The Poetry Society Celebrating our centenary

What was On

The Poetry Society's Annual Lecture with Eavan Boland

Shades & Contours: A Cartography of the State of Poetry

 
Eavan Boland has lived in Ireland, England and the United States and has, through a long and distinguished career as a leading poet of her generation, reflected, both in her art and in critical explorations, on the complex intersections and divergences between the language, meaning, history, inheritance, obligations and public functions of poetry on both sides of the Irish Sea and either side of the Atlantic.
 
The Poetry Society is privileged to have such a seminal explorer of life, of women’s lives in particular, and of poetry in general in Britain and Ireland, and author of many collections including 'The Journey', 'Outside History' and 'The Lost Land', give the Society’s annual lecture, and metaphorically map some of the geographical complexities and geological shifts that delineate the virtually unchartable landscape of poetry today.
 
The event will be introduced by Anne -Marie Fyfe.
 
Tickets £12 (£8 concessions/ Poetry Society members)
Venue:  Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH
www.bishopsgate.org.uk
 
Bookings on  020 7392 9220