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To Read: To Speak: To Let You Into a World Where Words Open Worlds: American Former Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey Coming Back to Her Cornish Roots: March 08-09
Natasha will be delivering a poetry reading, followed by a Q and A session and wine reception at Falmouth Art Gallery on Wednesday, March 08 from 18:00-19:30 and a public lecture, on Thursday, March 09 from 17:30-19:30 at the University of Exeter’s, Penryn Campus. Both events are free, but places are limited so book to avoid disappointment. Professor Trethewey currently directs the Creative Writing Programme at Emory University, USA. Her poetry portrays the lives of working-class people, particularly, black men and women in the South. Her father was also a poet and a professor of English at Hollins University, Virginia. When she began her role as Poet Laureate in 2012 Cornwall Council officer Bert Biscoe personally delivered an inscribed copy of the Collected Poems of Charles Causley, the famous Cornish poet.
The University of Exeter holds the Causley
archives and is currently working with the Charles Causley Trust to explore ways
of ensuring this collection is fully accessible in Cornwall. Dr Natalie Pollard,
Lecturer in Modernist and Contemporary Literature, who is organising the visit,
said, “The themes in Natasha Trethewey’s poetry are at the heart of global
politics today and this is a wonderful chance to hear this work read by the poet
herself. Whatever Your Field of Work and Wherever in the World You are, Please, Make a Choice to Do All You Can to Seek and Demand the End of Death Penalty For It is Your Business What is Done in Your Name. The Law That Makes Humans Take Part in Taking Human Lives and That Permits and Kills Human Lives is No Law. It is the Rule of the Jungle Where Law Does Not Exist. The Humanion || Readmore || ‽: 080317 || Up ||Hear The Other Tiger Speak in Cardiff: Fiction Fiesta 2016 Brings the Best of Latin American Poetry in Translation: October 26
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The Poet’s Quest for Peace is a unique
literary event being held in London this summer: Saturday, June 18,
2016. Internationally renowned poets including Choman Hardi
from Kurdistan, Palestinian-American Fady Joudah, exiled
Iranian Ziba Karbassi and Agi Mishol, one of Israel’s
leading contemporary poets, will join forces to consider the
elusive nature of peace.
The Poet’s Quest for Peace:
Contemporary Voices Across the Faiths
Saturday, June 18, 2016: 13:00 – 22:00
Liberal Jewish Synagogue
28 St John's Wood Road
London NW8 7HA
The event, curated by Naomi Jaffa – the former Director of The Poetry Trust and Aldeburgh Poetry Festival – has been created to move, disturb and inspire. The ‘quest’ is unusual for a number of reasons. Not only will it see an eclectic group of highly respected poets from ‘opposing’ cultures and faiths all meet under one roof to share and discuss their work, the event itself will take place at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue:LJS: a building dedicated to tolerance and dialogue.
George Szirtes (L): Image: Bloodaxe Books: Fady Joudah (R): Image The Poet's Quest for Peace
The day will include readings,
discussions and the opportunity to scrutinise both historic
and contemporary literary pieces with the eight
participating poets that have been specially chosen for both
their cultural diversity and the relevance, appeal and
quality of their poems.
Discussions such as ‘what contribution can poetry make to
peace processes?’ and ‘peace is not a comfort zone, is
poetry?’ will be especially invigorating and provocative.
Agi Mishol: Image: The Poet's Quest for Peace
The event will also see contributions from a number of poetry and peace campaigning organisations including English Pen; Exiled Writers Ink; Jewish Renaissance; Modern Poetry in Translation, Neve Shalom/Wahat al Salaam (Oasis of Peace); Tea & Tolerance; and St Ethelburga.
The Poet’s Quest for Peace –
Participating Poets
Agi Mishol is one of Israel’s leading contemporary
poets. Born in Transylvania, Mishol is the daughter of
Holocaust survivors who arrived in Israel in 1950. She has
published sixteen books of poetry in Hebrew and is the
recipient of numerous awards, including the coveted Yehuda
Amichai Prize for Hebrew Poetry and the Lerici-Pea Prize in
Italy. Mishol received an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv
University. Her work has been translated into several
languages and a number of books have been published in
translation, including Look There by Graywolf Press, Journal
du Verger by Caracteres and Sheherezada by the Institutul
Cultural Romania. She lives in an agricultural community and
directs the Helicon School of Poetry in Tel Aviv, where she
teaches creative writing.
Choman Hardi was born in Kurdistan and lived in Iraq
and Iran before seeking asylum in the UK in 1993. She was
university-educated at Oxford (BA, Philosophy & Psychology),
London (MA, Philosophy) and Kent (PhD, Mental Health) and
her post-doctoral research about women survivors of genocide
in Kurdistan-Iraq (supported by the Leverhulme Trust) became
the subject of her second poetry collection in English,
Considering the Women (2015). In 2014 she moved back to her
home-city of Sulaimani where she is chair of the department
of English at the American University of Iraq.
