New Writing from Warwick: a LAUNCH reminder for TONIGHT!

BROADCAST 2 - work from Warwick University

Wednesday 31st October
7.30pm
Conference Room, Warwick Arts Centre

Broadcast 2 - Picture Thinking and other stories will be launched on Wednesday October 31st in the Conference Room at Warwick Arts Centre. The event starts at 7.30, and includes performances from the students in the anthology, plus readings by great Heaventree poets Simon Turner and Milorad Krystanovich, and an acoustic performance by tutor, writer and musician Peter Blegvad. It all looks set to be wonderful night, and I hope you will be able to make it. Please support this project and the work of new Warwick writers!

Jane Commane

Over the Edge in Galway: Thursday November 1st

Over the Edge

Three women poets for November 1st Over The Edge: Open Reading with Floor Sessions

The next ‘Over The Edge: Open Reading’ takes place in Galway City Library on Thursday, November 1st, 6.30-8.00pm. The Featured Readers are Barbara Smith, Megan Buckley and Jean Folan.

There will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748.

Over The Edge acknowledges the financial support of Galway City Council and The Arts Council http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com

Buzzwords Poetry Night in Cheltenham: Sunday 4th November

Buzzwords in Cheltenham

Next Sunday, November 4th upstairs at The Exmouth, Bath Road (opposite the co-op), Cheltenham.

Guest poet - Colin Watts

7pm - Workshop led by Colin Watts
8pm - open mic and guest poet

Come at 7 if you want to write, 8 if you don't.
Entrance £3

N.B. Please note NEW VENUE for this popular monthly open mic.

Aldeburgh Poetry Festival: November 2nd - 4th 2007

ALDEBURGH POETRY FESTIVAL 2007 POETS

Connie Bensley
Beverley Bie Brahic
Peter Carpenter
Polly Clark
Peter Cole
John F Deane
Anne-Marie Fyfe
Louis Jenkins
Ariane Koek
Anne Marie Macari
Michael Mackmin
Rory Motion
Roger Moulson
Taha Muhammad Ali
Owen O'Neill
Alice Oswald
Jacques Rancourt
Christopher Reid
Jacob Sam-La Rose
Fiona Sampson
Peter Sansom
Robert Seatter
Gerald Stern
Anne Stevenson
Susan Utting
Joseph Woods
Sophie Woolley

You can find full details of this weekend's events and book tickets at http://www.thepoetrytrust.org
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Poetry at the Great Grog Bar, Edinburgh: Sunday 4th November

A great line-up of poets reading at the Great Grog Bar in Rose Street, Edinburgh (walk up Hanover Street, turn left at Rose Street for 50 metres).

Roddy Lumsden
A.B. Jackson
Andrew Philip
Rob A. Mackenzie

Sunday 4 November 2007, 7.30pm
Free Entry

Fresh (&) Poetry at the Palace: Apples & Snakes, with an Open Mic

Fresh, in association with Apples & Snakes

Are you in to poetry with a hip hop beat?

From fast'n'furious words to delicious moves'n'grooves, Fresh brings you a showcase of poetry blended with rap and music. There'll be guest acts from pioneering hip hop poets and dub poets, as well as open mic slots up for grabs on the night.

Featuring: Raw Jam artist-in-residence Frisko; beatboxer John Berkavitch; spoken word duo Under da Poetree; and dub poet Moqapi Selassie.

Go to www.skycast.com and watch performers at the last Fresh: Tempest, Chris Rowan, Abstract Turmoil, Will Stopha and Kenny Baraka

When: Friday 2 November @ 8pm
Where: The Albany, Douglas Way, Deptford, SE8 4AG
Tickets: £6 /£5 concs /£4 under-25s
Box office: 020 8692 4446 / www.thealbany.org.uk



Also recommended... Poetry at the Palace

Some of the best British performance poets come together for one night only. Expect wit and wordplay! Line up includes: Francesca Beard, 'the Queen of British performance poetry' (Metro), OneNess, nominated for Best Black female poet by Black Women in the Arts and [verb]swish. Plus, Edinburgh Fringe favourite Luke Wright presents his new live act Poet & Man whilst acting as compere for the evening.

Apples and snakes Offer: get tickets for just £5. Call the Box Office on 01923 225671 to book and quote 'Apples and Snakes'.

When: Friday 16 November @ 8pm
Where: Watford Palace Theatre, Clarendon Road, Watford WD17 1JZ - just 20 minutes from Euston on fast trains
Info: www.watfordpalacetheatre.co.uk

Glasgow Open Mic & Headline Poetry Act: Last Mondays

Last Monday at Rio

Monday October 29th
8pm start
The Rio Cafe, 27 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11

Headline act this month is Kevin Cadwallender, author of the "Baz" poems (a lairy Newcastle lout). Kevin explores the "Baziness" in the world around him, the people he meets and - if truth be told - in himself!

We will also be treated to the raving, ranting, radical who may or may not possess a birth certificate bearing the name Gary Death.

