XXIV POETRY ON THE LAKE
International Celebration
18-20 October 2024
with
Imtiaz Dharker
Richard Skinner
Anne Stewart
Barry Tempest
Clare Best & Franca Mancinelli
Moira Egan & Giorgiomaria Cornelio
Lizzie Ballagher
Rosie Barrett
Philip Morre
Stephanie Green
Giorgia Sensi
British School of Milan
Canadian School of Milan
Liceo G. Galilei Scienze Umane di Gozzano
programme in due course
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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.
No tickets, but donations, click yellow Donate button
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
booking essential;
booking is confirmed on receipt of donation
Suggested: One day: €30, three days €60
contact: Martina
potlcompetition AT gmail.com (close gaps)
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XXI International Celebration Lake Orta
9th-10th October 2021
with
Imtiaz Dharker
James Harpur
Robert Seatter
Philip Morre
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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’*
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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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Donations
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Due to Covid restrictions, there is a limit to the number of participants , please book before 6th October.
A Green or equivalent certificate of vaccination is required for all indoor events. To book, please contact
poetryonthelake (AT) yahoo.co.uk before 6th October.
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'
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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
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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.
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. 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
