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.
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 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.]
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]