Posted on March 16, 2010 by sophiegps
The fusion of poetry and music is filling Southbank Centre with its sweet sounds this month, with the eclectic jazz sound of Polar Bear meeting the serene and unforgettable voice of Zena Edwards in a collaboration on the 23rd of March. Following that, April is set to bring more aural acrobatics as jazz saxophonist Soweto Kinch and [...]
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Posted on March 8, 2010 by chrisgps
If poetry is all around us, then the odds are we stumble across it every day. It can be found everywhere from on gravestones to graffiti, and we can either laugh at it, cry at it, or simply wander away from it a little perplexed. But when we capture it on film, we set in [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2010 by dylanthomascentre
The Dylan Thomas Centre celebrates World Book Day on 4 March with offers in our bookshop throughout the day, and a special, free evening event at 7pm.
Our bookshop is open from 10am to 4.30pm, and there will be thousands of second-hand books on offer at half-price, and reductions on many new books. Relax in the [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2010 by sophiegps
Instead of writing poetry about current affairs, why not have a go at making poetry out of them? Newspaper and magazine articles provide an abundance of words ready for poetic manipulation. Cartoonist and poet Austin Kleon crafts his Blackout Poetry by erasing words in news articles with a marker pen. Often moving and always interesting, [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2010 by chrisgps
’Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.’
Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Global Poetry System is a user generated world map of poetry found at www.southbankcentre.co.uk/gps
This week sees the launch of the Imagine Children’s Festival here at Southbank Centre, which [...]
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Posted on January 26, 2010 by sophiegps
Global Poetry Systems is a user generated world map of poetry found at www.southbankcentre.co.uk/gps
Poetry that travels: Imprisoned in a cage of sound, even the trivial seems profound.
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Posted on January 9, 2010 by Joseph Coelho
She is singing loudly
White ear phones removing all inhibition
Pulling tuts and stares like teeth.
“look at my baby – her eyes are grey”
She says to a friend
A friend trying to sink into the chaotic design.
You’re speaking loudly!”
“Yeah I know”
She fixes her friend with a confident stare.
And baby grey eyes.
This is part of a series of poems [...]
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Posted on December 23, 2009 by TrishT (Southbank Centre)
Really nice piece in The Times last week by Southbank Centre Artists in Residence and Poet Lemn Sissay about the Global Poetry System website:
It ain’t where you go, it’s where you’re at. Global positioning system (GPS) is a mere five years old in the UK. Now you can locate where you are, wherever you are, [...]
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Posted on November 25, 2009 by Joseph Coelho
I sit opposite an ironing board
A black and white ironing board
A female, zebra
Plastic covered ironing board
With hands
Gesturing unmarried hands
Dancing a language in fingers
A syntax of creases.
Joseph Coelho
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Directed and Devised by Jonathon Lloyd
Co-written by Joseph Coelho
Showing until 20th February
www.polkatheatre.com
“An Invite From The Queen”
A musical in a book
Words by Joseph Coelho
Music by Matthew [...]
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Posted on November 25, 2009 by Joseph Coelho
A sole shoe
Upturned in rush hour
Was it’s owner running?
Frightened ?
Hurried?
Does she sit now
On her way to upminster
One shoe’d
Avoiding the gaze
Of shoo’d souls
Praying her feet don’t smell
Wondering about rain and broken Bottles.
Joseph Coelho
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Directed and Devised by Jonathon Lloyd
Co-written by Joseph Coelho
Showing until 20th February
www.polkatheatre.com
“An Invite From The Queen”
A musical in a book
Words [...]
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