Sujata Bhatt and Selima Hill at Live Theatre
Live Poetry: Sujata Bhatt and Selima Hill, Sunday 11th May, 8pm, £7/£5 conc.
Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad, India, grew up in the United States, and now lives in Germany. Her travels are reflected in her poetry, which considers the themes of language, identity, history and place with a rare delicacy and sympathy. Carcanet have published six collections of her poetry, as well as her selected poems, Point No Point (1997). Bhatt has won the Alice Hunt Bartlett prize, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize and a Cholmondeley Award, and her poetry has been translated into more than 20 languages. Tonight she will be reading from her new collection, Pure Lizard.
‘One of the finest poets alive’ – Adrian Mitchell, the New Statesman
Selima Hill grew up in rural England and Wales, and now lives in Dorset. She has established both a loyal fan base and critical acclaim for her wildly inventive poetry, and has won the Whitbread Poetry Award and has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. Hill’s themes are familiar – family, childhood, love, sex – but she writes about them with a unique, surreal intelligence: her poetry creates its own world. Tonight she will be launching two books from Bloodaxe: Gloria: Selected Poems, and a brand new collection, The Hat.
‘She is truly gifted. She invests mundane things with visionary, delirious brilliance’ – Sunday Times
Tickets are on sale now.
Live Theatre, Broad Chare, Quayside, Newcastle, NE1 3DQ
Box office: 0191 232 1232 / www.live.org.uk
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