The Itinerant Poetry Library

Since May 2006, The Itinerant Poetry Librarian has been travelling the world with a library of ‘Lost & Forgotten’ poetry, installing the library & librarian and archiving the sounds, poems and poetry of the cities, peoples and countries she meets. Welcome to the project's blog . . . Our Itinerant Poetry Librarian lives wherever her library is - come join the cause!

FAQs: • Yes we carry our entire life and the library with us as we go • Yes, it is quite heavy • No, we're not mad. As Charles Simic said, 'But what if poets are not crazy?' That's the spirit boyo!

We exist to: remind people of the importance of free public libraries...subvert mainstream channels of distribution...remind people that access to knowledge should be free and not dependent upon economic wealth hierarchies... show people that poetry/art can provide answers to questions we ask of life...experiment in existing outside of 'the market' – thereby, instead, investing in social capital, social innovation and community.

We aim to make life taste better. Word.

Where have we been . . . ?

(2006) Amsterdam, Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Munich, Paris, Barcelona, London, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Norwich, York, Antwerp, (2007-2008) San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Leipzig, (2009) Ulm, Chemnitz, Rotterdam, Huntingdon, Callander, (2010) Cork, St. Andrews . . . Where'd you like us to go? Can you help? Get in touch!

What We Are Up To Right Now . . .

Archive

Sunday 16 July 2006

Michael Palin in leather . . . making the magic number 100 new library members . . . It’s Whack dudes!

So . . . can things get any more WHACK. We don’t know. Quite probably. But in the meantime, we hitched on in to a Budapest fashion show and caught Michael Palin in a leather suit. He looked quite sweaty. Even more so than our poor librarian gets sometimes in her wool suit. The shirt just got a wash though, courtesy of our wonderful Budapest couchsurfing host Kriszta . . . so we’re not entirely skank. Yet. And guess what? As of Friday July 13th we signed up our one hundredth member to The Poetry Cubicle Library. Wooooooooooohhhhhhhhooooooooooo. Budapest takes the crown. 28 new members in a week. And on that note, we are off to P-A-R-T-Y. Somewhere outta Budapest with water and beach. At Midnight. ROCK. In the meantime, you can check out how we confused Michael with some poetry thoughts in the audio clip below, and take a look at the er, delightful model shots below. We also had the rockabilly Bianca take a snap of Michael Palin holding up our library and archive and open sign which we will post soon too . . . Plus, here is the info for where we are stationed with the library next week in Budapest: Tuesday July 18th, Kultiplex, Kinizsi utca 28, 1092 Budapest, from 6pm - 10pm. Wednesday July 19th, West Balkan, Kisfaludy utca 36, from 5pm - 10pm. Thursday July 20th, Bookstation, Thököly Utca 18, from noon - 5pm and then Kuplung, Kiraly Utca 46, from 7pm - 11pm. Come on down and get us over the hundred mark baby! P.S. The Guardian newspaper also did us a favour and gave us a plug today . . . hurray! Our daily 70p we spent EVERY day for the last year since we couldn’t get student discount vouchers anymore finally pays off!



One model . . .





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Five model . . .





Six model, seven model . . . score!





Three photographers in a row. Quite sweet really, from a distance at least . . .





Photographer Bianca who later helped us snap Michael Palin. Thanks dude!



How to confuse Michael Palin at a fashion show in Budapest by talking about poetry . . .





We hit the magic one hundredth Poetry Cubicle Library member. Yeeeeeeeehahahahahahahahahahaha.

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