Welcome to the Poet in the City Events page.
You'll be able to find details about previous and upcoming events including audio and video content.
Events are listed by date with the latest event first
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07th Mar 2011The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser's work is the great epic poem of Elizabethan England, complex and brilliant, revealing both the spiritual energy and the dark intolerance of his age.
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14th Feb 2011Love Poetry
Valentine’s Day was celebrated in grand romantic style at this fabulous poetry event. It featured a superb line up of Picador poets reading poems about love, passion and intimate relationships, properly functioning and otherwise.
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17th Jan 2011Faiz Ahmed Faiz
An event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, one of the most prominent poets of the Indian sub-continent, who wrote in both Urdu and Punjabi, and whose humane work was filled with love, dignity and resistance to injustice.
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25th Nov 2010Deciphering the Alhambra - Milena Rodriguez
The final event of the Deciphering the Alhambra series celebrating the poetry, architecture and music of Andalucia, the beautiful southern region of Spain, still haunted by its Moorish past.
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15th Nov 2010Corresponding Poets - Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
A fabulous event celebrating the life and works of two of the most influential North American poets of the 20th Century, acknowledged as seminal influences by many of our contemporary poets, including Seamus Heaney. Although very different in their style, approach and outlook, Bishop and Lowell were good friends and corresponded with each for a period of over 30 years.