Posted on October 29, 2009 by dylanthomascentre
PoetCasting is at the Dylan Thomas Festival – 31 October from 10am to 5pm!
PoetCasting is a poetry podcasting project which works with poets throughout the United Kingdom. The project features published, performance, emerging and established poets reading their own work online and out loud. The project has been live since April 2007. There are currently [...]
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Posted on October 28, 2009 by dylanthomascentre
and it’s been a flying start so far. We opened with readings from Dannie Abse and Peter Finch, two of Wales’ most established and well respected poets. Contrasting in style, both were gripping in their different ways; Abse with his more traditional lyrics, and Finch combining the experimental with the personal. What a hard act [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2009 by Learning&Participation
GPS is Global Poetry System, a new website from Southbank Centre that creates a user generated world map of poetry – find out more at www.southbankcentre.co.uk/gps.
Litfest, one of the country’s oldest literature festivals, has been mapping poetry everywhere – from war memorials to tattoos, from children’s nursery rhymes to public art.
Oral historian Marie-Claire Balaam has been [...]
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Posted on October 19, 2009 by Learning&Participation
Where’s the poetry in waiting at a train station? Michael Rosen finds it in this new recording of his poem ‘Platform’, filmed for GPS by the Verbal Arts Centre in Derry, and uploaded with a pin, to place it in the global map of poetry. If you’ve never been to Pinner station, take two minutes to visit there [...]
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Posted on October 13, 2009 by dylanthomascentre
This year’s Dylan Thomas Festival runs from 26 October to 9 November, and is packed with exciting events, with appearances by Peter Finch, Dannie Abse, Fflur Dafydd, Owen Sheers and many others. There’s new drama from London’s Out of Order Theatre co. Cerys Matthews is in conversation at the Dylan Thomas Centre, then in concert [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2009 by ryan
Been tweeting lately? on Thursday 8th October ‘National Poetry Day’ was the second most popular trend on Twitter. You can probably guess why. On that very day, poetry fans gathered at the Royal Festival Hall to see Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Selima Hill, John Hegley and other poets perform their work. G.P.S. founder and Southbank [...]
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Posted on October 8, 2009 by davidcooper1978
At the moment, I seem to be spending much of my time looking at, and thinking about, maps. Maps seem to be everywhere and play such important roles in our everyday lives: from Harry Beck’s iconic map of the London Underground, to the sat-navs that direct our journeys by road, to Google Earth which allows [...]
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Posted on October 5, 2009 by amitgps
National Poetry Day Live creeps closer and closer. The gratuitously all-star line up has been confirmed; the rarest footage of our poetic heroes has been baptised by the copyright gods. The Clore Ballroom’s furniture is being tinkered with; the 19 metre wide screen designed for poetic projections is being buffed. Global Poetry System is limbered [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2009 by Learning&Participation
“Until it closed, this chippie was known for showing rap/R&B videos and the men behind the counter dancing. Someone with a spray can decided to share their affection.”
Found by: Graham Isaac
Location: SA1 5JE, Swansea, Wales
The G.P.S. team are getting ready to launch Global Poetry System next Thursday 8th October - we’ve selected this post from Swansea [...]
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