Month: <span>February 2016</span>

you are invited to a gathering being held here
in Bristol on Saturday 5th March

part of a worldwide network of poetry readings remembering the
bombing, on that same day in 2007,
of Baghdad’s “street of the booksellers”
if you would like more background information,
read this short article in The Economist
see this visual article in The Guardian

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please contact me if you would like to join us

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I have pleasure in sharing this work by my friend & poet Beau Beausoleil,
founder of Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here

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I am listening
 to your disappearance
 I go back into the room
 and turn the radio down
 I have to cover each sentence as I read it 

Beau Beausoleil

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do contact me if you would like to join us

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