Author: jennylewispoetry
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Departure Points: day school Holburne Museum, Bath 11th April 2015
Departure Points 11th April 2015 (10.30am-4.30pm) Tickets £40/35 concessions Tutor: Jenny Lewis ‘Other echoes/ inhabit the garden. Shall we follow?’ and ”The detail of the pattern is movement” (Four Quartets) Here’s an Ekphrastic Poetry Day School I’m running on 11 April (10.30-4.30) at the beautiful Holburne Museum, Bath. Drawing inspiration from a range…
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Day school report: Claire Crowther’s Strategies Towards Publication.
‘Marvellous!’, ‘Incredible!’ and ‘An extraordinary day!’ – What a beautiful way to end The Poet’s House Oxford‘s winter/spring Day School programme with the marvellous,incredible and extraordinary Claire Crowther‘s Strategies Towards Publication. Of her work – ‘The entire sequence [Incense, Flarestack Poets 2011] is a minor revelation…she is able to locate poetry asleep in the language…
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Day school report: Animal Helpers with Pascale Petit
Lovely Pascale Petit was in Oxford on February 28th, running a Day School for The Poet’s House Oxford at St Hilda’s College, the biggest attendance we have had so far. This was followed by a reading at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore this evening with an open mic after the break. Pascale read from her uniquely…
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The World is my Country reading at the Poetry Cafe
At Hylda Quay and Peace News’s The World is my Country reading on Friday at the Poetry Cafe, with Alan Brownjohn, Leon Rosselson and Adnan Al-Sayegh. One key aspect of the First World War receiving little or no attention in this year’s commemorations is the history of the people and organisations that opposed it. The event…
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Remembrance, Poetry and Music at Trinity College Wednesday 5th November 2014
From l-r Yaron Stavi, double bassist with the Nigel Kennedy Orchestra, Adnan Al-Sayegh, Iraqi poet, Jenny Lewis, Nico Hobhouse, organiser of the event for Student PEN Oxford and John Greening, fellow Carcanet Poet. Here’s the poster for Wednesday 5th November 2014. John Greening, Adnan Al-Sayegh and I will be performing in a programme of Remembrance, Poetry…
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Singing for Inanna Praise Poem workshop at Keats House, 4th October 2014
We had a wonderful time discussing the 2,300 BC poet Enheduanna and tracing her influence on Arabic poetry through Andalusian troubadour poetry to Keats’ odes and the present day. We wrote some poems about things we loved and made an MP3 recording of highlights, beautifully accompanied by Patricia de Mayo on her oud. We are…
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Singing for Inanna book and CD launch at Keats House, 25th September 2014
The culmination of our amazing Writing Mesopotamia project came on 25th September with the launch of our Singing for Inanna book of poems in English and Arabic by myself and the Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh with translations by Ruba Abughaida and ourselves and a CD of recorded poetry by Adnan and myself with specially composed oud…
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‘Singing for Inanna’ Book and CD launch- September 2014
The Singing for Inanna book and CD launch will take place as follows: 7.00pm Thursday 25th September at Keats House, Keats Grove, London NW3 2RR 7.30pm Thursday 2nd October at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore, 34 Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6AA
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War Poets with Brian Turner at the Ashmolean
Tremendous to have Brian Turner with us at the Ashmolean Museum for our War Poets Today reading with Adnan al Sayegh and hear Brian and Adnan read each other’s poems in translation. Brian also read from his new memoir – My Life as a Foreign Country – charting his time as a sergeant in the…
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Reading at the Iraqi Cultural Centre
On Saturday 9 August Adnan and I went in the afternoon to the Iraqi Cultural Centre in Shepherd’s Bush with Patricia de Mayo who plays oud with our poetry readings. We had been invited by the Director of the Centre, Dr Abdulrahman Dheyab, to give a performance of our poetry to an invited, mainly Iraqi,…
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