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The world's leading poets read live on the South Bank. Southbank Centre's biennial Poetry International festival was founded by Ted Hughes in 1967.

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Archive listings for Poetry International (2015)

Work type: Poetry.

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It returns this year from Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 July with talks, readings and innovative live performances. The packed line-up features music, translation, new commissions and free events. Poets meet, debate and offer their perspectives on a changing world. During the first Poetry International the Cold War loomed large as inspiration. Nearly half a century on, the conflicts and shifting geo-political fault lines that impact on all our lives today provide one of the central themes of the festival. It includes a special focus on poets and poetry from the Middle East; including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Kurdistan, Iran, the Palestinian Territories and Syria - powerfully demonstrating poetry's enduring ability to anticipate and envision change and transcend barriers of censorship, prejudice and conflict.Performer Choman Hardi. Performer Warsan Shire. Performer Eliza Griswold. Performer Kei Miller. Performer Imtiaz Dharker. Performer Malika Booker. Performer Aamir Iqbal. Performer Ghareeb Iskander. Performer Nick Makoha. Performer Rafeef Ziadah. Performer Paul Batchelor. Performer Sasha Dugdale. Performer Karen McCarthy Woolf. Performer Sean Haefeli. Performer Etta Ermini. Performer Saleem Khan. Performer Dilawar Khan. Performer Zahid Ullah Khan. Performer Sahira Sharif. Performer Meena Ibrahimkhil. Performer Shkola Zadran. Performer Stephen Watts. Performer Hubert Moore. Performer Nasrin Parvaz. Performer Pascale Petit. Performer Ebrahim Golestan.

23 Jul 15 to 26 Jul 15

Southbank Centre, West End :: V423
listing details L248019128

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CORONAVIRUS: All venues in the UK were shut down on March 16, 2020, and the restrictions were finally lifted on July 19, 2021. It is important to mention that the UK Theatre Web archive listings (iUKTDb) from March 2020 to July 2021 might not be accurate due to the lack of information regarding rescheduled and cancelled shows.