Smith
at the London Review Bookshop
14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL

One of the few poets writing in the thirties and beyond to reach a mass audience, Stevie Smith, with her wilful and frequently caustic observations on modern manners, comes under the affectionate scrutiny of Gwyneth Lewis, recent National Poet of Wales, librettist, and author of Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book About Depression.

This event will be chaired by Anne-Marie Fyfe.

All events are at the London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL.  The nearest tube is Holborn.

Tickets are £10 (£5 Poetry Society members, LRB subscribers and concessions), and can be purchased by following the "Buy tickets" link at the top of this page.  Season Tickets for all four events £35 (£18 Poetry Society members, LRB subscribers and concessions) are available in the Poetry Shop.

Box office 020 7420 9895

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Fill the goblet again! for I never before
Felt the glow which now gladdens my heart to its core; 
Let us drink! - who would not? - since, through life's varied round, 
In the goblet alone no deception is found.

- Lord Byron