On 16th. February we are very lucky to be able to welcome Luke Kennard to the Camden Centre, for what should prove to be an exciting evening of contemporary poetry. So come along and join us at 8.00 pm.
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Luke Kennard is a British poet and critic, born in 1981.
He holds a PhD from the University of Exeter and currently lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham, specialising in teaching poetry and writing for the stage and screen. Kennard has written numerous works for the stage. He also writes short stories. His mixture of free verse and prose poems are linked by surreal themes and strong yet mysterious characters. His criticism of poetry and theatre appears in various publications, including The National, Poetry London and the Times Literary Supplement.
Luke has been appointed the 2016 Canal Laureate. The Canal Laureateship was established by The Poetry Society and the Canal & River Trust in 2013, to encourage exciting new writing about the canal network. He will begin his Laureateship by foot, writing about his canal-side journeys as he goes, in a series of new poems. The poems, and other surreal observations from the narrow road, will be published from January 2016 on the project blog: http://www.waterlines.org.uk. You can also follow his adventures via Twitter @CanalPoetry.
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