Fady Joudah is a Palestinian-American medical doctor
and formerly a field member of Doctors Without Borders. The
son of Palestinian refugees, he was born in Texas, grew up
in Libya and Saudi Arabia, and lives with his family in
Houston. The Earth in the Attic – the first of his three
poetry collections to date – won the Yale Series of Younger
Poets competition, and he is also the award-winning
translator of leading contemporary Palestinian poets Mahmoud
Darwish and Ghassan Zaqtan.
George Szirtes was born in Budapest and came to
England with his family as refugees after the 1956 Hungarian
Uprising. He lives in Norfolk and is a freelance writer,
having retired from teaching at the University of East
Anglia. Educated in England (and originally trained as a
painter), he has always written in English but also
translates and edits Hungarian literature. A prolific and
prize-winning poet – his New & Collected Poems (2008)
numbers over 500 pages;Reel (2004) won the T.S. Eliot Prize
– he has made a major contribution to post-war literature
and his new collection Mapping the Delta will be published
this year.
Joanna Chen was born in London. Her poetry and lyric
essays have been published in Poet Lore, Guernica, Word
Riot, Narratively, Cactus Heart and Modern Loss, among many
others. She has a column in The Los Angeles Review of Books,
and is a regular contributor to Garnet News. She has also
written for Newsweek, The Daily Beast and The Millions. Her
literary translations from Hebrew and Arabic can be found in
Poetry International, Asymptote, Mantis, Lunch Ticket and
Consequence. She lives in the Ella Valley of Israel.
Maitreyabandhu was born Ian Johnson in 1961, in
Warwickshire, and initially trained as a nurse and then
studied fine art at Goldsmiths College (alongside Sarah
Lucas and Damien Hirst). He started attending classes at the
London Buddhist Centre (LBC) in 1986 and was ordained into
the Triratna Buddhist Order in 1990. Since then he has lived
and worked at the LBC, teaching Buddhism and meditation and
writing three books on the subject, including Life with Full
Attention: a Practical Course in Mindfulness (2009). In 2010
he founded Poetry East, a London poetry venue exploring the
relationship between spiritual life and poetry. And since
2010, he has published two prize-winning pamphlets and two
full collections of poems, most recently Yarn (2015).
Sasha Dugdale is a Sussex-born poet, playwright and
translator specialising in both classic and contemporary
Russian drama and poetry. She worked for the British Council
in Russia and set up the Russian New Writing Project with
the Royal Court Theatre in London. Since 2012 she has been
editor of Modern Poetry in Translation (co-founded in 1965
by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort) and to date she has
published three poetry collections – most recently Red House
(2011).
Ziba Karbassi was born in Tabriz in north-western
Iran from where, as a teenager, she had to flee with her
mother and sisters. London has been her adopted home for
much of the last 25 years and she first gained attention
with ‘Sangsar’ / ‘Death by Stoning’, a poem concerning the
public death of a relative. Increasingly known for her
astonishing live readings, her poetry is banned in Iran. She
writes in her shared mother tongues of Farsi (Persian) and
Azeri and works closely with London-based champion and
translator Stephen Watts – himself a poet, editor and writer
in schools and hospitals tackling issues of well-being and
creativity. The first dual-language full-length collection
of her poems is due for UK publication in 2017.
Raficq Abdullah is a
writer, poet, translator, public speaker and
broadcaster. Born in South Africa, he lives in
London. Awarded an MBE in 1999 for his
interfaith work between Jews, Christians and
Muslims, he has published tow books of poetry
based on the poems of Muslim mystics Rumi and
Attar. His latest book on Shakespeare’s sonnets
Reflecting Mercury: Dreaming Shakespeare’s
Sonnets has just been published. He is
co-writing a book on Islamic law to be published
in 2017.
To request an interview with any of the poets please contact
Naomi Jaffa: Naomi@NaomiJaffa.co.uk / 0797 410 4487
For further event information please contact Sue Bolsom or
Harriett Goldenberg: suebolsom@googlemail.com / 0776 997
6149
hgoldenberg@btinternet.com / 0776 668 5628.
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'Mini-Much' Poetry and Music Festival at Goldsmiths Bestival: June 17
 Rosie Lowe |
 Ghostpoet |
|| May 09: 2016 ||On June 17, Bestival, one of the UK’s major festivals, will team up with Goldsmiths, University of London to host a unique public celebration of music, arts and culture. We call this event 'Mini-Much' in the sense that 'too much' is put into 'too short a time-space' as William Blake would say: 'eternity in a hour'.
