The Meat of the Tongue: The eye
This video shows Caroline Bird performing 'I Married Green-Eyes'.
About this event
Thursday 10 April, 19.00-20.30
In the Kenyan fairy tale 'The Meat of the Tongue', a healthy diet consists of fairy tales, jokes, songs and poems. The poems paint pictures, tell stories, impart information and engage with our emotions.
Visitors to this event enjoyed live readings of poets' work exploring the eye, sight and blindness.
Poets
Don Paterson
One of the UK's most distinguished poets, whose latest collection, 'Landing Light', won both the T S Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. His many other publications include an adaptation of 'The Eyes' by the Spanish poet Antonio Machado (1875-1939).
Tobias Hill
A fine contemporary poet who has previously been commissioned by the Wellcome Trust to write a short story.
Caroline Bird
A gifted poet who explores her subjects in a variety of physical, psychological and metaphorical ways. Only 20 years old, she had her first collection published when she was 15.
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