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Inspired poetry and prose on Friday 26th April at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore
L-R: Travis Elborough, Caleb Klaces, Lucy Newlyn and David Shook Doors open at 7.00pm, tickets are £4 on door. The Albion Beatnik bookstore has set the standard in Oxford for superb readings but this one is set to be historic and I’m very pleased (and proud) to be curating and hosting it. You really shouldn’t miss it! Doors…
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Our first workshop: Writing Mesopotamia at the Ashmolean
Our first Writing Mesopotamia workshop at the Ashmolean this morning (Sunday 24 March) was full of rich, interesting insights and resulted in some exciting creative ideas now being turned into polished poems for the reading and exhibition on 28th April. We wrote epigrams to start with that will be translated into Arabic for the reading.…
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The first ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ reading at the Ashmolean
The first reading of the ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ programme at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, took place yesterday (Sunday 17 March). Heavy snow from about 9.00am until 11.30am gave us a bit of a scare and we thought we might have to cancel it, but luckily, it eased up and the Ancient Near East Gallery rang to…
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Prose Class cancellation: Saturday 16th February
Unfortunately the Prose Poetry class on Saturday 16th February has been cancelled. Please see the Poet’s House page for information on other classes.
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Ashmolean Museum – Writing Mesopotamia
Writing Mesopotamia is an exciting series of readings and creative writing workshops from The Poet’s House, Oxford to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War in March-April 2003. Renowned Iraqi poet Adnan al Sayegh and Oxford-based poet Jenny Lewis will read their own poems together in English, some with Arabic translations, exploring…
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Gilgamesh Rising performed by Year One Creative Writing MST group
On Sunday, my poetry cycle Gilgamesh Rising, first performed at the PEN USA Jubilee Festival on Sunset Boulevard, LA, was presented by my talented Year One Creative Writing MSt group. They had less than an hour from receiving the scripts to putting on the performance and did fantastically well. It was great for me to hear the audience…
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The Mawby Prize
I’m so proud of my students, three of them from my Poetry 2 Weekly Class have come 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the prestigious Mawby Prize, awarded by Oxford University to the best portfolios from across the whole range of creative writing weekly classes at Oxford. They were entered and judged anonymously so it was only when…
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Poetry at The Albion Beatnik Bookstore
Tickets from jennyklewis@gmail.com or albionbeatnik@yahoo.co.uk
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Midsomer Murderous
How can there be anyone left in Midsomer???Am watching it anyway and John Gielgud has just turned up as a dodgy silver dealer. I thought he was dead, isn’t he?
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Mesh festival
From 20-28 July, the Mesh International Youth Arts Festival happened again and I ran the writing group. Great young team of writers who literally buzzed with energy and ideas. I also got to see some great plays and dance performances from around the world. The best bit for me was the street theatre and parade…
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