Much of Norris's work describes the industrial and impoverished landscape of South Wales where he spent his childhood. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Welsh Academy and has been teaching writing in the United States at Brigham Young University since 1983. Norris is the author of two collections of short stories and 14 books of poetry, including Norris's Ark , which he read on the BBC network. Holy Places, his latest collection of verse, will be the first full-length book published by the Book Arts Center of Wells College. He has also written children's literature and translated Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies.
Admission is free, and the public is invited to attend.
Included in the program are compositions by John Dowland, Thomas Campian, Francis Pilkington, and Michael East. Among the guest artists who will perform in the concert are Alexander I. Raykov, director of the Early Music Program at Syracuse University and Michael Lockley, a tenor who has performed at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. Also appearing will be Elizabethan Conversation, a music duo specializing in Renaissance music on period instruments. Dr. Susan Sandman and Derwood Crocker began Elizabethan Conversation in 1984. Sandman is a professor of music at Wells College and is the director of the Wells Consort, a student group that performs on period instruments.