The first hour of the evening is open mic. Robin Cairns is your compere. Anyone wishing to read, speak or perform should contact robin.cairns@btconnect.com

New Writing from Warwick: Broadcast 2 launch

BROADCAST 2 - work from Warwick University

Wednesday 31st October
7.30pm
Conference Room, Warwick Arts Centre

Broadcast 2 - Picture Thinking and other stories will be launched on Wednesday October 31st in the Conference Room at Warwick Arts Centre. The event starts at 7.30, and includes performances from the students in the anthology, plus readings by great Heaventree poets Simon Turner and Milorad Krystanovich, and an acoustic performance by tutor, writer and musician Peter Blegvad. It all looks set to be wonderful night, and I hope you will be able to make it. Please support this project and the work of new Warwick writers!

Jane Commane

Oxford Poets anthology launch in London

Launch of Oxford Poets 2007

Monday 29th October
6.30pm
Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EB

Readings from Jemma Borg, Mary Ingoldby (reading poems by Grace Ingoldby), Olivia McCannon, Saradha Soobrayen, Damien Walford Davies and John White to launch Oxford Poets 2007, the latest in the anthology series published annually by Carcanet. Please RSVP to stephenprocter@carcanet.co.uk

"The fifth OxfordPoets anthology continues the aim stated in the first of the series, 'a desire to represent the best' of the new work associated with the OxfordPoets imprint. This latest collection is as varied and thought-provoking as the earlier books. Here are poets from a diversity of backgrounds and traditions, spanning ages, experiences and purposes.

What they share is a commitment to the truth of their experience and an excitement with the possibilities of poetry. They often write at the point where the private and public worlds collide, but such serious concerns never preclude wit, imagination, an inventive flair for language. New writers, and writers who are already becoming recognised, are making compelling new poetry."

For more, visit www.carcanet.co.uk
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David Miller in Kentish Town: TONIGHT!

David Miller reads & plays!

Sunday 28 October 2007
7.30pm.
at the Torriano, 99 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town, London NW5.
Admission £5 / £4 / £3 / £2 (according to pocket).

David Miller reads his poetry and plays the clarinet, after readings from the floor.

Sunday XPress in Birmingham: this Sunday!

SUNDAY XPRESS OPEN MIC
"Come to the Sunday Xpress! This Sunday 3-6pm ish, all open mic, all types of performers welcome (and their audiences) and hopefully free roast potatoes, I'll have to see how I feel Sunday morning.

Market Tavern, corner of Moseley St & Birchall St, Digbeth, Birmingham."

Liz Smith

Hammer & Tongue event in Oxford

Friday 26th October
8 - 11pm
East Oxford Community Centre, Oxford

East Oxford Community Centre on Friday 26th 8-11pm plays host to the
mighty Queen Sheba all the way from the US of A, a poet, activist and
revolutionary with too many slam titles under her belt to bother
boasting about. We will be blessed by the wisdom of Frank Isahak and
then blown away with a live reggae set from Oxford's finest The
Aboriginals. £5 or £4 if you haven't got £5 on the door, includes
entry to the bar for Mish Mash which is open late.

Poets & Players in Manchester: Friday 9th November

Click poster to enlarge!
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Poets & Players' website: http://www.poetsandplayers.co.uk/index.php

***1000th Blog Post on Poets on Fire!***

This is actually the 1002nd post now, but I didn't want to let the moment slip by without proper commemoration!

Poets on Fire has been going since January 2006, so nearly two years but not quite. In that time, I've far surpassed my own slender vision for the site, which was simply to promote those poetry events which came to my attention - mainly London-based or in my own region, the Midlands.

There's plenty to celebrate here indeed. Poets on Fire now promotes live poetry right across the UK and Ireland, and occasionally even beyond! Far from being a mere spin-off from my poetry blog, Raw Light, this site is now far more visible and popular than any of my other sites.

35,000+ visitors so far, with the average weekly number growing all the time!

Although I haven't managed to persuade people to review for the site very often - i.e. live events they've attended - or to send me interviews with poets and performers, the number of visitors this site has enjoyed is easily in excess of what I'd envisaged at the beginning.

But if you'd like to send me reviews or interviews as outlined above, or even an article about live poetry, email me at j.holland442 @ btinternet.com and I'll be happy to consider your submission.

No payments, of course, but there are always other reasons - just as good - for getting your work online. 35,000 reasons, in this case!

Thanks for all your support. Keep the poetry news coming!

Jane x

VOICES from the Sheffield Flood: Wednesday 31st October

Voices from The Sheffield Flood

31 October 2007
7:30 PM
with Rob Hindle and Shelley Roche-Jacques
Quaker Meeting House, St James Row, Sheffield

Rob Hindle’s pamphlet Some Histories of the Sheffield Flood 1864 explores the disaster through the lives and ends of some of its victims. (Winner of the 2006 Templar Poetry Pamphlet Competition).

Shelley Roche-Jacques’ dramatic monologues draw on the everyday details in the 11 volumes of Flood Compensation Claims held at Sheffield Archives.

Part of the Off the Shelf Festival
£4/£3 (cons) from SIS - Tel 0114 273 4761 or 273 4712

Rhythm & Muse, Teddington: Thursday October 25th

Rhythm & Muse

Thursday October 25th
8.30-10.30pm
£4.00/£2.00

Poetry and music in The Lion, Wick Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11. Guest poets this month are Rik Wilkinson and Joanna Ezekiel and music from singer guitarist Susan Wheeler. Also open mic - poetry and music (book in advance).

