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A celebratory tribute to Derek Walcott led by poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell
Join poet and playwright Glyn Maxwell and fellow poets, friends, collaborators and former students of Derek Walcott to pay celebratory tribute. Expect readings and informal conversation.
Glyn Maxwell is a poet, playwright, novelist, librettist and critic. His volumes of poetry include The Breakage, Hide Now and Pluto, all of which were shortlisted for either the Forward or T S Eliot Prizes, and The Nerve, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. His Selected Poems, One Thousand Nights and Counting, was published on both sides of the Atlantic in 2011. He has a long association with Derek Walcott, who taught him in Boston in the late 1980s, and whose Selected Poems he edited in 2014.
Sponsored by the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library in partnership with StrongBack Productions
| Name: | Monsieur Seven Seas: A Tribute to Derek Walcott |
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| Where: | Knowledge Centre The British Library 96 Euston Road London NW1 2DB |
| When: | – |
| Price: | Full Price: £10.00 Member: £10.00 Senior 60+: £8.00 Student: £7.00 Registered Unemployed: £7.00 Under 18: £7.00 |
| Enquiries: | +44 (0)1937 546546 boxoffice@bl.uk |
