Carol Ann Duffy

Poet, playwright and freelance writer, Carol Ann Duffy is one of the most significant names in contemporary British poetry, and has achieved that rare feat of both critical and commercial success. She has won numerous awards including the TS Eliot Prize, Lannan Literary Award and the Whitbread Poetry Award.  She will be reading from The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award, accompanied by musician John Sampson. This event is association with The Churches Conservation Trust.

This event is being held in conjunction with the Churches Conservation Trust Exhibition, ‘and thereby hangs a tale’, on display in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon, April 18 to May 17 2012. For the first time all evidence of William Shakespeare’s wedding has been brought together in one place to explore the mystery of where Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway.