Poetry Day Eve


Performance by the leading British performance poet, the rastafarian Levi Tafari.

Levi Tafari is a crucial, rhythmic, poetic consciousness raiser and rastafarian “Urban Griot” from Liverpool, England, the griot being the traditional consciousness raiser, storyteller, newscaster and political agitator. His words move to a strong reggae beat, and are lyrical, rhythmical, inspiring and often humorous. His performance work has a high profile locally, nationally and internationally, from Africa to the Caribbean and Europe to America. Levi has worked in various media - TV, radio, theatre, clubs, stage, community centres etc. and also runs creative writing workshops in schools, colleges, youth centres, prisons and libraries. His musical work is varied, ranging from working with a Ghanian drum and dance ensemble to the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and his own reggae fusion band “Ministry of Love”. He hs three collections of poetry published and features in a number of anthologies. He was the first to use the term “Duboetry”, the title of his first collection.



Poetry day

17.05 - PEN klub - the British poet Levi Tafari (see above) will participate in an ”International Meeting”, other poets will be Vojta Fabián - who will read/sing in Romany and Zbigniew Machej reading in Polish.

20.00 - The Globe Bookstore, Pštrossova 6
An English language poetry reading by noted poets Louis Armand, Věra Chase, Graeme Hetherington, Patrick Seguin, Vincent Farnsworth and others.

This will be a great event featuring a number of published poets writing in the English language who are based in the Czech Republic.

For more information about this event please contact:
Louis Armand - email: lazarus@ff.cuni.cz


Poetic Bagels
Bohemia Bagel - from 7 am - midnight. Poems in both English and Czech will be distributed to all customers in the two Bohemia Bagel outlets in Prague, Masna 2 and Ujezd 12 for the duration of Poetry Day.

Feed your soul as well as your belly!

For more information about this event please contact:
Filip Skyba - email: filip@bohemiabagel.cz