Poetry Parnassus in Derry/Londonderry
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As part of the Poetry Parnassus tour 12 poets travelled to Northern Ireland to host a day of workshops and take part in a literary death match at th Verbal Arts Centre in Derry/Londonderry. All photos copyright Nick Chapman
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- Poetry workshops on the Quayside during the Derry Clipper Festival organised by Verbal Arts Centre
- Cypriot poet ChristodoulosMakris leads his workshop
- ImruhBakari of Nevis & St Kitts & Grenadian Maureen Roberts give one would-be poet a lot of attention
- AbdullahiBotan Hassan reads on the Quayside wearing traditional Somali dress, whilst Catherine from Verbal Arts Centre reads the translations
- Selina Marsh of Tuvalu reads her poem ‘Fast Talking PI’
- And then gets her workshop participants to write their own versions
- Then they all become performers
- Zaher Al-Ghafri of Oman reads
- The next day the Verbal Arts Centre held a Parnassus Literary Death Match
- SaradhaSoobrayen (Mauritius)
- ImruhBakari (St. Kitts & Nevis)
- Maureen Roberts (Grenada)
- Zaher Al-Ghafri (Oman) and his daughter reading his translations
- RocioCeron (Mexico)
- ChristodoulosMakris (Cypress)
- Musicians entertaining the audience between rounds
- GerðurKristný(Iceland)
- Kate Kilalea (South Africa)
- Andra Simons (Bermuda)
- Katherine Gallagher (Australia)
- The eventual winner Maureen Roberts holds The World Record Parnassus anthology