No-one is an Island

St Martin within Ludgate, 40 Ludgate Hill, London
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This event ended on Friday 23rd of November 2018
Admission
£20/15 conc. (booking fee applies for tickets bought online or by phoning the Poetry Book Society on 0191 230 8100). Tickets will also be on the door, subject to availability.
Location

St Martin within Ludgate, 40 Ludgate Hill, London

Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
City Thameslink 0.08 miles

Sensual, god-fearing, terrifying, uplifting, joyous – poems and music that speak to our essential human connection in these fractious and turbulent times. A collage of 17th-century and contemporary poems and music at St Martin within Ludgate, a beautiful and resonant Wren church.

Poems read by
Raymond Antrobus, David Harsent, Guest reader at large

Music performed by
Holly Cullen-Davies & Live Junction

Devised & directed by
Ian Grant

Produced by
Amy Liette Hunter

Fractious ‘othering’ – Brexit, Trump, fences and closed ports at the borders of Europe, and the rest – poisons our world. In 1624 John Donne preached that ‘No man is an island’. In a collage of 17th-century and contemporary poems and music, No-one is an Island expresses joy, sorrow, pride, anxiety and passion in an aural performance of our emotional connection with each other.

The performance takes place at St Martin within Ludgate, Ludgate Hill, London. Built in 1677-84 by Sir Christopher Wren, as St Paul’s Cathedral was under construction 200 yards up the street, St Martin within Ludgate is a darkly atmospheric neo-classical masterpiece of form, a resonant stage for the poetry and music of the time and the times we share today.

The work is a co-production between The Poetry Book Society, the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspapermakers and Time Productions.

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