Contact Alison Hill for further info
Tel: 020 8977 4610 or email:
alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk

VOICES: Human Rights Poetry in Glasgow

An evening of innovative new Human Rights and Animal Rights Poetry and Prose

Performed with panache by some of Scotland’s top performance Poets.

The writer Ashby McGowan is developing a new style of poem, which has numerous voices intermingling. The effect varies from cacophony to sheer musical delight. Directed by Anita Govan, this promised to be a poetry night unlike any other!

Basura Blanca
The Brunswick Hotel, 106 Brunswick Street, Merchant City, Glasgow, G1 1TF.

8 PM to 9.30 PM. Monday 10th December
International Human Rights day.
Entrance Free, but donations gleefully accepted.

Ashby McGowan is a Human Rights and Animal Rights Campaigner and has been helped in this project by conFAB. Founded in January 2004, conFAB aims to to support, develop and expand opportunities for writers of all mediums, encouraging the innovative growth of the arts of the written and spoken word across Scotland and internationally.

This work has been funded by: The Scottish Book Trust and Glasgow District Council. Many Thanks to them! This work has been directed and developed over the last few months by Anita Govan: who is a performance poet with her own book of poems recently printed. And, the Producer is Rachel Jury of conFAB. The confab website is: http://www.confab.org.uk

The Performers are: Wendy Miller, Allison Julia Taudevin, Lorna Callery,
Tracy Patrick, Martin O’Connor, and Tawona Sithole.

Cambridge Open Mic: Tuesday 23rd October

CB1 Poetry Night

Our next event is this coming Tuesday, 23rd October, at CB1 Cafe on Mill Road, Cambridge. Patrick Widdess will be giving readings as our featured local poet, and there will be plenty of opportunity for open mike readers, with a vote and prize for the most popular poem.

Entry is £3/£2 concessions; please arrive in good time for readings to start at 8pm sharp -- sign up is at 7:45 for open mike slots.

All CB1 Cafe events are on the fourth Tuesday of the month, hence on the 23rd this month. Our next event after that is on the 13th of November with Michael Laskey at the Michaelhouse.

Patrick Widdess did his first reading at CB1 in 2001 shortly after graduating from Liverpool John Moores with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. Following this he spent many years living abroad, teaching English as a foreign language; resurfacing from time to time in Cambridge and at CB1.

Glasgow monthly Open Mic & Headline Poetry Act: Last Mondays

Last Monday at Rio

Monday October 29th
8pm start
The Rio Cafe, 27 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11

Headline act this month is Kevin Cadwallender, author of the "Baz" poems (a lairy Newcastle lout). Kevin explores the "Baziness" in the world around him, the people he meets and - if truth be told - in himself!

We will also be treated to the raving, ranting, radical who may or may not possess a birth certificate bearing the name Gary Death.

The first hour of the evening is open mic. Robin Cairns is your compere. Anyone wishing to read, speak or perform should contact robin.cairns@btconnect.com

Galway Slam & Rita Ann Higgins

A rare opportunity to hear Galway poet Rita Ann Higgins read as guest poet at North Beach Poetry Nights in BK's Winebar, Spanish Parade. Ever since the publication of Goddess on the Mervue Bus and Witch in the Bushes in the early 1980's, Rita Ann has become one of the foremost poetic voices in Ireland. She has read in most countries and at most of the famous universities in the world. Gerry Ryan and Pat Kenny have also had the pleasure of her "on-air" company.

Rita Ann's poetry is straight-talking and hard-hitting.
Her poetry readings are always memorable.

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The North Beach Poetry Nights' 2 - Round Slam

Poets wishing to enter the Slam are requested to bring along 2 poems, max. 3 minutes each. The winner of the Slam receives a bottle of red wine courtesy of BK's Winebar and automatically goes forward to the North Beach Poetry Nights' Grand Slam on December 22nd.

The prize for the winner of the Grand Slam is the publication of a collection of the winner's poetry.

Thursday 25 October 9 pm
BK's Winebar
Spanish Parade, Galway

Info: john walsh at 091-593290
overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com

Derwent Poetry Festival coming soon!

Inaugural Derwent Poetry Festival

27th-28th October 2007
Masson Mills, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire



This brand-new Poetry Festival opens with the Awards Event (free) for the 2007 Templar Poetry Pamphlet & Collection Competition, presented by this year's judge, Jean Sprackland - with readings by the 2007 Anthology Poets and followed by readings from the pamphlet winners, Pat Borthwick, Linda Cash and Pat Winslow and further readings from Jean Sprackland, Jane Weir, Mike Barlow, Derek Adams, Angela Cleland, Jim Caruth, Rob Hindle, Judy Brown and Simon Armitage.

For full programme and tickets visit www.templarpoetry.co.uk or phone the Box Office on 01629 582500.

The festival is held in the best preserved of Richard Arkwright's former Mills in the spectacular limestone gorge, part of the Derwent Valley World Heritage site. It can be reached from London by train to Derby and branch Derwent Valley line to Matlock Bath.

