{"id":2842,"date":"2016-04-28T12:32:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=2842"},"modified":"2016-04-28T12:32:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T11:32:41","slug":"the-2016-cheltenham-poetry-festival-featuring-uog-staff-students-and-alumni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2016\/04\/28\/the-2016-cheltenham-poetry-festival-featuring-uog-staff-students-and-alumni\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2016 Cheltenham Poetry Festival, Featuring UoG Staff, Students, and Alumni!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many amazing events going on in the last few weeks of term we&#8217;re going to have to bombard this blog with announcements.\u00a0 To start with, we wanted to shout about this year&#8217;s Cheltenham Poetry Festival, since you can grab discounted tickets if you pick them up in advance.\u00a0 The fest runs from May 6th to 15th and is organized by UoG Creative Writing Alumni Anna Saunders.\u00a0 The fest always features a stellar line-up of professional poets, and Anna has been brilliant about\u00a0including past and current students; this year schedule\u00a0maintains the tradition of featuring Team UoG on the bill.\u00a0 Below you&#8217;ll find some festival highlights, well worth checking out, and if you want to find out more or pre-book those discounted tickets, follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheltenhampoetryfest.co.uk\/\">this link<\/a>.\u00a0 Looking forward to seeing you there!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saturday 7<sup>th<\/sup> May, 5pm, St Andrew\u2019s Church hall <strong>Paul Innes <\/strong> is giving a talk on Shakespeare\u2019s Roman Plays \u00a36\/4<\/li>\n<li>Sunday 8<sup>th<\/sup> May, 2pm at The Strand, MA alumni <strong>Lesley Ingram<\/strong> will read from her Cinnamon Press poetry collection \u2018Scumbled\u2019. Reading with novelist Martin Lytton. \u00a36\/4<\/li>\n<li>Monday 9<sup>th<\/sup> May, 8pm at The Strand, <strong>Angela France <\/strong> will read new poetry exploring Cheltenham\u2019s radical heart. Reading with novelist Kim Fleet. \u00a36\/4<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday 10<sup>th<\/sup> May, 8pm at Smokey Joe\u2019s, Tania Hershman with <strong>UoG students<\/strong> give a micro-fiction showcase \u00a36\/4<\/li>\n<li>Thursday 12<sup>th<\/sup> May, 11am at the Oxfam bookshop, <strong>John Hughes<\/strong> to give a talk on Bob Dylan \u00a37\/5<\/li>\n<li>Thursday 12<sup>th<\/sup> May, 6.30pm at The Frog and Fiddle, <strong>Lania Knight <\/strong>reading poetry with Pete Mullineaux and Alice Merry. \u00a36\/4<\/li>\n<li>Thursday 12<sup>th<\/sup> May, 8pm at The Frog and Fiddle, MA alumni and Poetry Festival founder\/director <strong>Anna Saunders<\/strong> will read from her new collection as part of an Indigo Dreams showcase \u00a37\/5<\/li>\n<li>Friday 13<sup>th<\/sup> May, The 6th Cheltenham Poetry Festival Slam, 8pm at Smokey Joes. Performers include UoG students <strong>Mathias Pedersen<\/strong> and <strong>Dani Shlosser <\/strong> \u00a37\/5<\/li>\n<li>Saturday 14<sup>th<\/sup> May, 3.30, Oxfam bookshop, <strong>Nigel McLoughlin<\/strong> is giving a talk on the WB Yeats poem \u2018Easter 1916\u2019 \u00a36\/4<\/li>\n<li>Saturday 14<sup>th<\/sup> May, 6.30pm at The Wilson, a poetry reading by <strong>Nigel McLoughlin <\/strong>and George Szirtes \u00a38\/6<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2848\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/poetrylogo.jpg?resize=490%2C358&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"poetrylogo\" width=\"490\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many amazing events going on in the last few weeks of term we&#8217;re going to have to bombard this blog with announcements.\u00a0 To start with, we wanted to shout about this year&#8217;s Cheltenham Poetry Festival,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,76,203,280,291],"class_list":["post-2842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cheltenham","tag-cheltenham-poetry-festival","tag-local-events","tag-poetry","tag-publications-and-performances"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}