{"id":3780,"date":"2023-05-11T18:30:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T17:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2023-10-06T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T15:59:23","slug":"newcastle-poetry-festival-2023-zaffar-kunial-fiona-benson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3780","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: <h6>Zaffar Kunial &#038; Fiona Benson<\/h6>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/865662227\" width=\"470\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We are thrilled to to be working with the T.S.Eliot Foundation to bring you two poets recently short-listed for the T.S. Eliot prize, who will close the first day of the festival.\u00a0<strong>Zaffar Kunial<\/strong>\u00a0lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, and was born in Birmingham. His debut collection,\u00a0<em>Us<\/em>, was shortlisted for a number of prizes. He was a 2022 recipient of the Yale University Windham-Campbell Prize.\u00a0<em>England\u2019s Green<\/em>\u00a0is his second book and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0Fiona Benson\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>collections are\u00a0<em>Bright Travellers, Vertigo &amp; Ghost<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Ephemeron<\/em>, all of which were shortlisted for the T S Eliot prize<em>.\u00a0<\/em>Her books have received many awards, including the Forward Prize, the Seamus Heaney Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">With thanks to the T. S. Eliot Prize and T. S. Eliot Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Use the &#8216;CC&#8217; button on the Vimeo player to toggle subtitles for this video.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to to be working with the T.S.Eliot Foundation to bring you two poets recently short-listed for the T.S. Eliot prize, who will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[240,388,858,797,59,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}