Icebound/Spellbound - from Antarctica to East Anglia
Event 228 • •
Venue: Digital Stage
The two poets locate you in the bootprints of Captain Scott, then at the black heart of the witch trials of Civil War Suffolk. Reading from Banjo and Witch they bring trial, defiance and trauma to life in dramatic form, taking you into terra incognita – one physical, the other psychological, both deadly.
Dr Huw Morris is a Neurologist and Geneticist at Cardiff University and the Royal Gwent Hospital, Aneurin Bevan Health Board. In his talk he will discuss the personal and social impact of dementia, how different types of dementia affect the brain and various aspects of behaviour and thinking. He will describe some recent new discoveries and the prospects for new treatments in dementia He works on a range of dementias and movement disorders.
This event has taken place
In association with Cardiff University and Ty Hapus
The TS Eliot Prize-winning poet introduces his new collection. In his nineties, Gross’s father, a wartime refugee, began to lose his several languages, first to deafness, then to profound aphasia. Deeply thought as well as deeply felt, these poems reach into that gulf to find him - through recovery of histories both spoken and unspoken as well as an excavation of the spoken word itself. Chaired by Kathryn Gray.
The actor talks about her personal relationship with poetry and introduces the most romantic project in the Cultural Olympiad, which she has created with the director Deborah Warner. Peace Camp is a poignant exploration of love poetry and will take the form of a series of installations at extraordinary locations encircling the coast of the UK this summer.
Shaw invites you to bring along your favourite love poems and join her in a conversation about love poetry in all its many forms. Your nomination may even be included in the soundscape being specially created for Peace Camp.
