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spring's treefellers: no oracles here
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Is attempting to translate poetry at the site where Apollo's priests used to translate Pythia's mutterings into equivocal verses, a good idea - or an affront to the God who led the Muses? At any rate, we tried, and enjoyed it too: at the European Cultural Center of Delphi. Last week, a group of Greek poets (Socrates Kabouropoulos and Vassilis Manoussakis -the Workshop's. And translator Elena Stagkouraki, translated into Greek, poems by anglophone poets Moira Egan. In collaboration with the British Council.
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Diary | Website and blog of the Scottish poet Andrew Philip
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Website and blog of the Scottish poet Andrew Philip. Coming soon to a venue near you …. 10 July 2013, 8:00 pm: online reading. With Michelle Bitting as part of the Transatlantic Poetry Reading series. 16 July 2013, 7:30 pm: reading. At 12 High Street, Wooler, Northumberland, NE71 6BY. Contact Bill Eugster 01668 282176. Entry by donation. 15 August 2013, 7:30 for 8:00 pm: reading. Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, with Isobel Dixon, Richard Price, Hannah Lowe, Rob A Mackenzie and Jasmine Donahaye. 5. Promot...
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Tonguefire: Thursday Past: What Did and Didn't Happen
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A young(ish) Scottish poet squeaks. Sunday, August 23, 2009. Thursday Past: What Did and Didn't Happen. Along with Jim Sinclair, Michel Faber. Unfortunately, I had to head straight home after the reading and so didn't get to see David Gaffney. S show or meet the man himself. I also didn't manage to get to either of Michael Symmons Roberts. Readings this weekend. Not much of a festival for me this year. There's always the next one! I vow to do more readings in Edinburgh next August too. For Broken or Worse.
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Tonguefire: Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe and More
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A young(ish) Scottish poet squeaks. Wednesday, August 12, 2009. Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe and More. Family circumstances mean I'm almost absent from Edinburgh this festival season, but I'll be reading at Blackwell's Writers at the Fringe. On Thurs 20th. Rob A Mackenzie is reading there tomorrow night. There are, of course, numerous literary events going on in Edinburgh this month. I hope that I might manage to hear one of Michael Symmons Roberts. But we'll have to see how things work out. A Rough...
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Poets | Between Heaven and the Clouds: Messiaen 2015
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Between Heaven and the Clouds: Messiaen 2015. Commission of twenty poems by award-winning British poet Michael Symmons Roberts responding to the twenty movements of. His broadcast work includes ‘A Fearful Symmetry’ – for Radio 4 – which won the Sandford St Martin Prize, and ‘Last Words’ commissioned by Radio 4 to mark the first anniversary of 9/11. Michael Symmons Roberts’ poems are intense and sensual explorations of the moment when the soul quickens to some ice-cracking life (The Observer). July 2, 2014.
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Emerging Writer: November 2014
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The struggles of an emerging writer to get published. What exactly is it that I'm emerging from? Some kind of primeval literary goo? Sunday, 30 November 2014. Late notice I know but. Submission deadline for the Spring issue of Skylight 47 is 1 December 2014. Please send up to four poems, along with a short biographical note (no more than 60 words), to skylightpoets47@gmail.com. Poems to be no longer than 40 lines and should be previously unpublished. Contributors will receive one copy of the magazine.
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Between: June 2015
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Tuesday, 30 June 2015. Start:Stop - Let The Day Begin. This is the day that the Lord has made;. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalm 118. 24). In a song called ‘Let the Day begin’. Raises a toast to the beginning of a new day celebrating the human activity that begins with each new day. He celebrates babies born into a brand new world, teachers in crowded rooms, workers in the fields, drivers at the wheel and doctors with their healing work, among others:. Here's to the workers in the fields. This is...
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in the thick of it...: July 2009
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In the thick of it. Occasional thoughts from the director of the lichfield festival. Wednesday, 22 July 2009. Zipping between rehearsals and performances has been Drew Thompson. Taking excellent photographs for the Lichfield Festival archives. They can all be seen here. Monday, 20 July 2009. Since early this morning scaffolding has been going into the cathedal in readiness for starting to take out the Herkenrode windows for restoration. Saturday, 18 July 2009. Are finally in and I can hear La Mer. And I ...
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