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Go shoppingJust back this evening from another event at the brilliant Poetry International festival at the Southbank Centre, my second since the festival kicked off at the weekend. Litro’s fairly well represented there this week: editor Tom Chivers gave a reading tonight along with three other GB Poets, while I’ve somehow managed to blag a spot as a blogger in residence for the week. The Southbank Centre’s assembled quite the formidable group of poets and writers, an impressive array of accomplishments among them, not only as part of the lineup for the festival but also to respond to the week’s events. I’m humbled to be a part of it and also feeling a wee bit fradulent at having finagled a place among such a fine group of artists. (Do you remember watching as a child the Sesame Street skit “One of these things is not like the other thing…”? Yes, well, that summarises my thoughts on my involvement in the festival.)
At any rate, I’ll be jumping into the fray over there shortly, just as soon as I can assemble some sort of coherent response to events as wide-ranging as the Sean O’Brien T. S. Eliot Prize lecture on Michael Donaghy, and the Power in the Voice spoken word/performance poetry/hip hop performance I witnessed tonight (a preview of the latter: loved it).
My responses to the festival will appear on the Poetry International blog. Of course, you should also head to the blog homepage to read all the observations and reactions of the other writers—geniuses, all of them!
By Julie Palmer-Hoffman
