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Our friends at Coventry Cathedral are hosting Plumbline – Peace and Poetry this Saturday. Hear Greenbelt Festival favourites Pádraig Ó Tuama, Patience Agbabi, Michael Symmons Roberts and Malcolm Guite, and take part in workshops as well. Plumb Line, Peace & Poetry 2018
Saturday 17th March
12-6pm
Join us for an exciting programme of live perfomances from critically aclaimed poets, free workshops and a spotlight set showcasing local talent…
Peace & Poetry Activity Timetable
Main Stage (Location: New Cathedral, rear nave)
12pm Spotlight set (performances from local & emerging writers)
1pm Poetry reading: Antony Owen
2pm: Poetry reading: Pádraig Ó Tuama
(2:45pm – 3:15pm break for lunch)
3:15pm Poetry reading: Patience Agbabi
4:15pm Poetry reading: Michael Symmons Roberts
5:15pm Poetry reading: Malcolm Guite
Workshops (Location: The Lecture Hall, a member of the team will direct you)
If you would like to sign up for a workshop, please email sam.williams@coventrycathedral.org.uk. Please include the title of the workshop you wish to attend. There are a limited number of places available for each workshop, these will be given on a first come, first served basis. And, don’t forget your notebook!
Workshop 1: Single Sentence Stories with Pádraig Ó Tuama. 1pm (approx 45 mins). Sometimes a single sentence can tell a whole story. We see that in poetry, in fiction, in film and in religious literature too. This workshop will explore writing single sentence stories. Bring a pen, and a (small) piece of paper!
Workshop 2: How to write a Haiku or Senyu with Antony Owen. 2:15pm (approx 45 mins). Local poet Anthony Owen will discuss both the techincal and fun side of writing a Haiku.
Workshop 3: Accessing stories with Ruth Nelson. 3pm (approx 45 mins). Ruth Nelson will lead a discussion about how to tease out personal stories and how to shape them into engaging forms of story-telling.
Workshop 4: Poetry & Prayer with Malcolm Guite. 4pm (apprx 45 mins). Themed around George Herbert’s poem Prayer, Malcolm Guite will explore hints, tips and composition of using poetry as prayer, & prayer as poetry
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Antony Owen is a writer from Coventry who often represents victims of conflict. His latest collection The Nagasaki Elder (V.Press) is a critically acclaimed suite of poems inspired by a
visit to Hiroshima to hear testimonies of atomic bomb survivors.
Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet and a theologian who leads the Corrymeela Community, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organisation. He has published in poetry and prose, and brings an interest in language and story to his theological, artistic and peacebuilding work.
Patience Agbabi has spent over 20 years celebrating the written and spoken word. She read English at Oxford and is a former Poet Laureate of Canterbury. The author of four books, her latest, Telling Tales (Canongate Books, 2014), retells Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales for the 21 st century.
Michael Symmons Robert’s poetry has won the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. His work for broadcast includes the BBC4 verse film ‘Men Who Sleep in Cars’, and ‘Last Words’ commissioned by Radio 4 to mark the first anniversary of 9/11.
Poet-Priest Malcolm Guite is Chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge and teaches at the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. His books include: Love, Remember; Mariner; Parable and Paradox; The Singing Bowl; Theology and the Poetic Imagination and Faith, Hope and Poetry.
*All Peace and Poetry activity is included in the price of general admission to the New Cathedral. 
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