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Award winning poet Fiona Sampson will be joined by acclaimed young writer Adam O'Riordan for a joint poetry reading at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere.
The two poets will be reading their own work as part of a series of readings organised by the Wordsworth Trust at Dove Cottage and described by Poet Laureate Andrew Motion as "The best poetry programme in Britain.
Adam O'Riordan was born in Manchester. He read English at Oxford University and studied poetry under Michael Donaghy. Later, he won a scholarship to study under Andrew Motion at the University of London where he was awarded the inaugural Peters Fraser and Dunlop poetry prize. In 2006 he received an Arts Council England writer's award. He lives in London.
Fiona Sampson has published 15 books - poetry, philosophy of language and books on the writing process - of which the most recent are her latest poetry collection, Common Prayer (Carcanet, 2007), and Writing: Self and Reflexivity (Macmillan 2005).
She has won the Newdigate Prize and was shortlisted for the 2006 Forward prize. She has been widely translated, with eight books in translation. She contributes to The Guardian, The Irish Times and other publications; and is the editor of Poetry Review. Educated at Oxford and Nijmegen, she has a PhD in the philosophy of language and is a Fellow at the CAPITAL Centre, University of Warwick.
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1. Dove Cottage, the Wordsworth Museum and the 3°W Gallery are open daily from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm (last admission 5 pm). The Jerwood Centre is open by appointment to all with a research interest.
2. Poetry Readings are held during the summer at the Wordsworth Trust, linking the creativity of the present with the past.
3. Exhibitions at the Wordsworth Museum are assisted by a grant from the Northern Rock Foundation.
4. The work of the Wordsworth Trust is funded by a combination of donations from private and corporate sponsors and trusts, and Arts Council England
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