PERFORMANCE WALKS
Since launching at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival Jan Noble has taken his poetic monologue MY NAME IS SWAN along the far reaches of the Thames from Wapping to Oxford reading in every ‘swan’ pub along the way. Developed as a dynamic, twenty minute piece of pop-up theatre, MY NAME IS SWAN has been performed at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, The Bowery Poetry Club, New York and at the Turner Contemporary, Margate.
Five pubs. Four walks. One poem.
“To coincide with the publication of MY NAME IS SWAN I’m going on a series of walks between Swan pubs throughout October. MEET ME AT THE SWAN is a nod to Keats, ‘the vulgar cockney’ born above The Swan and Hoop pub, an old coaching house, a meeting place, a third space where journeys end and where poetry begins. We start in the East End, on the fringes of the city and walk toward respectability, to the heart of literary London in Bloomsbury…”
MEET ME AT THE SWAN
03 OCT, 5PM
Meet at The White Swan, Aldgate
Walking to The Swan Tavern in the City
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10 OCT, 5PM
Meet at The Swan Tavern in the City
Walking to The Swan
by Shakespeare’s Globe
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24 OCT, 5PM
Meet at The Swan
by Shakespeare’s Globe
Walking to The Wild Swan, Fetter Lane
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31 OCT, 12PM
Meeting at midday at the birthplace of John Keats
The Swan and Hoop (now the Globe, Moorgate)
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John Donne
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Charles Dickens
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Dr Johnson
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The Wild Swan, Fetter Lane
Walking to The Swan
in Bloomsbury
A poetic pilgrimage. An urban odyssey. Following the Swan.
“An unforgettable experience”
John Schaefer, WNYC