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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
Read report and look
at
photos
of the 3rd London Poetry
Festival 2007.
Read some poetry
read at the Festival
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