"please lock me away"...a themed poetry-party
Locks and keys, bolts and window bars, shackles and chains, dungeons, keeps and high towers have long fascinated storytellers, dramatists, filmmakers, songwriters & poets
Monday 17 July 2006
8pm
at The Troubadour Coffee-House, 265 Old Brompton Road, London SW5
at Coffee-House Poetry, PO Box 16210, LONDON, W4 1ZP
or e-mail: CoffPoetry@aol.com
The publicity material for this event says:
"...from Rapunzel, Tennyson?s Lady of Shallott, Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo, Dante's Ugolino and Dickens' Dr. Manette, the gaol writings of Bunyan, Wilde, Papillon, Gide and Cheever, Burt Lancaster in The Bird-Man of Alcatraz and Akhmatova waiting outside Leningrad prison for 17 months... to astounding escapes in The Wind in the Willows, Michael Collins, The Wooden Horse, Colditz, Great Expectations...
Come and listen to guest poets with their own and others' favourite poetic imprisonments & escapes, real or imaginary, actual & emotional, listen to some low-down prison blues and try our Alcatraz prize-quiz (with time off for good marks...)
Readings MONDAYS from 8 to 10 pm, tickets £5.50 concessions £4.50,
season tickets 40% off...
cheques payable to Coffee-House Poetry, no credit cards
265 Old Brompton Road LONDON SW5
nr. junct. Earls Court Rd & Old Brompton Rd
nearest Tube station: Earls Court (District & Piccadilly Lines)
for information, advance booking, season ticket & mailing list enquiries,
phone 020-8354 066
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