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Blue Moon: Music and Words SOLD OUT

Norma Winstone, John Parricelli, Jeremy Robson and Amy Key

Thursday, 30 March 2023

6:00pm

1 hour 15 minutes

Worcester College: Provost’s Lodgings

£20

Singer Norma Winstone, guitarist John Parricelli, and acclaimed poets Jeremy Robson and Amy Key join forces for a joyous evening of music and words. The event will include songs from Joni Mitchell’s seminal album Blue, sung by Winstone, about whom The Times recently wrote: ‘There is no singer in the country to touch her’. The price includes a glass of wine.

Winstone will be accompanied by jazz guitarist Parricelli, a founding member of the British big band Loose Tubes. Famous for her jazz improvisations and her own compositions, to bridge the readings Norma Winstone will also sing various jazz classics, including numbers sparked off by the witty and moving poems Robson will be reading from his powerful new collection, Chagall’s Moon. Key will read from Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life, in which she uses Joni Mitchell’s Blue to anchor her thoughts about the realities of a life lived in the absence of romantic love. She will also read a few of her own poems.

Chagall’s Moon is Robson’s fourth collection in nine years. He is a former poetry critic of Tribune, edited several landmark anthologies, and instigated a series of 300 large-scale poetry and jazz concerts where he read alongside many leading poets and musicians.

‘Robson’s vision is both gentle and steely, and on top of his ability to touch one deeply is a marvellous, wry observation of the sweet, sour, and savoury in life’ Maureen Lipman

Key has written two collections of poetry, Luxe and Isn’t Forever.

‘Her new collection, Isn’t Forever, is playful, surreal and enchanting but also rooted in brutal emotional honesty. She is writer of a rare and strange magic.’ Sarah Perry, The Guardian

This event last 1 hour 15 minutes

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The Telegraph Festival media partner University of Oxford Netflix European Union Supported by the Delegation of the European Union to the UK Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme BBC World Service International radio partner Owen Mumford Supporter of programme of science and medicine and annual science and innovation award Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Oxford Mathematics Spanish Embassy The Spanish Embassy: supporters of the programme of Spanish literature and culture Cervantes Institute, London The Cervantes Institute, London Italian Embassy The Italian Embassy: supporter of the programme of Italian literature and culture The Dorchester Hotels Collection Festival London hotel partner International Literary Properties Festival literary heritage partner Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels Festival hotel Old Bank Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Old Parsonage Hotel Five-star hotel partners of The Oxford Collection Jim Mellon John Roberts Lady Hatch Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture Tim and Marion Stevenson Martin and Elise Becket Smith Miles Young Masumi and Jonathan Dobson Pank Koria CEO of Project People Carole and John Allen David Isaac Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Anna Hunter Rhys and Kerry Phillip Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival. Founded 1314 New College New College founded 1379 Worcester College Worcester College founded 1714 Lincoln College Lincoln College founded 1427 St Cross College St Cross College founded 1965 Trinity College Trinity College founded 1555 Magdalen College Magdalen College founded 1458 Critchleys Accountants to the festival Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Human Ecology Project MACROVegan Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner. Celebrating 25 years in Europe in 2024 European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Sponsor of the EBRD Literature Prize since 2018 ROOMS Georgia's leading lifestyle hotel brand since 2012. Supporters of the programme of Georgian literature and culture Jewish Book Week Partner of Oxford Literary Festival Foodbuy Thje Menu Partners Institute of Hospitality Goldmoney Properties Project People Oxford Brookes University Oxford International Centre for Publishing Confucius Institute Pusey House British Academy Festival academic partner Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Oxford United Football Club Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Conference Oxford Felicity Bryan Associates CAV Oxford The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford University Department for Continuing Education Oxford Georgian Translation Project Supporter of the programme of Georgian literature and culture Force4Good Consultancy Corporate communications OX magazine Ox in a Box K T Bruce Photography K T Bruce Photography The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders Windrush Group James Currey Society