Category: Poetry
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Listen to Damian Lewis Recite Shakespeare on Spotify
Shakespeare For Every Day of the Year Want to listen to Damian narrate Shakespeare right into your earbuds? You can now listen to Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year on both UK and US Spotify. Allie Esiri’s beautiful book features a perfect piece of topical Shakespeare for every day of the year, whether it…
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Helena Bonham Carter and Damian Lewis Mark National Poetry Day With Allie Esiri’s New Anthology
365 Poems for Life: An Uplifting Collection For Every Day of the Year by Katie Fraser | The Bookseller | October 5, 2023 Bluebird Books, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, will launch Allie Esiri’s 365 Poems for Life: An Uplifting Collection For Every Day of the Year, Esiri’s first anthology of poetry for adults, with…
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Damian Lewis Joins the Hay Festival 2022 Line-Up
Damian Will Read Poetry at Hay Festival 2022 by Damianista | damian-lewis.com | April 5, 2022 UPDATE May 28, 2022 – Damian is no longer part of the line-up due to conflict in scheduling. The Hay Festival is coming back as an in-person event for the first time in three years! This is the 35th…
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A Poet for Every Day of the Year Live Broadcast
National Theatre Talks by National Theatre | YouTube | March 3, 2022 Join us to journey through a calendar year in poetry, read by actors on stage at the National Theatre. Allie Esiri and Damian Lewis were joined by friends including Simon Russell Beale, Fay Ripley, Danny Sapani and Lesley Sharp. Chris Riddell live drew…
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A Poet for Every Day of the Year Review
Ode to Helen McCrory Cuts to the Heart of the Matter by Dominic Maxwell | The Times | January 26, 2022 How would Damian Lewis, making his first stage appearance since the death of his wife Helen McCrory last April, begin an occasion dedicated to her memory? With a no-nonsense nod to the mixture of…
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Damian Lewis Reads From ‘A Poet for Every Day of the Year’ In Honor of Helen McCrory
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A Poetry Dedication to Commemorate Helen McCrory by Gingersnap | damian-lewis.com | January 25, 2022 On Tuesday, January 25, 2022 guests gathered for a live poetry reading dedicated to the late, great Helen McCrory. Allie Esiri, author of her latest installment A Poet for Every Day of the Year, curated the night’s event at the…
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A Poet for Every Day of the Year at the National Theatre
A Poetry Reading Dedicated to Helen by Staff | National Theatre | January 16, 2022 Following the success of previous poetry reading evenings at the National Theatre, Allie Esiri is back on January 25, 2022 for a fifth year with a show based on her latest anthology; A Poet for Every Day of the Year. We will…
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Damian Lewis and Helen McCrory’s Love Poetry Performance Rediscovered
Cheltenham Literature Festival Revisited by Andrew Holgate | The Sunday Times | October 9, 2021 There have been some great Cheltenham Literature Festival moments over the years – Hilary Clinton in 2017, looking back on her presidential defeat the year before; a 92-year-old David Attenborough charming the audience in 2018. But surely one of the…