Thu 5 Jun 2008
7pm till 8.30pm, FREE
Starbooks
45 West St
Old Market
Bristol BS2 OBZ
0117 933 0900
www.poetrycan.co.uk
Description: Open mike and forum for poetry hosted by Baljinder Bhopal. Guest poet Jenny Davis. Please come along to share your views as well as your poetry in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere.Expect lively discussions and scintilating performances.
Bristol Black Writers is supporting this event to encourage Black and Asian Writing - ALL WELCOME.
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Bristol: Easton Can Openers
CROYDON: Apples and Snakes presents Ignite: Poetry and Music
Apples & Snakes presents
ignite: POETRY & MUSIC
Croydon Clocktower
Saturday 31 May 8pm
Join energetic, entertaining and inspiring rapper BREIS as he hosts ignite, an evening of stunning poetry and music to thrill your senses. With jaw dropping performances from:
the queen of performance poetry Francesca Beard
breath-taking poet & beatboxer John Berkavitch
soulful chanteuse Kim Sutherland
soul-touching poet Kayo Chingonyi
effervescent rapper Lyric L
Plus previously unheard work written and performed by young people following a series of workshops, led by BREIS and Francesca Beard.
A night of great entertainment and excellent company.
Tickets: £5 / £3 (under 21s)
Booking: 020 8253 1030
Croydon Clocktower, Katharine St, Croydon CR9 1ET
PROGRAM ORGANIZED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CLOCKTOWER ARTS AMBASSADORS
GLASGOW: Last Monday at Rio
Last Monday at Rio
The Rio Cafe, Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11
Monday May 26, 8pm - 10pm-ish
Admission Free
Spoken word cabaret night at Partick`s own wee retro formica museum.
Headline act is "The Chemical Poets"
A fiery trio of hip-strophe speed-ranters operating out of Embra.
Bram is fast, Tickle is furious and Harlequinade is ... well .. fizzy!
Experienced slam-burglars they will be confining their act this night to the subjects of love, sex, drugs, life and music.
The first hour of the evening is open mic. Let's be having youse! Robin Cairns is your compere.
Anyone minded to bring their guff and strut their stuff should contact robin.cairns at btconnect dot com
BIRMINGHAM: Sunday Xpress
Wrote Under Publishing are pleased to announce that The Sunday Xpress Open Mic is still growing strong and now relocated to the Adam and Eve pub in Digbeth. This new location boasts more seats, excellent sound and a cleaner yet still homely and friendly atmosphere. Now on every third Sunday of the month (dates below) the show usually starts around half 3 or 4pm and continues til late, where it changes into an open jam organised by Tony from Loop Promotions.
The Sunday Xpress is still compered by Big Brendan Higgins, and still has the regular faces offering their wares, from poetry from Jimmy Fantastik, Louis Campbell, Paul Rafferty Sam Hunt and Marcus Zodiac to impressive monologues from Frankie Lassut, Louise Stokes and Bom and his Magic Drumstick, and now impressive storytelling from Mat Joiner and Pollie Gilbert. The Sunday Xpress prides itself on its ability to change and move with the times (!) as well as a dazzling array of singer/songwriters we now have impressive fusions of poetry and tapes from Lizzy Piffany and regular staccato bursts of electronic dance racket from DJ Space.
Yet with all this, The Sunday Xpress is primarily an open mic event, and its new performers and interested public that keep it going and keeps the word spread around. So if you want to spend your third Sunday of the month in a relaxed atmosphere and share your work with us, then please do!
Entry is free, there is the occasional raffle, and you also have the chance to eat the free roast potatoes that have been lovingly cooked for you.
Dates for this year are:
15th June
20th July
17th August
21st September
19th October
16th November
for more information go to www.myspace.com/wroteunder
or contact cowcud2001 at yahoo dot co dot uk
Opportunity for Performers
Thought this may be of interest to poetry performers out there!
