Deeply affected by reports on global conflict and the on-going refugee crisis, I wrote poems, as I do. Recent calls for submissions from publishers whom recognise and support literary activism proved positive in raising awareness of this issues; keeping the issues present when the news has moved on... then a call to action from the poetry community to volunteer time, travel and poems in a ten hour poetry relay, made me feel I could offer something more than awareness; I could help to raise some funds, as part of a team of 60 poets;  helping to provide vital health care for innocent civilians caught up in the never-ending conflicts... Health & Social Care is my background. As we live in a time of austerity and many of my friends are impoverished writers and under funded health care workers and so on, I do not expect huge amounts; any gesture is welcome. And as I am not a tax-dodging millionaire, I feel I really can say `give what you can' from a position of understanding that `money's too tight to mention'. So `give what you can' if you can.

Poem-A-Thon for refugees:

Sixty Poets reading/performing 8 minutes each, in relay running from:

12 noon until 10pm (pop in and cheer us along, if you can!)

5 December 2015

Vout-O-Reenees, 30 Prescott Street, London E1 8BB

All funds raised will be through sponsorship and donations. Funds raised will go to support the work of MSF and its work in the Mediterranean.

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