Monks Walk – Stage4Beverley Event
How to Fold a Paper Aeroplane and Other Poems.
At last year’s festival, Chris only partially succeeded in smashing the square peg of his life through the round hole of poetry – so now he’s back but with a bigger hammer!
Expect more poems about the mining of memory, including: family life, record collecting, drinking, rugby, school, yarn bombing and, not forgetting, paper aeroplanes.
Chris Sewart – Poet & Writer
Chris is our Festival Poet and will again be leading our Poetry events at this year’s festival. He lives in Beverley and has been writing poetry for over 25 years.
Chris has been published in numerous journals and magazines and he has won awards for his poems and short stories. In 2019 he was the recipient of the Larkin Poetry Prize in the East Riding Festival of Words Poetry Competition and has since won the Gold Prize in the same competition, in 2021 and 2022.
In the last 12 months new work has been published in, or is forthcoming in, The Fig Tree webzine and Coal Mining Special, High Wolds Poetry Collection, Theleme Zine, Obsessed With Pipework, Crossing The Tees Anthology, Bournemouth Writing Prize Anthology, Parracombe Prize, and Echoes – 20 years of Write Out Loud.
Chris is a member of The Poetry Society, The Society of Authors, and The Philip Larkin Society. More information on Chris’s writing can be found at: The Society of Authors.