Each commission is worth £1000. In addition all our commissioned artists will receive a weekend pass for themselves and a guest plus camping space in the artist field and travel expenses to and from the festival. You'll also receive a stand-alone video of your commissioned festival performance for you to use in your own promotional activity after the festival and the chance to workshop their material at a creative sharing day, facilitated by Stuart Silver, one half of Perrier Award winners, Noble and Silver. The artists we commission will be asked to create at least 15 minutes of new material, and be given the opportunity to perform it at least once at the festival.
We hope that these commissions will be provide a real professional development opportunity for the artists we select. One of Phrased & Confused’s primary aims is to develop audiences for spoken word, and we anticipate that around 2000 people – most of them new to spoken word - will visit the tent during the Festival. As such, the commissions will open up a whole new audience to our commissioned artists.
We’re hoping to get the word out about these commissions to as many interested people as possible – both artists themselves and other individuals who can maybe pass this information on to artists in their networks. Hopefully, you’re one such person, and can either make use of this information yourself, or forward it to artists you know.
The deadline for applications is the 11th June 2008 and you can find out more by either visiting our website
Bath: Valerie Bloom
Wed 4 Jun 2008
1.30pm and 5.00pm, £5 / £7
The Egg
Theatre Royal Bath
Sawclose Bath
BA1 1ET
www.theatreroyal.org.uk
Box office: 01225 448844 / 01225 823409
Come, Me Pickney!
A new performance by Valerie Bloom for children aged 7+.
Acclaimed children’s author, Valerie Bloom, will be performing a brand new short story, interspersed with poems and Jamaican folk songs, set to a specially commissioned soundscape and theatrical lighting at the egg, Theatre Royal Bath. Enter 10-year-old Joe’s world of football and looking cool in front of his friends. When his gran comes to visit from Jamaica he is expecting a sweet old lady and not the feisty woman who insists on walking him to school and kissing him in public! But Joe’s gran has a wealth of stories, songs and poems to share. From helping with impossible maths homework to transforming the most mundane household chores into lots of fun, Joe’s gran is a rapping, singing, modern Mary Poppins in jeans and a T-shirt. Forget a spoon full of sugar and think ripe bananas and fresh callaloo, jerk chicken and rice an’ peas. This show bursts with fun and flavour. Valerie Bloom is one of the best contemporary authors for children. A superb writer on the page and a brilliant performer on stage, you will find yourself joining in her poems and songs. She brings literature to life. Valerie will sign copies of her books after the event.
Valerie Bloom is a fine, fine poet and a wonderful storyteller - Michael Morpurgo.
A Valerie Bloom reading is an uplifting experience - Poetry Archive
Valerie Bloom grew up in Jamaica and came to England in 1979. She was awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list for her services to poetry. Her nine collections include Whoop n’ Shout, Hot Like Fire, and Let Me Touch the Sky. Her most recent novel published in 2007 is The Tribe.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
GLASGOW: Seeds Of Thought
Seeds Of Thought Urban Poetry Group
Sunday 25th May, 1-4pmCelebrating Africa Day, with song, spoken word and music.
Moyo Chirandu brothers Tawona and Ernest contribute with an interactive session of spoken word and mbira music.
Also featuring Ayawara, Bassa Beat and Bright Star.
Websites: http://www.geocities.com/seeds_ofthought/events1.html
www.geocities.com/seeds_ofthought
Free entry for the whole family
Edinburgh: Shore Poets
Sunday 25th May, 7.45pm
Alan Gillis, Ken Cockburn, Stephanie Green
Mai Thai cafe bar, The Tun, 111 Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8AE
(down the lane from the Scottish Poetry Library)
(down the lane from the Scottish Poetry Library)
Website: www.shorepoets.org.uk
£3/£2
Monday, May 19, 2008
Frome Poetry Cafe
Mon 2 Jun 2008
Start time: 7pm for 7.30pm, £1.50
Address: Garden Cafe
Stony Street, Frome
Somerset, BA11 1BU
Email: crysse@cryssemorrison.co.uk
"Love in a Warm Climate"
Bristol bard David Johnson is our featured guest, reading from his new poetry collection Bombazine. Bring your words of longings, lusts, and sustainable futures.
