Details
The world's leading poets read live on the South Bank. Southbank Centre's biennial Poetry International festival was founded by Ted Hughes in 1967.
Cast/Performers
Alison Croggon (Australia),
Anne Carson (Canada),
Yang Lian (China),
Simon Armitage (England),
Maura Dooley (England),
Ian Duhig (England),
John Hegley (England),
Frieda Hughes (England),
Mimi Khalvati (England),
Ruth Padel (England),
Jacques Roubaud (France),
Meena Alexander (India),
Saadi Yousef (Iraq),
Cathal O'Searcaigh (Ireland),
Kwame Dawes (Jamaica),
Amjad Nasser (Jordan),
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria),
Sinead Morrissey (Northern Ireland - Poet in Residence),
Svetlana Kekova (Russia),
Vera Pavlova (Russia),
Evgeny Rein (Russia),
Tatiana Shcherbina (Russia),
Tatiana Voltskaya (Russia),
Douglas Dunn (Scotland),
Robin Robertson (Scotland),
Bernardo Atxaga (Spain),
Alex Steger (Slovenia),
Eva Runefelt (Sweden),
Mark Doty (US),
Anthony Hecht (US),
Yusef Komunyakaa (US),
Robert Minhinnick (Wales)
