life lines 2 - a London celebration

Oxfam's spoken poetry CD, Life Lines, on sale at Oxfam shops around the country, has raised £50,000 for Oxfam in the year since it was launched. At £4.99 a copy, this would seem to demonstrate that poetry does have a wide appeal outside the "poetry community" - maybe people just like it if you make it accessible by putting it in a place they go to, where they can find it. The CD was a collaboration with the RNIB, which of course has an interest in making literature available in spoken form.

The second CD, Life Lines 2, featuring yours truly, will be launched next Friday, October 5th, at the Times Cheltenham Literary festival. I'm eagerly awaiting my copy, but meanwhile here are details about the post-launch "celebration" reading on October 18th, in London. All are welcome.

You are invited to a celebration of
The Life Lines Series
Poets for Oxfam

Readings by Dannie Abse, Sujata Bhatt, Siobhan Campbell,
Elaine Feinstein, Attila the Stockbroker,
John Hartley Williams and Wayne Smith.

Hosted by Todd Swift
on
Thursday 18th October at 7pm

The Poets’ Church
St Giles in the Field
60 St Giles High St

Holborn, London
Tottenham Court Rd Tube Station


Collection in aid of The Darfur Appeal
Oxfam works with others to overcome poverty and suffering. Registered Charity No 202918.

n.b. My great-great-great-great-great-(repeat)-grandmother Mary Milton was baptised in this church - unfortunately not the same building, though - in 1643. The building she would have been baptised in became damp and decrepit in a short period, probably (according to the church's website) because of the large number of plague burials during that time; the parishioners commissioned a new building, in the newfangled Palladian style, in around 1730. Unfortunately that means we can't retrace the footsteps of Mary's father, John, as he carried his baby to the font...