Apples and Snakes in Soho
APPLES & SNAKES IN SOHO
Poetry and spoken word for the 21st century
Soho Theatre
Wednesday 28 May
8pm
A decade is a long time in performance poetry. Tonight we present one performer who's going from strength to strength after ten years in the business, another who's spent the last ten years carving a substantial niche for himself, and one talented newcomer with a promising poetic future in front of him. Add an international artist who's busy redefining the whole concept of spoken word, and we've got a crash course in the nation's favourite underground artform.
Featuring
Patience Agbabi tattooed poetry ambassador who has strutted her stuff everywhere from Eton College to Namibia; now promoting her new collection Bloodshot Monochrome.
Luke Wright Edinburgh Fringe institution, star of the hit theatre show Poet & Man, and the creative force behind Latitude Festival's stand-up poetry arena.
Keith Jarrett not the famous jazz muso, but a hotly-tipped and charismatic new face on London's poetry stages.
plus special guest
Rosie Dennis well-respected Sydney voice-artist, known for blurring the lines between text and movement; tonight airing her Love Song Dedication piece.
Come along and explore the world of performance poetry: the scene where every syllable takes you closer to perfection.
Where: Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, London W1D 3NE
Tickets: £8 / £6 concs
Book: 0870 429 6883 / www.sohotheatre.com
Info: www.applesandsnakes.org / www.myspace.com/applesandsnakespoetry
IRELAND: Over The Edge Open Reading
Dennis O’Driscoll reads at final Over The Edge: Open Reading before summer break.
The May Over The Edge: Open Reading takes place in Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday, May 29th, 6.30-8pm. The Featured Readers are Michael S. Begnal, Deirdre Kearney & Dennis O’Driscoll.
Michael S. Begnal is a dual Irish/American citizen, born in the United States in 1966. He spent many years living in Ireland, and was editor of the Galway-based literary magazine, The Burning Bush. He returned to live in the US in 2004. His first collection of poems, The Lakes of Coma (Six Gallery Press), was published in 2003. His work has appeared in numerous journals and in the anthology Breaking the Skin: New Irish Poetry (Black Mountain Press). His Irish-language writing has been published in Comhar, Lá, and the Go nuige seo anthologies (Coiscéim). His second collection of poems, Ancestor Worship, was published by Salmon Poetry last year.
Deirdre Kearney is originally from Omagh, County Tyrone, but has lived in Galway since 1983. She is a participant in the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre. Her poems have been published in West 47, Cúirt New Writing 2007, The Ulster Herald, Crannóg, Words on the Web, Tinteán, Australian-Irish Magazine- Treóir, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann magazine, the Over the Edge website & Galway Exposed. She has previously read her work at the Over the Edge Open-Mic, Westside Library, The Galway Arts Centre Nuns’ Island Studio, the Poets for Oxfam launch in Galway in 2006 and North Beach Poetry Nights.
Dennis O’Driscoll was born in Thurles in 1954. His eight poetry collections include Weather Permitting (Anvil Press, 1999), which was a Poetry Books Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Prize, Exemplary Damages (2002) and New and Selected Poems (2004). His most recent collection, Reality Check (2007) was also shortlisted for the Irish Times/Poetry Now Prize. A selection of his essays and reviews, Troubled Thoughts, Majestic Dreams was published by Gallery Press in 2001. He is editor of the Bloodaxe Book of Poetry Quotations (2006). His next book, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney will be published by Faber and Faber in November. He is a member of Aosdána. He has worked as a civil servant since the age of sixteen.
As usual there will be an open-mic when the Featured Readers have finished. This is open to anyone who has a poem or story to share. New readers are always especially welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-63431748.
LONDON: Katabasis Poets
Friday 23rd May 2008 at 7.00
Katabasis Presents:
Dinah Livingstone (Editor of Katabasis)
and Katabasis Poets Adele David, Cicely Herbert, Kathleen McPhilemy, and Dilys Wood
Poets from the floor very welcome
(please bring two copies of the poem if you wish to be considered for the bluechrome anthology. There are at least 10 major poets who will also be contributing to the anthology inc. UA Fanthorpe, Fiona Sampson, Marilyn Hacker , Penelope Shuttle, Peter Porter to name but a few.)
