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Gillian Allnutt, award winning poet and author of seven major poetry collections, will be reading her poetry in Grasmere alongside the highly acclaimed young poet, Caroline Bird.
Both are taking part in the ever-popular Poetry Readings programme organised annually by the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere. The readings, which bring the best of present day poets to Cumbria, take place every other Tuesday at the Waterside Hotel.
David Wilson, the Robert Woof Director of the Wordsworth Trust said: "These are two very highly talented poets who have both won acclaim for their work. Gillian has published many collections in a long and distinguished career while Caroline has taken the poetry world by storm, winning her first major award at a very young age. It promises to be a varied and entertaining evening."
Gillian Allnutt won the Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award in 2005. Her collections Nantucket and the Angel and Lintel were both shortlisted for the prestigious T. S. Eliot Prize, and Lintel was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Gillian was born in 1949 in London, but spent much of her childhood in Newcastle upon Tyne. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge and the University of Sussex. She currently lives near Durham.
Since 1973 she has taught English and Creative Writing in London and Newcastle upon Tyne, and has also worked as a performer, publisher, journalist and freelance editor.
Caroline Bird was born in 1986. She grew up in Leeds and attended the Steiner School in York before moving to London in 2001. She won the Poetry Society's Simon Elvin Young Poet of the Year Award two years running (1999 and 2000). Her first collection, Looking Through Letterboxes, was published by Carcanet in 2002. Her second collection, Trouble Came to the Turnip, was published in 2006.
Caroline's poems have appeared in PN Review, Poetry Review, The North magazine and in Carcanet's New Poetries III anthology (2002) and she has had a specially-commissioned short story, Sucking Eggs, broadcast on Radio Four. A member of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme, she has also written four plays.
Caroline Bird has achieved many accolades for her poetry, the most notable being an Eric Gregory Award in 2002.
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2. Poetry Readings are held during the summer at the Wordsworth Trust, linking the creativity of the present with the past.
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