Poetry and Prisoners: The Amnesty Ipswich Annual Poetry Event.
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An online poetry reading event on Thursday 13th August 2020.
There will be a programme of Poetry read by Ipswich group members that they have chosen themselves or that has a human rights theme. There will be a break in the middle and the event is likely to last about 90 minutes including the break.
The event will be open to join from 7.00 pm with a prompt start at 7.30 pm .
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Programme...
The event will be open to join from 7.00 pm with a prompt start at 7.30 pm.
There will be a break in the middle and the event is likely to last about 90 minutes including the break.
J R R Tolkien Three Rings for the Elven Kings
A E Housman Into my Heart.. from the anthology “A Shropshire Lad”
Henry Reed Naming of Parts
Brian Bilston From the New Encyclopaedia of Alternative Facts
Extract from “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”
A poem chosen by Michael Stephenson
Robert Burns A Red,Red Rose and The Birks of Aberfeldy
Alfred Lord Tennyson Lady Clara Vere de Vere
Andrew Marbell The Definition of Love, The Mowers Song
The three poems about Azza Soliman
Any other readers
Emtithal Mahmoud Head over Heels
Yala Korwin The Little Boy with his Hands Up
Martin Niemoller First They Came
Dylan Thomas Do not go Gentle into that Good Night
Max Boyce When Just the Tide Went Out.
How to join the event....
You will be able to connect to the even from about 7.00pm with a prompt 730 start. Please e-mail Mike Medhurst (the group’s secretary) on [email protected] for the details of how to connect to the poetry reading online.
How to donate.....
In these time this will be our main social and fundraising event this summer – if you cannot join us you can donate at....
This will remain the place to donate to our work online in the future.
*We are holding this event partly to raise funds as we cannot hold our usual town centre and supermarket collections due to the coronavirus. We are therefore asking if you could give a donation of £5.00 or what you can afford. If you can’t donate online you can send a cheque - could the cheque be made payable to “Amnesty International Ipswich Group.” to Michael Medhurst, Friends Meeting House, 39 Fonnereau Road, Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 3JH.
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#AmnestyIpswich are @AmnestyIpswich 'It is better to light a candle'.
@AmnestyIpswich has worked for #humanrights worldwide since 1974.
DMs are always open for ideas, thoughts, criticism, difficult questions and events.
We are geographically in #Ipswich, #Suffolk, #UK and nearby great places on the peninsular - but the weird stuff we get into online in all sorts of places I wouldn't believe if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. It's not so much 'you are powerful' which you are of course and always were...as much as right now power is overstretched, out of its depth and desperately needs your help and is frustrated you won't volunteer what you think.
We wll leave the page up for a bit though!