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A new poetry venue at the London Buddhist Centre showcasing the work of well-known contemporary poets, exploring the relationship between poetry and spiritual life.
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Modern Poetry in Translation and Sasha Dugdale
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Saturday 10th December, 7.30pm. Tickets £10. Book here
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PoetryEast with Michael Longley
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Wednesday October 19th, 7.30pm, at the London Buddhist Arts Centre. Tickets £10, book here
‘A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders.’ Seamus Heaney ‘One of the most perfect poets alive.’ Sebastian Barry, Guardian
Please note: this event is at the London Buddhist Arts Centre, Eastbourne House Arts, Bullards Place, London, E2 0PT.
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PoetryEast with Alex Danchev
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Saturday 2nd July 2016, 7.30pm.
Professor Alex Danchev’s new biography of Paul Cézanne brings the artist vividly to life, dispelling the many myths that have grown up around him, to put the man, his life and thought, and of course his painting, at the centre of a book brimming with life – from his turbulent friendship with Emile Zola, to Monet’s birthday party at Giverny, to the sunshine of the South of France. Professor Danchev has also written a biography of Georges Braque, and is the editor of the best-selling ‘100 Artists’ Manifestos’. |
PoetryEast with Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein is a poet, novelist, and biographer. She has received many prizes, including a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry, Society of Authors', Wingate and Arts Council Awards, the Daisy Miller Prize for her experimental novel The Circle, (long-listed for the ‘lost’ Man Booker prize in 2010) and an Honorary D.Litt from the University of Leicester. Her books have been translated into most European languages; also Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Her versions of the poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, a New York Times Book of the Year, have remained in print since 1971. She was given a major grant from the Arts Council to write her most recent novel, The Russian Jerusalem, a phantasmagoric mix of prose and poetry (Carcanet, 2008). She has served on the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, of which she is a Fellow, as a judge for most of the current literary prizes, and as Chair of the Judges for the T.S.Eliot Award. She will be in conversation with Maitreyabandhu about her life and work, followed by a reading. |
Poetry and meditation day retreats
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6th and 7th July 2016 at Adhisthana
Fiona Sampson will be leading a poetry workshop as part of the day on 6th July. In the evening she’ll be the guest of PoetryEast discussing her new collection, The Catch (Chatto). Matthew Sweeney will be leading a poetry workshop on 7th July. In the evening he’ll be the guest of PoetryEast discussing his new collection, Inquisition Lane (Bloodaxe). The day will be led by Maitreyabandhu and is suitable for newcomers to poetry and or meditation. 
Price: £56 for one day or £92 for both days (price does not include the PoetryEast evening events). |
PoetryEast with Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams, who served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012, ‘manages to appeal to a wide range of people with his thoughtful cultural commentary’ (Glasgow Review of Books). His two collections of poems, The Other Mountain and The Poems of Rowan Williams (Carcanet), explore the search for meaning, man’s relationship to nature, and the paradoxes of poetry itself. Maitreyabandhu will be in conversation with him about poetry, imagination and faith in a troubled world. The last of the current series of events in association with the London Review of Books. |
TheatreEast with Lucy Kirkwood
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February 6th 2016, 7.30pm.
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PoetryEast ‘down under’ with Judith Beveridge and Stephen Edgar
As part of the Sydney Buddhist Centre’s ‘Meditation and Poetry Festival’ Maitreyabandhu will be in conversation with Judith Beveridge and Stephen Edgar.
Judith Beveridge has written five collections of poems, which have won the NSW and Victorian Premiers’ Award and the Judith Calanthe Prize. She lectures on poetry at the University of Sydney.
Maitreyabandhu will be in conversation with them about their life and work. The evening will conclude with a reading.
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PoetryEast ‘down under’ with Robert Gray
As part of the Sydney Buddhist Centre’s ‘Meditation and Poetry Festival’, Maitreyabandhu will be in conversation with Robert Gray. Described as ‘One of the contemporary masters of poetry in English’, Robert Gray has won the Adelaide Arts Festival, the New South Wales and Victorian Premiers' Awards, the Patrick White Award and the Australia Council of Writer’s Emeritus Award. The evening will conclude by reading from Cumulus, his Collected poems.
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Lit East with Marina Warner
Marina Warner is a novelist and mythographer whose most recent book is Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale ('A remarkable achievement' - Alberto Manguel, Literary Review). Her novel The Leto Bundle was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002, and her book Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights won both the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in 2012. She will speak to Maitreyabandhu about symbol and myth, her life and her writing. Part of a series in association with the London Review of Books.
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