Cancelled & to be rescheduled: WORD! WITH GEORGE SZIRTES AND FRIENDS: POETRY FESTIVAL SPECIAL

Event notice:

This event has now been rescheduled and will take place on Monday 14 November.

Event notice:

This event which was due to take place on 19 September at Beeston Library is now cancelled. Following the sad news of the Queen’s death, Inspire will be observing the bank holiday on Monday 19th September and all services will close.

We are exploring dates to reschedule this event and will update this page as soon as we can. 

WORD update

WORD!’s online workshop led by George will go ahead this Wednesday 14 September. To book a place, email hello@wordpoetry.co.uk. Places are free thanks to the support of Arts Council England and Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. For more info www.wordpoetry.co.uk 

About WORD! with George Szirtes and friends

Join George Szirtes and friends for this much anticipated, Po-Fest-tastic, postpandemic first one back in Beeston WORD! Poet, translator, biographer and former International Booker Prize judge, George Szirtes was born in 1948 in Budapest, and came to England following the Hungarian Uprising in 1956. His many awards include: the Faber Prize, TS Eliot Prize and the International Booker Translators’ Prize (twice).

 George will be joined by WORD!’s Lydia Towsey and the acclaimed Panya Banjoko, author of the recently released (Re)Framing the Archive (Burning Eye Books, 2022).

 To perform on the open mic - and/or to sign up for an online WORD! workshop with George on 14 September, 10.30-12pm email hello@wordpoetry.co.uk.

“Szirtes is increasingly revealed as a major English poet - one of those in whom insight and technique combine to focus more and more productively as the years go by.” Hugh Macpherson, Poetry Review

“I know of no other poet who combines activism and archive the way that she does.” Henderson Mullen, Writing East Midlands, on Panya Banjoko

 Tickets £8 / Concessions £6

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