Newcastle poet Keith Armstrong recently attended the opening in the twin city of Groningen of Viva la Focus (the Dutch Mobile Film Festival), which featured a screening of the innovatory World Wide Poem. Poets from around the world were inspired by the theme "Happy Together?" and their innermost feelings, expressed in their individual poems, were captured on film to form the universal World Wide Poem.
Participating poets were as follows:
Erik Harteveld Groningen
Marco Fazzini Vicenza
Alsaddiq Alraddi Khartoum
Joey Brown Antwerp
Roel Richelieu van Londersele Gent
Nikola Madzirov Macedonia
Hanz Mirck Arnhem
Paul Casey Cork
Michael Augustin Bremen
Ashton Nichols Carlisle
Egbert Hovenkamp II Assen
Alice ter Meulen Geneva
Keith Armstrong Newcastle
Brendan Murphy Kinvara
Ingmar Heytze Utrecht
Luke Davies Los Angeles
Anna Arov Utrecht
Rense Sinkgraven Groningen
André Degen Groningen
Raymond Mannix Eureka, Australia
Lise Sinclair Fair Isle
Meindert Talma Zuidhorn
Diana Ozon Amsterdam
