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4th London Poetry Festival 2008

8, 9,10 & 11 August: Friday to Monday

 

London Poetry Festival

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4th London Poetry Festival 2008

8, 9 ,10 & 11 August: Friday to Monday

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

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4th London Poetry Festival 2008: 8, 9,10 and 11 August: Friday to Monday

Waterloo St John's Church, Waterloo Road,  London SE1

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International Festivals, Awards, Prizes and  and Links

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Poetry Festivals, Awards and Prizes Festivals

Aldeburgh Poetry Festival

London Poetry Festival 

2007 3rd Festival: August 10, 11, 12 and 13th 

Stanza Poetry Festival

Cheltenham Festivals
The Guardian Hay Festival

Dylan Thomas Festival

Manchester Poetry Festival

Bristol Poetry Festival

Bath Literature Festival

 

Brighton Festival

Swindon Festival of Literature

Belfast Festival

 Bay Lit Festival Wells Festival of Literature Edinburgh International Book Festival
Glastonbury Festivals Notting Hill Carnival   Ledbury Poetry Festival

Prague International Poetry Festival

Hong Kong Literature Festival

 Spitalfields Festival City of London Festival
The Man Hong Kong Literature Festival The Orange Prize for Fiction Forward Poetry Prize

 

 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize
The Pulitzer Prize The Man Booker Prize The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival

24 - 29 March 2006

  
King's Lynn Literature Festivals  

 

POETRY NOW INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL BELFAST March 23-26 2006 ٠ Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland
 

 

Poetry Organisations, Journals, Magazines, Reviews, Publishers and Websites

The Poetry Society London Poetry Library Poet's Letter The Poetry House
The Poetry Kit Scottish Poetry Library Arvon Foundation Bloodaxe Books
Zafusy Poetry Journal Aesthetica Magazine Author Network
Carcanet: Poetry Publisher

 

 Fore Word Press Bluechorme Poetry The Reader
Young Writer Magazine 
Poetry London Poetry Film New Hope International Review Online Lit Mag Central
The English Centre of PEN The Society of Authors The Poetry School P. N. Review
Oxford Poetry  NthPosition Cambridge Poetry Poetry Ireland
The Poetry Society of America The African American Writers-Poets Arab American Poets Asian American Poets-Writers
Native American Authors Online The League of Canadian Poets Poetry New Zealand Poetry Television
Poetry Australia Foundation Poets Union Australian Poetic Society The New Zealand Poetry Society
Imperium Journal Heaven Tree Press Wasafiri Ms Lexia
Common Word Pulp Net Ambit Magazine Centre Prise Trust
Sentinel Poetry Aisle 16 Poetry Cultural Co-operation Poetry Olympics
New York Poets House The Poetry Magazine Chain The Poetry Project
Literal Latte Children's Poetry Bookshelf National Association for Literature Development The Other Voices International Project
The Poetry Archive The Wolf Magazine
Writers Promote World Writer Poet Seers Live Poets

Poetry UK

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Poetry In London

  
Poetry Society: London The Poet's Letter Magazine Poetry Performance and Live Music Series @ the Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden (Second Monday, 7 p.m.) Poetry Cafe: London
London Performance Poetry Listing London Poetry Film London Poetry Magazine
Map of Poetry Cafe: Covent Garden The Poetry Library: London Poetry London
London E-Poetry Stanza Poetry North London Poetry Competitions
Poetry Class Trombone Poetry Poetry Magazines
Poetry Events in London Poetry Southwark Poetry in Newham
Poetry By Wilde in West Ealing Black Performance Poery Performance Poetry in Tower Hamlets
Youth Performance Poetry Performance Poetry in Stratford Poetry in Camden
Performance Poetry Reviews Budding Bards of Camden London Poetry Venues
Poetry in Richmond London Poetry Performances Poetry in Islington
Farrago Poetry London Poems on the Underground The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour
Poetry in Brixton Poetry in Wandsworth Poetry in Westminster
Poetry Listing London Poetry in Lambeth Words and Poetry in Lambeth
London Poetry Boy Band Poetry Shortfuse  
Urban Poetry Poetry in Blackheath Poetry in Greenwich
The Spinning Room The Women's Library Hackney Libraries Creative Group
Women's Writers' Group SubVerse The Poetry Library
Magnetic North Writers' Group Poetry Themes Reading Group
Northfields Reading Group My Story Out of Reality
West London Book Group Irish Library Kerouac's Poetry
Poets Anonymous Saturday Sessions Wired on Words Torriano Poets
New River Writers Write on the Edge Poetry Xpress
Writers' Techniques Study Group Pitshanger Poets Workshop Poets Anonymous
 

