Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: Daljit Nagra & Owen Sheers
This event with two award-winning poets explores home, landscape and language. Owen Sheers is a poet, author and playwright. He has been twice-winner of Welsh Book of the Year and was he was the recipient of the 2016 St Davids Award for Culture and the 2018 Wilfred Owen Poetry Award. His second collection Skirrid Hill won a Somerset Maugham Award. Daljit Nagra has published four poetry collections which have won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem and Best First Book, the South Bank Show Decibel Award and the Cholmondeley Award. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University and Chair of the Royal Society of Literature.
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