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I am managing the ‘Tagore’ event on Monday 26th March 2012 at Clyde & Co: http://www.poetinthecity.co.uk/events/128

Looking forward to it

It’s a free event filled with Tagore’s biography songs, dance and poetry – reserve your place by:

•     Telephoning Poet in the City on 07908 367488
•     E-mail info@poetinthecity.co.uk

I’m organising a dinner on Saturday 17th March in which I will read an excerpt from my novel in progress.

I’m very protective about sharing my writing in progress. Keywords: *in progress*. Anyone who has attempted to write anything will know how hard and arduous the first draft is and how unpolished it is that you don’t want to embarrass yourself by sharing with anyone until the novel is utterly complete and shining.

I’m putting myself and my work out there just to raise awareness of  Restless Beings’ 100Kids Campaign, for which I am doing my sponsored 50k50day novel-writing challenge.

If you would like to come along, drop me an email sulthana@hijackmyheart.com before 4th March. The dinner will be at a restaurant in East London. It will be a casual affair, like friends going out for dinner.

Those of you who can’t make it, PLEASE DONATE here  and help the amazing Restless Beings build a village for 100 street children to change their lives! Thank you.

Ilford Recorder today and Newham Recorder yesterday 18.05.11

I joined Poet in the City as a volunteer I think last September because I liked what they were about, and wanted to get more involved in the poetry scene. Then in December I agreed to manage an event for them – Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, which is finally taking place next Monday 7th March (and for which I am trying not to be nervous about). And also help with social media side by tweeting regularly.

This week has been pretty crazy in preparation for it, mostly dissecting the many emails I’m getting from various people and responding to them in the best way possible. Along which I had to also write a blog post for the event, which I’ve done and was published earlier today as Does Spenser’s Faerie Queene speak to today? at Poet in the City’s blog. (more…)

Fernando Pessoa was a Portuguese poet who I found fascinating, not least because I think he had some sort of multiple identity disorder, but also due to his profound and sometimes humorous writing. Pessoa wrote under many identities, each very different characters to others, only one of them being a woman. I was introduced to him at my first attendance of an event organised by Poet in the City and City of London Festival, a formal affair very unlike the intimate dynamic atmosphere I am used to at Poets’ Corner (more on that in another post).

It was a privilege to hear the first speaker, Richard Zenith, as he had translated most of Pessoa’s work for Penguin Publishers. Zenith spoke with a passion conveying his intimate knowledge of Pessoa’s life, in a way that made me feel I knew the poet personally. However, if I took my eyes off Zenith to (more…)