Bestival at Goldsmiths will bring the excitement
of one of the world’s best festivals to the
university’s New Cross campus – and will feature
a series of talks, music from established stars
and the most exciting up-and-coming acts and
delicious street food.
The day will also celebrate Goldsmiths’ rich
cultural heritage as well as showcasing the new
creatives emerging from the university.
Final-year music students will be playing
throughout the day and visitors will also be
able to take in a range of Degree Shows which
are running across campus.
It will also be a family affair for Bestival
founders Josie and Rob da Bank – who are
Goldsmiths graduates and were made Honorary
Fellows of the university earlier this year.
Bestival Curator Rob da Bank says: “What a
fantastic collaboration for us! Josie and I met
at Goldsmiths when we were young and reckless
18-year-olds and had an amazing four years there
together hatching many of the creative plans and
madcap ideas that have forged our careers in
party-starting and mass gathering creations.
We’re very proud to come back a few years later
with some of our musical mates and some
inspiring talks and performance. I hope you can
join us.”
Patrick Loughrey, Warden of Goldsmiths,
University of London said: “Goldsmiths’ alumni
are the jewels in our crown – and Josie and Rob
are real diamonds. They have bottled the
lightning that is Goldsmiths, mixing creativity,
dynamism and an entrepreneurial spirit to create
something which engages with and entertains tens
of thousands of people every year.
"Bestival at Goldsmiths is going to be a family
affair thanks to the fantastic line-up, and a
brilliant showcase of our past, present and
future achievements.
"We want to welcome one and all to campus to
soak up the spirit and atmosphere of which we’re
so proud.”
On the evening of Friday, June 17, Goldsmiths’
campus will become a festive wonderland of
colour and sound. The university’s Great Hall
will become the focus for the first half of the
evening, with music from hotly-tipped Nocturne,
hand-picked from Goldsmiths’ own final-year
music festival PureGold, kicking off the party.
Goldsmiths Popular Music graduate Rosie Lowe
will add a slice of her acclaimed androgynous
soul, before multiple Mercury Prize nominee
Ghostpoet takes to the stage to headline the
Great Hall action with his idiosyncratic flow.
The second half of the
evening will see the party decamp to The Stretch
in Goldsmiths Students’ Union where the Bestival
and Goldsmith teams will fire up the sound
system and head for the dancefloor for a late
night bacchanalian adventure. With sets from
Wired Radio DJs – from the university’s own
radio station - and Goldsmiths alumni
Goldierocks and Rob da Bank, the landmark event
will be brought to a triumphant close by a
special guest to be announced very soon.
During Friday daytime Bestival at Goldsmiths
will see a free celebration of art, culture and
performance. Bestival institution, the Bollywood
Cocktail Bar will add a helping of the
festival’s escapist spirit where you can relax
as a series of DJs programmed by Sunday Best and
PureGold.
Transformed by Goldsmiths Fellow and Bestival
co-founder Josie da Bank, the campus will
radiate the unique magic that has become her
trademark and defined Bestival’s aesthetic.
Expect luxurious daybeds, striking festoon,
stunning flags and eye-catching attention to
detail. There will be music on the PureGold
stage, programmed by Goldsmiths’ Director of
Popular Music, Simon Deacon, while an array of
street food vendors from Bestival’s food lovers’
haven, The Feast Collective, will serve up
intoxicating flavours from around the world.
Chaired by some of Goldsmiths most eminent
alumni and academics, a thought-provoking
programme of lectures and talks and will run
throughout the day. Collaborating with
Goldsmiths’ onsite cinema Curzon Goldsmiths,
there will be themed screenings to echo the
event. Current students will also be curating
spaces across campus.
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Poetre: The Union of Poetry and the Poet in One Unity of Equilibrium: No, It is Not Poetry Mis-spelt
Poetre is when and where poetry and poet become one before an audience; taking them to the same state of being. You cannot get actors:actresses do poetre but only the poets themselves can reach that oneness with the poetry that they have lived and created and only they can take the audience to that state of being when they do poetre. There is fine art and here we have Poetre the finest, purest form of poetry. Here the poet is the trellis on and around which the poem is the living vine rising and becoming and the poet is the flow of life in that living, growing, breathing vine. When a poet reads she:he becomes the poem being read. Imagine that poem being a water lily in a lake. The audience is the lake looking at the water lily as well as holding its reflection and rhythmic resonance.
Poetre is not theatre for poetry is not fiction: we agree with John Keats, poetry's business is truth and beauty and to a poet they are like the pen and ink inseparable yet interchangeable at the same time.
