Thursday, 13 December 2018

Gawain and the Green Knight in Hay

Gawain and the Green Knight is one of my favourite poems. Every Christmas I play a tape of a programme first heard on Radio 4, where the story is narrated by Ian McKellen, and this week Melvyn Bragg was discussing the poem with experts on In Our Time (also Radio 4). One of the experts was Simon Armitage, who has written a new translation of the poem.
Now Clive Hicks-Jenkins, who illustrated Simon Armitage's version of Gawain and the Green Knight, is coming to The Story of Books in Hay. He'll be there on Saturday 15th December from 12.30pm to 1.30pm.

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