Sun, Dec 05
|Asheville FM
David Barratt – Guest on Asheville FM
Our winter artist-in-residence David Barratt will be a guest on Asheville FM Radio's “Wordplay” show, hosted by Jeff Davis.
The Basics
Dec 05, 2021, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST
Asheville FM
What to Expect
Tune to 103.3 if you are in the area or visit https://www.ashevillefm.org/show/wordplay to listen.
ABOUT DAVID BARRATT
David Barratt has spent most of his life involved with literature.
After graduating from St.Andrews University in Scotland with an M.A. in English Language and Literature, he trained as an English teacher, completing a Diploma of Education at Oxford, followed by a Masters in Education at Liverpool University some years later.
As a lecturer he has taught in the U.K., Pakistan and the U.S.A. The main part of his career was as Senior Lecturer in English at Chester University, England, but he also taught at UNCA and Montreat College here in N.C. Poetry courses he taught ranged from seventeenth century poetry to T.S.Eliot and Ted Hughes.
More recently he has been involved in College for Seniors at UNCA, (now known as OLLI), where he taught over 20 classes, many involving poetry, its understanding,…