Stoke Newington Literary Festival 2012
Year three of this eclectic, amusing, inspiring, sometimes audacious and always brilliant festival, set up to celebrate the area's radical thinking and literary heritage.
Year three of this eclectic, amusing, inspiring, sometimes audacious and always brilliant festival, set up to celebrate the area's radical thinking and literary heritage.
Kit Wright is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children, and the winner of awards including an Arts Council Writers’ Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award and the Heinemann Award.
He’s joined by Phil Bowen, another award-winning poet who’s contributed, alongside Allen Ginsberg, Simon Armitage and Roger McGough, to The Captain’s Tower, celebrating the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan. Jan Noble, a local poet described by The Guardian and NME respectively as ‘white trash rap’ and ‘sophisticated urban narrative also performs.
Tickets on the door for this event