Event 1

Thursday 22 August at 11am
Assembly Rooms, Presteigne LD8 2AD

Can Poetry change the World?

with Nicholas Murray

Author and poet Nicholas Murray looks at the potential of poetry and the arts generally to transform society and our outlook on the world, challenging the famously pessimistic conclusion of W H Auden that ‘poetry makes nothing happen’.

Tickets £8 ꞏ £5 young people (aged 8-25)
End time 12 noon