[29.8.05][Andrew Stevens] NOSTALGIA STOPS HERE? On September 25th, the Royal Albert Hall will once again host The Poetry Olympics. Known this year as The Poetry Olympics Twenty05, it will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the legendary First International Poetry Incarnation which packed out the Albert Hall in 1965. Those speaking on this occasion included Pete Townshend, Beth Orton, Fran Landesman, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Grace Nichols, Christopher Logue, Sujata Bhatt, John Hegley, Annie Whitehead and Olympic mainstay Michael Horovitz. Compered by Alexander Trocchi (pictured), the 1965 incarnation was, in the words of The Guardian more recently, "one of the key events in turning a tiny metropolitan subculture into the mass phenomenon we know as the Sixties". [permalink]
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