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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 @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · 13h

James Pendle, the Poet of Paddington Station, performs his poem Voyager 3.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · 3d

James Pendle the Poet of Paddington Station recites Meantime by Carol Ann Duffy.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · 7d

James Pendle the Poet of Paddington Station recites Beeny Cliff by Thomas Hardy.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · 8d

James Pendle the Poet of Paddington Station recites Sea Fever by John Masefield.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · 14d

John Milton: Sonnet 19. Performed at the Picturing Quakers exhibition

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · 23d

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

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · 24d

WB Yeats, He Wishes For The Cloths of Heaven. Preformed on National Poetry Day.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · 24d

It's National Poetry Day and I am flitting between Paddington Station and the BBC.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · 24d

Oziamandes by Percy Shelley.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · 26d

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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James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · Sep 26

The County Cricket Season comes to an end this weekend. This is The Catch by Simon Armitage.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · Sep 19

I was in Paddington Station this morning and I will be back there next Friday. The poem is Beany Cliff by Thomas Hardy.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · Sep 5

Wordsworth's poem, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 2nd, 1802. #paddingtonstation #networkrail #thelondoner #bbclondon #bbcupload #poetryinaldeburgh #theverb #poetrypharmacy #thelondonstandard #allieesiri #williamwordsworth #williamwordsworthpoetry

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · Sep 4

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.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · Sep 1

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.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · Aug 20

Tennyson: June Bracken and Heather.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · Jun 27

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.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · Jun 17

Here is Poem of the Week that I provide for the NHS Mental Health Team in which I work.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · Jun 16

Here is a poem for Father's Day. Robert Hayden: Those Winter Sundays.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · Jun 10

Here is another from the Hay Festival. Tonight (a fragment from a poem by Sappho) and Meeting at Night by Robert Browning.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · Jun 9

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.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · Jun 5

Here is another from the Hay Festival. A rendition of my poem, That Tremendous Fish.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · Jun 3

Here is Poem of the Week: As I Walked Out One Evening by WH Auden.

James Pendle the poet @jamespendlepoet.bsky.social · Jun 1

I left the Hay Book Festival this morning. Time for one more poem: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by WB Yeats