Poetry and Lyrics Festival – Cerys Matthews, Leonie Evans, Hannah Lowe and Malika Booker
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Poetry and Lyrics Festival – Cerys Matthews, Leonie Evans, Hannah Lowe and Malika Booker

Melanie Low interviews Cerys Matthews, Leonie Evans, Hannah Lowe and Malika Booker at When the Levee Breaks, an event at Poet in the City’s 2018 Poetry and Lyrics Festival

The Dream of a Common Language: The Women Poets Who Changed 1968
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The Dream of a Common Language: The Women Poets Who Changed 1968

From the anti-war and civil rights movements to feminist and LGBT activism, this series puts focus on the women poets who played a crucial role in the seismic social and political change of 1968, 50 years on: Maya Angelou and Adrienne Rich.

Baudelaire: Botanist of the Sidewalk – Dylan Read
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Baudelaire: Botanist of the Sidewalk – Dylan Read

Poet in the City · Dylan Read reading Les Aveugles by Baudelaire Dylan Read was born in Paris and grew-up in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. At university, Dylan performed and co-directed an extensive repertoire of theatre and performance projects. As a keen musician, he also scored a critically acclaimed version of The Caucasian…

Baudelaire: Botanist of the Sidewalk – Lauren Elkin
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Baudelaire: Botanist of the Sidewalk – Lauren Elkin

Poet in the City · Interview with Lauren Elkin at Baudelaire – Botanist of the Sidewalk Charles Baudelaire was the original flâneur poet, embodying the spirit of the curious wanderer. One hundred and fifty years after his death, join Poet in the City and the Rimbaud and Verlaine Foundation as we traverse the psychogeography of…

Beaudelaire: Botanist of the Sidewalk – Matthew Beaumont
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Beaudelaire: Botanist of the Sidewalk – Matthew Beaumont

Poet in the City · Interview with Matthew Beaumont at Baudelaire – Botanist of the Sidewalk Matthew Beaumont is co-director of the UCL Urban Laboratory and Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the UCL Department of English. Matthew is the author of Utopia Ltd. (Haymarket, 2009), The Spectre of Utopia (Peter Lang, 2012) and Nightwalking (Verso, 2015). As well as being an…

Baudelaire: Botanist of the Sidewalk – Professor Helen Abbott
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Baudelaire: Botanist of the Sidewalk – Professor Helen Abbott

Poet in the City · Interview with Professor Helen Abbott at Baudelaire – Botanist of the Sidewalk As Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, Helen Abbott specialises in nineteenth-century French poetry and music. Her research explores ways of writing about word-music relationships in poetic language, in critical theories, and using digital methodologies. Her…