3rd London Poetry Festival 2007: August 10-13

Date	10th August to 13th August
Venue	The Festival Takes Place At Venues Across London
Contact	editor@poetsletter.com

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3rd London Poetry Festival 2007: August 10-13

Right Honourable Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Minister for London will inaugurate the 3rd London Poetry Festival on August 10th, Friday at 7:30 p. m

The London Poetry Festival grew out of Poet's Letter Magazine Poetry Performance and Live Music Series that started in March 2005 at the Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden, one year later than the founding of Poet's Letter.

Our Performance Series grew into its third year and still growing in strength. We had the first Festival at The Poetry Cafe in August 2005 where many of our panel of poets took part as well as a lot of other poets published in the Magazine and Poet's Letter Poetry Anthology of New Voices. We had a great memorable event.

We thought this could become a regular Annual Poetry Festival in London, a celebration of Contemporary English Poetry. And there was the second Festival in 2006 at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) which was a resounding success and now in 2007 the third Festival looks set to celebrate in a four-day poetic feast: August 10, 11, 12 and 13th, Friday to Monday.

2nd London Poetry Festival was featured in British Satellite News Channel in 2006.

From the second Festival we developed Festival Poets in Residence Programme as part of London Poetry Festival's commitments to new, young and emerging poetic voices and offered five poets the Residencies who became the Signature presentation of the Festival. The Residencies of the 2nd Festival went to these talented poets: Alan Buckley, Dr Girija Emma Jane Shettar, Luke Wright, Malgorzata Kitowski and Philip Ruthen.

3rd Festival Residencies have been offered to: Briony Dennis, Inua Ellams, Juli Jeana, Tom Chivers and Tricia Peak.

London Poetry Festival has never received, nor does it receive now, any funding from any public bodies or grant making foundations and is purely funded by Poet's Letter and the hard works, supports and contributions of the astonishing band of people: editors, poets, writers, singers, musicians, song writers, artists, PR professionals, journalists, dancers, librarians, youth workers, teachers, parents and simply people who are into living in a community that is bigger than themselves.

Sponsorship proposals are highly welcome and be treated as a great support.

London Poetry Festival is here and will continue to be here in its efforts to ensure that we make a lot of poetry and music out of our living to say, show, sing and celebrate the fact that we are human beings and are alive and thriving in the rainbow-humanity. This is an open invite to everyone to join us in the celebration. See you all there!

Thank you



More information:
Address: The Festival Takes Place at Venues Across London. Details can be found at www.poetsletter.com
Price: This is a ticketed event.
Contact details
editor@poetsletter.com
07809 682 065

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