In 1802, William Wordsworth was already worried like us about that craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication" enabled by new technologies hourly gratifies. Poetry could speak more truly of the great national events which are daily taking place, by activating the grand elementary principle of pleasure by which we know, feel, live and move. Is pleasure different to escapism? Join Ledbury Poetry Critics co-founderVidyan Ravinthiran as he explores this.

Vidyans latest books are Asian/Other: Life, Poems, and the Problem of Memoir , and Avidya .

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Kindly sponsored by the University of Liverpool & The Poetry Society