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ABOUT

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patron : Dame Carol Ann Duffy, poet laureate UK, 

who described the POTL  celebration  on the South Bank Show, ITV, 6 December 2009 as:  
"...perhaps the smallest but possibly the most perfect poetry festival in the world"  (HERE)

Poetry on the Lake was founded and is organised by poet and author  Gabriel Griffin www.gabrielgriffin.org 

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Kevin Bailey, editor of HQ Poetry Magazine

 and at the annual celebration

author & poet Robert R. Morley & poet Barry Tempest

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Angelo Bertola, Councillor for Cultura, and Gabriel Griffin at the spring readings organised for UNESCO World Poetry Day 21st March 2002

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SALA TALLONE 2008

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CAROL ANN DUFFY

Dato Magradze, former Minister of Culture of Georgia and the  author of Georgia's national anthem, reading in Concert Hall Eleonora Tallone, on the Isola San Giulio in 2008

Dame Carol Ann Duffy, poet laureate UK, with the Mayor of Orta in Piazza Motta, Orta San Giulio, 2011

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