Trinity United Reform Church
1 Buck St, Camden Town
(2 minutes Camden Town tube.)
Entry £4/£3
Wine
Proceeds to COLD WEATHER SHELTER
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Apples & Snakes: Valerie Bloom
Come, me pickney!
Thursday 29 May@ 3pm
Nordern Farm Centre for the Arts,
www.nordenfarm.org
Sunday 1 June @ 3pm
Warwick Arts Centre,
www.warwickartscentre.co.uk
Gather round children, listen up. Valerie Bloom has a story to tell you. Valerie Bloom is an award winning poet and author for children and a fantastic performer of her work. She will delight you with her stories and you will find yourself singing along to her poems in this brand new performance that showcases her writing, set to a specially commissioned soundscape with theatrical lighting. This is an uplifting and unique performance from one of the best contemporary writer's for children.
WARWICK: Apples & Snakes - Zena Edwards
19th May 2008, 7.45pm
Warwick Arts Centre
Book: 020 7223 2223 / www.warwickartscentre.co.uk
SECURITY
Written and performed by Zena Edwards
Set within the beating heart of London, the chaotic stories of five characters in crisis are exposed through the eye of a camera. What happens when one generation collides with another and cultural expectations clash? Does the flash of a blade in broad daylight mean the end or the beginning of security? Find out when age and youth battle as Palestine meets Peckham. This comical and moving tale of unexpected friendship confronts the issues of security and identity through a fusion of performance poetry, theatre, movement and song.
Security is a newly commissioned piece pioneering the crossover of performance poetry into theatre in the UK. As performer and writer, Zena Edwards, takes storytelling into the twenty-first century.
Zena Edwards is a mesmerizing performer of deeply lyrical, musical, streetwise poetry. The Verb - BBC Radio 3
BRISTOL: Rosie Dennis Performance Workshop
Monday 19th May, 2008, 6.00pm
Price: £8.00/£6.00 concs.
Arnolfini
Narrow Quay
Bristol
A workshop for professional and semi-professional live art practitioners focusing on improvisational structures and techniques to generate material and shape movement-based work and/or spoken word performances.
For further information: Tim Harrison on tim.harrison@arnolfini.org.uk.
Box office and general enquiries: 0117 917 2300
NORWICH: The Monday Night Alternative
NORWICH: The Monday Night Alternative, featuring Dockers MC & MC Angel & compere Tim Clare
Monday, 19th May, 2008, 8:00pm to 11:00pm
Live poetry, stand-up poetry, performance poetry, spoken word. Call it what you like but it’s taking off across the UK, and Norwich is a hot-bed for live literature. The Monday Night Alternative is a new spoken word club hosted by Channel 4’s Tim Clare. As part of The Poetry Link, a regional touring network, The Monday Night Alternative brings you the very best poets and performers on the UK scene. Our May line-up features verbal architect and Kate Nash support act Dockers MC, with the fresh lyrical stylings and wicked sense of humour of MC Angel.
Norwich Arts Centre, St Benedicts Street, Norwich, NR2 4PG; tel: 01603 660 352
£4 advance, £5 door, seated.
BRISTOL: Acoustic Night
Monday, 19th May 2008, 8.00pm
Halo Cafe/Bar
141 Gloucester Rd
Bishopston, Bristol
Accessibility: a few steps
Website: http://www.myspace.com/acousticnightbristol
Tel: Andi 07900 432533
Fortnightly open mic night for poets and musicians with guest Georgina Banfield - surreal, discriptive yet searingly human poet from London. Sign up to perform from 7.45 pm.
Admission: Free (donations welcome)
Saturday, May 17, 2008
LONDON: Hearing Eye Readings
Sunday, 18th May 2008, 7.30pm, £5/£4/£3/£2 (according to pocket).
Racker Donnelly, Peter Pagnell with the ‘bight scarf of Richmond’
Torriano Meeting House
99 Torriano Avenue,
London
NW5 2RX
Nearest tube: Kentish Town
Tel: 020 7267 2751
Poets from the floor welcome. Wheelchair access.
