Archive for April, 2008

Sudeep Sen in Language for a New Century launch, 2 June 2008

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

The Norton World Poetry Anthology, Language for a New Century, has its UK launch at:

The Nehru Centre of The Indian High Commission,
8 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London W1K 1HF.
Telephone: 020.7491.3567

Sudeep read, along with Sarah Maguire, Michelle Valladares, Yong Shu Hoong, Quader Mahmud, Woon-Ping Chin & others.

Sudeep Sen in Oxfam Series of Readings, 20 May 2008

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Never Say Never Again: Oxfam Poets 2008
Featuring:
Helen Dunmore, Nathan Hamilton, Cralan Kelder, Gwyneth Lewis, Kathryn Maris, Sudeep Sen & Lemn Sissay
Oxfam Books & Music, 91 Marylebone High Street, W1
7-10 pm, Tuesday, 20 May, 2008
Admission free, voluntary £8 donation appreciated - proceeds to Oxfam
RSVP for seats requested, but not essential.
Contact person: Martin Penny, email: oxfammarylebone@hotmail.com
http://www.oxfammarylebone.co.uk/

Harry Eyres’ ‘The Slow Lane’ column in the Weekend FT

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Harry Eyres often writes about poetry in his column The Slow Lane on the back page of the Life & Arts section of the Weekend Financial Times. This week, for example, he argues for the publication, or republication of individual volumes of poems (in preference to collected works) of poets such as Yeats and Robert Frost, praises Poems on the Underground as often supplying the right dose of poetry, and ends with a brief appreciation of Historia del Corazon by Vicente Aleixandre, which he acquired as a give-away with a copy of El Pais. Harry Eyres’ columns also appear online at www.ft.com/eyres. [Recommended by Leona Medlin.]

Lesley Saunders reading at Rousham Gardens October 4 or October 5

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
October 4 or October 5 - Lesley Saunders, with Geoff Carr and Malcolm Rigg
(Watch this space for confirmation of which date.)
Poems, paintings, photographs inspired by Rousham Gardens, Oxfordshire
The reading will take the form of a tour, with picnic, of the gardens.
Rousham House and Garden in 11 miles north of Oxford, off the A4260.

a book of poems by Oliver Reynolds

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Almost by Oliver Reynolds - his 4th collection - has on the cover a Rembrandt drawing about which I once wrote a very small poem, so I was immediately drawn to the book. In Reynolds’ book, it is the very fine and not in any sense small title poem that references this drawing. As for the rest, many are also love poems; there are references to Cardiff, where I live now, and to London, where I used to live; there are many felicities of form and surprising turns that turn out to be just exactly the right way to go. Published by Faber in 1999, today it gets ranked #57 in popularity amongst books of love poetry on amazon.co.uk. [recommendation by Leona Medlin]