ON Valentine’s Day at 11am, there will be a poetic coffee time celebration of love and relationships at the Bridport Arts Centre.
David Bushrod, Christine Prideaux and Margie Barbour will read a variety of serious, humorous, loving and heartbroken poems, while 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 verse has selected a range of poems.
Christine Prideaux will draw on her long standing knowledge of Dorset and Joan Robins and Margie Barbour will read poems with humour as well as ones of love.
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 are £6 plus concessions from the Bridport Arts Centre box office on 01308 424204 or bridport-arts.com and all profits will go to the Bridport Museum fund.
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