SOUTHEND: The Poetry Link
Sunday, 18th May, 2008, 6:30pm to 10:30pm
Sundown @ The Royal Hotel Ballroom, Southend
The Sundown team present Southend’s May edition of The Poetry Link. Featuring MC Angel and Dockers MC and local support (tbc).
£3
Visit Sundown
Exeter: Uncut Poets
Thu 29 May 2008
7.30 pm, £5/£3 concessions
Black Box, Media Centre,
Exeter Phoenix,
Gandy Street,
Exeter
Box Office: 01392 667080
Uncut Poets' guest poet will be Peter Robinson. Plus Open Mike. Anyone wishing to book an open-mike slot, call James Bell on 07879 888319.
Fully accessible venue.
Friday, May 16, 2008
NEWCASTLE: Ruth Padel reading
Friday, May 30th, 2008, 7:00pm
Culture Lab
Grand Assembly Rooms
King's Walk
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
At this final event of the Bloodaxe Poetry Lecture series, Ruth Padel will read from her work which has been described as "approachable, contemporary, cool poems, magnificently varied, daring and imaginative, never short of glittering humour, and fabulously rich". Her recent collections of poetry include Voodoo Shop and The Soho Leopard. For more information, see www.ruthpadel.com.
Admission free, but tickets must be booked in advance. To book tickets, call: 0191 222 7619 or melanie.birch@ncl.ac.uk.
Culture Lab is fully accessible to disabled visitors. Please call 0191 222 1332 if you require any specific information in relation to your visit to an event.
Organised by Northern Writers' Centre/Bloodaxe Books. For further information, go to: www.northernwriterscentre.com
HUNTINGDON: TS Eliot Festival (featuring Sean O'Brien)
Saturday, May 17th, 2008, 2pm
A day of poetic events, including the annual Little Gidding lecture, delivered by Peter Stanford, the authorised biographer of C Day-Lewis, and an evening reading by poet Sean O'Brien, winner of the 2007 TS Eliot Prize and the 2007 Forward Poetry Prize. Audience readings, music, tea and buffet supper.
Ferrar House, Little Gidding, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 5RJ
For bookings, call 01832 293383, or e-mail info@ferrarhouse.co.uk
LONDON: The Poetry Cafe
***DATE CHANGED***Thursday, May 22nd, 8:00pm-11:00pm
African Writers Evening, hosted by Nii Parkes.
The Poetry Cafe,
22 Betterton Street,
London
WC2H 9BX
tel +44 (0)20 7420 9880 fax +44 (0)20 7240 4818
info AT poetrysociety.org.uk
Thursday, May 15, 2008
New Blood @ The Poetry Cafe, 21st May
Ladies' Night at the Poetry Cafe with Charlotte Runcie, Excentral Tempest and Aoife Mannix. Kickoff 7.30, floorspots available on the night, £5 entry (£3 concessions).
Should be a great night with a really wide range of styles, and it features a POF staff member, so why not go along? See you there :)
ULLAPOOL: Literary Festival
Friday, 16th May to Sunday, 18th May, 2008, at various venues around Ullapool, Scotland.
Literary festival featuring fiction, non-fiction, poetry, writing workshops and lectures with some of the best of contemporary writers in English and Gaelic.
Featuring, among others, Anne Frater, Rody Gorman, (reading in English and Gaelic) George Gunn, Sam Meekings, and Richard Price. There will also be an open mic and a Poems Aloud event on the Saturday, for which you can bring a favourite poem to share.
For all information about events, venues, and tickets, go to:
http://www.ullapoolbookfestival.co.uk/.
CHORLTON: Manky Poets with Janet Fisher
Friday, 16th May, 2008, 7.30pm, £2/£1
Chorlton Library,
Manchester Road,
Tel: 0161 881 3179
Janet Fisher has been co-director of The Poetry Business in Huddersfield for almost 20 years. She is a remarkable poet, who has had two full collections published: Listening to Dancing, and Women Who Dye Their Hair. The evening will also include intros and music from copland smith and an opportunity for floor poets to read their work.
