{"id":16931,"date":"2018-01-05T13:09:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T13:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=16931"},"modified":"2018-02-20T12:43:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T12:43:12","slug":"penned-in-the-margins-at-verve-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/01\/penned-in-the-margins-at-verve-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Penned in the Margins at Verve Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog-header\">Dubbing itself &#8216;the new kid on the block&#8217;, Verve Festival is Birmingham&#8217;s brilliant new festival of poetry and spoken word. Penned in the Margins is honoured to have been invited to curate two sessions on the Sunday afternoon, featuring four of our most talented poets.<\/div>\n<p>15:00 &#8211; 16:00<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Poetry of the natural world with Meryl Pugh and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>What good is nature writing in a world threatened by extreme climate change? Can poetry be environmental activism? Two exciting new poets read from and discuss their relationship to landscape and the natural world: Meryl Pugh\u2019s Natural Phenomena uncovers the surprising flora and fauna of urban spaces, while Elizabeth-Jane Burnett\u2019s Swims is a powerful, lyrical celebration of wild swimming.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>16:30 &#8211; 17:30<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The stand-up poetry reunion with Luke Wright and Ross Sutherland<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>18 years after forming poetry boyband Aisle 16 as students at the University of East Anglia, multi-award-winning poets and theatre-makers Luke Wright and Ross Sutherland \u2018reform\u2019 for a one-off performance of new work. Expect hilarious \u2018stand-up poetry\u2019 along with surreal, incisive verse from two of Britain\u2019s sharpest poets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubbing itself &#8216;the new kid on the block&#8217;, Verve Festival is Birmingham&#8217;s brilliant new festival of poetry and spoken word. Penned in the Margins is honoured to have been invited to curate two sessions on the Sunday afternoon, featuring four of our most talented poets. 15:00 &#8211; 16:00 Poetry of the natural world with Meryl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16939,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16931\/revisions\/16939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}