Not my kind of Littery Event I'm afraid.
On 27 June 2012 14:02, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Parnassus Poetry event to bomb London with words
> Stars include Seamus Heaney, Wole Soyinka and Kim Jong-il's former court
> poet
>
> THE Poetry Parnassus, the largest ever global gathering of poets, was due
> to be launched in London this evening with an aerial ‘bombing' of 100,000
> bookmark-shaped poems from a helicopter near the Southbank Centre.
>
> The Rain of Poems was to be be carried out by Chilean arts group
> Casagrande over the Jubilee Garden at sunset.
>
> The Poetry Parnassus is the brainchild of poet Simon Armitage and
> Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly. The aim is a
> "non-competitive poetic Olympics", with workshops, seminars and readings,
> featuring a poet for every country competing in the upcoming London Games.
>
>
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> The organisers have attracted internationally known poets, including two
> Nobel Prize winners, but struggled to find representatives for Monaco, the
> Seychelles, Guinea-Bissau, Vanuatu and Liechtenstein.
>
> Armitage told The Guardian: "That is not to say there aren't wonderful
> poets living and working in these countries - we just couldn't find them."
>
> As a result, these countries will be represented by deceased or anonymous
> poets.
>
> Happily, Britain will be represented by the very alive Jo Shapcott, who
> has won a number of prestigious awards including the Commonwealth Writers
> Prize and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
>
> Stars of the festival line-up include two Nobel laureates, Ireland's
> Seamus Heaney (pictured) and the Nigerian Wole Soyinka. Heaney has been
> called "the greatest poet of our age" by a number of academics and critics.
> Soyinka, who has been arrested several times and imprisoned twice for his
> human rights stance, writes largely about what he describes as "the
> oppressive boot and the irrelevance of the colour of the foot that wears
> it".
>
> Other stars include Kay Ryan, the Pulitzer winner and recent US poet
> laureate, and Jang Jin-sung, a former court poet to North Korean dictator
> Kim Jong-il. Now living in South Korea, were he has become a best-seller
> and media sensation, he has just published a volume of poetry, For 100 Won,
> My Daughter I Sell.
>
> Poetry Parnassus runs from 26 June to 1 July and is part of the London
> 2012 Festival.
>
>
> Read more:
> http://www.theweek.co.uk/arts-life/47643/parnassus-poetry-event-bomb-london-words#ixzz1yzwkyb2Q
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