T1269991513It returns this year from Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 July with talks, readings and innovative live performances. The packed line-up features music, translation, new commissions and free events. Poets meet, debate and offer their perspectives on a changing world. During the first Poetry International the Cold War loomed large as inspiration. Nearly half a century on, the conflicts and shifting geo-political fault lines that impact on all our lives today provide one of the central themes of the festival. It includes a special focus on poets and poetry from the Middle East; including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Kurdistan, Iran, the Palestinian Territories and Syria - powerfully demonstrating poetry's enduring ability to anticipate and envision change and transcend barriers of censorship, prejudice and conflict.Performer Choman Hardi. Performer Warsan Shire. Performer Eliza Griswold. Performer Kei Miller. Performer Imtiaz Dharker. Performer Malika Booker. Performer Aamir Iqbal. Performer Ghareeb Iskander. Performer Nick Makoha. Performer Rafeef Ziadah. Performer Paul Batchelor. Performer Sasha Dugdale. Performer Karen McCarthy Woolf. Performer Sean Haefeli. Performer Etta Ermini. Performer Saleem Khan. Performer Dilawar Khan. Performer Zahid Ullah Khan. Performer Sahira Sharif. Performer Meena Ibrahimkhil. Performer Shkola Zadran. Performer Stephen Watts. Performer Hubert Moore. Performer Nasrin Parvaz. Performer Pascale Petit. Performer Ebrahim Golestan. | |
| 23 Jul 15 to 26 Jul 15 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L248019128 |
T41498264Co-founded by Ted Hughes, this biennial festival showcases the best in international poetry with a special focus on poetry film. Bringing themes the festival has carried forward since its beginning around freedom of speech and crossing borders together with the summer's Festival of Love, poetry will open its beating heart across the site in workshops, events, performances, installations and happenings. | |
| 24 Jul 14 to 31 Jul 14 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01989366189 |
T1028664570Over a week there are readings, music, poetry films, translations, new commissions, free events and innovative spoken-word performances throughout Southbank Centre ? from the Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, to the renowned Saison Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall and the gardens, bars and the public space that surrounds our venues.Performer Robert Hass. Performer Carolyn Forche. Performer Don Paterson. Performer August Kleinzahler. Performer Durs Grunbein. Performer Ana Blandiana. Performer Caroline Bergvall. Performer Mohamed El Deeb. Performer Nikola Madzirov. Performer Serhiy Zhadan. Performer Bejan Matur. | |
| 17 Jul 14 to 21 Jul 14 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01478652547 |
Imagining Peace - T452465619Southbank Centre’s biennial Poetry International festival, founded by Ted Hughes in 1967, returns this autumn for nine days of readings, music, translation, new commissions, free events and innovative live performances. Poets from more than twenty countries will congregate in the riverside venue’s halls and spaces - from the Purcell Room and the renowned Saison Poetry Library to the St Paul’s Roof Pavilion and the Central Bar in the Royal Festival Hall - to meet, debate and offer their poetic perspectives on a changing world. As the Cold War loomed large as inspiration for the first Poetry International, so the conflicts and shifting geo-political fault lines that impact on all our lives today, provide one of the central themes of the festival nearly half a century on. Particular focuses on poets and poetry from the Middle East - including the Palestinian Territories, Iraq and Syria - and Ireland, powerfully demonstrate the artform’s enduring ability to anticipate and envision change and transcend barriers of censorship, prejudice and conflict. Landscape and place make an impression on Poetry International in 2010, from re-imaginings of the landscape of the British Isles to the influence of ocean currents on global history. | |
| 30 Oct 10 to 7 Nov 10 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L02077964198 |
T01985795510On Friday October 24, the bi-annual POETRY INTERNATIONAL 2008 returns to the venues and spaces of Southbank Centre - including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Spirit Level and the world renowned Saison Poetry Library - for eight days of readings, sign language poetry, dub poetry, live performances of new work, blogs, film, discussions, song, dance and free events that all bear testimony to a flourishing and global art form. | |
| 24 Oct 08 to 1 Nov 08 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L818651661 |
T01966215848We celebrate Pablo Neruda's centenary in music and poetry; leading contemporary poets translate the Russian giant Anna Akhmatova; enjoy a night of Arabic poetry and experience avant-garde sound performance from New York; workshops; Ballroom installation and much more. | |
| 23 Oct 04 to 30 Oct 04 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L01911605229 |
T0929168013Performer Alison Croggon (Australia). Performer Anne Carson (Canada). Performer Yang Lian (China). Performer Simon Armitage (England). Performer Maura Dooley (England). Performer Ian Duhig (England). Performer John Hegley (England). Performer Frieda Hughes (England). Performer Mimi Khalvati (England). Performer Ruth Padel (England). Performer Jacques Roubaud (France). Performer Meena Alexander (India). Performer Saadi Yousef (Iraq). Performer Cathal O'Searcaigh (Ireland). Performer Kwame Dawes (Jamaica). Performer Amjad Nasser (Jordan). Performer Wole Soyinka (Nigeria). Performer Sinead Morrissey (Northern Ireland - Poet in Residence). Performer Svetlana Kekova (Russia). Performer Vera Pavlova (Russia). Performer Evgeny Rein (Russia). Performer Tatiana Shcherbina (Russia). Performer Tatiana Voltskaya (Russia). Performer Douglas Dunn (Scotland). Performer Robin Robertson (Scotland). Performer Bernardo Atxaga (Spain). Performer Alex Steger (Slovenia). Performer Eva Runefelt (Sweden). Performer Mark Doty (US). Performer Anthony Hecht (US). Performer Yusef Komunyakaa (US). Performer Robert Minhinnick (Wales). | |
| 26 Oct 02 to 2 Nov 02 | Southbank Centre, West End :: V423 listing details L2027262717 |
