poetry & acoustic music at the Poetry Cafe

Friday 23rd July 2010

Fourth Friday Summer Party in association with London Sixties Week.  Poetry from Hylda Sims & Friends.  Music from Little Machine and Simon Prager, Kevin Stenson and Hylda Sims of City Ramblers Revival.

London Sixties Week at the Poetry Cafe

In order to celebrate London Sixties week, Fourth Friday will be holding their summer party in thoroughly sixties style.  With swingin' poetry and psychadelic music from a whole host of happenin' cats, you'd be square to miss it.

Simon Prager, Kevin Stenson and Hylda Sims of City Ramblers Revival

Little Machine

Poems, classic and obscure, are given a new voice in songs crafted by South London band LiTTLe MACHiNe: Walter Wray, Steve Halliwell and Chris Hardy.  Acoustic instruments, strong melodies and watertight harmonies create songs that draw on a thousand years of poetry from the Medieval to the Metaphysicals,  the Romantics to the modern. William Carlos Williams, Blake, Shakespeare, Carol Ann Duffy … all get the treatment. Poetry is the best words in the best order and LiTTLe MACHiNe have been just as careful in creating new music that can move the feet for words that move the soul.  

Friday 24th September 2010 

Poetry from Shanta Acharya.  Music to be confirmed.

Shanta Acharya

Shanta Acharya was born and educated in India, won a scholarship to Oxford where she completed her doctoral thesis before going to Harvard University as a Visiting Scholar. Her five books of poetry are Dreams That Spell The Light (Arc Publications, UK; 2010), Shringara (Shoestring Press, UK; 2006), Looking In, Looking Out (Headland Publications, UK; 2005), Numbering Our Days’ Illusions (Rockingham Press, UK; 1995) and Not This, Not That (Rupa & Co, India; 1994). A poetry CD titled Somewhere, Something, was released earlier this year. Her doctoral study, The Influence of Indian Thought on Ralph Waldo Emerson, was published by The Edwin Mellen Press, USA, in 2001. For more info click here.