Dare to Diva company, is delighted to announce that its lead artist,
Leicester based poet Carol Leeming, will be reading at the forthcoming Surrey
Poetry Festival. This Festival is in conjunction with the New Writers Festival,
and it takes place on Saturday May 6th
2017. The Festival runs from 12-5pm and is at the GLive Venue in Guildford.
Carol will be reading from her debut Chapbook The Declamations of Cool Eye published by Dare to Diva Productions in
2016.
This book has almost sold out its first edition. Due to promotional
reading events Carol has attended, it has been particularly well received by
poetry fans and so called ‘non poetry’ people alike.
The Surrey Poetry Festival is in its seventh year and has a tradition of
bringing together groundbreaking and spellbinding voices from the UK and other
countries. The Festival line up each year also features readings, talks, and
installations from the most exciting, thoughtful and questioning poets
The Declamations of Cool
Eye chapbook, contains a selection of Carol’s shorter poems, both new and
old, in the voice of a black woman poetical Enchanter.
The poems reflect, city, natural, cosmic or spiritual spaces, seeking, to
dispel the ravages and down pressure of an unkind society on a black woman.
A film poem, (inspired by a silver sequined hat from Morocco North
Africa) titled Enchanter produced by
Dare to Diva productions, features the poem Drawing
from the book, read by Carol. The film poem has also been screened, a number of
times, and has been described by audiences, as ‘mesmerising’ and ‘mysterious’
clearly has also helped to promote the poetry chapbook. A wider release for the
film poem is planned for later in the year.
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