57 Events Intro

Throughout 2011 57 is party to a wide-range of events, working with various artists, highlights of which are listed here:

Patience Agbabi

Thursday 27 January
Talk and short reading at Roehampton University
With Inua Ellams chaired by Leone Ross

Wednesday 9 February
Reading at the Ted Hughes Arvon Centre
For Libraries and Museum Archive Workers at Writers Houses

Saturday 2 April
Talk on 'Voice' at Oxford Literature Festival
With Philip Pullman and Kate Clanchy

Mon 11 to Saturday 16 April - Arvon at the Hurst Course
Poetry: Making Words Work
With Michael Laskey

Sunday 3 July
Ledbury Poetry Festival
With Gwyneth Lewis

Friday 16 September
Chaucer and the Medieval Pilgrimage - Poet in the City
British Museum, London

Wednesday 12 October
Southwark Poetry Festival
John Harvard Library


Linton Kwesi Johnson

Saturday 15 July
Latitude Festival

Saturday 8 October
City Reads, Brighton & Hove

plus

Clare Pollard
Tuesday 26 July
European Academy, London

Sandra Agard
Thursday 28 July
European Academy, London

&

Zena Edwards
Adventures in Verse
A new commission from the BBC
Broadcast date t.b.a.



Highlights for 2010

Jean 'Binta' Breeze returns from Jamaica in February & resumes work on her 'New and Selected Works' (due from Bloodaxe Books in Autumn 2011). Jean will be undertaking a programme of performances & workshops through out the year, highlights of which include:

Feb. 25th: Hampshire, with the acclaimed flautist Keith Waithe

Feb. 22nd - 19th Apr.: a series of workshops for Leicester Adult Education programme

Mar. 8th: Y Theatre, Leicester - a special performance for International Women's Week - to be filmed & edited into a DVD for publication with her forthcoming book

Apr. 30th: Freeword, London - masterclass workshop as part of the 'Spoken World All Stars' programme promoted by Poet in the City

May 5th: school performances for Lincoln Book Festival

May 15th: a performance for Peckham Library Services

Jun. 27th: Jean makes her debut at the Glastonbury Festival

Jul. 5th: Southbank Centre, London - as part of a programme celebrating Caribbean poetry in the UK

Jul. 21st: Stockton-upon-Tees - as part of an Apples & Snakes programme


Linton Kwesi Johnson will be taking on selected dates in the UK & abroad, including special appearances in London & Scotland, i.e.

Jan. 29th: Unison AGM, London

Mar. 20th: StAnza Festival, St. Andrews


Patience Agbabi will be continuing in her role as the newly appointed Laureate of Canterbury, including developing a new body of work inspired by Chaucer. In the New Year Patience will also be linking up with the English Media Centre to film a contribution to a new multi-media resource for GCSE English Literature. Other public performances include:

Feb 18th: Freeword, London as part of the launch of 'RED' - a new anthology from Peepal Tree edited by Kwame Dawes

Feb. 23rd: City & Islington College, London

Feb 24th: Goldsmith's College, London - with Bernadine Everisto

Mar. 2nd: Kent University

May 22nd: Whitstable

May. 29th: Stratford Theatre, London - with John Hegley

In 2010 Patience has also been appointed as poet-in-residence at Chatham Dockyard as part of a programme entitled 'Chains' - involving the commission of a new series of sonnets or a corona


Other highlights for the New Year include 57 re-connecting with the TUC, London for a special event for International Women's Week, featuring Zena Edwards among others

57 is also pleased to announce that selections from the Poetry Video Jukebox are now available on YouTube, representing a unique exploration of the relationship between poetry & place & poetry & film, including films & interviews featuring:

Ian McMillan, with the film of the poem 'The er Barnsley Seascapes'
Peter Finch, with the film of the poem 'The Way It Grows'
Jean 'Binta' Breeze, with the film of the poem 'The Wife of Bath speaks in Brixton Market'
Tom Leonard, with the film of the poem 'Unrelated Incidents'
Jane Draycott, with the film of the poem 'Single Lens'
Paul Farley, with the film of the poem 'Liverpool Disappears for a Billionth of a Second'
Imtiaz Dharker, with the film of the poem 'These Are The Times We Live In'
Billy Childish, with the film of the poem 'Chatham Town Welcomes Desperate Men'
Clare Pollard, with the film of the poem 'Thinking of England'
Iain Sinclair, with the film of the poem 'Continuous Sky'

with more t.b.a.