Home and Abroad: A Poetry Life – Graham Fawcett in conversation with Lionel Ward

Home and Abroad: a poetry life. Graham Fawcett in conversation

Emily Dickinson

Venue: Brendon Books, Old Brewery Buildings, Bath Place, Taunton, Somerset TA1 4ER
(photo above, map below)

Graham Fawcett has been talking and writing about poetry all his life. At school and Cambridge he came under the spell of several very remarkable teachers and lecturers. His love of how languages work on the page in conversation, on the stage in theatre and opera and the public reading of poetry, and in translation, was given a new shot in the arm by living in Italy and France, working for the Arvon Foundation in Devon, and during his years interviewing and travelling for the BBC. In 2008 he started lecturing on individual poets to audiences in London and beyond, and in 2014 began an annual series of poetry on location in Britain, Europe and America. The conversation will be illustrated by poems now and then. 

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"I feel very privileged to have had a chance to sneak inside your mind and heart, both of which feel like quite glorious places to be. And thank you for my moments of knowing smiles and, well, just good laughs. Keep writing, keep opening up your heart and pouring it on the page."
Kim Thomas
Former Head of Arts Series, BBC, 2002 - 2008
after reading Graham's 2024 lecture at Brendon Books, 'Dante and Me'

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Top picture: Brendon Books, Old Brewery Buildings, Bath Place, Taunton, Somerset

Lower image:

Graham Fawcett in 2015 teaching a group inside the Auditorium of Maecenas in Rome where Vergil and Horace are believed to have read new poems to their patron Maecenas. The space is kept under lock and key and is only opened under special licence.

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