Browse the archive: www.nclacommunity.orgRemember to join our mailing list and book your tickets here:www.ncl.ac.uk/nclaHearing an author speak is invaluable,adding a further dimension to understandingtheir work and the creative process.The event was incredibly insightful and veryentertaining.Excellent and illuminating.The quality of readings is 5 star!Amazing variety – thank you.www.ncl.ac.uk/nclaWELCOMEWe’re embarking on our seventh year of NCLA with an exciting programme of events,some international visitors and some innovations too. Our first event at the beginning ofOctober brings together two distinguished poets, Matthew Sweeney and also Jacob Polley,who we’ll be introducing as a new member of staff and very welcome presence in theregion from now on. We’re privileged that Rita Dove from USA will be coming to Newcastleto give the annual Poetry Society lecture, and that Marilyn Hacker, originally from USA, nowliving in Paris, will be including us in her short UK tour too. Three international Bloodaxepoets who are appearing at the Aldeburgh Festival, Kim Addonizio, Choman Hardi and TonyHoagland, are also coming to Newcastle, and it seems that NCLA is on the map and hasnow become established as a stopping-off point for poets from around the world. We’ll becelebrating two of our own poets too, who were commended in the recent National PoetryCompetition, Beverley Nadin and Eliot North. They will be reading with Tom Weir. At thatevent we’ll also be showing some poetry films and announcing the winner of the FlambardPoetry Competition.We’re delighted that Booker shortlisted writer Deborah Levy will be coming to talk withWilliam Fiennes about her remarkable novel, Swimming Home, and that Julia Blackburn,whose imaginative biographies and autobiographical writing have almost created anew genre of writing, will be talking about her much-praised new book, Threads: TheDelicate Life of John Craske, about an artist whose remarkable pictures she has helped torediscover. Following on from our event last year with Peter Straughan, former student andscriptwriter for Wolf Hall, we have another former student visiting us, Debbie Horsfield, whohas adapted the extremely successful Poldark for TV. Again John Yorke, himself a formerstudent, will be joining her in the discussion.1Finally, we’ve got two events which come out of projects we’ve run, and relationships andplacements we’ve been part of – these are (r)agency?, which will present work by youngartists about anger and creativity, and Write Around the Toon (WATT), the culmination of theplacement programme for past and present students of Creative Writing.www.facebook.com/newcastlecentrefortheliteraryarts@NCLA_tweetsCover image by photographer Phyllis Christopher at Newcastle Poetry Festival 2015.For more of Phyllis’s work visit www.phyllischristopher.comWe want to start some pre-show discussions, so look out for information about these, andwe’ll also be doing some podcasts of short discussions about poems. Another new featureof the programme is our ‘Creative Saturdays’ facilitated by David Almond, Linda France andJohn Yorke. Look for more details on our website and how to book and please sign up toour newsletter as well. I look forward to seeing you all in the autumn.Linda AndersonDirector, NCLA