Launch event near Exeter: Sunday October 21st

Tony Lopez launches 'Covers'

Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World

Sunday, October 21, 2007
12:30pm - 2:30pm
Haldon Forest Park, Exeter, United Kingdom
Contact 01392832277
Email: info@ccanw.co.uk

A reading by Tony Lopez with music. Free event

Take the A38 Exeter Plymouth road and turn off for Exeter racetrack,
follow signs for forest walks to CCANW

Essex Festival 2007: this Saturday 20th October

Essex Poetry Festival

Cramphorn Theatre, Fairfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1JG
Starts 1pm
Featuring Daljit Nagra, Catherine Smith, A F Harrold, Essex Poets Jane Holland and Tim Cunningham, a mass workshop with Michael Laskey, open mic and competition winners reading with adjudicator Anne-Marie Fyfe.

£12 / £10 conc.



Please click to enlarge. Also, see the Essex Poetry Festival website.

Box office: 01245 606 505

Poetry & Poppadums: London, Monday 22nd October

Poetry and Poppadums

Monday 22nd October 2007, doors at 6pm, show at 8.15pm
La Kera Restaurant, 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22
£5 / £3 conc.

"The UK's only spoken word gig in an Indian restaurant" returns with readings from Logan Murray, Jasmine Cooray, Radical and Aoife Mannix. Hosted by Paul Lyalls.

The publicity material for this event says:

"The UK's only spoken word gig in an Indian restaurant returns, tastier than ever with great food and stunning sets from the brilliantly funny LOGAN MURRAY, feisty rising JASMINE COORAY, the powerful voice of RADICAL & the searing wit of AOIFE MANNIX. Host for the night is PAUL LYALLS and yes, there will be Poppadums for all.

For info and ticket reservations call 020 8829 8962
or email info@karamel.co.uk

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This sounds fantastic! I want to have a P&P night like this up here in the Midlands. But could I really be bothered to read poems with a belly full of Rogan Josh?! Ed.

London Lip: celebration of London, including poet-performers

Cult urban writers convene for London Lip!

Penned in the Margins presents London Lip! – a celebration of the paperback publication of London: City of Disappearances featuring readings, conversation and performances refereed by celebrated London writer Iain Sinclair. Witness a rare urban excursion by legendary Northampton magus of the graphic novel Alan Moore and the Texas-exiled creator of the multiverse and author of Mother London Michael Moorcock. Plus interventions by poets/performance artists Brian Catling and Kirsten Norrie.

This unique event takes place in the atmospheric surroundings of The Bishopsgate Institute's Great Hall, conveniently located opposite Liverpool Street Station.

Friday 26 October 6.30pm
The Bishopsgate Institute 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH
Tickets £10 from Ticket Office

£12 on the door

Glasgow Slam! this Sunday, October 21st

Glasgow Slam!

Sunday October 21st
Blackfriars, Bell Street, Merchant City, Glasgow.
Starts 8pm.
£3 contestants/concessions.
£5 audience.

Robin Cairns is your compere for The Glasgow Slam, October 2007. Poets have two minutes in the first round, two minutes in the semi-finals and three minutes in the final (should the panel of 3 judges smile on them.) Prize money is £70 for the winner, £20 for second and £10 for third place. All three finalists will be invited to take part in the Scottish Slam Championships in March 08 (run by the Atye Write festival).

There are still places available so "Bring your guff and strut your stuff!" Register by contacting robin.cairns@btconnect.com

Torbay Poetry Festival: 18th - 22nd October

This takes place this weekend at various venues across Torbay; a weekend of poetry events including readings, talks workshops and social gatherings. 18 October - 22 October 2007.

Visit www.poetrypf.co.uk/images/torbayfestival07.pdf for full listings of events.

Shearsman Poetry: Wednesday 17th October

Shearsman Reading Series

Wednesday 17th October
7.30pm

The seventh in the Shearsman Reading Series takes place on Wednesday, 17 October at 7:30 pm, featuring ERIN MOURE, Canadian poet and translator, whose translation of Chus Pato's Charenton will be launched at the event. Erín will also read from her latest Canadian collection O Cadoiro (House of Anansi, Toronto, 2007). We will also be launching the new issue of Shearsman magazine, no. 73/74, on the night, and three of the poets from the issue will give short readings: Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter and Rachel Lehrman.

The venue is
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH

Admission free, but we will pass the metaphorical hat for contributions. The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 minutes' walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 minutes), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 minutes). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, underneath Bloomsbury Square. Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required. Further details here of the venue:
www.shearsman.com/pages/editorial/readings.html

Ambit and Poetry London launching Autumn issues TONIGHT in London!

Launch of Ambit 190 with Open Mic

The Bath House, 96 Dean Street, Soho, London W1T 3TD
Wednesday 17 October 2007
6.30pm

October's Ambit reading also doubles as the launch of issue 190, a special American issue which Dr. Martin Bax will launch simultaneously on the other side of the Atlantic.
£5 / £4 concessions.

Featured readers:

Martin Cooper was commissioned a long time ago to produce news items for The Two Ronnies. He still holds the record for the smallest royalty ever paid to a BBC writer (9p, shared with a colleague). Nowadays he lives and works in Dorset.

Donald Gardner lives in Amsterdam and is a well-known reader of his poetry. His latest collection is The Glittering Sea (Hearing Eye, 2006) and his previous collection is How To Get the Most Out Of Your Jetlag (Ye Olde Font Shoppe, 2001).

