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3rd
London Poetry Festival 2007
10,
11, 12 and 13th of August
Friday,
Saturday, Sunday and Monday
Poets
in Residence @ the third Festival 2007 are:
Briony
Dennis, Inua Ellams, Juli
Jeana, Tom Chivers and Tricia
Peak
St John's
Church, Waterloo Road London SE1 8TY
(Near Waterloo Bridge and
Waterloo Station)
For Further details visit
the Festival website
http://www.londonpoetryfestival.com
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4th
London Poetry Festival 2008
August
8, 9, 10 and 11: Friday - Monday
Journey
of London Poetry Festival building its foundation in
London's Cultural Landscape
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2006-------2007-------2008
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Poet's
Letter 2nd London Poetry Festival 2006
23rd
August, Wednesday @ RADA was
a resounding succes s:
Five Poets in Residence at the Second Festivals were: Alan
Buckley, Dr Girija Shettar, Luke Wright, Malgorzata Kitowski
and Philip Ruthen
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London London Poetry Festival 2005 took place on August
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Confirmed poets to read at the third festival
2007
Spanish Poet
Tomás
Sánchez Santiago and Spanish Translator Dr Natalia Carbajosa will be joining
the 3rd London Poetry Festival
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All poets in the UK and Ireland are invited to join the
celebration. Please just send in an email or call in to confirm that you are
joining us and we will add your name here. Call on 07809 682 065 or send us an
email to editor at poetsletter dot com
Poets from all European
Countries are welcome to join the festivities. We are not able to offer any
financial support.
Poets
in Residence of London Poetry Festival 2006
Alan
Buckley
Girija
Emma Jane Shettar
Luke
Wright
Malgorzata
Kitowski
Philip
Ruthen
Second London
Poetry Festival 2006 Report
Just to say a huge thank you to all your support for the 2nd London
Poetry Festival 2006 @ RADA. It was a resounding success thanks to all your
support. So a huge thank you to all from the family of Poet's Letter.
The Festival starts @ 7 pm. Opening with Munayem Mayenin, Dr Simon Jenner and
Pia Mayenin welcoming everyone.
With Pia Mayenin's reading of What is poetry the festival presented
the four (out of five) Poets in Residence @ the Festival: Alan Buckely, Girija
Shettar, Malgorzata Kitowski and Philip Ruthen (mentioning the absence of Luke
Wright who is up in the north at the Edinburgh Festival at this moment).
The Festival was presented in three sessions.
Performers at the first session were the four festival poets in residence.
Leanne O’Sullivan (from Ireland), Sarah Wardle, Molara Wood, Dr Simon Jenner,
Maggie Sullivan and Munayem Mayenin performed in the second session.
Third sessions had Carole Baldock and Roi Kwabena performing followed by invited
open mic session where performed Peter Donnelly, Alim Noor, Peter Ebsworth and
Fathieh Saudi.
The festival concluded with Johnny Vallon's music.
At the end Poet's Letter Magazine team was presented and vote of thanks given.
Instant feed back from audience members and poets: refreshing, resounding,
inspiring, great, wonderful, beautiful, unbelievable, beginning of something
big, something great, great audience, brilliant, great line up of readers,
variations of presentation etc.
The audience was a true representation of London with a great distinction where
we had a great number of young people present.
Special feature: there was a group of German Student of English Poetry (visting
the UK and still studying) who added another dimension to the evening.
The other news is that London Poetry Festival and Poet's Letter Magazine is
going to be on the British Satellite News Channel from tomorrow. This is how
people could view the programme. Visit their website: www.bsn.org.uk
and search for poetry or London Poetry Festival which should bring in the link
of the programme.
Poet's Letter Magazine (first print issue) was launched at the Festival and the
magazine is now out and on sale.
Please contact us if you require Poetry Festival photos or photo of the cover of
the magazine for media purposes.
London Poetry Festival was recorded. If any television channel would like to use
any footage or use these materials for a programme please do not hesitate to
contact us.
Please subscribe the print magazine for Half Price now (special offer extended
till end of September). It's only £16.50.
Finally, let us thank all poets and musicians who supported us by joining us,
every member of the audience, all the people at RADA who supported the whole
event from beginning to end, particular thanks to Genevieve, Lorraine, Peter,
Betty and Anthony, to all the volunteers (Abu Sayeed, Qyum, Azim, Siobhan, Shima,
Ruksana, Alim, Hazel, Siobhan, Maggie) and members of our staff, Karl for
recording the event, Donal for taking the photos and everyone else who supported
us (even if we do not mention their names here). Special thanks to all the poets
in residence for their contributions and support. A big thank you to Johnny
Vallon for his wonderful music.
A special thank you to all the fellow journalists who attended the event.
Poet's Letter Monthly Performances will resume at the Poetry Cafe on 10th of
September.
