We plan to
hold monthly fund-raising events to raise funds for the next McGregor Poetry
Festival (27 to 30 August).
The next event will take place on Wednesday 1 April at 7.30pm in Caritas at
Temenos and the details are as follows:
Chris Mann, Emeritus Professor of Poetry at Rhodes University, Grahamstown,
South Africa, presents a moving performance of accessible poems and original
songs for the guitar. The presentation is based on his latest slim volume of poems, Rudiments of
Grace. The book was launched in the Cathedral of St Michael and St George,
Grahamstown, as part of the Spiritfest programme during the National Arts
Festival in July 2014.
This is a beautifully crafted and unified collection. Chris Mann tells a love
story which is full of passion, tenderness, and lyric grace. Lucy Newlyn,
Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford. These poems tell a story that is as profound as it is familiar. The poems are
delicate, shaded, sometimes startlingly direct, but above all honest. They are
sacraments to love. Reverend David Jasper, Professor of Literature and
Theology, University of Glasgow. Moments of profundity spring regularly from Mann’s uncommon renderings of
intimacy. Nick Mulgrew, Mail and Guardian, Johannesburg.
This is one of the most beautiful books of poetry I have ever read. Emeritus
Professor Rosemary Gray, Institute for African Renaissance Studies, University
of South Africa.
Entry (and a glass of our Poetry Wine) is by donation at the door. For more
information, please contact Jennifer Johnson (McGregor Poetry Festival
Co-Ordinator) info@mcgregorpoetryfestival.co.za
023 625 1908 / 084 675 1164
This performance will take place even if there is load shedding that night!
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