FEDERICO García Lorca (1898-1936) was one of Spain’s greatest poets and dramatists.

This month renowned speaker Graham Fawcett will be the guide through a thousand years of Spanish poetry at Sladers Yard in West Bay.

He will recreate the atmosphere in which Lorca learned from a vast range of poetic influences.

From the Islamic and Judaic worlds through the Spanish Troubadours and the epic masterpiece on the leader El Cid to the medieval love poets, Luis de Gongora, the poetic generations of 1898 and 1927, to the folk poets of Granada and Andalucia.

He will take the audience through some of Lorca’s finest poems and explore Lorca’s theory of duende, which he claims was closely linked to ‘the hidden spirit of suffering Spain’ and which he explained, in the words of an old master guitarist, ‘wells up from the souls of your feet’.

Graham Fawcett is a writer, presenter on Radio Three, broadcaster, translator, educator and speaker.

He now devotes his time to giving courses, lectures, and other one day events on reading and writing poetry.

He has given a series of poetry lectures at Sladers Yard, most recently on W B Yeats, on poets and writers, all of whom became and have remained national and international heroes for their uniqueness of voice, intensity of wonder at the world, formidable output, and prowess on the page.

The talk on Lorca on Thursday February 20 at 6.30pm will be followed by a celebratory supper. Tickets are £10 for talk, £25 for talk and supper.

Call 01308 459511 to book.