Performance:
Dylan Thomas Centenary Supper

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Location

The Peasant
240 St Johns Street
London
United Kingdom

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Description

A wonderful celebration... a feast of poetry, art and music

The evening was the culmination of a series of carefully orchestrated events by artist Dan Llywelyn Hall. It featured Gillian Clarke, Menna Elfyn, Sue Hubbard, Patrick McGuiness, Ruth Padel, Clare Pollard and Owen Sheers - reading their new poems, with a book illustrated by Dan Llywelyn Hall in response to these poems, and music by Geraint Watkins.

Introduced by Graham Fawcett, President of The T.S. Eliot Society, Compères: Vince Dowd - BBC World Service Arts Correspondent, Katherine Gonzalez - Arts Circle, Lisa May Moore and Mark Webb - Blue Rider Theatre Group.

 

Related Links:

The event supported PAN Intercultural Arts. www.pan-arts.net

Owen Sheers read the last poem, written especially for the occasion by the wonderful and much missed poet Dannie Abse. See http://www.dannieabse.com/

CREDITS (click to view):

CREDITS:

Homepage:

Dan Llywelyn Hall:  Soap Bubbles - After Dannie Abse, 2014

 

Slideshow:

Slide 2:  Dan Llywelyn Hall:  Soap Bubbles - After Dannie Abse, 2014