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Thursday is National Poetry Day and, if you’re not averse to verse, there’s a special workshop at UCLan with acclaimed poet Pascale Petit.
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Pascale is the 2013 Manchester Poetry Prize winner and a 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize judge.

The Wild and Rural Lives of Poems workshop will be exploring how to write poetry about animals, the countryside and all things wild.

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It takes place at 2-3.30pm at Harrington Building 127, University of Central Lancashire, Adelphi Street, Preston, and costs £6 for wage earners, free for students, retirees and jobseekers.

The workshop is most suitable for those who already have some writing experience.

Book at: thewildandrurallivesofpoems.eventbrite.co.uk

Later that day there’s An Evening with Pascale Petit and Friends with drinks and light snacks at 7pm-7.30pm followed by poetry readings at 7.30pm-9.45pm.

As well as Pascale, there will be contributions from Will Daunt, Alan Dent, Lindsey Mansfield Holland and Maria Isakova-Bennett

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The event is part of a two-week celebration of poetry in Preston.

The readings are at the Greenbank Lecture Theatre, Greenbank Building, UCLan, Victoria Street, Preston. Price £3 entry (waged); free for unwaged.

You can book at: www.aneveningwithpascalepetit.eventbrite.co.uk

The event is sponsored by Preston Cultural Framework and UCLan.

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