University Events Calendar
March, 2012

Date/Time: Tuesday, 10 March 2009 - Saturday, 14 March 2009
Location: Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library, North Terrace Campus
Cost: Full Price $12.50; Concession $9 (+ service fee)
More information: Visit website

The vâices that be gone

Selected poems from William Barnes's
Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect

(First Collection, 1844)

Read in the original dialect by Tom Burton.

Sessions: Tuesday 10 March 2009, 6:00pm-7:00pm

Thursday 12 March 2009, 6:00pm-7:00pm

Saturday 14 March 2009, 2:00pm-3:00pm

Tickets from FringeTIX: phone 1300 FRINGE (374 643)

This one-hour reading from William Barnes's Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (1844) brings his poems to life, in their original nineteenth-century pronunciation, with all their merriment, and all their haunting poignancy, sounding again "the vâices that be gone".

Proceeds to Alzheimer's Australia and the Barr Smith Library.

Contact: Dr Tom Burton (email), website, Reader in English, Business: +61 8 8303 5618, Fax: +61 8 8303 4341