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StAnza 2012
Applicable Regions: Cupar and Howe of Fife Dunfermline and West Fife East Neuk Kirkcaldy and Mid Fife Levenmouth St Andrews
StAnza 2012 will take place over five days from 14th to 18th March, more than 90 events in atmospheric venues around the historic town centre of St Andrews. The country’s biggest and best poetry festival is famous for the warmth of its welcome and the artistic quality of programmes which attract a lively international audience. With themes this year of The Image and Poetry by Degrees, the programme features a stunning line-up of headliners such as Kathleen Jamie, Christopher Reid, Matthew Hollis and Chase Twichell from the US joining poets from Samoa, Jamaica, Canada, Palestine and across Europe to participate in a diverse range of readings, performances, installations, talks and conversations. As ever there will also be visual art, film, music and drama, this year with actors David Hayman and Karen Dunbar, a children’s programme, and participation activities. New events for 2012 range from an all-day workshop at the home of the artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham to afternoon tea and poetry with Jackie Kay. There will be a focus on film and TV-related poetry; and an avant-garde strand in poetry will feature the acclaimed Dutch text composer, Rozalie Hirs, a leading champion of new poetics in the UK, Keston Sutherland, sound installations from Holly Pester, Filmpoem, a cross-arts collaboration of film, poetry and live music from Scottish poet and film-maker Alastair Cook, and films from Icelandic and Swedish conceptual poets. There will also be poems on show at Leuchars Railway Station and St Andrews Bus Station. More information online at www.stanzapoetry.org. Brochures from brochure@stanzapoetry.org. Box Office www.byretheatre.com or 01334 475000
