Local lad done good!

Local poet Anthony Owen will be on his home turf when he appears at the Third Coventry International Festival Of Literature at the Belgrade Theatre in May. The Coventry Literature Festival is unique among UK literature festivals due to its focus on community events, with public writing workshops, children’s events and opportunities for local writers incorporated into the programme.

This year’s keynote speaker will be Moira Stuart, interviewed about her career as a pioneering broadcaster. She will be joined by a host of poets and performers over the course of four days, and further events will take place at other venues such as The Herbert, the Tin Angel and selected libraries.

Antony Owen is from Allesley, Coventry and has been writing poetry for fifteen years. Recently, he represented Coventry’s rich history of writers at the Cork literary festival alongside award winning poet Jon Morley, igniting literary links between Coventry and Ireland, featured in the local press.Antony Owen will be launching his book ‘My Fathers Eyes Were Blue’ at The Third International Festival Of Literature at the Belgrade Theatre on May 14th 2009.

The Word….

“The range of Antony Owen’s poetry is startling.Owen’s verse can powerfully capture a child’s introduction to nature’s cruelty and a grown man’s painful recognition of the hold the past has on us all. His images are often stark but always with a humanity that renders the common and uncommon equally new.”

Dr. Gilbert L. Gigliotti,. Author, A Storied Singer: Frank Sinatra as Literary Conceit ( Greenwood Press, 2002)

To book tickets for this book launch, or for any other exciting events that are part of The Third International Festival Of Literature visit the what's on section at www.belgrade.co.uk today.For information about the Literature Festival visit www.heaventreepress.com for updates.