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Two ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ events 1st April
‘Who Can Climb the Sky?’ and launch of the ‘Poetry for Peace 2016’ anthology 2.00-3.30pm, 1st APRIL, 2017, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. We’re nearing the end of our major, four-year, Arts Council-funded Writing Mesopotamia project with these two FREE high-profile events at the Ashmolean Museum. It’s been an amazing journey, sometimes stressful but always hugely rewarding…
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Poets on War evening at the Poetry Library on 1st February
A wonderful Poets on War evening at the Poetry Library last night, about 80 people came – they had only put out chairs for 40! I think the mix of poetry, music, translations and humour (especially Hylda’s songs) worked very well. The audience was marvellously kind and responsive, the Poetry Library did well to publicise…
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The Place for Film in Poetry. 18th January 2017
5.00-6.00pm, 18th January 2017 As part of the ‘Place for Poetry’ Conference at Goldsmiths in May 2015, the Film Poem Exhibition that I curated with the Head of Digital Media, Mark Edmondson showed how film can be used with poetry at the interface of many different disciplines, including art, medicine and politics. On 2nd…
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Poets House, Oxford poets lead open mic event at Woodstock Poetry Festival, 2.30pm, Town Hall, 12th November 2016
Margot Myers and Lucinda Kowol are two poets with growing reputations in Oxfordshire and further afield. They will lead the Poet’s House, Oxford open mic session at the Woodstock Poetry Festival with a short selection of poems that express their distinctive voices. Add your own voice to the Woodstock Poetry Festival by coming along to…
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Ten Poems exhibition and book launch, 1st November 2016
We’re half way through our huge Arts Council funded project – ‘Writing Mesopotamia 3’ with some terrific outcomes so far. As the project manager, I could never have predicted the challenges we’ve had to overcome but, interestingly, changes of venue and plans generally, though they didn’t improve my stress levels, have actually improved our events…
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‘The Tale of the Weaver’s Wife’ for a new Shakepeare Liturgy
I’ve written a specially commissioned poem, ‘The Tale of the Weaver’s Wife’ for a new Shakepeare Liturgy based on a Midsummer Night’s Dream which is among five poems based on characters in the play. The other contributing poets are Laurence Sail (Titania), Michael Symmons Roberts (Demetrius), Sinead Morrissey (Puck) and Micheal O’ Siadhail (Helena). The…
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‘Finding my Father in Mesopotamia’ featured in an Iraqi newspaper article
Thanks to Nadeem Al-Abdalla for sharing this post of a newspaper article about my talk -‘Finding my Father in Mesopotamia’ at the Anglo-Iraqi Studies Centre in London last month. I would like a translation so I can read it myself!
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‘Gilgamesh Retold’ featured on ‘And Other Poems’
Here is an extract from my new version of Gilgamesh Retold. Thanks to Josephone Corcoran for publishing it in And Other Poems: ‘Gilgamesh at the Edge of the World’ by Jenny Lewis
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SciPo 2016
Huge thanks to our distinguished panel of speakers/ poets, Tony Curtis, Lesley Saunders and Samir Guglani, and the enthusiastic poets and scientists who attended and helped to make our inaugural SciPo event (SciPo 2016) such a thrilling success. All expectations were exceeded and very healthy roots have been put down for future events. Thanks also…
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Student feedback on Alan Buckley’s Day School
I came away from the workshop feeling more strongly than ever that writing poetry is an important activity, and all our efforts, however approximate, are helping maintain a vital art form… Andrew Dixon Alan Buckley’s exemplary and inspirational Day School on Writing at Risk produced a huge response from participants… ‘You asked for feedback…
