If you missed the Synthesising Sound poetry and music workshop at Barn Arts with Gabrielle Byam Grounds and myself (English Serenata) then there's another workshop you may be interested in at the Capital Centre on Monday 3rd November: Beyond the Lyric, CAPITAL Centre, Millburn House, University of Warwick.  Fiona Sampson, Don Paterson, Alan Jenkins, David Harsent .... the Coull Quartet and the University Chorus Chamber choir.

Date for your Diary:  Town Hall, Birmingham: 9th December, Pre-concert talk 6.15pm and concert 7.30pm

I will be in conversation with Kathy Hinde and Fiona Sampson. Kathy was commissioned to create visual images for the Messiaen concert, Quartet for the End of Time. Kathy will show and discuss her images during the pre-concert event. 

THSH Poet in Residence, Julie Boden and Fiona Sampson, Fellow at the Capital Centre, Warwick University, will discuss with Kathy Hinde the various ways in which art forms can work together.  Fiona's poem, Messiaen, from her collection Common Prayer (Carcanet) will be published in the programme.  Fiona and Julie may also read new poems inspired by Messiaen or by Kathy's visual images. Questions will be taken from the audience.

 www.birminghambookfestival.org    and   Warwick Words are both over for another year! Great festivals and it was lovely to meet so many of you at some of this year's events.