Sunday 11.00 am – 1.00 pm |  Main Reading with Claudine Toutongi and David Constantine

Castle Green Hotel – Kendal Suite

£8

Claudine Toutongi’s first collection Smoothie, published by Carcanet in 2017, deserves to be on every possible prize list.   This collection is both poignant and funny, tender and exuberant, written with a dry wit and a sharp eye.   David Constantine is one of the UK’s best loved poets and has published ten books of poetry, five translations and a novel. His poetry looks outwards, to the European poetic tradition, but with his own unique passionate lyricism.  He will be reading from his latest pamphlet, published by Smith/Doorstop.   Members of Dove Cottage Young Poets will also perform during this event.

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