London Poetry Festival Part and Parcel of London's Cultural Life and Landscape 4th London Poetry Festival 2008 8, 9,10 & 11 August: Friday to Monday

London Poetry Festival contact at londonpoetryfestival dot com 4th London Poetry Festival 2008 8, 9 ,10 & 11 August: Friday to Monday

            Welcome to London Poetry Festival

Making London a human rainbow together in living poetry and music

 4th  Festival will take place at Waterloo St John's Church, Waterloo Road,  London SE1: August 8-11. Read report and look at photos of the 3rd London Poetry Festival 2007. Read some poetry read at the Festival

4th London Poetry Festival 2008

August 8-11 (Friday-Monday)

The London Poetry Festival grew out of Poet's 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 Poet's 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 Poet's 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 and now in 2007 the third Festival looks set to celebrate 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.

Six Poets in Residence @ the Festival 2008 are: Anjan Saha, Claire Askew, Helen Long, Nnorom Azuonye and Sharon Harriott

3rd Festival Residencies have been 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 Poet's 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. See you all there!

Thank you

Contact Information : Festival Director: Munayem Mayenin

Postal address: City of London

Electronic mail:  contact at londonpoetryfestival dot com   Please write to us with questions, queries, suggestions, complaints, praises,  proposals or comments about London Poetry Festival, and this web site. Photo used on the home page is of 2nd London Poetry Festival 2006 by Donal Lennon

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