The 2019 Poem-A-Thon: Part 2

On Saturday 18 May 2019, The Poetry Society hosted an all day poetry fundraising extravaganza, including a 10 hour sponsored poetry reading from a line-up of 60 poets. This is part 2, comprising hours 2-4 of the event. You can listen to part 1 on Soundcloud or your podcasting app of choice. See below for the timings of featured poets' sets, and remember that you can still donate to the fundraising campaign via bit.ly/poemdonate. PART 2: FEATURED POETS 0:00 : Julie Irigaray 10:30 : Eithne Cullen 22:00 : Bridget Minamore 33:00 : Denise Saul 43:45 : Sam Grudgings 52:30 : Lisa Kelly 01:00:00 : Kirsten Irving 01:13:00 : Oliver Fox 01:23:30: Helen Bowell 01:32:30 : Ramona Herdman 01:42:00 : Astra Papachristodoulou The final 3 parts will be made available as soon as we're done editing: stay tuned!

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The Poetry Society was founded in 1909 to promote "a more general recognition and appreciation of poetry". Since then, it has grown into one of Britain's most dynamic arts organisations, representing British poetry both nationally and internationally. Today it has more than 4000 members worldwide and publishes the leading poetry magazine, The Poetry Review. With innovative education and commissioning programmes and a packed calendar of performances, readings and competitions, the Poetry Society champions poetry for all ages. "The Poetry Society is the heart and hands of poetry in the UK – a centre which pours out energy to all parts of the poetry-body, and a dexterous set of operations which arrange and organise poetry's various manifestations. It has a long distinguished history, and has never been so vital, or so vitalizing as it is now." Sir Andrew Motion