This year we’ve got something a bit different to add to our fantastic free programme that runs alongside the ticketed performances at Priddy Folk Festival – poetry!
On Friday evening, in the village church, four poets will read their poems about nature, place and the threats to the survival of the natural environment.
Between each reading, a short piece of music will help sustain the mood.
Programme:
Sean Borodale will read from Asylum, written deep within the caves, mines, quarries, geological and archaeological horizons of the Mendip Hills.
Alyson Hallett grew up in Street, Somerset. She’s published twenty books, written for radio, and collaborated with many scientists, dancers, sculptors, artists; she has a particular interest in stones and how they migrate.
JLM Morton’s ecopoetic writing explores contemporary rural experience and belonging, ancestry, place and practices of care, repair and solidarity across human and more-than-human worlds.
Philip Rush writes about walks and vinyl LPs, stone circles, and so on. “He’s quirky, funny, thoughtful, entertaining. He shares what feels like the perfect phrase as though he’d picked it up while walking in the woods.”
Music between the acts
Providing the musical interludes will be Between the Acts. This Cotswolds-based country dance band deliver rousing tunes featuring variously, fiddle, guitar, 12-string guitar, bass, keyboards; congas, percussion; bodhran, talking drum, oboe, vocals.
The poetry evening will be held in St Laurence’s Church, Priddy from 7.30 pm on Friday 11 July and is free.