{"id":3788,"date":"2017-04-27T15:35:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T14:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2017-04-27T15:35:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T14:35:44","slug":"cheltenham-poetry-festival-2017-begins-on-thursday-4th-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2017\/04\/27\/cheltenham-poetry-festival-2017-begins-on-thursday-4th-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheltenham Poetry Festival 2017 begins on Thursday 4th May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3818 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/cpf-brochure-2017.png?resize=326%2C465&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"CPF brochure 2017\" width=\"326\" height=\"465\" \/><\/em>It&#8217;s just one week until the Cheltenham Poetry Festival kicks off with appearances from\u00a0UoG&#8217;s own D.D. Johnston and Tyler Keevil.\u00a0They&#8217;ll be talking\u00a0from 7pm to 8pm at <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/sQsLYhgH8Ps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smokey Joe\u2019s<\/a> on Thursday 4th May, and you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketsource.co.uk\/boxoffice\/category\/wDvOAFqZjAEL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book your tickets here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But, wait, it gets even better. Stick around! After that, it&#8217;s the turn of some of\u00a0our many\u00a0talented students. They\u2019ll be reading flash fictions full of laughs and tragedy, in the same venue, on the same night, from 8:30pm. Admittance to that event is free, but space is limited so please\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketsource.co.uk\/boxoffice\/category\/jDWGomUnRJlZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reserve your place here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s just the first night of the 2017 Cheltenham Poetry Festival! Here are three\u00a0other UoG-related events to look out for: on Thursday 5th May, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketsource.co.uk\/event\/EKDDHF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">English Literature lecturer John Hughes will be discussing how to analyse poetry<\/a>, in Oxfam Bookshop at 11am; on Wednesday 10th May, there&#8217;s a chance to see PhD student <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheltplayhouse.org.uk\/whats-on\/spring-2017\/oscar-wildes-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Howard Timms&#8217; play <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheltplayhouse.org.uk\/whats-on\/spring-2017\/oscar-wildes-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oscar Wilde&#8217;s Women<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>at 7:45pm at the Cheltenham Playhouse; and\u00a0on Thursday 11th May, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheltplayhouse.org.uk\/whats-on\/spring-2017\/indigo-dreams-poetry-showcase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anna Saunders<\/a> (an alumni of our Creative Writing MA and the Festival director) will be reading alongside three other poets at the Cheltenham Playhouse at \u00a08pm.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s just a small sample of what&#8217;s on. The Poetry Festival runs until May 15th, with an exciting and eclectic range of big stars and local talents. So be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/cheltenhampoetryfest.co.uk\/festival-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check out the full list of events here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just one week until the Cheltenham Poetry Festival kicks off with appearances from\u00a0UoG&#8217;s own D.D. Johnston and Tyler Keevil.\u00a0They&#8217;ll be talking\u00a0from 7pm to 8pm at Smokey Joe\u2019s on Thursday 4th May, and you can book your tickets&#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":[26,76,98,129,156,203,291,376],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anna-saunders","tag-cheltenham-poetry-festival","tag-d-d-johnston","tag-flash-fiction","tag-howard-timms","tag-local-events","tag-publications-and-performances","tag-tyler-keevil"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","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=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}