Poetry In Birmingham

  
Poems About Birmingham Birminham Words Birmingham Poetry Review
Poetry Wednesbury Lit Net West Midland Universal Verse
Matthew Stephens Liz Scott Rawson Bob Fiddaman
Dreadlockalien Jim Sherwood Andrew Myatt
David Trippas Demonrobber Paul Hackett
Derek Staley Terry Powell Izzy Bobbins
Sarah Burley Paul Holmes John Wood
John Hirst Imran Ali Shadow
     
     
     
     

 

 Poets and Authors

George Szirtes

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Mimi Khalvati

Eva Salzman
Munayem Mayenin Jim Bennett

Cheryl Follon

Kona Macphee

Isobel Dixon

Julia Copus

Carole Baldock

Choman Hardi
Helen Ivory Martin Figura Patrick Neate Leanne O'Sullivan
Vona Groarke Moniza Alvi Bernadine Evaristo Luke Wright
Benjamin Zephaniah Nii Parkes Raman Mundair The Joy of Six (Poets)
Todd Swift Laura Hird Malik Al Nasir Bryant Mcgill
Alan David Prichard Girija Shettar John Hollingworth Denis Bond
Laura Mowforth Bryan Harrison Sean Burn Robert Furness
Domino Alan McKean Davide Trame Kauser Parveen
Colin Channer Kwame Dawes Diran Adebayo   Kerry Fleur Schleifer
Nan Archer   Roisin Tierney  
Malgorzata Kitowski  Helen Long    

Philosophy Resource Links


 Politics

United Nations World Health Organisation UNESCO OHCHR: UN Human Rights
NATO The European Union OPEC OIC
ASEAN SAARC The Commonwealth British Conservative Party
British Liberal Democratic Party British Labour Party Plaid Cymru: Wales Scottish National Party
       

Arts

Shakespeare's Globe The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Charles Dickens Museum Keats House
The Royal Society of Literature National Gallery National Portrait Gallery The Wordsworth Trust
English National Ballet English National Ballet School Royal Opera House Arts Council of England
Tate Britain Tate Modern Tate Liverpool Tate St Ives
British Council      
The New Vic Theatre Young Vic Theatre Sadler's Well Theatre Theatre Royal Stratford
Royal Shakespeare Company   Kerry Fleur Schleifer  
Hackney Empire Theatre Polka Theatre Lyric Theatre Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Liverpool Philharmonic    
       

World Literature

Nobel Prize      
World Literature Today World Literature Online Bangla Literature Poetry International
Literature of Asia and Africa Indian Literature Danish Literature Dutch Literature
Finnish Literature French Literature German Literature Greek Literature
Irish Literature Italian Literature Latin Literature Norwegian Literature
Icelandic Literature Portuguese Literature Romanian Literature Spanish Literature
Swedish Literature Czech Literature    
 

Nobel Laureates for Literature

 

