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On Thursday the 8th of October 2009 I poetry TV attended National poetry day Live at the Royal festival hall and below is a summary from the day:

Why Just About Anyone Can Write and Perform Poetry

The performances at Royal Festival Hall’s (RFH) National Poetry Day Live are resounding proof of this.

When you truly imagine that there is something in it for everyone, then you begin to see the RFH’s National Poetry Day Live as a great and even groundbreaking time for celebrating poetry.

It was a day when Caroline Duffy, the poet laureate, was followed by a host of poets including Lemn Sissay; Selma Hall; Anjan Saha and Lost Luggage; Birmingham’s own Dreadlock Alien; John Headley and Liverpool’s Roger McGough.

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Poetry From Around the World
This month in Poetry From Around the world we look at modern poetry in Brazil:

Modern poetry in Brazil is no less mysterious than the country itself.
The Iberian Baroque, Italian Arcadianism, French Romanticism, Parnassianism and Symbolism have all have held sway in Brazil over the course of it's history, each manifesting itself in a highly original way.

Around 1922, during the centennial celebrations of Brazil's independence from Portugal, an eclectic group of young writers, poets, artists and musicians, most of them from São Paulo state's coffee-growing high bourgeoisie, came together to promote a Modern Art Week at the São Paulo Municipal Theatre.

The initial movement of Modernism in the 20's introduced into Brazilian poetry a global attitude, incorporating broad cultural interests, irreverence, humour, and free verse. In addition to Oswald de Andrade, some pioneers included Mario de Andrade, Raul Bopp and Luis Aranha. and arguably Brazilian poetry's finest hour, came in the 30's, with the second wave of Modernists. The poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Murilo Mendes, Vinícius de Moraes and Manuel Bandeira, both individually and as a group, were equal to the principal currents of Western Modernism. The high quality of these poets is matched only by their sheer bad luck in having been confined to a readership, not only in their own tongue, but also in their own country, since they are exceedingly little known.

Source – Consulate General of Brazil
http://www.brazilsf.org/culture_poetry_eng.htm


The Poetic thought of the month

The poetic thought of the month for this newsletter comes from Joan McNerney:

Even Goya's portraits are
less intriguing than faces
of frost on my window.

This poem was chosen for it's ability to convey a powerful poetic thought in a small space. Sometimes big things really do come in small packages. I'd like to thank Joan for her contribution.

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The poetic thought of the month

If I told you
I have taken all the words
In the world and
Sealed them away
For good
You might think of me as crazy
And maybe you should

If I told you 7 million
of us struggle with words today
Yet still it’s not a lost cause
When poetry gets its way

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