The London Poetry Festival 2006 grew out of The
Poet's Letter Magazine Poetry Performance Series that started last year. Our
Performance Series grew into its second year and still growing in strength. We
had the first Festival at The Poetry Cafe in last August where many of our panel
of poets took part as well as a lot of other poets published in the Magazine and
The Poet's Letter Poetry Anthology of New Voices. We had a great memorable
event.
We thought this could become a regular Annual Poetry Festival in
London, a celebration of Contemporary English Poetry. Therefore here we are with
the second Festival and this year the Festival is taking place at The Royal
Academy of Dramatic Arts, Vanburgh Theatre (RADA) on 23rd August Wednesday
6:30-10:30 pm.
We are hoping to get most, if not all, of the poets in our panel of
poets including: Mimi Khalvati, Cheryl Follon, Munayem Mayenin, Isobel Dixon,
Carole Baldock (Orbis Editor), Helen Ivory, Martin Figura, Carrie Etter, Phillip
Ruthen (Confirmed), Julia Copus, Kona Macphee, Choman Hardi, Jim Bennett, Todd
Swift, Eva Salzman, Luke Wright, Jude Simpson and Johnny Vallon and Paivi Payne
(Music). We are of course trying to get other poets too. We will update this
page as we progress. To find out more about the Poets joining the Festival
please go to or to read their works please go to
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
62-64 Gower Street
London WC1E 6ED
Our visitors and poetry lovers who attend our performances and who do not, but
love to see poetry flourish are our Poetry Ambassadors to help and support us in
promoting the Festival and help us plant The London Poetry Festival into the
cultural landscape of London.
We would love to see poetry grow on the solid support of people who are
individuals choosing to practise, support, nurture and celebrate poetry as a
personal choice and therefore we would like to see people stop looking at other
people and bodies to come and support and "rescue" poetry.
One cannot see the astounding dawn where the sun spells out the spectrum of
endless joys, thrill and hopes in the astonishing brilliance, all absorbing
melody and soul flooding music if they fail to choose to open their eyes, to
choose to get up and walk, choose to open the doors and walk right onto the
spectacle.
Here we are: we would like people to choose poetry and it will grow like an
eternal tree offering us greenery and wind dance that will elaborate our
oxygenated spirit and bring us in touch with the thrill and wonders of weather
and music of life in the glorious cycle of seasons and take us beyond the
bread-bridge and launch us into a space and reality that allows us to be
something which is bigger than anything else that we could be: being human and
being alive for which our system has yet to coin up a currency. Here we are with
poetry: shared areal space of our common humanity. Poet's Letter Second London
Poetry Festival 2006 welcomes you all to come and join us in the celebration of
contemporary English poetry.
Poets in Residence of London Poetry Festival 2006
Alan Buckley
Girija Emma Jane Shettar
Luke Wright
Malgorzata Kitowski
Philip Ruthen
We have spent a long time in developing this list of five contemporary poets who
are writing poetry in English today at the emerging end of the spectrum; whether
to call it contemporary English Poetry or British Poetry or Poetry written in
English may form a wider and greater debate but in the opinion of Poet’s
Letter Magazine and Poet’s Letter Books these five voices individually are
powerful in their nature, unique in their character, living and sublime in their
language and they have the ability, talent, intellect, sense, direction and
confidence to challenge us, inspire us, invite us, chastise us and even ridicule
our well sofa-ed, well secured fixed views and attitudes to life, living and
even poetry.
They invite us to a journey of creativity; taking, shaping,
bending, widening, enriching and breaking the language itself to give us
landscapes, skyscapes, waterscapes, spacescapes, both inner and outer, that we
might at times come to like, even love, yet at times, we might not even like it
or even begin to hate.
However, the journey is worth it. Nobody says poetry is science or
mathematics; it does not take us to a destination nor does it promise us of
doing that rather it makes the road a living, the journey, a legend and it
radiates and resembles as something bigger than even the destination itself.
These five voices need celebrating, supporting and promoting and Second London
Poetry Festival 2006, which aspires to become bigger and wider in its third
celebration in 2007, wishes to celebrate their poetry and therefore would like
to present them here for the poetry reading readers of today in the UK.
1st
London Poetry Festival 2005
The London Poetry Festival grew out of Poet's
Letter Magazine Poetry Performance and Live Music Series that started in March
2005 at the Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden. Our Performance Series grew into its
third year and still growing in strength. We had the first Festival at The
Poetry Cafe in August 2005 where many of our panel of poets took part as well as
a lot of other poets published in the Magazine and Poet's Letter Poetry
Anthology of New Voices. We had a great memorable event.
We thought this could become a regular Annual Poetry Festival in
London, a celebration of Contemporary English Poetry. And there was the second
Festival in 2006 and now in 2007 the third Festival looks set to celebrate in a
four-day poetic feast. London Poetry Festival was featured in British
Satellite News Channel in 2006.
Sponsors/Advertisers
We are are looking for sponsors for the Festival and for the Festival Brochure
as well as advertisers for the website and the brochure and welcome enquiries
and proposals.
For further details please contact: editor at poetsletter dot com
Or call us on 07935 791 607
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