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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. Co-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.