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Category Archives: value of poetry
“To strive, to seek, to find, and….?”
Can you complete this quote? By the end of summer 2012, you should have no difficulty finding the final words, “…and not to yield”. Many readers will remember that they are the last line of “Ulysses”, a dramatic poem about … Continue reading
Keep on feeding me… poetry, poetry and more!
September 2011 was a record-breaking month for Poet in the City as we served up Gerdur Kristny, the Anticipation Drop-In, Grace Under Pressure: The Demiurge, Spread the Word and Storytelling, Chaucer and the Medieval Pilgrimage, Poetry and the State, Lorca’s … Continue reading
Lorca and Neruda: Passion, protest, poetry and wine
How’s your Spanish? Well, even if it’s not too good, English-speaking poetry lovers need not miss out this week, as this week Poet in the City celebrates two much-translated poets, one from Spain and the other from Chile. Federico Garcia … Continue reading
Poetry and the State at Amnesty International UK
From the beginning, poetry has been the great communicator. In every protest, conflict and movement of oppression, voices have risen through the crowd and found expression in its fearless form. Whether personal or political, poetry is a public statement with … Continue reading
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Tagged Amarjit Chandan, Amnesty International, Carlos Reyez Manzo, David Constantine, Helen Constantine, Jennie Feldman, Modern Poetry in Translation, Timothy Allen, Zuzanna Olszewska
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The word made flesh: Bogdan Ghiu at the Romanian Cultural Institute
Event Manager Jayshree Viswanathan has the challenging task of organising a 6-event series for Poet in the City: “Contemporary Romanian Poets” at the lovely venue of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Belgravia. At the most recent event on Thursday 23rd … Continue reading
Arts Council Funding for Poet in the City
Poet in the City received great news last week: that we are one of 110 new organisations to receive National Portfolio Funding by Arts Council England. Chief Executive, Graham Henderson, explained the significance of this funding in a letter to … Continue reading
What is Poetry? 50 definitions and counting
Why is it that everyone can identify poetry, but no one can define it? No matter how comprehensive the description, there is always a poem that doesn’t quite fit the given parameters. And yet, despite its many forms and styles, … Continue reading
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Tagged poetry, poetry definition, what is poetry
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Edmund Spenser’s Dragons of Yester Years & Today
I went to hear Edmund Spenser’s epic poem, The Faerie Queene, last evening, in the hope of gaining some insight into those rarefied aspects of English culture that have eluded me and, possibly, some appreciation of his poetry. But the … Continue reading
Does Spenser’s Faerie Queene speak to today?
When I first read Shakespeare at school, I didn’t think I’d understand the archaic language and I didn’t think that something written in the Elizabethan age could ever be relevant to the here and now. After being made to pore … Continue reading
