Grenfell, forever in our hearts

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I am a sound artist and I live in UK. I am the founder of the Poetry Sound Library, an archive that preserves the voices of poets from past and present. I research ways to link poetry to the landscape. My sound walks are in UK and around the world. Among my projects there is "Voice of Trees, a sound walk to discover the voices of the most important poets from the Poetry Sound Library: monumental trees or parks receive a poet's voice and they become part of an inspiring sound installation. Website & Info: https://thevoiceoftrees.weebly.com/ https://poetrysoundlibrary.weebly.com/

A sound installation in memory of the victims of Grenfell with the voices of the poets from the anthology: "Poems for Grenfell Tower" (The Onslaught Press). I would like to thank all the poets who sent their voice for the installation, Matthew Staunton and Rip Bulkeley for their support with the project.

Thomas McColl

Mike Jenkins

Al McClimens

Emma Lee

John Lindley

David Keyworth

Rona Fitzgerald

If music could heal- music tribute by Notturno Concertante

In memory of Khadija Saye- BBC interview

In memory of Marco and Gloria - Video poetry "Risorgive", Massimo Parolini

Richard Carpenter

Tom Phillips

Peter A.

Neil Reeder

Ricky Nuttall

Adele Cordner

Alemu Tebeje Ayele

Thomas McColl

Thomas McColl lives in East London. His latest collection is Grenade Genie, published by Fly on the Wall Press, and his poem, The Bunker, was included in the anthology, Poems for Grenfell Tower, which was published by The Onslaught Press.

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Mike Jenkins

This is title poem of my collection in Merthyr dialect with artist Alan Perry from Swansea, published by Culture Matters.

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Al McClimens

Al McClimens is an unemployed chancer and will work for food. Please give generously.

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Emma Lee

Emma Lee’s publications include “The Significance of a Dress” (Arachne, 2020) and "Ghosts in the Desert" (IDP, 2015). She co-edited “Over Land, Over Sea,” (Five Leaves, 2015), is Poetry Reviews Editor for The Blue Nib, reviews for magazines and blogs at http://emmalee1.wordpress.com.

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John Lindley

John Lindley is a freelance poet, songwriter and creative writing tutor. An experienced performer, he has read at Ledbury Poetry Festival and at the Buxton and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals. He runs workshops for writers' groups, festivals and in prisons, schools, universities, day care centres and for those with learning difficulties. Widely published and a prizewinner in a number of international competitions, his poetry has also been broadcast on radio. A CD of his songs, Wasteland, was released in March 2018. His tenth and prizewinning collection of poetry, Love & Crossbones, was launched later that year.

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David Keyworth

David has been published in Orbis, South Bank Poetry and elsewhere. In 2012 he won the poetry category in Salford University’s WriteNorthWest competition and in 2013 a Northern Writers’ Awards (New Writing North). His debut pamphlet, The Twilight Shift, is published by Wild Pressed http://www.wildpressedbooks.com/david-keyworth.html

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Rona Fitzgerald

Rona Fitzgerald was born in Dublin and now lives in Glasgow. Her poetry is published in UK, Scottish, Irish and US, in print and online

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If music could heal

Music by Notturno Concertante donated to this project by Lucio Lazzaruolo

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In memory of Khadija Saye

Owen Jones meets David Lammy Khadija Saye tragically lost her life in the Grenfell Tower fire at the age of just 24. In this interview filmed a month beforehand, she talks about her ambitions and her photography exhibition in Venice.

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In memory of Khadija Saye

Khadija Saye tragically lost her life in the Grenfell Tower fire at the age of just 24. In this interview filmed a month beforehand, she talks about her ambitions and her photography exhibition in Venice. (The footage is taken from the BBC Arts programme Venice Biennale: Britain's New Voices. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b094f49n)

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In memory of Marco and Gloria

Risorgive - In ricordo di Marco e Gloria Grenfell Tower, Londra, 14 giugno 2017

--- Progetto: Giannino Gottardi e Daniela Burigotto

Testo poetico: "Risorgive", Massimo Parolini

Voce: Maria Cristina Leardini

Musica: "Ode Marittima", Tajàf Ensemble Jacopo Arrigotti (mandolino), Tommaso Luison (violino), Andrea Cattani (chitarra), Francesco Piovan (contrabbasso), Alessandro Piovan (batteria e percussioni)

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Richard Carpenter

Richard Carpenter is a retired GP who lives in York. He is a member of York Stanza.

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Tom Phillips

Tom Phillips is a poet, playwright and translator now living in Sofia, Bulgaria, after spending many years in Bristol. His poetry has been published in a wide range of magazines, anthologies and pamphlets, as well as in the full-length collections 'Unknown Translations' (Scalino, 2016), 'Recreation Ground' (TRP, 2012) and 'Burning Omaha' (Firewater, 2002).

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Peter A.

Peter A’s poetry has been published online, in film poems and paper publications including 'Laldy', 'Spindrift', 'Poems for Grenfell Tower', 'A Kist of Thistles' and both Dove Tales Scotland anthologies, 'A Kind of Stupidity' and 'Bridges or Walls'. His first collection 'Art of Insomnia' will be published late 2020

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Neil Reeder

Neil works as a researcher on public services. His poems have been published in various magazines.

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Ricky Nuttall

I was one of the many firefighter's that attended that fateful night. I wrote this poem 2 weeks afterwards, to encapsulate how utterly heartbroken I was. RIEP #foreverinourhearts #nojusticenopeace

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Adele Cordner

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Alemu Tebeje Ayele

Alemu Tebeje Ayele is an Ethiopian exile journalist, poet, lyric writer, community activist and website campaigner based in London. He studied Ethiopian Languages and Literature, and Journalism at the universities of Addis Ababa and Wales respectively. He was also awarded a Diploma in Education and Training at the University of Westminster. His poems have been published in two anthologies ‘’Forever Spoken’’ and ‘’No Serenity Here’’, and other online and print literary magazines including Modern Poetry In Translation and The Missing Slate. His poem 'Greetings to the people of Europe!' was projected on public buildings in Denmark, Italy, USA and UK by Jenny Holzer in 2017. His first bilingual collection of poems, Greetings to the People of Europe, was published by Tamrat Books in 2018 and includes the script of a sketch commissioned by BBC Radio 4 for a migrant re-imagining of Homer's Odyssey, My Name is Nobody. He also recently co-translated and co-edited the very first anthology of Ethiopian poetry in English, entitled "Songs We Learn from Trees: An Anthology of Ethiopian Amharic Poetry".

He co-admins a website, www.debteraw.com, named after one of the Ethiopian literary giants, Tsegaye Gebre Medhin Lucha (a.k.a. Debteraw). Debteraw was a founding member of the EPRP, former leader of the Ethiopian Student Movement, poet and Amharic language expert. Debteraw fell into the hands of the current regime in June 1991 and was killed later on.

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