Writers Fred D’Aguiar and William Letford share Wordsworth Trust stage
4:40pm Monday 10th June 2013 in What's on 
By Adrian Mullen, Arts correspondent
Prize-winning poet, novelist and playwright Fred D’Aguiar
THE Wordsworth Trust’s fortnightly poetry gatherings continue with a fresh find from Scotland waxing lyrical alongside a well-versed voice from across the Atlantic.
In the trust’s spotlight at Grasmere’s Daffodil Hotel on Tuesday, June 18 (7.30pm), will be newcomer William Letford, whose work as a roofer in Stirling gives him a particular poetic perspective on life at ground level.
Bevel (2012) is his first book, but his poems with all the wonder and comedy of the mundane have already earned him a large following thanks to his acclaimed performances and through Carcanet’s New Poetries V anthology.
Joining William will be the irrepressible Fred D’Aguiar, on a brief visit from the United States where he now teaches. Fred is well known to audiences in the north of England having been Northern Arts Fellow in the early 1990s.
Prize-winning poet, novelist and playwright Fred was born in London in 1960 to Guyanese parents. He lived in Guyana until he was 12, returning to England in 1972.
He trained as a psychiatric nurse before reading African and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury, graduating in 1985. His first collection of poetry, Mama Dot (1985), was published to great acclaim and established his reputation as one of the finest British poets of his generation.
However, his UK appearances are less common these days since he moved to America but he’s is back to read from his latest book The Rose of Toulouse.
Hot on their literary heels will be Simon Armitage (at St Oswald’s Church) on July 2; Jacob Polley and Helen Mort feature on August 27 and Roger McGough pays his first visit to the trust’s season, reading at St Oswald’s Church on Tuesday, October 8.
Readings are held on Tuesday nights at 7.30pm.
The trust’s literature officer Andrew Forster said he was delighted with the huge variety in this year’s programme. He added: “Often people have been put off poetry at an early age through being forced to study things they didn’t enjoy, but a poetry reading is just a performance, and audiences go through the same range of emotions that they might at the theatre.”
The poetry season features a special ‘3 for 2’ ticket deal.
For further information telephone 015394-35544.