NPF 2024: Abigail Parry & Jane Clarke (Digital)
Overview
This year is the 30th anniversary of the T.S.Eliot Prize for Poetry. The prize is awarded annually for the best new collection of poetry and is acknowledged to be ‘the world’s top poetry award’ (Independent). We’re delighted to welcome two poets who were shortlisted for this year’s award, both published by Bloodaxe Books and we congratulate both of them and their publisher.
Abigail Parry’s shortlisted book, I Think We’re Alone Now, is her second collection and follows on from her first collection, Jinx (2018), which was shortlisted for both the Forward First Collection Prize and The Seamus Heaney Centre Prize. Though her second book is about intimacy, it follows her first in its playfulness, intelligence, and obliquity. It’s as if language, refuses to do what we want and can’t stop making its own abundant connections.
Jane Clarke’s shortlisted book, A Change in the Air, is her third and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best collection in 2023. Her previous collections The River (2015) and When the Tree Falls (2019), draw strongly on a sense of place, and they were both shortlisted, among other prizes, for the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje prize. Growing up on a farm in the west of Ireland, she now lives with her wife in the uplands of Co Wicklow and it is this inheritance – the people, landscape, history and culture – that helps shape her work.
This event is live-streamed and is supported by the T.S. Eliot Foundation.
Abigail Parry
Jane Clarke
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STEP FREE ACCESS
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WHEELCHAIR SPACES
There are five wheelchair positions in Stage 1, two positions in Stage 2 and all seats are removeable in Stage 3.
TOILETS
We have a Changing Places toilet in the Stage 1 lobby and accessible toilets in Stage 3 and Stage 2 lower entrance lobby. Gender neutral toilets are situated in the Stage 2 lower entrance lobby.
HEARING ENHANCEMENT
Induction loop system in all public spaces, and an infra-red system in all three stages. (In Stage 1 the induction loop is best covered in rows E – L).
ASSISTANCE
One free ticket for the assistant of a disabled person who is not able to attend unaccompanied.
BOOKING COMPANION SEATING
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GUIDE DOGS
Guide, hearing and all working dogs are welcome here.
SEAT ACCESSIBILITY
Stage 1: Seats are 43 cm wide, 41cm deep, with 46cm between arm rests. The aisleway is 51cm deep from the seat back. Arm rests cannot be removed.
Stage 2: Seats are 40cm wide, 41cm deep. The aisleway is 64cm deep from the seat back. There are no arm rests.
Our seats are rated to British Standards at installation and are guaranteed to hold up to 110kg.
More Information
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