Welcome to the Torbay Festival of Poetry.
‘To have great poets there must be great audiences too’ – Walt Whitman. We do have great audiences at Torbay, people who appreciate poetry and make the guests poets feel welcome and loved. Despite this year having thirty-two events over the weekend, we have scheduled-in time between for coffees, tea or wine, but above all for chat, making friends, and meeting the poets. All this is such a vital part of poetry festivals, and the new hotel has fantastic facilities for doing it. With fourteen events in which the audience can participate if they feel the need, as well as much good poetry, it’s adding up to a sparkling weekend.
MAKE A NOTE OF THE DATES FOR 2012:
Thursday 25th to Monday 29th October 2012.
HILARY DAVIES is the author of three collections of poetry with Enitharmon Press, is a Gregory Award winner and Hawthornden Fellow. Was Chairman of the Poetry Society 1992-3; won the TLS/Cheltenham Poetry Competition 1987 and was editor of ARGO magazine for 12 years. Reviews regularly for the literary press and has been a judge for the Bournemouth Literature Festival Poetry Competition. Thirty years a teacher of French and German; she has translated poetry from both languages. 