How Not To
Write A Novel
The Festival
Poetry Slam
With Ian Sansom
Crescent Arts Centre
Saturday 18 June – 7.45pm
Tickets: £6/£4
Crescent Arts Centre
Saturday 18 June – 8.30pm
Tickets: £4
Ian Sansom is the author of a dozen books.
In this illustrated lecture and reading, Ian
shares his experiences, reveals his mistakes,
and asks how and why authors begin,
continue, and end.
Purely Poetry presents The Belfast Book
Festival Poetry Slam.
How do writers make us laugh, cry, squirm
and do all those other things they tend to do
- intriguing us, infuriating us, and making
us want to lie down and weep for the plight
of human civilisation?
For anyone who intends to write an epochdefining masterpiece, achieve literary cult
status, or who foolishly believes they have a
book in them!
Ian Sansom is a former Guardian columnist
and writes for The London Review of Books,
The Spectator and The New Statesman. He
presents for BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3 and
is the author of The Truth About Babies
(2002), Ring Road (2004), Paper: An Elegy
(2012), and the Mobile Library series. His
most recent novel, Westmorland Alone
(2016) is the third in the bestselling 44-book
County Guides series.
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Open to all poets, we invite you to ‘take
the mic’ and enter our annual poetry slam
competition. Share your work in front of a
lively audience, with new readers always
welcome.
To enter, just register at the start of the
night; names will be drawn out at random,
with each poet invited onstage to read by
our resident emcee, Colin Dardis.
You have three minutes in which to
compete, our judges scoring on delivery
and poetical quality and deciding who
gets through to the next round. There’s
three rounds in all with the outright winner
declared Slam Champion 2016!
Sunday
19th June