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'The Impressionists' into Spanish and on video

Having been dropped along with tens of thousands of others from a helicopter onto London's Jubilee Gardens about two months ago, one of the bookmarks with my poem 'The Impressionists' flew through my letterbox last week. It was great to get it - and to read its translation into Spanish done specifically for the Rain of Poems installation by Marcelo Pellegrini. Here's a rough image of it:


And here's a video of me reading the original poem, made at the Poetry Library one rough morning during Poetry Parnassus:

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Anonymous said…
Quite a surprise to have found this. Cheers.

Marcelo Pellegrini
19 September 2012 at 22:37
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