Matthew Licht's series of stories The Moose Show, is published by Salt and was nominated for this year's Frank O'Connor Prize. His latest short film, Odessa Tarzan, is scheduled to have its London premiere sometime soon, at an undisclosed location.

Readers from the floor welcome (one page max).
www.ambitmagazine.co.uk

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Poetry London Autumn issue launch

Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London WC2
Wednesday 17th October
6.30pm

Readings to launch the Autumn issue of Poetry London, featuring Philip Gross, Jean Sprackland and Jo Shapcott.

Plus prize-giving, and readings from competition prizewinners Christine Webb (first prize winner), Mick Wood, Caroline Bird, Emily Berry, Matthew Caley, Christina Dunhill and Linda Chase.

Free entry, free wine.
www.poetrylondon.co.uk
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Bluebeard's Wives Anthology: TONIGHT in Birmingham!

Bluebeard's Wives: A New Poetry Anthology

Launching in various venues across the Midlands, the legend of Bluebeard is rewritten here by his many “wives” — 21 women from the Midlands. The specially commissioned poems emerged after Julie Boden, poet in residence at the Symphony Hall Birmingham, invited the women for a tour of the building followed by an airing of Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle. Drawing on theatre and music, this collection offers another look at the familiar myth.

Poets featured in the anthology and at the readings include Roz Goddard, Helen Yendall, Christine Coleman, Jane Holland, Julie Boden, Zoe Brigley and Jo Bell.

Co-ordinated by Apples & Snakes in association with Heaventree Press. The anthology editors are Julie Boden and Zoe Brigley.

15th October 2007
Launch of Bluebeard's Wives anthology (Heaventree Press) at the Birmingham Book Festival
Venue: The Library Theatre, Birmingham.
Time: 7.45pm

ALSO

18th October 2007
Launch of the Bluebeard's Wives anthology (Heaventree Press) hosted by the Women Who Write group.
Venue: The Craft Gallery, Wolverhampton.
Time: 7.00 - 9.00pm

You can find the Bluebeard's Wives anthology online at Heaventree Press, Coventry.

Apples & Snakes Open Mic at the Whitechapel Gallery this Thursday!

Farrago International Slam: Thursday 18th October

The Farrago International SLAM!

Thursday, 18th October, starts at 7:30pm, slam sign up from 7pm.
RADA Foyer Bar, Malet St, WC1. Nearest tube: Goodge St.
Multi-Map

Open to ANY poet SLAM! Any subject or style, read or perform IN ANY LANGUAGE YOU LIKE – INCLUDING ENGLISH! Every poet wins a prize!

+ Features: Denise Atherley, Trinidad poet & poetry activist, Joe Duggan, Irish poet & winner of the Farrago One Hour SLAM! Fran Landesman, legendary, jazz poet & lyricist, Mahogany Browne, Nuyorican & HBO poetry star & music from Sprahla Swa, New York singer songwriter + Farrago feature debuts from Rachel Blyth, New York poet& Cheikh Salih Sonko, French poet & writer.

Emcee: John Paul O'Neill. Tickets: £6/£5.

Information: 07905078376. farragopoetry@yahoo.co.uk.
http://london.e-poets www.myspace.com/farragopoetry

Amnesty meets Hammer & Tongue for a Slam Extravaganza!

The first event in an exciting new season that sees the likes of comic genius John Hegley and two-time world slam champion Buddy Wakefield grace Oxford stages takes place this Monday. Be there, or don't.

MON 15th OCTOBER
Amnesty International and Hammer & Tongue present:

Protect The Human Poetry Slam
@ The Port Mahon, St Clements, Oxford
8-11 pm (get there at 7.30 to sign up for the Slam) £6/4 conc.

The Hammer & Tongue team up with Amnesty to deliver some powerful spoken word in the form of an open-mic poetry slam where ten contenders battle it out for the title of Slam Champion and a chance to go through to the end-of-year Hammer & Tongue Final. Featuring special guests Peter Wyton and Adam Horovitz. For further information about the Slam, please contact sophiablackwell@gmail.com

Other events coming up:

Fri 26th Oct Black History Month Special with Queen Sheba, Frank Isahak and a host of local talent @ East Oxford Community Centre, Princes Street, Oxford 8-11pm £5/£4

Fri Nov 2nd John Hegley and The Popticians with Inflatable Buddha at The Oxford Academy £10/£8 tickets 0844 477 2000 www.oxford-academy.co.uk

Sun 11th Nov Oxford Contemporary Music + Hammer & Tongue present "Slounge" with folk punk harpist Serafina Steer and poetry from Steve Larkin @ The Vaults, Radcliffe Sqaure, Oxford £4 or £12 with dinner tickets 01865 305305

Full details of all events in the autumn/winter programmes can be found at www.hammerandtongue.co.uk

* If you can't wait for the 2nd of November to see Inflatable Buddha then worry not they will be playing with The 3 Daft Monkeys (hear them at www.3daftmonkeys.co.uk) this Sunday at The Oxford Academy, for tickets call Inflatable Buddha directly on 01865 200 550 or visit the Academy Box Office.

