Hosted by Jacob Sam-La Rose and Luke Styles featuring UK poets and Deal poet Jessica Mookherjee

SESSION 1 (POETRY)
12.00 – 12.45pm The Cleary Hall, Landmark Centre
Annie Hayter, Jinhao Xie

SESSION 2 (POETRY)
1.30pm – 2.15pm The Cleary Hall, Landmark Centre
Courtney Conrad, Charlotte Higgins

SESSION 3 (POETRY)
3pm – 4pm The Astor Theatre Bar
Sarala Estruch, Jessica Mookherjee

SESSION 4 (POETRY AND MUSIC)
4.30pm – 5.30pm Linden Hall Studio (with wine)
Jacob Sam-La Rose and Fiona Winning, viola

Poets working at the forefront of contemporary poetry perform their work across the whole day in Deal.

Seven Poets working at the forefront of contemporary poetry perform their work across the whole day in Deal.

Poets include former and current members of Barbican Young Poets – an artist development initiative run by one of the country’s most inspirational writers and educators, British-Guyanese poet Jacob Sam-La Rose. Jacob Sam- La Rose is a poet, performer, educator and editor who has performed and taught internationally. Throughout the day poets will perform in different venues with a final poetry and music session at The Linden Hall Studio. Jacob will be joined by Viola player Fiona Winning who was for many years principal viola player for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and appears as well with The Kegelstatt Trio who will perform an Homage to Schumann during the Festival.

At The Linden Hall Studio Jacob and Fiona will present music by Bach and Deal Festival’s new Artistic Director, Luke Styles, alongside poetry and other text.