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 XXIV POETRY ON THE LAKE

International Celebration

        18-20 October 2024

with

Imtiaz Dharker

Richard Skinner

Anne Stewart

Barry Tempest

Clare Best & Franca Mancinelli

Dorothy Yamamoto

Moira Egan & Giorgiomaria Cornelio

Lizzie Ballagher

Rosie Barrett

Philip Morre

Sean Burke

Stephanie Green

Susi Clare

Giorgia Sensi

and 

from Hungary

Dora Danics & Robert Sinha

also

British School of Milan

Canadian School of Milan

Liceo G. Galilei Scienze Umane  di Gozzano

&

VerseOnVideo

Aileen Ballantyne - Elisabeth Rowe

James Walton - Matthew Caley & Jesse Adlam 

programme  

 

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XXIII International Poetry Celebration Lake Orta

22nd-24th September 2023

Orta San Giulio - Isola - Sacro Monte

                             with

Carol Ann Duffy & Imtiaz Dharker

Gregory Leadbetter -

Jan Noble - Simon West.

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XXII International Celebration Lake Orta

 28th-30th October 2022

 

  This edition is dedicated to 

 Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

        with
 Imtiaz Dharker 
 
Robert Seatter - 
Kate Clanchy 

 Michael Swan - Caroline Carver 

 Reshma Ruia - Philip Morre - Will Stone

Dorothy Yamamoto - Elaine Beckett

 Shukria Rezaei - Simone Pansolin

 

             Special event

                Jan Noble

   A poem for the Shelley bicentennial  

             

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 booking is confirmed on receipt of donation

 Suggested: One day: €30, three days €60

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           XXI International Celebration Lake Orta
           9th-10th October 2021
           with
           Imtiaz Dharker
           James Harpur 
           Robert Seatter

           Philip Morre
                    *

                  2 days of readings  by the lake , on the island and on Sacro Monte in the autumn woods and                               chapels

XXI POETRY ON THE LAKE ~ 9th-10TH OCTOBER 2021

 

 (                    the traditional Friday workshops with students from the Liceo Linguistico Gozzano & the British School Sir James Hennessy, Milan, are cancelled owing to corona virus restrictions)


SATURDAY  9TH OCTOBER ~ PALAZZOTTO 11.00 a.m. (doors shut, be early)

M.C.  ROBERT MORLEY

 

SEAN BURKE

PHILIP MORRE

 

ROBERT SEATTER

‘The House of Everything’ & ‘The Book of Snow’*

~

 

SATURDAY 9TH OCTOBER ~ SALA TALLONE, ISOLA 2.45 p.m.

thanks to Elisa & Elena Tallone

 

 ‘St Columba and the Poetic Imagination’

JAMES HARPUR

 

SILVER WYVERN AWARDS

Thanks to Alessi for donating the Silver Wyvern Awards

 

IMTIAZ DHARKER

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SUNDAY 10TH OCTOBER – 11.00 a.m.

 

SACRO MONTE ~ POETS’ PILGRIMAGE

itinerant reading in the woods and chapels of Sacro Monte Orta

Meet: Belvedere (Chapel I) 10.45 a.m.

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SUNDAY 10TH OCTOBER ~ HOEL SAN ROCCO 3.30 p.m.

Remembering GRAHAM BURCHELL

OPEN MIC

~

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XX International Celebration Lake Orta,
 
10th-11th October 2020
 
readings at Hotel San Rocco by the lake and on Sacro Monte in the autumn woods and chapels
with
 
Dato Maghradze
 
 Rob A Mackenzie, Louise Peterkin, 
 
Philip Morre &  Jan Noble

 

SATURDAY 10TH OCTOBER, HOTEL SAN ROCCO  11.00 a.m

 

 JAN NOBLE performance 'Body 115' - a journey from London to Milan' 

.

*

 

SILVER WYVERN AWARDS – 3.30 p.m.

 

PHILIP MORRE, LOUISE PETERKIN – ROB A MACKENZIE, ROERT MORLEY

DATO MAGRADZE  with NUNU GELADZE

 

M.C. Yolanda Cappelletti

SUNDAY 11TH OCTOBER – 11.00 a.m.

SACRO MONTE  itinerant reading in the woods and chapels of Sacro Monte Orta

Meet: Belvedere (Chapel I) 10.45 a.m.

 

*

 

. HOTEL SAN ROCCO – 3.30 p.m. READINGS

 

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Thanks to Alessi for donating the Silver Wyvern Awards

Thanks to Hotel San Rocco for kindly hosting the indoor sessions.

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XIX International Celebration Lake Orta,
4th-6th October 2019
with Anne Stevenson 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
! -  Anne Stevenson, Philip Morre,Carla Buranello, Giorgia Sensi, 2- Hotel san Rocco Silver Wyvern Awards, 3 - il Cortile del Borgo 4 - Sacro Monte
grateful thanks to
ALESSI,
BPN Fondazione per il territorio, CasaFantini, Hotel San Rocco, La Contrada dei Monti
poetrypf, La Locanda di Orta,  , Piccolo Hotel Olina, Il Cortile del Borgo,
Unione Turistico Lago d'Orta, Comune  di Orta San Giulio
and all the poets who participated
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