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Saison Poetry Library, Level 5 at Royal Festival Hall
Friday 9 March 2012 - Friday 25 May 2012
See five double-sided prints (shown recto and verso) in response to work by Gertrude Stein, HD, Mary Wollstonecraft, Emmy Hennings and Valerie Solanas.
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Purcell Room
Monday 28 May 2012
Whether you have written your first draft, or are yet to write the first sentence, join Orange and Grazia at a special writers' evening, chaired by Orange Prize co-founder and bestselling novelist, Kate Mosse, to get the best advice in the publishing business
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Orange Prize Shortlist Reading
Tuesday 29 May 2012
The Orange Prize Readings offer you exclusive readings and discussions with each of the shortlisted writers.
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Purcell Room
Wednesday 30 May 2012
Edmund White makes a rare visit to London to talk about the writing and journalism that have made him one of the most perceptive cultural critics alive today.
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The London Wonderground
OneTaste Takes over the Speigeltent At Priceless London Wonderground at Southbank Centre
Monday 4 June 2012
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Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 6 June 2012
Harry Belafonte discusses his extraordinary life as a celebrated singer and activist to celebrate the publication of his life story, 'My Song'.
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Poetry Library
Wednesday 6 June 2012
Some of London's finest poets and musicians share some city tales as London Literature Lounge explores where literature can integrate with other artforms.
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Members' Bar - level 6
London Literature Festival/Poetry Parnassus Insight talk
Monday 11 June 2012
Discover our London Literature Festival and Poetry Parnassus with programmers Martin Colthorpe and Anna Selby.
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Level 5 Function Room
Monday 11 June 2012
Novelist Alex Marwood, whose new novel is The Wicked Girls, is joined by Kristian Johns, an author and blogger named one of the top 50 most influential LGBT tweeters of 2011 by PinkNews
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Thursday 14 June 2012
As we run up to Poetry Parnassus, our global celebration of contemporary poetry, we welcome Michael Horovitz to Southbank Centre to present P O E M! 2012, handing on the baton of 53 years of his New Departures publications and Poetry Olympics festivals
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Sunley Pavilion
Sheet Lightning - An Exploration of Flash Fiction
Sunday 17 June 2012
This one-day workshop with author and playwright Courttia Newland distills all that's fun about fiction - theme and premise, character, conflict, epiphany, conclusion and sub-text - into one bite-sized chunk.
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Poetry Library
Monday 25 June 2012
Join us as we discuss 'The World Record' anthology, published by Bloodaxe in celebration of Southbank Centre's Poetry Parnassus festival, the coming together of poets from all the countries taking part in the 2012 London Olympics.
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Purcell Room
Tuesday 26 June 2012
To launch the festival we have forsaken champagne and canons to launch five books instead.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tuesday 26 June 2012
A global gathering of leading directors, publishers and writers to help locate poetry's place in the world and revolutionise how we work in the 21st Century.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall Roof
You loved it Here: Poetry Bench
Tuesday 26 June 2012 - Sunday 1 July 2012
If you like sitting down, listening and feeling special, this will be a dream come true.
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Festival Riverside Level 1
Tuesday 26 June 2012 - Sunday 1 July 2012
Test your strength against the titans of poetry with this fairground punching machine.
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Queens Walk
Tuesday 26 June 2012 - Sunday 1 July 2012
The Poetry Takeaway is 'the world's first purpose-built mobile poetry emporium' and specialises in the production of free, made-to-order poems, delivered and performed to the hungry yet discerning literary consumer within ten minutes or less.
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The Front Room at QEH
Everything Begins Elsewhere: Poetry & Music
Tuesday 26 June 2012
A recital of poetry and music presented by Forward Prize-winning poet, Tishani Doshi, and Paris-based composer, Markus Schmidt.
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Jubilee Gardens
Tuesday 26 June 2012
Watch 100,000 poems by over 300 contemporary poets from 204 countries fall from a helicopter over Jubilee Garden during Poetry Parnassus as the sun sets.
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Purcell Room
Wednesday 27 June 2012
In an event that will lift you off your seat, we celebrate poetry of resistance, witness and protest with readings from leading poets and spoken word artists including defector poet, Jang Jin Seong who spent his career writing eulogies of Kim Jong-il, before growing disillusioned, hiding 70 poems in his chest and crossing the Tumen River to flee to North Korea.
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