James Pendle the poet
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James Pendle the poet
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I am the poet of Paddington Station. I am there most Friday mornings. For videos of performances go to https://youtube.com/@jamespendle-nv4cj?si=yCVXYfPZPN7j3s_W
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James Pendle, the Poet of Paddington Station, performs his poem Voyager 3.
James Pendle the Poet of Paddington Station recites Meantime by Carol Ann Duffy.
James Pendle the Poet of Paddington Station recites Beeny Cliff by Thomas Hardy.
James Pendle the Poet of Paddington Station recites Sea Fever by John Masefield.
John Milton: Sonnet 19. Performed at the Picturing Quakers exhibition
A Birthday by Christina Rossetti. Recited by James Pendle, the Poet of Paddington Station. I am at the station every Friday morning. #theverb #paddingtonstation #networkrail #bbclondon #thelondoner #thepoetrypharmacy #thepoetrylounge #thelondonstandard #allieesiri #christinarossetti
WB Yeats, He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven. Preformed on National Poetry Day.
It's National Poetry Day and I am flitting between Paddington Station and the BBC.
Thursday is National Poetry Day, so this week I will be in the station that day as well as for my usual shift on Friday morning. The Poet of Paddington Station - Forward Arts Foundation share.google/l6LYFgIJsB6k...
The Poet of Paddington Station - Forward Arts Foundation
James Pendle is Network Rail’s poet of Paddington Station. On National Poetry Day, James will ask customers in The Lawn...
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The County Cricket Season comes to an end this weekend. This is The Catch by Simon Armitage.
I was in Paddington Station this morning and I will be back there next Friday. The poem is Beany Cliff by Thomas Hardy.
John Milton: Sonnet 19. On going blind before he is even half-way through his life, he is angry. Then he considers that how we respond to trials may be more important than our abilities.
This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin (ammended slightly). The rendition was part of my Poetry of Hope performance at Bunkfest. People told me what they hoped for and I responded with poems. #bunkfest #chiswickbookfestival #philiplarkin #philiplarkinsociety
Yesterday I was at Bunkfest with an interactive performance: Poetry of Hope. This is an abridged version of Una Marson's poem, There Will Come A Time.
Tennyson: June Bracken and Heather.
Last night I was on a roof garden at an event put on for the charity Heropreneurs. The poem is He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by WB Yeats.
Here is Poem of the Week that I provide for the NHS Mental Health Team in which I work.
Here is a poem for Father's Day. Robert Hayden: Those Winter Sundays.
Here is another from the Hay Festival. Tonight (a fragment from a poem by Sappho) and Meeting at Night by Robert Browning.
Here is this wek's "Poem of the week", that I provide at the Community Mental Health Team where I work. "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden.
Here is another from the Hay Festival. A rendition of my poem, That Tremendous Fish.
Here is Poem of the Week: As I Walked Out One Evening by WH Auden.
I left the Hay Book Festival this morning. Time for one more poem: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by WB Yeats