Music and Poetry - a new collaboration
Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
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Music and Poetry - a new collaboration
Internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Ustad Johar Ali and Professor Gregory Leadbetter present an evening of music and multilingual poetry.
Gregory Leadbetter (pictured) is Professor of Poetry at Birmingham City University. His books and pamphlets of poetry include Caliban (Dare-Gale Press, 2023), a New Statesman Book of the Year 2023; Balanuve, with photographs by Phil Thomson (Broken Sleep, 2021); Maskwork (Nine Arches Press, 2020), longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2021; The Fetch (Nine Arches Press, 2016), and The Body in the Well (HappenStance Press, 2007).
Recent work for the BBC includes the extended poem Metal City (Radio 3, 2023). His research and criticism focuses on Romantic, twentieth-century and contemporary poetry and its contexts, and the history and practice of poetry more generally. His book Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) was awarded the University English Book Prize 2012.
A song-cycle featuring poems from The Fetch by the composer and pianist Eric McElroy has been widely performed, and a recording with the tenor James Gilchrist was released in 2023.
On 22 November, James Gilchrist and Eric McElroy will present a programme which includes The Fetch For more information click here.
Running time approx. 60 minutes