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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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Beartooth- the joys of nature writing: 7.30pm, Monday 28th July, Albion Beatnik Bookstore
Celebrate nature writing with the launch of Beartooth: Diary of a Nomadic Sheep Herder, followed by your own nature-related poems and prose extracts. 7.00 for 7.30pm, Monday 28 July, Albion Beatnik Bookstore. Tickets £3 at door. Complimentary glass of wine or soft drink on arrival. What better way to spend a summer evening than chilling out and enjoying…
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The Poets House at St Hilda’s – Day School in Prose Poetry with Carrie Etter
Our inaugural event at St. Hilda’s College was a huge success and the first of many more, after meetings with St Hilda’s and the wonderful Sarah Watkinson who has made this all possible for us. On Saturday 7 June, 18 students gathered to find out the secrets of prose poetry from expert tutor Carrie Etter,…
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Review of Taking Mesopotamia by Gareth Prior
Here’s a lovely piece about Taking Mesopotamia: http://garethprior.org/folding-time-jenny-lewis/
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Stanza Festival- St Andrews
After the ‘Victims of a Map’ seminar and reception at Kellogg College, I scooted off to Oxford station to catch the train to Paddington – Euston – night sleeper to Edinburgh- morning train to Leuchars- taxi to St Andrews where the StAnza Festival is held. I just about had time to change and have a…
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Victims of a Map’ seminar, Kellogg College, Oxford, Tuesday 4 March 2014.
With Adnan al Sayegh and Taj Kandoura (interpreter). The seminar went very well – looking at Iraq and the poetry and literature that shaped it from pre-Islamic poetry until the present day. We read for the first time my translations (with Ruba Abughaida) of extracts from Adnan’s 500-page poem – Uruk’s Anthem and some of…
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‘Writing Mesopotamia’ at the Pegasus Theatre – 27th March
ADNAN AL SAYEGH, TARIK BESHIR, STEPHEN WATTS AND JENNY LEWIS WITH EMERGING OXFORDSHIRE POETS 7.00-8.15pm: Thursday 27 March: Tickets £3 PEGASUS THEATRE STUDIO Pegasus Theatre, Magdalen Road, Oxford OX4 1RE Arabic themed show with new poetry and translations by leading Iraqi poet Adnan al Sayegh, British poets Stephen Watts and Jenny Lewis and emerging Oxfordshire voices…
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Oxford Literary Festival Tuesday 25th March
Jenny’s new collection, Taking Mesopotamia, will be launched at the Oxford Literary Festival on Tuesday 25 March at 6.00pm. Originally inspired by Jenny;’s search for her lost father – the young South Wales Borderer who fought in the ill-fated Mesopotamian campaign of World War 1. Through reconstructed diary extracts, witness statements, formal poems and free verse,…
