Sheaf Poetry Festival Launch

About

This event launches the Sheaf Poetry Festival  and features the anti-choir Juxtavoices, poet-in-residence Mark Pajak and young poet-in-residence Georgie Woodhead.

Juxtavoices is a Sheffield-based 30-voice anti-choir which has performed at many conventional and eccentric venues since its inception in 2011. Their latest album ‘May Contain Notes’ was released by Discus Music in 2016 and Stewart Lee described them as ‘a whole tribe talking in tongues, 30 full-moon were-Ligetis, and Wicker Man workings wrangled by the Swingle Singers’.

Mark Pajak was a 2016 Laureate’s Choice poet, chosen by Carol Ann Duffy. He has been commended in the National Poetry Competition, awarded first place in The Bridport Prize and has also received a Northern Writers’ Award, and an Eric Gregory Award.

Georgie Woodhead was a winner of the Foyle Young Poet of the Year, was highly commended young poets in the Cuckoo Northern Writers Award, and 2nd place winner in the Ledbury Poetry Competition. Georgie has had work published in anthologies, performed at the Ted Hughes Poetry Festival 2018, and has been a guest on McMillan’s The Verb on Radio 3.

ACCESS INFO: 
There is wheel chair access into the Chapel (doors to the right if looking at the Chapel from Norfolk Street) and also wheelchair accessible toilets.