The Market Theatre

Un/Safe: Karen McCarthy Woolf at Ledbury Poetry Festival

Whether it’s via tattoos, trees or the totemic quality of cats, McCarthy Woolf pulls us into the processes of gentrification and class division with an immediacy that makes them impossible to ignore. A moving, critical and highly intuitive epic weaving together poetry, documentary and lyric essay, Unsafe is an interrogation of what it means to be a citizen and testimony to the remaining spaces we can call free. This rare event will feature readings from Unsafe, as well as a screening of a new short film by Venezuelan animation collective MECHA, produced in collaboration with The Poetry Society, and a discussion with Judith Palmer. Kindly sponsored by John Burns