2024 Silver Wyvern Awards
18-20 October 2024
programme in due course
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Info on last year's programme and Celebration
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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
What happened:
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
