Snakes on a Plane is an action/horror film to be released on August 18, 2006. by New Line Cinema.
Written by David D’Alessandro, John Heffernan, Sheldon Turner, directed by David R. Ellis and starring Samuel L. Jackson. The film finished filming principal photography in September of 2005 including five days of additional re-shooting to raise the […]
Nina considers the musical language of jazz to be one of her greatest inspirations. Her exhibition, Jazz in the City is the culmination of a life’s work for this innovative and unique artist.
It also begins a tour featuring Nina as an artist in residence, to include The International Jazz Festival in Moscow, during which Nina’s […]
Featuring sculptures, photographs, illustrations by Cat Miranda, Jennifer Hale, Sami Hammoudan, Hugo Sterk; live performance dance and music, DJ’s, poets, visuals; and Illustrations by Jennifer Hale, Contemporary Dance by Briar Adams, live music from Danbob Clarke with vocals from Shannon McNab, Poetry by Tim Wells, Cat Catalyst, David J, Funlola, Ramshackle Event, Salina Saliva, Baden, […]
Actor, Art, Artist, Director, DJ, East London, Humanist, Illustration, Music, Performance, Photography, Poetry, Spiritual, WriterThe opening night sees an evening of classical opera extracts performed, including Carmen, Nessun Dorma, The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and many others at The Hackney Empire.
East London Metropolitan Opera continues to bring together top professional musicians with members of the local community and children from Hackney schools accompanied by a full […]
The Whitbread is one of the longest established and esteemed book awards in the UK and celebrates some of the most enjoyable books published in the UK each year across a number of different genres.
There are six awards in total - five category awards (Novel, First Novel, Biography, Poetry and Children’s) and, from these, one […]
by John Donne
SEND me some tokens, that my hope may live
Or that my easeless thoughts may sleep and rest;
Send me some honey, to make sweet my hive,
That in my passions I may hope the best.
I beg nor ribbon wrought with thine own hands,
To knit our loves in the fantastic strain
Of new-touch’d youth; nor ring to […]
Bernard Kops was born in the East End of London. Since The Hamlet of Stepney Green (1959), he has written over 40 plays, nine novels, and seven volumes of poetry including Grandchildren and Other Poems (Hearing Eye, 2000).
This poem on Whitechapel Library is reprinted here by kind permission of the poet and publisher. Bernard Kops […]
Whitechapel Library - that great library of the East End - finally closed its doors on Saturday 6th August 2005, after more than a century of use.
To those who used it down the years it was much more than a simple storehouse of books, as the poem here by Bernard Kops well shows. From its […]
Vision Literary Society is going to publish the first issue of its quarterly poetry magazine London Poets in November 2005.
Send at least two of your unpublished poems with a photograph and a brief biography including contact phone and e-mail to London Poets, 132 Rounton Road, London E3 4EX by 30 September. Poems should not exceed […]
“Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible… The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship”
Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer of broad international reputation who has been living in France, has won the first ever Man Booker International Prize recently. He has received the prize of £60,000 and a trophy at the Award Ceremony on 27 June 2005 […]