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London Poetry Festival: A shared areal space of our common humanity 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, Catherine Brogan, 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 Poets' Letter would like to see poetry grow on the solid support of people who are individuals choosing to practise, support, nurture and celebrate poetry as a personal choice and therefore Poet's Letter hopes to see people stop looking at other people and bodies to come and support and "rescue" poetry. One cannot see the astounding dawn where the sun spells out the spectrum of endless joys, thrills and hopes in the astonishing brilliance, all absorbing melody and soul flooding music if they fail to choose to open their eyes, to choose to get up and walk, choose to open the doors and walk right onto the spectacle. Here is London Poetry Festival and here it would like people to choose poetry and enabling it will to grow like an eternal tree offering us greenery and wind dance that will elaborate our oxygenated spirit and bring us in touch with the thrill and wonders of weather and music of life in the glorious cycle of seasons and take us beyond the bread-bridge and launch us into a space and reality that allows us to be something which is bigger than anything else that we could be: being human and being alive for which our system has yet to coin up a currency. Here is 3rd London Poetry Festival 2007 with poetry and music too: a shared areal space of our common humanity. Five Poets in Residence @ the Festival 2007 are: Briony Dennis (Hampshire), Inua Ellams (Nunhead, London), Juli Jeana (Southbank, London), Tom Chivers (East London) and Tricia Peak (Dover) will showcase their works at the Festival. 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 humans 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! Poets in Residence at 5th London Poetry Festival 2009
Poets in Residence at 4th London Poetry Festival 2008 Poets in Residence at 3rd London Poetry Festival 2007 Briony Dennis: Hampshire Inua Ellams: Nunhead, London Juli Jeana: Southbank, London Tom Chivers: East London Tricia Peak: Dover 2nd London Poetry Festival 2006 Poets in Residence were:
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