‘Her poems illuminate small moments between people, passing threads of conversation, and make of them something resonant and universal.’ – Maura Dooley www.myspace.com/coanco
SWINDON: Poems & Pints & Music!
Poems & Pints & Music! – a night of verbal and musical high jinks,with Elvis, Ashley, Sara-J, Maggie, and the Minnesota Twins!
Friday, 16th May, 2008, 7.30pm, £4.50 (£3.50)
Arts Centre,
Devizes Road,
Swindon
Tel: 01793 614837
Performance poetry from four fabulous versifiers, and the music of youth, as part of Swindon Festival of Literature. Here is a quartet of experienced stand-up poets and young musicians who bring linguistic thrills, musical spills, and excitement, plus not a little food for thought, to the Festival’s antepenultimate night at the Arts Centre.
Radio 4 wit, 2006 World Slam Champion, armchair revolutionary and recumbent rocker, Elvis McGonnagall is the sole resident of The Graceland Caravan Park, where he writes verse while drinking malt whisky.
Reading bard with a comical beard, and assorted poetry collections to his name, including Postcards from the Hedgehog, Ashley Harrold is a multiple Slam winner and a tasty dish for word and poetry lovers, whatever their diet.
Sweet-talking Sara-Jane Arbury makes words mean more than they lay claim to in even the best dictionaries. She excels at short, sharp, gentle shock treatment.
Former winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature, Maggie Harris is a prolific writer of prose and poems. Her work takes her, and her readers, across land and sea to you and me.
Talented, home-grown, young, and beautiful, the Minnesota Twins, aka Casey, Jaz, Kit, Ben, Mike, and Jacob make music that reaches parts you really want reached. They also make you want to write home, or at least to your lover.
This promises to be an evening that will make you like people you already like a little bit more!
LONDON: Utter Northerners!
Utter Northerners! - Tim Turnbull, Joe Hakim, Paul Lyalls, Jacquie Gabbitas and many more!
Wednesday, May 28th, 7.30pm, £2 before 7.30pm, £5 thereafter, including free sweets and a prize draw to win an Utter! bag of books and free tickets.
The Salisbury Hotel,
1, Grand Parade,
Green Lanes,
London,
N4 1JX
Tube: Turnpike Lane / Manor House; Bus: 141, 29, 41, 67; Overland: Harringey Green Lanes.
This month, Utter! is invaded by a horde of hardy literary barbarians from the frozen wastes of the no-nonsense North, ready to duff us soft Southern pansies up into a poetical pulp. So please prepare to doff your cloth caps to:
Tim Turnbull, winner of the £10,000 'Contenders' poetry prize and Forward prize nominee, life-affirmingly, dour Larkin-esque material from a poet so Northern he moved even further North, to Scotland.
Jacqueline Gabbitas, co-editor of Brittle Star magazine, technically from the Midlands but she writes great stuff about coal and shit spiders, so we'll let her off.
Joe Hakim, winner of Shortfuse's 'Poetry Idol' and graduate of Apples and Snakes 'Incubate' programme. Sex and drugs and rock & roll from the seventh circle of Hull.
Julia Bird, who’s not northern, but the winner of last month's ajar mic contest. Poems with humour and vision from her upcoming book.
Ritchie Scurvey, the Scouse agitprop poet who will be unleashing his first new material since the '80s with the help of his puppet assistant Socky.
Ajar Mic Contest - you vote on who gets a full paid slot next month. Will it be James Campbell, Mark E, David Goo or Georgie Banfield?
Special guest MC Paul Lyalls, ebullient host of Express Excess and Poetry and Poppadums, as seen on BBC2's 'Big Slam Poetry House.'
For further information contact 07912 539 098 or richardtyronejones@gmail.com
GLASGOW: Tchai Ovna Reading
Friday, May 16th, 2008, 8pm
Tchai Ovna,
169 Deanston Drive,
Shawlands,
Glasgow
Readers include J. David Simon, Karrieanne McCafferty, Alexander Hutchison, Pamela Nicolson, Yvonne Stone, Jas Sherry, Rob A. Mackenzie, David Manderson, Lynsey Calderwood, Thomas Rae, Chris Beattie, Graham Fulton and P.J. McCafferty, plus guests, and live music by Wing and a Prayer.
