A Poem for Every Night of the Year, 10 Year Anniversary
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Acclaimed actors and performers fill the stage with poetry to celebrate ten years of Allie Esiri’s best-selling anthology A Poem for Every Night of the Year, which, along with her other popular poetry collections, has lit an explosion of interest in poetry in the UK. A ten-year anniversary edition of A Poem for Every Night of the Year is being released to mark the occasion, a book that has sold 150,000 hardbacks, won the IBW (Independent Bookshop Week) book award and is one of the bestselling poetry books of the decade.
Allie Esiri has hosted annual performances at the National Theatre and major festivals, with poems read by some of our greatest actors – from Helena Bonham Carter to Dominic West – these live shows capture and enthrall generations of poetry lovers. Esiri read Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge, then worked as an actress for ten years in the English Shakespeare Company and on film in shows such as Sharpe, Men Behaving Badly and Poirot, before moving on to curate the first poetry apps, poetry anthologies for all ages, and live shows.
Along with Esiri’s other best-sellers A Poem for Every Night of the Year and Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year, her anthologies are regularly chosen for National Poetry Day and have been picked as best books of the year in The Observer, Guardian, Times and New Statesman.
This highly entertaining event is suitable for all ages.
Duration: no longer than 1 hour 30 mins (no interval)
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