For the next three days you can see members of Leeds Survivors Poetry featuring in last Sunday’s Songs of Praise.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04g4q44/songs-of-praise-carnival-and-culture
In its 20 year history Leeds Survivor Poets haven’t made TV very often. There was the Poetry World Cup in 1998 which merited a mention on Calendar. (We were runners up and got the Poetry Saucer, after I couldn’t find a rhyme for ‘orange’ in a poetry shoot out). But last Sunday we got a whole 3 minutes on Beeb 1 as they had a special programme from Leeds. They featured various Leeds religious folk and the things they get up, including Leeds Carnival, hip-hop, photography, and they followed the lovely Sue Matthews, one of LSP’s regular members, as she came to one of our workshops at the Civic Hall.
Here’s Sue at a previous workshop, and (below) at one of the group’s readings in Kirkgate Market a couple of years ago.
LSP continues to meet every first and third Friday evening at the Civic Hall, 5.45 to 7.45, next meeting on Friday 5th September.
Our bit of the Songs of Praise programme comes after 24 mins 30 seconds.
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Nice post and link to BBC replay, will be sure to watch all. Enjoyed clip with Sue Matthews of Leeds Survivors talking about poetry’s positive aid for her wellbeing. I recognised at least one other poet Wellbeing webber! Thanks for the details of the next meeting.
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Brilliant!
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