Library event Southwold Literary Festival: Author Talk with Kevin Crossley-Holland
Join us for a talk with prize-winning poet and novelist Kevin Crossley-Holland.
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Fri 13 Nov 2026
- Laikas
- 17:00 – 18:00
- Place
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Southwold Arts Centre, Cumberland Road, Southwold, IP18 6JP
About this event
Join us for a talk with celebrated prize-winning poet and novelist Kevin Crossley-Holland at Southwold Arts Centre as part of Southwold Literary Festival! Kevin will be talking to us about his latest publication Collected Poems.
Tickets are £7.55 each. Tickets can be booked at Southwold Library, either in person, by phone 01502 442817 arba online on TicketSource.
About Kevin Crossley-Holland:
Kevin Crossley-Holland is a prize-winning poet, translator from Anglo-Saxon (including Beowulf), re-teller of traditional tale (The Penguin Book of Norse Myths ir Between Worlds: British Folk Tales), librettist and novelist for children, winning the Carnegie Medal for Storm and the Guardian Fiction Prize for The Seeing Stone, the first book in his Arthur trilogy.
He was a Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Professor & endowed chair in the Humanities in Minnesota from 1991 until 1996 and served as President of the School Library Association 2012-2017. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Society of Authors, and an Honorary Fellow of Saint Edmund Hall, Oxford. He lives in north Norfolk.
Apie Collected Poems:
Bringing together over five decades of work, Collected Poems celebrates one of Britain’s most admired and enduring voices. Kevin Crossley-Holland’s writing spans the landscapes of memory, myth and the human heart.
Rooted in lived experience and rich in literary tradition, his poetry draws on folklore and the natural world to speak vividly to our own time. This landmark volume captures the full measure of his craft and imagination - a celebration of a lifetime devoted to words.
Southwold Literary Festival is a partnership between Southwold Library, Southwold Arts Centre and Southwold Books. All events take place at Southwold Arts Centre in St Edmund’s Hall.
Dates and times
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17:00 – 18:00
- Fri 13 Nov 2026
Booking information
Tickets can be booked at Southwold Library, either in person, by phone 01502 442817 or by visiting the Southwold Library TicketSource page.
Tickets can also be booked at Southwold Arts Centre, either in person or by phoning 01502 722572.
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