That's why an actor/actress may play Hamlet or Desdemona but they cannot act this:
'''I gave you the legends of lights and the epic solemnity of the Ithacan dawns where roamed creatures that sung your soul's metaphors and created structures, shapes and colours that no eyes could see and that you did not know you had created for nothing comes outside unless they reside in 'some inside'. Because I found you in my soul from where these legends of lights grew and spread out onto the dawn-roses and went mad splashing out the universe.
The creatures keep on singing something unfathomable. How can we fathom the infinity of a tiny, almost invisible seed of a dandelion? How can we clap into a measure the eternity of a neuron or an absolutely flexible yet perpetually constant at work of a flowing single capillary? This joy of their music is a perpetual convergence of blues becoming lights and lights becoming blues: it is the convergence of joys and pains.
And where they converge universes collide and spectacles rise and fall for there are symphonies being played out in that legends and the epic expositions to which I gave you the key.
Rise and look all about you and see your heart jubilate for it is outside of you for the universe is inside you and before you. That what is inside is outside and that what is outside is inside and that resonance: can you feel that resonance?
Where do you begin to sing? When do you begin to praise? O, the cities of joys! O, the Cities of pains. And yet we go to both cities following the same path: how do we go to joy following the same path that takes us to pain, too? Can you not stop and wonder and gasp at the magic of this astounding feature of life? Let there be one moment in which we are nothing but a momentary eternity's infinite wonders: in oneness may humanity achieve eternity and keep hold of it in every breath.
For this is life, for this is love, for this is the essence of what the heart beats for and why thousands of miles of capillaries rush with blood, billions of neurons synapse and pia, dura and arachnoidal maters keep at work as grey and white matters keep singing in the dark while maintaining the blood brain barriers and the genome keeps on coding and decoding, transcripting and translating. This is the song of the heartbeats, the song of the capillaries.
Love and become love for you are only once and love and become love so that when you say: 'I am'' mean it to be the equal of 'I do': Love.
And here The Humanion opens the window to Poetre. It is not poetry mis-spelt: it is POETRE
May 09, 2016
The Humanion
Here are Some Emmatries
And Here we
publish from Munayem Mayenin's Poetry
Collection, Seagull Liberty's Poetwrheath: ISBN:
978-1-291-13793-4: First Published: October 25,
2012: Copyrights @ Munayem Mayenin, London, UK
1990-2012
What are Emmatries: Emmatries ( emma-trees): poetry that seeks the truth and sings the beauty regardless of which way it seeks it or approaches it or sings it. From the beginning or from the end, it still sings the magic and its magnificence of life and this astounding Universe where this spectacle of life unfolds unfolding us with her. Emmatries are poetry of a new world, a new language, a new magnetism of life and its expressive exuberance. Emmatries invites the readers to abandon the known world and venture bravely into a new world that already exists in the mind, soul and body of the reader in terms of his/her dream and the way they enrich him/her life. Emmatries crafts with the diamond cuts into life and tries to sculpt out emmaphires; at least, that's what it tries. Emmatries are the business of making life sing emmaphires that this market not only does not know but also cannot ever sell.
New Phoenix
Gold
Let’s break the earth to golden dust
And add the cement of water in it
And dough we make of new gold
Of new gold make we dough and
In it of the cement water add and
To golden dust the earth let’s break
And let’s clay out new phoenix-gold
And blow in life that you and I hold
And they rise-fly like motion-waves
Like motion-waves rise-fly they and
Hold I and you that in life blow and
Phoenix-gold new clay out let’s and
There they fly in new flights and sing
They do new Sibelius in anew notes
And scales and scores and anew new
New anew and scores and scales and
In notes anew Sibelius new do they
Sing and in new flights fly they there
This Magic I Give You: You Give I This Magic
Tell the tree to rise downward
The roots must seek to grow
Must they hold the whole earth
Earth the whole hold must they
To grow must seek: the roots
Downward to rise the tree: tell
Tell the tree to rise upward
The branches must seek to grow
Must they hold the Universe
The Universe hold they must
To grow seek must the branches
Upward to rise the tree: tell
So that it is not in a pot down
Or up and it goes all clasping in
Tell the tree it must be a spring
A spring be must it the tree:tell
Clasping in all goes it and up or
Down in a pot or not it is that so
Emmatries are Emmaphires from a language that does not exist in dictionaries nor the concepts, ideas, states and ideaphores they bring exist in the norm-taught cultures or spheres. You want to create: go and create; do not imitate or get dictated to do so. To create is to bring something forth that does not exist so that by becoming existent it takes us forward to a point where we are 'enriched' for it because now we know how we were without it. These come from a universe where idearian symphonies are played out onto the spread of the ocean of the echoing eternities where one is simply a drop of water merged onto the body of the ocean that one simply has ceased as an 'ego' and become one with the whole. This place, neither the market nor its market-god' knows anything of or about. This is the place where poets must find a home from where 'to sing the truth' as Rilke says.
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