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Goldsmiths Place for Poetry Film Poem Exhibition
And now for the Goldsmiths Place for Poetry Film Poem Exhibition which we hope, with some adjustments, will travel to new venues/ festivals. I will keep all contributors in touch with this. Many, many thanks to you all for contributing to this diverse, international selection of Film Poems and also to Mark Edmondson (Digital Media)…
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The Place for Poetry’ Conference and Festival at Goldsmiths, University of London, 7-8 May 2015
I was on the committee organising this festival – very hard work but well worth it for the magnificent result of a hugely diverse and dynamic event. I also curated the Film Poem Exhibition which went very well and may tour to other venues.
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Kristin Grogan for ORbits magazine book review and interview.
Sewn By Chance KRISTIN GROGAN Jenny Lewis Taking Mesopotamia Carcanet/Oxford Poets £9.95 96 Pages ISBN: 9781906188115 It seemed impossible to escape the First World War in 2014. From public art installations through services of remembrance to countless university symposia, the centenary of World War I was marked and remembered throughout the year on…
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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…
