Tower Poetry, organisers of the UK’s most valuable prize for young poets, commissioned Jonathan Pitkin to set to music Sophie Stephenson-Wright’s Villanelle, one of 2009’s winning entries. Feather-small and still was premiered by Heather Uren and Guy Newbury on March 24th, at the Blue Boar Lecture Theatre, Christ Church, Oxford, as part of the 2010 Sunday Times Literary Festival.

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