GEORGE SZIRTES and KATE POTTS – with their poems and poetry chat.
Presented in association with Poetry Swindon.
King’s Gold Medal for Poetry winner in 2024 and award-winning Bloodaxe poet George Szirtes will read from his collection Fresh Out of the Sky, a book of songs, dreams, laments, narratives, and comedies about major life-changes involving country, identity, and belonging. It is about perpetually standing at the edge of change, anticipating it, reflecting on it and dreaming about it. He may also read from his many other collections and is happy to answer questions.
In Pretenders, her third book of poetry, editor, and teacher at the Poetry School Kate Potts asks: what is it like, as a daily, lived experience, to feel like a fraud or a fake? And what can ‘the imposter phenomenon’ tell us about who we are and how we relate to one another?
This event is taking place at Lower Shaw Farm, West Swindon, SN5 5PJ
