Poetry Parnassus in Derry/Londonderry

Editor's Notes

1. Poetry workshops on the Quayside during the Derry Clipper Festival organised by Verbal Arts Centre
2. Cypriot poet ChristodoulosMakris leads his workshop
3. ImruhBakari of Nevis & St Kitts & Grenadian Maureen Roberts give one would-be poet a lot of attention
4. AbdullahiBotan Hassan reads on the Quayside wearing traditional Somali dress, whilst Catherine from Verbal Arts Centre reads the translations
5. Selina Marsh of Tuvalu reads her poem ‘Fast Talking PI’
6. And then gets her workshop participants to write their own versions
7. Then they all become performers
8. Zaher Al-Ghafri of Oman reads
9. The next day the Verbal Arts Centre held a Parnassus Literary Death Match
10. SaradhaSoobrayen (Mauritius)
11. ImruhBakari (St. Kitts & Nevis)
12. Maureen Roberts (Grenada)
13. Zaher Al-Ghafri (Oman) and his daughter reading his translations
14. RocioCeron (Mexico)
15. ChristodoulosMakris (Cypress)
16. Musicians entertaining the audience between rounds
17. GerðurKristný(Iceland)
18. Kate Kilalea (South Africa)
19. Andra Simons (Bermuda)
20. Katherine Gallagher (Australia)
21. The eventual winner Maureen Roberts holds The World Record Parnassus anthology