Boomshanka
The Hammer & Tongue Team

www.hammerandtongue.co.uk "thebest live poetry is to be found at the Hammer & Tongue slams" (The Sunday Times)
Hammer & Tongue, 16B Cherwell Street, Oxford, OX4 1BG, 01865 200 550 www.hammerandtongue.co.uk
"The best live poetry is to be found at the Hammer & Tongue Slams"
(The Sunday Times)

Mike Barlow launches "Another Place" (Salt) in Grasmere

Mike Barlow launching Another Place at The Wordsworth Trust

Featuring Mike Barlow reading with Jean Sprackland
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
6:45pm - 9:45pm
Waterside Hotel opposite Dove Cottage, Grasmere

Summer Poetry Readings
This major series of readings takes place in the Waterside hotel, on the shores of Grasmere Lake (off the main A591 Kendal-Keswick road), just opposite Dove Cottage. Additional parking is available at Dove Cottage. Readings begin at 6.45pm, include a short interval, and finish at approximately 8.30pm.

The Summer Poetry Readings are accompanied by an optional supper, usually attended by the writer, at 8.40pm (please contact us for prices) at the Dove Cottage Restaurant (please book through the Wordsworth Trust).

Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum
The Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere LA22 9SH
Telephone: 015394 35544
Fax: 015394 35748
Email: events@wordsworth.org.uk

New Blood at the Poetry Cafe: Wednesday 17th October

NEW BLOOD at the Poetry Cafe

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
7:30pm - 10:30pm
The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London

Featuring Joe Dunthorne, Laura Forman, Charly Flynn + Open Mic Floorspots

This Month's New Blood is on the 17th October (Next Wednesday) and has the following, vey exciting, lineup: Laura Forman - one half of this month's Generation Text double bill, a very talented young poet just back from the nationwide Generation Text tour and Edinburgh Festival, plus Joe Dunthorne - another Generation Texter with a gift for witty, well crafted and affective poetry, plus Charly Flynn - an extremely gifted Singer/Songwriter who has recently been packing out London venues from Notting Hill to Leicester Square.

Floorspots are also available on the night. The event will kick off at 7.30pm and is held at The Poetry Cafe (18 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, WC2H 9BX)
Don't miss out.

For more info email newbloodpoetry@gmail.com or New Blood
or for a map: Location. 9BX|WC2H 9BX

Rhythm & Muse, Teddington: Thursday October 25th

Rhythm & Muse

Thursday October 25th
8.30-10.30pm
£4.00/£2.00

Poetry and music in The Lion, Wick Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11. Guest poets this month are Rik Wilkinson and Joanna Ezekiel and music from singer guitarist Susan Wheeler. Also open mic - poetry and music (book in advance).

Contact Alison Hill for further info
Tel: 020 8977 4610 or email:
alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk

Jackie Kay & Roz Goddard at the Birmingham Book Festival

Jackie Kay - Poetry and Prose

CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, off Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2LF
Tickets: £9 (£7.50)
Friday 12 October 8.15 - 9.30pm
Box Office 0121 303 2323

Jackie Kay is one of our best loved writers, a gifted poet and novelist who has also written for children, a deeply thoughtful user of language and a wonderful performer of her work. With humour and sensuality her writing deftly explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, racism and cultural differences.

Jackie comes to the Birmingham Festival to read from her new poetry collection, Darling (which includes favourite poems from her previous books along with new poems) and to talk about her life and writing.

PLUS

Writing from the Emptiness: Poetry Writing with Roz Goddard
The Studio, Cannon Street, off New Street, Birmingham, B2 5EP
Tickets: £17 (£14)
Saturday 13 October 10am - 12.30pm
Box Office 0121 246 2792

This poetry workshop will explore how we can let go of our daily concerns and distractions and find a place within ourselves that offers us the opportunity to write poetry without being over concerned with ideas and agendas. In other words: letting go in order to find the rich seam of creativity within each of us. The workshop will begin with a short meditation.

There are only limited places available on workshops. Please book in advance.
Workshop Saturday is sponsored by The Studio. The Studio's excellent restaurant will be open for lunch. For a full menu see www.studiovenues.co.uk

ALSO, FOR LOCALS!
Quick Event: Join us from 1pm to 1.30pm for a discussion on What Writers Need in the West Midlands.

Booking for the Birmingham Book Festival:
www.birminghambookfestival.org
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Matthew Sweeney, Sally Festing and an Open Mic at Wivenhoe: Friday October 19th

Poetrywivenhoe

Friday October 19th
8pm
The British Legion, The Quay, Wivenhoe, Essex.

Matthew Sweeney and Sally Festing read at this poetry evening, associated with the Essex Poetry Festival. At the British Legion, The Quay, Wivenhoe. Friday October 19th at 8.00pm. Map can be found here.

Tickets on the door : £5/£4 concs.
Includes an open- mic, and new voices are always welcome. For further details contact Chris Tanner on 0784 074 5220

Midlands Launch of Bluebeard's Wives Collection

Bluebeard's Wives: A New Poetry Anthology

Launching in various venues across the Midlands, the legend of Bluebeard is rewritten here by his many “wives” — 21 women from the Midlands. The specially commissioned poems emerged after Julie Boden, poet in residence at the Symphony Hall Birmingham, invited the women for a tour of the building followed by an airing of Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle. Drawing on theatre and music, this collection offers another look at the familiar myth.

