This December sees the opportunity to hear writer Catherine Swire sharing her love of poetry with audiences at the Into the Wyld contemporary art festival in Birkenhead.
Please do join Catherine on Saturday 7th December, 3pm at the Williamson Art Gallery where she will read from and discuss her 2022 poetry collection Soil published by The Artel Press, and which explored how trauma is translated by landscape.
Catherine works in the landscape around Malvern that inspired the father of English landscape poetry and dreamscape William Langland – a contemporary of the Gawain poet whose seminal medieval tale Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the subject of the festival.
Catherine studied English Literature at Oxford. Her understanding of Middle English and love of these early poets will be a unique opportunity to hear the world of Sir Gawain and its wider connection with the English landscape brought vividly to life framed in the language and ideas of the period.
This event forms part of the Weavers live programme for Into the Wyld, curated by Dr Silvia Battista and supported by Liverpool Hope University.
Tickets are free. All are welcome but numbers are limited. (This event has now ended.)
Credit: Benjamin Nuttall