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The World Record: International Voices from Southbank Centre's Poetry Parnassus
Astley Neil Selby
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Description for The World Record: International Voices from Southbank Centre's Poetry Parnassus
Paperback. Anthology of London's Poetry Parnassus festival featuring poets from over 200 countries taking part in the 2012 London Olympics, with an introduction by the festival's curator Simon Armitage. Editor(s): Astley, Neil; Selby, Anna. Num Pages: 320 pages, ill. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446. 320 pages, ill. Editor(s): Astley, Neil; Selby, Anna. Anthology of London's Poetry Parnassus festival featuring poets from over 200 countries taking part in the 2012 London Olympics, with an introduction by the festival's curator Simon Armitage. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCQ. Dimension: 214 x 138 x 20. Weight: 446.
"The World Record" is an international anthology of work by poets from all the countries taking part in the 2012 London Olympics, featuring a poem from each of the 204 Olympic nations, from Armenia to Tuvalu, Azerbaijan to Turkmenistan. With this book you can discover the world through its keenest observers, political activists and most articulate wordsmiths. There's something for every taste: new voices as well as world greats, rappers and spoken word artists as well as poets and storytellers. "The World Record" marks the first time so many living poets from so many countries have been gathered together in ... Read more
"The World Record" is an international anthology of work by poets from all the countries taking part in the 2012 London Olympics, featuring a poem from each of the 204 Olympic nations, from Armenia to Tuvalu, Azerbaijan to Turkmenistan. With this book you can discover the world through its keenest observers, political activists and most articulate wordsmiths. There's something for every taste: new voices as well as world greats, rappers and spoken word artists as well as poets and storytellers. "The World Record" marks the first time so many living poets from so many countries have been gathered together in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852249380
SKU
V9781852249380
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Ref
99-27
About Astley Neil Selby
Neil Astley is editor of Bloodaxe Books, which he founded in 1978. His books include novels, poetry collections and anthologies, most notably those in Bloodaxe's Staying Alive anthology series: Staying Alive (2002), Being Alive (2004), Being Human (2011), and Staying Human (2020), a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation; and three collaborations with Pamela Robertson-Pearce, Soul Food: nourishing poems for starved ... Read more
Reviews for The World Record: International Voices from Southbank Centre's Poetry Parnassus
'The World Record is a unique publication, a snapshot or cross-section of global poetry from over two hundred countries. Poetry is surely one of the planet's oldest art forms, an Olympic event no less in ancient time, and during London's Olympic year of 2012 the Southbank has sought to recreate a small piece of Greece along its riverside complex, namely ... Read more