Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls – we want your poems please! Here at London Literature Festival we love and adore poetry (and all literature ofcourse) and here’s your opportunity: we are asking you to send us your poems! We’ll be starting up a very special poetry season soon – watch this site (literally!) [...]
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Posted on behalf of Fred D’Aguiar by Rosie Goldsmith
BODACIOUS BENJAMIN
I attended Benjamin’s reading with my 7 year-old, Nicholas who laughed at the rude bits and kept his eyes on the dance and bob and weave on Ben’s stage presence and personality. He kept a packed Queen Elizabeth Hall laughing and clapping and at the end [...]
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“The game’s afoot” as the Bard once wrote and certainly the game opened last night with much fanfare.
At the launch party, South Bank’s “empressaria” Jude Kelly gave the opening speech, explaining that the South Bank’s remit is to “push back the membrane” to the point that there is “no-one on the outside.” Now that’s a properly inclusive approach to creativity, artistry and expression, a rousing, modern version of ‘Cry “God for Harry, England and Saint George”’ as the Bard went on to say.
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