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Events are listed by date with the latest event first
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23rd Jun 2010Deciphering the Alhambra - The Music and Poetry of Ibn Arabí
The second 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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21st Jun 2010Waxing Lyrical: Fernando Pessoa
Fernando Pessoa, who died in 1936, was the most famous poet to emerge in the Portuguese speaking world during the 20th Century. A marvelous and brilliant poet, his work speaks to people all over the world and in all languages. With a name which means in English ‘Person’ and in French ‘Nobody’, Fernando Pessoa is renowned for writing in the names of several different alter egos, or heteronyms, including the lyrical doctor Ricardo Reis, the adventurous engineer Álvaro de Campos, the shepherd and bucolic poet Alberto Caeiro, and Fernando Pessoa himself.
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16th Jun 2010Poets Who Made Nations
Poet in the City and the National Portrait Gallery presented an evening exploring the role of poets and thinkers in the actual creation of the idea of a nation, in some cases before that nation actually existed.
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06th Jun 2010Oral Epic Poetry
Some of the world's greatest poetic cultures have been unwritten, including the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, some of the foundation myths of our own culture. This event explored the nature of oral poetry, how it differs from literary written culture, and what is lost when it is written down.
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06th May 2010Deciphering the Alhambra - The Corpus Epigraphic of the Alhambra
The first 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.