Poetry Olympics

Wednesday 18 April at 7.30pm
Poetry @ Open @ Waterstones in Ealing
Ealing Broadway Centre, London W5 5JY

Thursday 14 June from 7pm
POEM! 2012
The Poetry Olympics Enlightenment Marathon


As we run up to Poetry Parnassus, our global celebration of contemporary poetry, we welcome Michael Horovitz to Southbank Centre to present P O E M! 2012, handing on the baton of more than 50 years of his New Departures publications and Poetry Olympics festivals.

The multifarious gathering features Ayanna Witter-Johnson; Stan Tracey; Valerie Bloom; John Hegley; Francesca Beard; Annie Whitehead’s World Music Workshop Band, as well as Peter Lemer, Annie and Michael’s William Blake Klezmatrix Band; Eleanor Bron; Elvis McGonagall; Brian Patten; Gwyneth Herbert; Patience Agbabi; Molly Parkin; E J Thribb – and Special Guests including Damon Albarn.

As the Olympics come to London, join us for an unrepeatable evening of poetry, performance, music and song.

Tickets £12/£10 are now on sale via the Southbank Centre
(including a limited number of Concessionaries @ half-price)

Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London SE1

Appeal
Poetry Olympics needs storage space!
Torchbearer Michael Horovitz is urgently seeking affordably rented storage/studio space in/within a few miles of Notting Hill Gate, Bayswater and Ladbroke Grove areas. Even poetry, art and music productions are on offer as part payment. If you know of available space, please send details from the Contact page.

January 2011
Inge Elsa Laird: obituary
By Michael Horovitz

Exhibition
Picture-Poems and other Artworks 1963-2008 by Michael Horovitz
Art@42, 42 Pembridge Road, Notting Hill Gate, London W11 3HN