Chief Guest at the 3rd London Poetry Festival 2007Minister for Transport (Former Minister for London) Right Honourable Jim Fitzpatrick MP will inaugurate the 3rd London Poetry Festival on August 10th, Friday at 7:30 p. m
Jim Fitzpatrick MP: Minister for Transport
A Message from
Jim Fitzpatrick MP
I am delighted to have been invited to join the four-day festivities of the 3rd London Poetry Festival 2007 this August to celebrate contemporary English as well as European Poetry and music.
London is a vibrant and youthful world city with a cosmopolitan and diverse rhythm, living and life style where arts and culture create worldwide resonance and reach and therefore it is reasonable to expect that it should have a Poetry Festival of its own to showcase the talents in the crafts of poetic art and performance poetry and London Poetry Festival rightly fits the bill whereby we have opportunities to come together and celebrate not only English poetry and music but also the great city London and its diverse culture, arts and offerings.
I am glad to see that a lot of European poets are taking part in this year's festivities and hope that London Poetry Festival brings the European poetry and culture to a celebratory platform in London as it continues to thrive.
I wish the festival every success and invite everyone in the relevant fields of arts to support and join in the Festival.
I look forward to seeing everyone at the opening of the Festival on 10th of August.
Celebrating London
Jim Fitzpatrick MP
Minister for Transport
Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform