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The landscape holds the memory of everyone who has ever trodden it... all we have to do is listen On Common Ground is an evening of stories, songs and music exploring the life and times of John Clare, the Northamptonshire Peasant Poet. Performed by master wordsmith Hugh Lupton and leading folk musician Chris Wood, the show is a performance that explores the boundaries between language and place, madness and exile, love and loss. John Clare is classed as one of the most important poets of the 19th Century. Born the son of a farm labourer, Clare became a drinker and was eventually sent to asylum. On Common Ground tells of the life and eventual downfall of this troubled writer. A show that sings of the unsung and remembers the forgotten histories of the soil. Heralded as "the renaissance man of English folk", Chris Wood's music is a perfect balance of tradition and contemporary parables. Met with Hugh Lupton's original storytelling and love for traditional music, street theatre, live poetry and myth, On Common Ground is a must for fans of folk, fables and poetry.