THURSDAY 5 MAY 4pm
Simon has published ten volumes of poetry, for which he has received numerous awards. He writes for radio, television, film and stage and currently lectures at Manchester Metropolitan University. His first novel, Little Green Man, is published by Penguin. In 2010 he was awarded the CBE for services to poetry.
Penelope Shuttle
Penelope Shuttle’s new collection, her ninth, is Sandgrain and Hourglass (Bloodaxe Books), a Public Broadcasting Service Recommendation. Her 2005 collection, Redgrove’s Wife (Bloodaxe Books) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Award and The Forward Prize.
Tim Smit
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5.30pm
Nature of Human Happiness, Contentment and Wellbeing
Tim is Chief Executive and co-founder of the award-winning Eden Project, near St Austell in Cornwall. He and John Nelson together ‘discovered’ and then restored the Lost Gardens of Heligan, and he remains a Director of the gardens to the present day. Prior to that he worked for ten years in the music industry as a composer/producer in rock music and opera.
8- 10.30pm
Jo Hardy
where movement Freeform conscious dance ativity breaks out, cre lt, expands, boundaries me s and a community is hope happens, beauty flow dance floor. Whether created right there on the or just a bop, Jo ce it’s 5 Rhythms, ecstatic dan to dance and you ites inv creates a space and r being. Her wide move from the core of you from wild world t, selection of music is brillian elic. ang and beats to the sublime
GREAT HALL THURSDAY 5 MAY
Simon Armitage, CBE
Kangaroo Mmeod inoAunstralia in 1992, Kangaroo Moon was for ral fusion is a favourite and the band’s cross-cultu en festival circuits. on the British folk and gre rld, rock, folk and Weaving strands from wo electronic influences dance with acoustic and ll of sound, their wa g into a funky heart-liftin geridoo, keyboards, music is a wild blend of did guitar. violin, drums, mandolin and
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