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Performance

VenueSouthbank Centre
Also: Royal Festival Hall, RFH, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room, Tuff Nutt Jazz Club
TownWest End
CountyGreater London
From23rd July 2015
To26th July 2015
Southbank Centre (V423)
Current/Future Listings
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  • Date of change: 7 May 15 - T1269991513

Poetry International

Poetry International

Work:: Poetry International (S01378212742)

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.

Production:: (T1269991513)

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

Listing:: L248019128




Production details

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.

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