LONDON: The Poetry Cafe
London Literature Lounge - hosted by Anjan Saha.
Friday, 16th May, 8:00pm-11:00pm £5/£4
With the usual line-up of eclectic poets and open mics.
The Poetry Cafe
22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX
tel +44 (0)20 7420 9880 fax +44 (0)20 7240 4818
info AT poetrysociety.org.uk
Bath Fringe 2008 presents An Evening of Awen
Sat 24 May 2008
7.00 pm, £8/£6
The Secret Theatre
United Reform Church
Bath.
Website:http://www.bathfringe.co.uk
Bath Fringe 2008 presents An Evening of Awen. Inspiring poetry, storytelling and music from Awen authors Anthony Nanson, Richard Selby and Mary Palmer, plus special guests poet Jay Ramsay (reading from his new collection Out of Time from PS Avalon) and acoustic musician David Metcalfe (Fire Springs). Hosted by Kevan Manwaring.
Bath: The Magnolia launch event
Fri 23 May 2008
6.30 pm, £3
Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights
14/15 John Street (behind Jolly's)
Bath BA1 2JL
Website: http://www.therialto.co.uk/
Richard Lambert launches his first publication, The Magnolia, published by The Rialto. He will be giving a reading with Carrie Etter and Emily Dening. Limited spaces, so you may need to book - telephone 01225 331155 for Mr B's.
Totnes: Wondermentalist Cabaret
Fri 23 May 2008
7.30 pm for 8.00 pm, £7/£5
Royal Seven Stars
The Plains
Totnes TQ9 5DD
Email: matt.harvey@copperstrings.com
Website:http://www.wondermentalist.com
Wondermentalist Cabaret is hosted by Matt Harvey and features Jude Simpson, John Elliot, and the latest episode of Empath Man. Tickets £7 on the door, £5 in advance from Harlequin Bookshop, the Royal Seven Stars, Tel. 01803 862125 or by e-mailing Matt at matt.harvey@copperstrings.com.
Als includes The Dead Poets’ Slam - where living people read poems they love to a contemporary audience. This audience listens raptly and votes for a winner. In a sense everyone’s a winner - even so, there’s only one prize. If wishing to feature in the quirky Wondermentalist Cabaret, why not go to one to get a feel of the sort of thing they do, check out their website at; www.wondermentalist.com or listen to podcast recordings from the shows on Traydio at; http://www.canstream.co.uk/copperbeech/?cat=WondermentalistCamembert and you can also send samples of your work – mp3s are best.
Bristol: Acoustic Night
Mon 19 May 2008, 8.00pm
Halo Cafe/Bar
141 Gloucester Rd
Bishopston, Bristol
Accessibility: a few steps
Website: http://www.myspace.com/acousticnightbristol
Telephone Number: Andi 07900 432533
Fortnightly open mic night for poets and musicians with guest: Georgina Banfield - surreal, discriptive yet searingly human poet from London. Sign up to perform from 7.45 pm.
Admission: Free (donations welcome)
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
MANCHESTER: Jane Routh & Mike Barlow
Jane Routh & Mike Barlow at Manchester Central Library
Thursday, May 15th, 2008, 1:00pm, free
Jane Routh is a poet and photographer who manages woodlands and a flock of geese in the Forest of Bowland, North Lancashire, where she has lived for the last 30 years. Her first collection, Circumnavigation, won the Poetry Business Competition and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for best first collection. Her second book, Teach Yourself Mapmaking (Smith/Doorstop) is a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
Mike Barlow won first prize in the Amnesty International Competition 2002 and first prize in the Ledbury Competition 2005. His first collection, Living on the Difference, was short-listed for the Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize. He has read at the Troubadour, London, Lancaster Literature Festival and Aldeburgh Festival. Mike was the 2006 winner of the National Poetry Competition. His second collection, Another Place, has recently been published by Salt.
For more information, please contact Darren Rawcliffe on 0161 234 1981.