XXV POETRY ON THE LAKE

International Celebration

        9-10-11 October 2026

with

Carol Ann Duffy & Imtiaz Dharker

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FRIDAY 9th October

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Island Basilica 2.45 p.m.

 

(doors shut and entrance barred at 3.00)

 M.C. Barry Tempest

 

Reading

poems by the late abbess 

Madre Anna Maria Cànopi

 

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reading

Moira Egan

Imtiaz Dharker

Carol Ann Duffy

 

(English & Italian)

translator Giorgia Sensi

 

 

SATURDAY 10th OCTOBER   

Hotel San Rocco 10.30 a.m

 

Alex Josephy

Sean Burke

Barry Tempest

Alwyn Marriage

Philip Morre

 

 

HOTEL SAN ROCCO 3.30 p.m.

 

Mary Anne Smith

Simone Pansolin

Lizzie Ballagher

Derek Sellen

 

Shadow Reader

 by

IMTIAZ DHARKER

 

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n.b. tomorrow, for those who prefer not to walk

to Sacro Monte, there is the toy train

outside the Mini Golf.  Be there at 1045

 

SUNDAY 11th October  

 

Sacro Monte  11.00 a.m

POETS’ PILGRIMAGE

 

with Franco Acquaviva

Marian Eastwood - Sezgin Kemal   et al

itinerant reading in the woods and chapels of

Sacro Monte, Orta

Readings in Italian, English or other language

 open to all for short poems (max 30 lines)

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

 

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HOTEL SAN ROCCO 3.30 p.m.

 

Giorgiomaria Cornelio

Ioana Badicioiu

Anne Stewart  

Michael Woods

 

The Furies

Moira Egan

 

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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  

             

 booking essential; 

 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
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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

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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

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OPEN MIC

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