Poetry in the Summer - St Mary's Church, Birdforth
St Mary's Church, Birdforth, North Yorkshire
Enjoy an engaging session of poetry in beautiful historic surroundings.
Enjoy an hour of poetry with two well-known and long-established poets. This event is not to be missed! Booking is not required.
Robert Powell was born in Canada and now lives in York. He has published four collections of poetry - Harvest of Light (2007), All (2015) Riverain (2018), and Lost & Found (2021). He was artist in residence with the Kone Foundation in 2018 and in 2019 produced Notes From a Border River, inspired by time in Northern Ireland during Brexit negotiations. He has worked with other artists on short films and performances, and is currently writer in residence at York Civic Trust.
Julia Deakin is well known on the northern poetry circuit and beyond as the author of four acclaimed collections, and editor of the poetry magazine Pennine Platform. She lived for some years in the shadow of York Minster, and has written about the impact of this and of some of the smallest church buildings on local communities. Her work is praised by leading UK poets, she has won a few prizes and read twice on BBC Radio's Poetry Please.