01 June 2011
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UK's biggest-ever poetry festival to be part of 2012 Olympics
Poetry Parnassus, the UK's largest-ever poetry festival, will feature poets from all 205 countries competing in the 2012 Olympic Games ...
Led by Southbank Centre's Simon Armitage and Jude Kelly, Poetry Parnassus, part of the 2012 Culutural Olympiad and the UK's largest-ever poetry festival, will feature poets from all 205 countries competing in the 2012 Olympic Games
Poets will be nominated by members of the public, who can recommend up to three poets from any of the competing nations. One poet from each of the Olympic nations will take part in the event, which is led by the Southbank Centre's poet-in-residence Simon Armitage and artistic director Jude Kelly. The Poetry Parnassus festival will be held between 26 June and 2 July next year. The final line-up will be announced next spring. The selected poets will take part in readings, workshops and a gala event, and contribute a poem in their own language to a collection celebrating poetry in translation titled The World Record.
The deadline for nominating poets is 22 July.
Website: http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/about-us/discover-and-do/poetry-parnassus
Poets will be nominated by members of the public, who can recommend up to three poets from any of the competing nations. One poet from each of the Olympic nations will take part in the event, which is led by the Southbank Centre's poet-in-residence Simon Armitage and artistic director Jude Kelly. The Poetry Parnassus festival will be held between 26 June and 2 July next year. The final line-up will be announced next spring. The selected poets will take part in readings, workshops and a gala event, and contribute a poem in their own language to a collection celebrating poetry in translation titled The World Record.
The deadline for nominating poets is 22 July.
Website: http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/about-us/discover-and-do/poetry-parnassus
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