Poetry festival's week of events is well underway

PLYMOUTH’S poetry festival is well underway with a packed week of events planned.

- WILLIAM TELFORD

Readings and workshops take place today at Cafe Momus, in Union Street; at Firestone Bay, in Stonehouse; Stoke's Plymouth Propriety Library, and at Wilful Beer, in Mutley Plain.

These were all covered in last week's Literary City and now it is time to focus on the week ahead.

The 10-day Sound: Plymouth Poetry Festival is bringing together many of the city’s top poets with guests from around the UK.

Tomorrow, April 12, the festival continues with Poem as Translation, an ekphrastic workshop with Remi Graves at Plymouth Proprietary Library, from 10am until noon.

Ekphrastic poetry is about other works of art but can also mean describing something in vivid detail.

Remi will also be reading at The Box during (Re)writing the Archive: an Afternoon of Trans Poetics, which also features Casey Garfield and Plymouth's Laurie Page. It is in the Simmons Learning Room from 1.45pm until 3.15pm.

Writing the Difficult is a poetry workshop with Ella Frears, at the Plymouth Proprietary Library from 3pm to 5pm.