Hi everyone!
After a long break Poets’ Letter and London Poetry Festival communication is
back at your inbox!
I hope this finds all of you who are spread across the UK, Ireland, Europe,
America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and beyond.
I. 4th London Poetry Festival 2008: August 8-11
Just a quick update about The 4th London Poetry Festival 2008 taking place in
August 8, 9, 10 and 11 (Friday to Monday) with evening events at Waterloo St
John’s Church, Waterloo Road, London SE1.
4th London Poetry Festival 2008
August 8, 9, 10 & 11 (Friday-Monday) Evenings
Waterloo St John’s Church
Waterloo Road
London SE1
Tickets: £6 Cons £4 (Available Online)
Contact:
contact@londonpoetryfestival.com
Website:
http://www.londonpoetryfestival.com
People may begin gathering from six but the Festival will start at about 7:30
p.m and finish by 10:30 p.m. That's the time for all the four evenings.
As its signature presentation The 4th London Poetry Festival will present this
year's Five Poets in Residence in all the four of the evening events. The
Residence Poets are: Anjan Saha (Hammersmith, London), Claire Askew (University
of Edinburgh), Helen Long (Tunbridge Wells), Nnorom Azuonye (Thamesmead, London)
and Sharon Harriot (Wimbledon, London). You may read their works on Poets’
Letter or on the Festival website.
Please spread the word as the Festival needs as much support as it can get in
terms of promoting the events. People who are on Facebook can join London Poetry
Festival Group.
We need some volunteers to help us run the festival's four evening events (from
(6-10:30 p.m). If you can spare the time and effort please send us an email.
The Festival is run on a not for profit basis so it is here because of the
support and energy everyone involves offers it for free, for the love of word.
Tickets are kept at a very low level: £6 full price and cons £4. Members of the
Facebook Groups The London Circle, The National English Poetry and London Poetry
Festival and Poetry Society, Society of Authors are entitled to concessionary
tickets.
There are four slots for music: one every evening. If there are any
musicians/singers/bands among you or someone you know please let them know of
this.
The London Poetry Festival grew out of Poets’ Letter Magazine Poetry Performance
and Live Music Series that started in March 2005 at the Poetry Cafe, Covent
Garden, one year later than the founding of Poets’ Letter. Our Performance
Series grew into its third year and still growing in strength. We had the first
Festival at The Poetry Cafe in August 2005 where many of our panel of poets took
part as well as a lot of other poets published in the Magazine and Poets’ Letter
Poetry Anthology of New Voices. We had a great memorable event.
We thought this could become a regular Annual Poetry Festival in London, a
celebration of Contemporary English Poetry. And there was the second Festival in
2006 at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) which was a resounding success. The
festival in 2007, the third, celebrated in a four-day poetic feast: August 10,
11, 12 and 13th, Friday to Monday. 2nd London Poetry Festival was featured in
British Satellite News Channel in 2006.
Five Poets in Residence at the Festival 2008 are: Anjan Saha, Claire Askew,
Helen Long, Nnorom Azuonye and Sharon Harriott.
3rd Festival Residencies were offered to: Briony Dennis, Inua Ellams, Juli Jeana,
Tom Chivers and Tricia Peak.
From the second Festival we developed Festival Poets in Residence Programme as
part of London Poetry Festival's commitments to new, young and emerging poetic
voices and offered five poets the Residencies who became the Signature
presentation of the Festival. The Residencies of the 2nd Festival went to these
talented poets: Alan Buckley, Dr Girija Emma Jane Shettar, Luke Wright,
Malgorzata Kitowski and Philip Ruthen.
London Poetry Festival has never received, nor does it receive now, any funding
from any public bodies or grant making foundations and is purely funded by
Poets’ Letter and the hard works, supports and contributions of the astonishing
band of people: editors, poets, writers, singers, musicians, song writers,
artists, PR professionals, journalists, dancers, librarians, youth workers,
teachers, parents and simply people who are into living in a community that is
bigger than themselves.
Sponsorship proposals are highly welcome and be treated as a great support.
London Poetry Festival is here and will continue to be here in its efforts to
ensure that we make a lot of poetry and music out of our living to say, show,
sing and celebrate the fact that we are human beings and are alive and thriving
in the rainbow-humanity. This is an open invite to everyone to join us in the
celebration.
2. Poets’ Letter Magazine Online.
You may have noticed the spelling of Poet’s Letter has changed from Poet’s
Letter and become Poets’ Letter for over the last five years it has become as
such and will continue to be the voices of young and emerging poets. Poets’
Letter is still being published as an online monthly magazine and will continue
to be published so long I am alive since this has become my Pompey, my poetry,
my living (not making money for I never set out, consciously choosing not to,
make money and waste my life and living in it): Poets’ Letter is my raison
d'être.
July issue has the following:
Three of the five Poets in Residence at the 4th London Poetry Festival 2008
(August 8-11) Claire Askew, Helen Long and Sharon Harriott has been featured in
the issue.
Featured Poets of the Month: Tricia Peak, Catherine Brogan and Jason Irwin
Name of the Poet: Isabel Galleymore
The Royal London Hospital and Whitechapel Am Radio Children and Young People's
Creative Writing Competition 2008 Winners' Poems: Charilotte Bentley, Arif
Chaudhury and Jasmine Brown
Poetry More: Benjamin Stainton and Carol Lynn Grellas
Purely Poetry: Aster Samuel
Listen to Audio Poetry: Poet Cast
And all other regular features: Furthermore, Events: Utter, Aoife at Ledbury,
Sundial Scottish Arts Council Book Award and more
3. I’m afraid, a little of the Editor’s News
Because of the break in communication I thought I would just quickly update all
of you as to what is happening to the editor! Someone bought my old website! So
I have now a new one:
http://www.munayemmayenin.co.uk
This year so far I have published: Prometheus and Orpheus (Sonnets), Illumine My
Ithaca (poetry), Indira's Heart (Prozzitry Collection), Immonsima, (romantic
poetic fiction), Ink-Spring Ithaca Iguana (poetry), A Traveller's Guide to
Pollypsychophinadalium (poetry), Neverbridge Stone Roses (poetry) and Poetry of
Ruins and Rains (poetry).
I wish all of you, singly, individually, personally a happy and wonderful summer
as I know most of you, by name, (as Poets’ Letter has never been a brand or
business, and never will be, but a living of me as a poet, as an author, as a
thinker and as a human being and thus this is not a mechanically produced
communication).
A happy summer for all of you. Be Humanics and do look at life as if it is your
heart outside running, spreading, rising and living your breaths, beats and
bones. Live the tiny brilliance that it is: this life.
The only home is the Eyes of the Universe, the only country is her infinite
spread and bloom on motion's perpetual ocean-garden, the only nation is the
wings of humanity, the only music is the weaving and waving spectrum of lights
and darkness and the only, only, only song is love that paints and releases
liberty and its abounding Prometheus in each and every one of us. We must live
in each breathe, we must bloom in each instance, we must live light only
treasuring, nurturing and carrying the eye-catches and the sensedine wealth of
diamonds, sapphires, topazes and emeralds of different kinds and magnitude and
live and breathe a liberate: a liberty breathing and blooming in love and in
touch with the greater wider in wonder. We must forever live in invernation:
open wide in wonder!
Thank you
Munayem Mayenin
Editor
http://www.poetsletter.com
http://www.londonpoetryfestival.com
http://www.munayemmayenin.co.uk
Poet's Letter
London Poetry Festival (3rd Festival 2007: August 10-13)
London
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