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According to Steve's latest blog posting, out inter-continental quiet man is heading off to Genoa.... Quiet Man performance in Genoa, Italy
John Foxx is performing excerpts from his 'Quiet Man' novel at the Genoa International Poetry Festival in Italy on 21 June, 2008.
These are the details about the performance:
14TH GENOA INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL
DATE: 21 JUNE 2008
VENUE: PALAZZO DUCALE - GENOA
ADDRESS: PIAZZA MATTEOTTI
HOUR: 21.00
ENTRANCE FREE
The festival organisers have sent us the following information about the event:
Since 1983 the Circolo dei Viaggiatori nel Tempo (CVT) organise several events in the fields of literature, poetry, visual arts and music.
During the last 13 years, its international activity increased in importance and in significance.
After the success of the Genoa International Poetry Festival, that every year invite in Genoa the most known authors and the best young poets and performers, several European cities and regions have asked to CVT. to organise literary and poetry events (Paris, Helsinki, Lille, Munich, Brugge among the others).
Genoa Poetry Festival, started in 1995, is now considered the biggest poetry event in Italy and one of the most important in Europe.
During the past editions, over 700 authors have performed their works in Genoa: from the Nobel Prize winners Czeslaw Milosz, Derek Walcott and Wole Soyinka, to other poets and artists such as Lou Reed, John Giorno, Dacia Maraini, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Yusuf Komunyakaa, Peter Hammill, Tony Harrison, Jack Hirschmann, Simon Armitage, Joy Harjo, Ray Manzarek of The Doors, Joanne Kyger, Pedro Pietri, Charles Tomlinson, Brian Patten, Adonis, Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mario Luzi, Alvaro Mutis, Michel Houellebecq, Tahar Ben Jelloun, and many others.
(For more information and the complete list, please see www.festivalpoesia.org). Every year, more than 30,000 spectators come from Italy and abroad to see the readings, conferences, concerts, workshops.
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