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| UPDATED
EVERY THURSDAY
Last
Update: Friday 12th November 2004
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| FEATURES |
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By SUNITA RAPPAI |
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From left, back row, Peter Porter, Jonathan Pryce, Adrian Mitchell;
front, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze and Bob Davenport.
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Poets’ four more years of anti-war protests
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LESS than 24 hours after US President George Bush was re-elected,
poets gathered at Conway Hall in Bloomsbury for an evening of fierce
polemic.
The Poets for Peace event staged on Thursday was introduced by actor
Jonathan Pryce, who said the evening was timely following “the
terrible news from the USA”.
Proceeds went towards the fund for Iraqi children affected by the
war.
Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze leant close to the microphone to give
a stirring rendition of Bob Marley’s Redemption Song and Peter
Porter read Fast Forward, a poem he wrote 20 years ago
There were folk songs from Bob Davenport and nonsense poetry from
former Monty Python star Terry Jones.
Adrian Mitchell updated his well-known poem To Whom It May Concern.
Originally an anti-Vietnam war protest, he redirected its anger on
the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He said: “I’d like to write more poems about animals and
grandchildren and flowers. I’ll do a deal: I’ll stop writing
about war if Bush will stop making it.”
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