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A Celebration of Frances Horovitz
With Gillian Clarke and Anne Stevenson

Saturday 4th October at 2.30 pm
Orcop Church, Herefordshire   
Tickets: £7.00 (available on the door)

Poets Gillian Clarke and Anne Stevenson visit Orcop Church to read in tribute to their close friend, the poet Frances Horovitz, who died of cancer twenty-five years ago and is buried in the churchyard at Orcop.

Gillian Clarke is the National Poet of Wales and knows the Marches well, ever since she and Frances contributed to The Kilpeck Anthology, published by the Five Seasons Press in Hereford in 1981, and were “sisters cooling our wrists / in the stump of a Celtic water stoup”. Gillian’s latest poetry collection is Making the Beds for the Dead (Carcanet Press, 2004) and she has just published her first prose book, At the Source (Carcanet Press, 2008), where she looks out across a landscape worked and imagined by generations of farmers and poets.

Anne Stevenson is an American poet who has lived in Britain for most of her writing life and was one of the trio of poets who founded the Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye. A poet so brimful of word play and rhythmic energy that she sometimes sings her poems rather than simply reading them. In 2007 Anne received the immensely prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Lannan Foundation of Santa Fe.

All proceeds will go to the upkeep of Orcop Church. The parishioners will be serving tea and cakes after the reading.

Getting to Orcop:
Orcop is off the Hereford to Monmouth Road. If you are driving from Hereford, take the Ross road, turn off onto the Monmouth Road at the Callow, and take the second right turn for Orcop, which takes you downhill into the village. The Church is signposted up on your left.

Further details are available from Roger Garfitt on:
01547 510619 / r.garfitt@lineone.net