March 2020
Emirati Poets in London
The spotlight’s on poetic talent from the United Arab Emirates in an evening of readings, discussion and a Q&A with celebrated Emirati poets. Find out more about Nabati, a 'people's poetry' that has recently become a UAE television phenomenon with Million's Poet, the country's equivalent to X Factor. This event is part of the World Poets series, which has seen the National Poetry Library host poets from Syria, South Korea, Mexico and Indonesia. Learn more here.
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Alice Oswald Book Club
Delve into the works of the poet who gave voice to the River Dart and reinvented Homer at the spring National Poetry Library Book Club. From her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, in 1996, Alice Oswald has engaged with the natural world and ecology, informed by her work as a gardener, though she resists being defined as a nature poet. Look at poems from across Oswald’s career and see why The Times described her as "inheritor of…
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