On Valentines Day, Friday February 14th at 11.00, there will be a coffee time celebration of love and poetic sharing of the ups and downs of relationships at the Bridport Arts Centre. David Bushrod, Christine Prideaux and Margie Barbour will read a variety of serious, humorous, loving and heartbroken poems and soprano Emily Hicks will sing a selection of soaring love songs. Viginia Astley, the 2013 winner of the Dorset Prize of the renowned Bridport Prize will read her poem “How did I ever think this would be ok?”
David Bushrod, a successful local poet with an encyclopaedic knowledge of poetry has selected a range of poems from renowned poets like Philip Sydney and Christopher Marlowe. Christine Prideaux will draw on her long standing knowledge of Dorset and will read poems by Bonny Sartin and Joan Robins and Margie Barbour will read poems with humour as well as ones of love, with Carol Ann Duffy, Wendy Cope, U. A, Fanthorpe and James Fenton among her choices. Emily Hicks, curator of the Bridport Museum, accompanied on the grand piano by Bruce Upton, will sing classic opera favourites including a Mozart aria as well as more contemporary love songs. Tickets from the Bridport Arts Centre box office 01308 424204 or www.bridport-arts.com are £6.00 and £5.00 for members and concessions. All profits will go to the Bridport Museum fund.
