Come and hear fourteen (or so)* poets celebrate the most powerful and enduring nugget in English literature. But first, let us admire Sir Philip Sidney’s ruff. It is Elegantly Dressed Wednesday, after all.
Ernest Hilbert (over from the US for one night only!)
Christopher Reid
Roddy Lumsden
Annie Freud
Pascale Petit
Katy Evans-Bush
Anne Berkeley
James Brookes
Charlotte Newman
Clare Pollard
Roisin Tierney
Henrietta Cullinan
John McCullough
Ira Lightman (by Skype! if it works.)
This Saturday! July 18
6.30 for 7-9pm
Lemon Monkey Café (licensed)
188 Stoke Newington High Street
London N16
admission free
2 mins walk from Stoke Newington mainline station, which comes up from Liverpool St.
a short bus ride to Seven Sisters tube (Victoria Line)
buses: 106, 73, 476, 149, 76, 67, 243, 276, 393
*Okay so there are 15 readers on the list. This is provisional. And anyway there is a sonnety justification for the 15th. Answers in the comments box please.
(picture by Ira Lightman)
6 Comments
July 15, 2009 at 9:05 am
Is it Sonnet IC? Hope it goes well: it looks joyous.
July 15, 2009 at 11:12 am
Thanks James! Yep, you got it; though I’d have said 99. I had to think a minute. Yes, it should be a really fun evening! Joyous indeed – shame you can’t be there. I’m looking forward.
July 16, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Wish I could come but I’m heading south, to Clapham, to have dinner with a man who knows everything about Samuel Beckett!
July 16, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Hi Katy,
It looks a fantastic evening and line up. I doubt I’ll be able to come as I’m reading elsewhere just before but wish I could, lovely idea. Love the iRuff!
Px
July 17, 2009 at 1:32 am
Sounds like a lovely evening. Sorry I’m an ocean away…
July 19, 2009 at 11:20 am
Did you have the 15 sonneteers? (I’ve read a few 15 line sonnets… you could get 28 line ones as well… and, theoretically, 140 line sonnets if we stick to the iamb-what-iambs.)