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Title: George Szirtes and David Harsent read at Woodstock Town Hall
Date: November 11, 2017
Location: Woodstock, England
Description: 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize judge George Szirtes and 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize winner David Harsent read from their recent works.
Title: Keep the Home Fires Burning – Wind and Words of World War 1
Date: November 11, 2017
Location: London, England
Description: Keep the Home Fires Burning is a recital of clarinet and poetry based on The First World War. It combines tunes of the period with both poems and writings weaving them into one continuous performance. Much of the programme consists of poems written by poets who served in The Great War, including Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, John Mcrae, Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg. The music, made famous at the time, features a range of composers including Ivor Novello, Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin.
Title: Keep the Home Fires Burning – Wind and Words of World War 1
Date: November 14, 2017
Location: London, England
Description: Keep the Home Fires Burning is a recital of clarinet and poetry based on The First World War. It combines tunes of the period with both poems and writings weaving them into one continuous performance. Much of the programme consists of poems written by poets who served in The Great War, including Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, John Mcrae, Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg. The music, made famous at the time, features a range of composers including Ivor Novello, Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin.
Title: Keep the Home Fires Burning – Wind and Words of World War 1
Date: November 10, 2017
Location: London, England
Description: Keep the Home Fires Burning is a recital of clarinet and poetry based on The First World War. It combines tunes of the period with both poems and writings weaving them into one continuous performance. Much of the programme consists of poems written by poets who served in The Great War, including Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, John Mcrae, Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg. The music, made famous at the time, features a range of composers including Ivor Novello, Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin.
Title: Coronet International Festival presents Narrative Poem
Date: November 10, 2017
Location: London, England
Description: This spellbinding performance combining poetry, dance and live music is from the world’s most influential and innovative Chinese poet Yang Lian.
Narrative Poem is Yang’s most personal poetry to date travelling back and forth in time, covering his childhood and his harrowing ‘re-education through labour’, digging graves in rural China, his first period of exile in New Zealand, and his subsequent adventures and travels around Europe and elsewhere.
Title: A Poem For Every Day of the Year
Date: November 10, 2017
Location: London, England
Description: Following the success of A Poem for Every Night of the Year (Independent Bookshop Week Award 2017) Allie Esiri’s new anthology, A Poem for Every Day of the Year is a journey through a calendar year, highlighting key moments and dates with a poem for every day, by writers such as Keats, W H Auden, Maya Angelou and Kate Tempest. An inspiring evening of readings of some of the magical and humorous poems in this journey through history and human experience. Read by actors including Adjoa Andoh, Joanna Lumley, Stephen Mangan, Helen McCrory, Simon Russell Beale and Samuel West.
Title: Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) 5th Anniversary
Date: November 28, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: The most diverse poetry reading and open mic in Toronto, Shab-e She’r has been bridging the gap between diverse poetry communities, bringing together people from different ethnicities, nationalities, ages, disabilities, religions (or lack thereof), poetic styles, voices and visions. At Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night) we don’t just wait for diversity to happen: we actively invite it. Please spread the word through social media and other means. Let our event become as diverse as we are.
Host of the evening is Bänoo Zan, the featured poets are Jacob McArthur Mooney and Ifrah Hussain and the featured musicians are Daniel Robinson and Yvonne Choi.
Title: John David White at London Open Mic Poetry
Date: December 6, 2017
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Description: John “David” White will feature at this edition of the London Open Mic. His feature reading will be followed by open mic poets.
Title: Joshua Shuster at London Open Mic Poetry
Date: November 1, 2017
Location: London, Ontario, Canada
Description: Joshua Shuster will feature at this edition of the London Open Mic. His feature reading will be followed by open mic poets.
Title: Pivot Readings with Del Bucchia, Gordon and Nolan
Date: November 1, 2017
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: Pivot presents the writers breathing life into Canadian literary culture. Established and emerging, time-tested and fresh; they’re what’s happening in literature, right now. This evening’s readings at the Tranzac Club’s Tiki Room in Toronto are by Dina Del Bucchia, E Martin Nolan and Spencer Gordon.