    
2004 Elfriede Jelinek 2003 J.M. Coetzee
2002 Imre Kertész		 2001 V.S. Naipaul
2000 Gao Xingjian 1999 Günter Grass 1998 José Saramago 1997 Dario Fo
1996 Wislawa Szymborska 1995 Seamus Heaney 1994 Kenzaburo Oe 1993 Toni Morrison
1992 Derek Walcott 1991 Nadine Gordimer 1990 Octavio Paz 1989 Camilo José Cela
1988 Naguib Mahfouz 1987 Joseph Brodsky 1986 Wole Soyinka 1985 Claude Simon
1984 Jaroslav Seifert 1983 William Golding 1982 Gabriel García Márquez 1981 Elias Canetti
1980 Czeslaw Milosz 1979 Odysseus Elytis 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer 1977 Vicente Aleixandre
1976 Saul Bellow 1975 Eugenio Montale 1974 Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson 1973 Patrick White
1972 Heinrich Böll 1971 Pablo Neruda 1970 Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1969 Samuel Beckett
1968 Yasunari Kawabata 1967 Miguel Angel Asturias 1966 Samuel Agnon, Nelly Sachs 1965 Mikhail Sholokhov
1964 Jean-Paul Sartre 1963 Giorgos Seferis 1962 John Steinbeck 1961 Ivo Andric
1960 Saint-John Perse 1959 Salvatore Quasimodo 1958 Boris Pasternak 1957 Albert Camus
1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez 1955 Halldór Laxness 1954 Ernest Hemingway 1953 Winston Churchill
1952 François Mauriac 1951 Pär Lagerkvist
1950 Bertrand Russell		 1949 William Faulkner
1948 T.S. Eliot 1947 André Gide 1946 Hermann Hesse 1945 Gabriela Mistral
1944 Johannes V. Jensen 1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää 1938 Pearl Buck 1937 Roger Martin du Gard
1936 Eugene O'Neill 1934 Luigi Pirandello 1933 Ivan Bunin 1932 John Galsworthy
 
1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt 1930 Sinclair Lewis 1929 Thomas Mann 1928 Sigrid Undset
1927 Henri Bergson 1926 Grazia Deledda 1925 George Bernard Shaw 1924 Wladyslaw Reymont
1923 William Butler Yeats 1922 Jacinto Benavente 1921 Anatole France 1920 Knut Hamsun
1919 Carl Spitteler 1917 Karl Gjellerup, Henrik Pontoppidan 1916 Verner von Heidenstam 1915 Romain Rolland
1913 Rabindranath Tagore 1912 Gerhart Hauptmann 1911 Maurice Maeterlinck 1910 Paul Heyse
1909 Selma Lagerlöf 1908 Rudolf Eucken 1907 Rudyard Kipling 1906 Giosuè Carducci
1905 Henryk Sienkiewicz 1904 Frédéric Mistral, José Echegaray 1903 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson 1902 Theodor Mommsen
1901 Sully PrudhommeSelma Lagerlöf Anatole France    

 

Music

Luciano Pavarotti Placido Domingo Renee Fleming Lesley Garrett
Sir Bob Geldof Sting Sir Paul Mccartney Sir Cliff Richard
Elton John U 2 Madonna Destiny's Child
Robbie Williams Joss Stone Dido Charlotte Church
Aled Jones Katherine Jenkins Hayley Westenra Classic FM
Craig David Lemar Lionel Richie Snoop Dogg
Kiri Te Kenawa Deeyah Sarah Birghtman Ravi Shankar
Lara St John Sissel Mary Fahl Nicola Benedetti
Vanessa Mae The Corrs Mariah Carey Jennifer Lopez
Britney Spears UB40 Beyonce  Kerry Fleur Schleifer
Anoushka Shankar Katie Melua Norah Jones Andrea Rost
Kylie Minogue Shania Tawain Rachel Stevens Emma Bunton
Sneha Mistri Natasha Bedingfield Natalie Imbruglia Cher
Celine Dion Asian Dub Foundation West Life Dannii Minogue
Moana Maniapoto Hinemoana Baker Mika Abdel Halim Hafiz
Najwa Karam Maya Nasri Latifa Shireen Wajdi
Elissa Lata Mangeshkar Hemant Kumar Kishore Kumar
Mohammed Rafi Talat Mahmood Asha Bhosle Noorjehan
Geeta Dutt Shamshad Begum Songs of Rabindranaath Thaakur (Tagore) Songs of Kazi Nazrul Islam
Ghazals      
Joanne Shenandoah John Two Hawks Rita Coolidge Janice Marie
Ulali Lunar Drive Joy Harjo  
KEV CARMODY Kerrianne Cox Yothu Yindi Archie Roach
Kerry Fleur

Astronomy and Cosmology: Unfolding the Geography of the Universe

 

Nine Planets Solar Views Moonstics More Moonstics
The European Space Agency British National Space Centre British Astronomical Association Aluna
Astronomy Magazine Daily Astronomy Windows to the Universe Imagine the Universe
Universe Today History of the Universe Nasa  
International Space University Russian Space Science Institute Cosmology Cambridge Cosmology
 
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