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| READINGS STROUDWATER TEXTILE FESTIVAL: MINI FESTIVAL Commencing October 2008: Jane Weir reading from her new book, Walking the Block, on the lives of Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher. Date to be confirmed. DERWENT POETRY FESTIVAL, Saturday 18th October, Jane Weir & Tim Liardet at Masson Mill, Matlock Bath OXFAM BOOKSHOP, ST IVES, Saturday 2nd August: Time TBA LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVAL, Saturday 12th July 2008, 6.30pm ASHBOURNE FESTIVAL: POETRY IN THE GARDEN, Sunday 22nd June: Jane Weir, Dawn Wood, Rob Hindle & Pat Winslow BORDERS BOOKSHOP, Geldred Road Retail Park, Birstall, Batley. 7.30pm WIGTOWN POETRY COMPETITION AWARDS: 2008 Bladnoch Distillery, Wigtown, Saturday 3rd May at 12.30 pm, hosted by Robert Crawford. STROUDWATER INTERNATIONAL TEXTILE FESTIVAL, Sunday 4th May at 11.30 am, discussing her new work on the textile artists, Phyllis Barron and Dorothy Larcher with Jean Vacher OXFAM BOOKS & MUSIC, 69 Petergate, York. Jane Weir & Pat Borthwick. 7.30 - 9.00p.m. OXFAM BOOKS & MUSIC, Thursday April 3rd, 7 - 8.30pm, 3 Market Street, Huddersrfield OXFAM BOOKSHOP, 9-11 BEDFORD STREET, NORWICH, Friday 1st February 2008 - 3.00 - 4.00pm FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, FRIARGATE, YORK - Thursday 31st January, 7.30 - 9.00pm OXFAM, 12 BLOOMSBURY STREET, LONDON, Wednesday 16th January 2008 - 7.00 - 8.00pm OXFAM, WITNEY, OXFORD Tuesday 15th January, 7 - 8.30 pm OXFAM, CHEADLE, Friday 14th December 2007, 2 - 3 pm OXFAM, DIDSBURY MANCHESTER, Saturday 10th November 2007 DERWENT POETRY FESTIVAL, Masson Mill, Matlock Bath: 26th October 2007 with Jean Sprackland MANCHESTER LITERATURE FESTIVAL, 6th October 2007 at The Lowry Centre, Salford Quays, Salford Jane Weir's second collection, Before Playing Romeo, was launched on 2nd October at a Wordsworth Trust Summer Reading at Grasmere WORDSWORTH TRUST SUMMER READINGS, GRASMERE: 2nd October 2007 KINGS LYNN POETRY FESTIVAL, 28th - 30th September 2007 AWARDS & PRIZES WIGTOWN POETRY COMPETITION: 2008 Jane Weir is the overall winner of the Wigtown Poetry Competition, Scotland's National Poetry Competition and also had a poem commended. The Awards Event, hosted by Robert Crawford, who judged the competition, is being held at Bladnoch Distillery, Wigtown on Saturday 3rd May. (Posted 28.4.2008) GLEN DIMPLEX NEW WRITERS AWARDS: 2006 Jane Weir’s first collection, The Way I Dressed During the Revolution, has been shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards 2006. This is a new annual Award with a total prize fund of €45,000. The Judges for the Poetry section were the novelist Colm Toibin and the poet Ciaran Carson. (Posted October 2006) FORWARD PRIZE : 2006 A poem from The Way I Dressed During the Revolution is published in The Forward Book of Poetry 2007. The poem is ‘Cigar’. (Posted October 2006) PAMPHLET PUBLICATION: 2006 Jane Weir’s first Pamphlet, Alice is published in November and will be launched at an event in London in November. This is the first audio pamphlet published by Templar Poetry. The event will simultaneously launch the 2006 Templar Poetry Pamphlets and the Templar Poetry Pamphlet & Collection Competition for 2007. Posted September 2006) |
| WOMAN'S HOUR INTERVIEW Jenni Murray interviewed Jane Weir on Woman’s Hour (December 8th 2005) about her collection ‘The Way I Dressed During The Revolution’ and being brought up in Manchester. (Posted December 2005) Click on the link below to hear the interview. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2005_49_thu_05.shtml |
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