{"id":516,"date":"2009-07-11T19:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=516"},"modified":"2013-11-16T01:36:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T01:36:12","slug":"11-july-09-ealing-literature-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/07\/11-july-09-ealing-literature-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Patience Agbabi, Inua Ellams &#038; Siddhartha Bose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 11 July 2009, 6-7pm<br \/>\nActon Carnival, Acton Park<br \/>\nfor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ealing.gov.uk\/services\/leisure\/ealing_summer\/literary.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ealing Literature Festival<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/mag\/2007\/06\/24\/images\/2007062450090501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Patience Agbabi<\/strong><br \/>\nPatience Agbabi is an acclaimed\u00a0poet, performer and workshop facilitator. She was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents and spent her teenage years living in North Wales. She was educated at Oxford University and has appeared at numerous diverse venues in the UK and abroad. Her most recent collection is <em>Bloodshot Monochrome<\/em> (Canongate, 2008).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Siddhartha Bose<\/strong><br \/>\nSiddhartha Bose is a poet and performer based in London.\u00a0He grew up in India, followed by a seven year stint in the USA.\u00a0His poetry\u00a0has been selected for the anthologies <em>City State: New London Poetry<\/em> (Penned in the Margins, 2009) and <em>Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century<\/em> (Bloodaxe, 2009). His\u00a0lyrical style merges storytelling with performance poetry, blending \u2018n&#8217; currying influences from free jazz to Shakespeare.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inua Ellams<\/strong><br \/>\nInua Ellams is a poet, performer and graphic artist. His debut book is <em>Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales<\/em> (Flipped Eye, 2005) and he is also published in <em>Generation Txt<\/em> (Penned in the Margins, 2006) and <em>City State: New London Poetry<\/em> (Penned in the Margins, 2009). He is currently touring his acclaimed one-man show, <em>The 14th Tale<\/em> after its sell-out run at London Word Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 11 July 2009, 6-7pm Acton Carnival, Acton Park for Ealing Literature Festival Patience Agbabi Patience Agbabi is an acclaimed\u00a0poet, performer and workshop facilitator. She was born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents and spent her teenage years living in North Wales. She was educated at Oxford University and has appeared at numerous diverse [&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\/516"}],"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=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}