Words by the Water: Mary Robinson

Event Date: 12/03/2010

Words by the Water: Mary RobinsonPoet Mary Robinson will be reading from her debut collection, The Art of Gardening, at the Words by the Water Festival.

In The Art of Gardening, Mary Robinson explores her personal memories, the lives of other writers and her experiences of particular places. Alongside visits to the Scottish islands, Germany and Norway, there are poems in the voices of, among others, George Orwell on Jura, James Joyce's publisher in Paris and a fifteenth-century master printer in Venice.

Mary Robinson grew up in Warwickshire and now lives in the north of England within sight of the Scottish hills. Her poetry has been published in magazines and anthologies and she was shortlisted for the Templar Poetry Prize and the Cinnamon Press First Collection Award. She works as a literature tutor in adult and continuing education in Cumbria.

Friday 12th March, Theatre by the Lake, Lakeside, Keswick, Cumbria, CA12 5DJ, 7pm. Tel: 017687 74411 for more information.