Peace Poetry
This event on 11th November 2018 at 14:45 has past.
Open Mic Event
Contact: louiselarchbourne@fastmail.co.uk
As World War I has come to represent war in essence (at least for Western Europe), so Armistice Day has served to represent peace. It is worth our while, as intentional beings, to give some proper consideration to peace, as more than just an absence of killing, persecution, and forced flight. To allow peace to grow and flourish, people must recognise ts full potential and power in and with our thoughts.
I have asked each of 7 guest poets to choose a poem from World War I and to produce a response to the chosen poem, in the form of a poem as part of creating a vision of peace as a goal. The poets are:
Rip Bulkeley: award-winning Antarctic historian; collection published 2003. Edited the anthology 'For Grenfell' to support survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster. Currently coordinating a transnational project aiming to produce an infinite installation poem with no beginning, end, length, or fixed language.
Jenny Lewis: (several collections, awards include New Writer Prize and Hawthornden Fellowship); works with music and dance; teaches poetry at Oxford University. Her new book, Gilgamesh, comes out in October.
Jalina Mhyana: founding editor of the literary journal Rock Salt Plum Review, several times nominated for a Pushcart prize, three collections, edits a Tuscan literary journal.
Paul Surman: Oxfordshire poet, much loved by other local poets for the delicacy and freshness of his vision. Much published in journals, his first collection, Places, was recently published. His second is on its way.
Eva Wal: A force of nature. She combines poetry with visual and kinetic art in constantly surprising and delightful ways; she is at the heart of a dynamic group of poets in Bonn, one of Oxford's twin cities.
Merryn Williams: many books and four poetry collections; literary adviser, Wilfred Owen Society; founding editor of The Interpreters House poetry magazine. Shoestring are publishing her Selected Poems next year.
Pat Winslow: originally an actor, seven poetry collections, several awards for poetry and for short fiction, she runs writing workshops, storytelling sessions, and is a humanist celebrant.
Also: Songs from Patrissia Cuberos, originally a soprano in the Colombian National Opera company, long settled in Oxfordshire where she leads choirs, teaches singing and tango, creates, directs and performs in dance/music/drama vignettes.
There will be a modest open mic; a local war veteran and a Syrian refugee will contribute; as will a Lebanese engineer and writer settled here, who lived through the Lebanese war.
Snacks and drinks available at the event; lunch from 12.00. by reservation only at The (award-winning) Abingdon Arms http://theabingdonarms.co.uk/
You can book at Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peace-poetry-21st-century-visions-of-peace-tickets-50527140036
Price: £5.00
Time: 2:45pm (Doors open 14.30)
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