POETRY and music from French to English, Jamaican to Irish, will feature at this year?s three-day Peterloo Poets? International Poetry Festival. The Old Chapel in Sand Lane, Calstock will be the venue, with the first session on Friday, September 1 featuring Tim Cunningham, originally from Limerick, at 7.30pm and Owen Gallagher, born in Glasgow, at 8.35pm. The second session will start at 4pm the following day, with Anna Crowe and Peter and Anne Sansom. Anna Crowe was born in Devonport, educated in France and St Andrew?s, where she now lives. She has been the director of Scotland?s poetry festival for seven years. The evening session features Kenneth Steven from Scotland and Jean ?Binta? Breeze ? a Jamaican Dub poet and storyteller who has been described as ?a one woman festival?. The final session at 7pm on the Sunday will be a musical production: ?The French Have More Songs For It?. This is a collection of favourite French songs ? in English. The show was a hit in the West End twenty years ago and was revived a couple of years ago when it came to Calstock for the first time. The production will feature local favourites Gilly Anderson, Paul Zaple and Alia Curchack-Beeton, plus West End veteran Peter Reeves, who conceived the show, which he directs with Jinx Mattinson. Wine and soft drinks will be served during all intervals at the festival, and there will be two festival lunches, at Christopher?s Restaurant in Tavistock on Saturday at 12.30pm and at The Boot Inn, Calstock on the Sunday, also at 12.30pm. Booking for both through Peterloo Poets is essential. Tickets for the sessions are £6 each, £5 concessions, or £20, £15 concessions, for all four. Contact 01822 833473 for more details or visit http://www.peterloopoets.com">www.peterloopoets.com
