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Salzburg
Seoul
Stockholm
Sydney
Tokyo
Toronto
Vienna
Warsaw
Washington DC
Wellington
Wells
Zurich
Poets and poetry lovers from other cities who are visiting
London are warmly invited to join Poets of London at Waterstone's Gower
Street and to participate in our workshops, projects
and events.
Poets
of London also particularly welcome poetic eyes from other cities. We
warmly invite you to email us using the Poets of London alphabetical list
of cities above.
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The
Poetic City
The Poets of London Poetry Project
THIS is LONDON
The Thames and Parliament, looking west, from
Waterloo Bridge.
Copyright © 2002,
2003, 2004 Sally Crawford.
All rights reserved.
Posted
11 December 2002
Reducing Traffic in Theory and Practice: From Europe to Bloomsbury
Cities should be defined as 'living space, not as slowly moving
car parks'.
'We have had our love affair with the car. It is now time to have
a love affair with the city'.
Professor Phil Goodwin, Centre for Transport Studies,
University College London.
©
with acknowledgements to UCL Bulletin |
'Towards
more Poetic Cities': is a project for you
if you live in,
work in or are visiting
London. Poets
of London would
love to publish your ideas and suggestions on how
to make cities more poetic. We will also
be happy to hear about the 'poetry of the everyday': examples of the poetic
from your
home or work cityscape.
Ideas
can be expressed as briefly as you like.
- - - - (your named city) needs
- - - - (your suggestion).
- - - - (your name city) does
not need - - - - (your suggestion).
Send ideas and/or suggestions to Poets
of London.
Please submit contributions in the body of an email
not as an attachment. The copyright of everything thus published on the
site remains the author's but Poets of London
reserves the right to edit or not to publish contributions.
When
contributions to the site reach a critical mass Poets
of London
will forward them to the
Mayor
of London's Office.
Send
to: PoeticCities@poetsoflondon.com
Find
out more
about Poets of London
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Alternatively, of course, if you wish to send your
ideas and suggestions for 'Towards more poetic cities'
privately, send them direct to the Mayor: Ken Livingstone, Mayor
of London at london.gov.uk
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