A PRODUCTION FROM RIDING LIGHTS

POETRY DOUBLES 6

ANNE STEVENSON
ANGELA LEIGHTON

"I'm a strong supporter of the idea that writers who have been around for a long time and who are in a position to 'help' other writers, if that's the right word, should do so. The premise of Poetry Doubles is a very good one."
Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate

A series of readings taking place at York’s Friargate Theatre up to six times a year, each featuring an established poet and his or her own choice of a second poet - an exciting, emerging talent - presenting some of our most influential and our most promising new writers side by side.

ANNE STEVENSON

Anne Stevenson has published twelve collections of poetry, a book of essays, Between the Iceberg and the Ship (1998), a recent critical study, Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop (1998) and a biography of Sylvia Plath, Bitter Fame (1989). Granny Scarecrow (Bloodaxe 2000) was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize; A Report from the Border (Bloodaxe 2003) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and is her most recent collection since The Collected Poems 1955-1995 (now available from Bloodaxe) was published by OUP in 1996. She was the inaugural winner of the £60,000 Northern Rock Writer Award (2002).

"In every generation one is afraid that they are not making poets like her any more."
Peter Levi (Poetry Review)

"One of the most intelligent, assured, vivid and skilful poets writing today."
Gerard Woodward (Times Literary Supplement)

ANGELA LEIGHTON

Angela Leighton was born in Wakefield, educated in Edinburgh and Oxford, and currently teaches at the University of Hull. She has published various critical works on nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry. She began writing her own poetry after the death of her father some years ago, and her first volume is A Cold Spell (Shoestring Press 2000). Her poems have appeared in Poetry Review, TLS, London Magazine, Agenda, Rialto, Thumbscrew and Metre, among others. She is currently working on a second collection.

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