PUREandGOODandRIGHT
PUREandGOODandRIGHT is an Open Mic poetry event taking place in Leamington Spa.We meet once a month, and our next event is on
SUNDAY 21st JANUARY (starting at 7.30pm prompt, get there early!) at the FOX, Clarendon Avenue, Leamington Spa CV32 4RZ.
How to get to the Fox
We're delighted to welcome as special guests, two of the most audacious, vivacious and salacious ladies in poetry:
Jane Holland is a poet and novelist living in Warwickshire. Her second poetry collection BOUDICCA & CO. was recently published by Salt.
She also runs POETS ON FIRE, a daily poetry blog that was featured in the Guardian's 'Best of the Literary Blogosphere': www.poetsonfire.blogspot.com (the site you're reading, by the way). For more about Jane see www.janeholland.co.uk and you can buy her latest book BOUDICCA & CO at: Salt.
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Emma Purshouse is a lively, original performance poet and stand up comedienne. She is the 4th Annual Solihull Slam Winner, and one of her poems was published on a tram!
She won first prize at the Wolverhampton City Arts Festival Poetry Competition in 2002, and came second in the 2006 Cheltenham Festival “All-Comers” slam. She has an MA in Creative Writing and is a founder member of the artists and writers collective imagetextimage (www.imagetextimage.com).
Plus Open Mic
AN UNMISSABLE NIGHT !
Admission £3 (£2 Student/OAP)
If you're planning to come along, or would like to know more about the night, email pure@kellywit.com
2007 Events and Guests
Sunday 21 January - Jane Holland and Emma Purshouse
Sunday 18 February - Dreadlockalien, Dan Wilson, Evoke
Sunday 18 March - The Disparate Housewives: Stella Mandella and Jacqueline Saphra
Sunday 15 April - Rob Gee and Lorna Meehan
Sunday 20 May - Luke Wright
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3 comments:
Keith Jebb, Jeff Hilson and Chris McCabe will be reading their poetry
on Wednesday 17th January, at St Andrew's, Short Street, Waterloo,
London SE1. There will also be music from The Mind Shop (Armorel
Weston, John Gibbens, David Miller). Doors open at 7.15; performances
will begin from 7.30. Admissions: £5 /£3 (concessions). Short
Street is off The Cut, and directly across the road from The Young
Vic Theatre. Nearest tubes: Waterloo; Southwark.
Good to have that information, Kevin. Keep it coming, everyone. Live poetry rocks ... ;)
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