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

Ezra Pound: Making It New – Will Harris
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Ezra Pound: Making It New – Will Harris

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Poet in the City · Interview with Will Harris at Poet in the City’s Ezra Pound – Making It New event Will Harris is the author of Mixed-Race Superman (2018) – an essay examining resilience and self-creation, as well as a chapbook, All This is Implied, winner of the LRB Bookshop Poetry Pick for best pamphlet. A selection…

Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider – Bridget Minamore
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Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider – Bridget Minamore

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Poet in the City · Interview with Bridget Minamore at Poet in the City’s Audre Lorde – Sister Outsider event Bridget Minamore is a writer from and based in south-east London. She has written with the National Theatre’s New Views programme and the Royal Opera House, and has an English degree from University College London….

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

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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…

Hidden by Clouds – Gerður Kristný
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Hidden by Clouds – Gerður Kristný

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A tribute to all women murdered by violent men, Icelandic poet Gerður Kristný presents Drápa, a story of modern-day Nordic crime reimagined through Old Viking Skaldic verse, musically accompanied by members of ALDAorchestra. On a frozen January day in Reykjavik, 1988, 26-year-old Gréta Birgisdóttir was strangled to death by her husband Bragi Ólafsson. Ten years on,…