Poets featured in the anthology and at the readings include Roz Goddard, Helen Yendall, Christine Coleman, Jane Holland, Julie Boden, Zoe Brigley and Jo Bell.

Co-ordinated by Apples & Snakes in association with Heaventree Press. The anthology editors are Julie Boden and Zoe Brigley.

JULIE BODEN was Birmingham Poet Laureate 2002/2003 and has conducted poetry workshops in schools, universities and libraries. Her poems, translated into Gujurati, are on the GSCE syllabus in India.

ZOË BRIGLEY is a Postgraduate Fellow at the University of Warwick. She has published poetry in various British journals and anthologies, and has won an Eric Gregory Award and a Welsh Academy Bursary. Her first book of poems, The Secret, will be published by Bloodaxe in 2007.

Launch Details in Midlands:
14th October 2007
Launch of Bluebeard's Wives anthology (Heaventree Press)
Venue: St George's Hotel, Lichfield.
Time: tba

15th October 2007
Launch of Bluebeard's Wives anthology (Heaventree Press) at the Birmingham Book Festival
Venue: The Library Theatre, Birmingham.
Time: 7.45pm

18th October 2007
Launch of the Bluebeard's Wives anthology (Heaventree Press) hosted by the Women Who Write group.
Venue: The Craft Gallery, Wolverhampton.
Time: 7.00 - 9.00pm

You can find the Bluebeard's Wives anthology online at Heaventree Press, Coventry.

Poetry London Autumn Issue Launch in London: Wednesday 17th October

Poetry London Autumn Launch

Wednesday October 17th
6.30pm
The Gallery, 2nd Floor, Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road
London WC2
(disabled access)
Nearest Tube: Tottenham Court Road

Launch of the Autumn 2007 issue of the Poetry London magazine. Readers include: Philip Gross, Jean Sprackland, Jo Shapcott, and Christine Webb (First Prize Winner in their 2007 Competition), plus Mick Wood, Caroline Bird, Emily Berry, Matthew Caley, Christina Dunhill and Linda Chase.

Doors 6pm, readings 6.30pm

Free entrance, free wine

New Poetry Festival at Derwent!

Inaugural Derwent Poetry Festival

27th-28th October 2007
Masson Mills, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire



This brand-new Poetry Festival opens with the Awards Event (free) for the 2007 Templar Poetry Pamphlet & Collection Competition, presented by this year's judge, Jean Sprackland - with readings by the 2007 Anthology Poets and followed by readings from the pamphlet winners, Pat Borthwick, Linda Cash and Pat Winslow and further readings from Jean Sprackland, Jane Weir, Mike Barlow, Derek Adams, Angela Cleland, Jim Caruth, Rob Hindle, Judy Brown and Simon Armitage.

For full programme and tickets visit www.templarpoetry.co.uk or phone the Box Office on 01629 582500.

The festival is held in the best preserved of Richard Arkwright's former Mills in the spectacular limestone gorge, part of the Derwent Valley World Heritage site. It can be reached from London by train to Derby and branch Derwent Valley line to Matlock Bath.

Jane Holland reads tomorrow as new Warwick Laureate

Jane Holland reads as Poet Laureate at Warwick Words Festival 2007

Warwick Words (4th - 7th Oct) is a popular literary festival with many events that feature more than 50 writers, poets, illustrators, storytellers and performance poets.

The sixth Warwick Words literary festival features Roy Hattersley, Anne Diamond, Charles Spencer, Will Hutton, Sophie Hannah, David Morley, Zoe Brigley, Dani Carbery, Sean Kelly, Helen Yendall, Jane Holland, Julie Boden, Norma Farnes, Nigel Rees, Pauline Prior-Pitt, Alison Weir, Phil Beadle and Michael Wood plus many more.

Jane Holland (editor of Poets on Fire) is the new Warwick Laureate!

You can hear Jane Holland read alongside the retiring Laureate Helen Yendall at a special Laureate Poetry event on Sunday 7th October, 10.30am - 12pm, at Cafe Chai in central Warwick.

For full listings and tickets go to www.warwickwords.co.uk.

BIG WORD, EDINBURGH: Thursday 18th October

THE BIG WORD in Edinburgh

@ THE JAZZ BAR
First cabaret of the season!
THURSDAY 18TH OCTOBER
8.30 doors, show 9-11.30pm.
£4/3 concs.

Featuring: KEVIN CADWALLENDER, Rachel Jury, ROBIN CAIRNS, The Big Word Slam Winners (Bram Gieben, Graeme Hawley, Stephen Barnaby) PLUS music from DOMINIC WAXING LYRICAL. Hosted by Jenny Lindsay. 07989 508 436

The Big Word's first cabaret of the season is upon us. Following an all new-style Slam in September, Big Word plans to keep the lyrical fires burning with a season of the best local, national, (and the occasional international) poets.

The bill features published poet KEVIN CADWALLENDER, who will read from his new collection Colouring In Guernica. Glasgow's finest, and host of Last Monday At Rio ROBIN CAIRNS , and Confab producer and poet RACHEL JURY make a welcome return. Not to be missed: the infamous and inimitable DOMINIC WAXING LYRICAL makes an appearance, PLUS the finalists from September's Slam STEPHEN BARNABY (3rd place), GRAEME HAWLEY (2nd) and BRAM GIEBEN!

