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ANDREW BROWN M.A. PUBLISHED POET AND EXPERIENCED, DYNAMIC SPEAKER

 

Andrew Brown, a published poet, and Master of English Literature is a dynamic speaker and is frequently a guest and compere at festivals and venues throughout the country.

 

His series of talks on the great poets of the British Isles interweave poetry, performance, storytelling, music and powerpoint to explore the lives of the poets who lived and worked within the destinations the audience are visiting. This linking of subject and place allows the audience a new lens to view their destinations.

 

His talk on the Lake Poets, Wordsworth and Coleridge, gives audiences an appreciation of the majesty of the Lake District, exploring how the landscape of the Lakes inspired them to revolutionise not only poetry, but tourism; pioneering the area as a holiday destination.

 

Andrew also talks on the colourful life of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns and the fascinating, divided Scotland in which he lived. Similarly, his lecture on the national poet of Wales, Dylan Thomas, explores the impact of Welsh culture and landscape on his work, and Thomas’ contribution to them.

 

Historical context is provided through extracts from newspapers, letters and diaries; particularly in his lecture on Ireland’s Oscar Wilde, tracing his rise through Dublin and London Society, to his fall in a dramatic trial and his poverty-stricken death in Paris.

 

TOPICS:

 

Do not go gentle into that good night: The life (and death) of Dylan Thomas, National Poet of Wales

 

The Importance of being Oscar: the trial of Oscar Wilde

 

Wordsworth, Coleridge and the Lake District: Revolutionary Tourists

 

Robert Burns, Scotland’s immortal bard

 

Jerusalem: William Blake and England

 

 

 

 

 

 

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