{"id":402,"date":"2009-05-21T23:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T23:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=402"},"modified":"2013-11-16T01:38:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T01:38:15","slug":"21-may-09-launch-of-city-state-new-london-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/05\/21-may-09-launch-of-city-state-new-london-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Launch: City State: New London Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 21 May 2009<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebellpub.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bell<\/a> (formerly The Market Trader)<br \/>\n50 Middlesex Street<br \/>\nLondon E1 7EX <a href=\"#map\">Map<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8pm,   readings from 8.30pm<\/p>\n<p>Join us to celebrate the launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=40\">City State: New London Poetry<\/a> with readings by the poets and the opportunity to buy the book. Free entry. All welcome.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/images\/citystate_cover.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"236\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" \/>Readers on the night:<\/p>\n<p>Amy Key<br \/>\nJacob Sam-La Rose<br \/>\nJon Stone<br \/>\nJow Lindsay<br \/>\nKirsten Irving<br \/>\nAshna Sarkar<br \/>\nChris Horton<br \/>\nWayne Holloway-Smith<br \/>\nLaura Forman<br \/>\nChris McCabe<br \/>\nSiddhartha Bose<br \/>\n<strong><em>City State<\/em> showcases the work of twenty-seven London writers between the ages of 16 and 36. From hyperlinked walks of Battersea bombsites and guerilla gardening projects to jagged urban lyrics and dark hymns to the East End,   <em>City State<\/em> presents a confident, entertaining and truly diverse snapshot of the best new poetry from London.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nJay Bernard, Caroline Bird, Ben Borek, Siddhartha Bose, Tom Chivers, Swithun Cooper, Alex Davies, Inua Ellams, Laura Forman, Christopher Horton, Wayne Holloway-Smith,\u00a0Kirsten Irving, Annie Katchinska, Amy Key, Chris McCabe, Marianne Munk, Holly Pester, Heather Phillipson, Nick Potamitis, Imogen Robertson, Jacob Sam La Rose, Ashna Sarkar, Jon Stone, Barnaby Tidman, Ahren Warner, James Wilkes, Steve Willey<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"map\"><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=embed&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=50+Middlesex+St,+Tower+Hamlets,+London,+UK&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=35.494074,78.75&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=51.517422,-0.077248&amp;spn=0.008012,0.012875&amp;z=15&amp;iwloc=A\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 21 May 2009 The Bell (formerly The Market Trader) 50 Middlesex Street London E1 7EX Map 8pm, readings from 8.30pm Join us to celebrate the launch of City State: New London Poetry with readings by the poets and the opportunity to buy the book. Free entry. All welcome. Readers on the night: Amy Key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}