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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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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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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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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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The Front Room at QEH
Wednesday 27 June 2012 - Wednesday 27 June 2012
An opportunity to learn more about PEN's role in promoting literature and defending free expression with a chance to network and learn more about the issues that affect writers around the world.
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Level 2 Foyers at Royal Festival Hall
Wednesday 27 June 2012 - Sunday 1 July 2012
Rearrange the odd-word socks to make your own oxymorons, get under the bilingual duvet in the Bed of Ideas, or unbutton a shirt to see what poem is on the inside.
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The Front Room at QEH
Free The Word!: Zones of Conflict - Poets Caught in Global Crisis
Wednesday 27 June 2012 - Wednesday 27 June 2012
An interactive session involving poetry readings, personal narratives and debate on the issues faced by poets caught in national and international conflicts, addressing the expectations placed on poets and writers to act as 'spokespeople' in times of crisis, and the tensions such expectations may create, the impact of wide scale trauma on the urge to write, the question of whether poetry can provide a suitable form of 'resistance', and the role of the poet in national reconciliation.
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The Front Room at QEH
Free The Word!: Exile and Audience
Wednesday 27 June 2012
A session bringing together a diversity of writers working in 'dislocation' from their native countries, either by choice or through forced exile.
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The Front Room at QEH
Free The Word!: Speechless: Minority languages, marginalised voices
Wednesday 27 June 2012
A discussion bringing together writers working in marginalised languages, as well as academics in the area of linguistic human rights, to examine issues around linguistic diversity, multilingualism and language death.
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Weston Pavilion
Wednesday 27 June 2012
In this rare event, leading contemporary poets from the Middle East, Africa and Europe present an evening of poetry in Arabic and French.
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Poetry Library
Modern Poetry in Translation Launch
Wednesday 27 June 2012
Every issue of MPT in the third series has been an anthology of languages, voices, and topics - world-wide and from different ages.
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The Clore Ballroom
Thursday 28 June 2012 - Sunday 1 July 2012
Pop into the Poetry Karaoke Booth and read along with some of your favourite poems.
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The Clore Ballroom
Thursday 28 June 2012
In this marathon reading you can hear what the world sounds like and discover what it looks like through the eyes of its keenest observers.
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