Edinburgh's longest running and always evolving poetry cabaret guarantees to amuse, astonish and possibly make you choke on The Jazz Bar's finest hops. A wildly diverse bill kicks off the season, and continues on THE THIRD THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH.

Tobias Hill at CB1, plus Open Mic: Tuesday 9th October

Tobias Hill: Cambridge CB1 Poetry at Michaelhouse

Tuesday 9th October
8pm

Well-known and popular Salt poet Tobias Hill reads at CB1 poetry event plus guest support and open floor spots. Come along to listen and bring your own poems to read.

Please note the new venue for CB1: Michaelhouse, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1SU.
Entrance ?5/?3.
Contact Ian Cartland 07985 708422

Annie Freud entertains the Oxford University Poetry Society

Annie Freud at the Oxford University Poetry Society

Lincoln EPA Science Centre
Museum Road
Oxford OX1 3PX
Thursday 11th October 2007
7.45 for 8pm

The Best Man That Ever Was, Annie Freud's first full-length collection, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Membership of the society is £25 yearly or £10 termly
Readings are £3 to non-members
Please contact the secretary, clare.gardom@wadh.ox.ac.uk, to
be placed on the mailing list

Shearsman Poetry Readings: Wednesday 17th October

Shearsman Reading Series

Wednesday 17th October
7.30pm
The seventh in the Shearsman Reading Series takes place on Wednesday, 17 October at 7:30 pm, featuring ERIN MOURE, Canadian poet and translator, whose translation of Chus Pato's Charenton will be launched at the event. Erín will also read from her latest Canadian collection O Cadoiro (House of Anansi, Toronto, 2007).

We will also be launching the new issue of Shearsman magazine, no. 73/74, on the night, and three of the poets from the issue will give short readings: Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter and Rachel Lehrman.

The venue is
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH

Admission free, but we will pass the metaphorical hat for contributions.

The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 minutes' walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 minutes), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 minutes). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, underneath Bloomsbury Square. Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.

Further details here of the venue:
www.shearsman.com/pages/editorial/readings.html

here of Chus Pato's Shearsman title, Charenton:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2007/pato.html

& here of the new Shearsman magazine issue
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2007/sh73_74.html


The final reading in this year's series will be on Tuesday 20 November, but the readers are still to be confirmed.

Cheltenham Slam! Audience required for Friday 5th October

Cheltenham All Stars Festival Slam!

"Fancy a starring role in the UK's slam extravaganza? Then take a stanza on stage and see if your poetry and performance has what it takes to rival the best of the rest. Or come and join the applaudience - there's all to cheer for!"

Twenty poets only, first come first served, contact Marcus Moore on 01285 640470 or email info@spiel.wanadoo.co.uk

Free event, no ticket required

Friday 5th October 2007
8.30pm
Cheltenham Town Hall

Jane Holland reads tomorrow as new Warwick Laureate

Jane Holland reads as Poet Laureate at Warwick Words Festival 2007

Poetry, Literary & Spoken Word events across Warwick, 4 - 7 October 2007.

A popular literary festival with many events that feature more than 50 writers, poets, illustrators, storytellers and performance poets.

The sixth Warwick Words literary festival features Roy Hattersley, Anne Diamond, Charles Spencer, Will Hutton, Sophie Hannah, David Morley, Zoe Brigley, Dani Carbery, Sean Kelly, Helen Yendall, Jane Holland, Julie Boden, Norma Farnes, Nigel Rees, Pauline Prior-Pitt, Alison Weir, Phil Beadle and Michael Wood plus many more.

Jane Holland (editor of Poets on Fire) is the new Warwick Laureate!

You can hear Jane Holland read alongside the retiring Laureate Helen Yendall at a special Laureate Poetry event on Sunday 7th October, 10.30am - 12pm, at Cafe Chai in central Warwick.

For full listings and tickets go to www.warwickwords.co.uk.

Brothatalk-Sistaspeak: an Apples & Snakes production for Black History Month

Apples and Snakes presents Brothatalk-Sistaspeak

The Albany, Douglas Way, Deptford, London SE8 4AG
Friday 5th October
8pm

A diverse line-up of poets from across the country gather to celebrate Black History Month. London writers' collective Malika's Kitchen host the evening, which features the talents of Tonya Bolton, Talking Tekla the Narrata, Sheree Mack, Abi Idowu and Native.

£6 / £5 conc. / £4 under 25s

Box Office: 020 8692 4446
Book online: www.thealbany.org.uk

www.applesandsnakes.org

Poetry Cafe: 'Sex, Lies & History' for National Poetry Day 2007

National Poetry Day at The Poetry Cafe

The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BX
National Poetry Day: Thursday October 4th
7pm

Khadijatou Fraser presents "Sex, Lies and History," an acoustic and poetic evening.

Tel: 020 7420 9887
www.poetrysociety.org.uk

Dream Tour concludes in Belfast

Dream Tour concludes on National Poetry Day

The Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN
7.30pm
Thursday 4th October (National Poetry Day)

The conclusion of the tour on which Gywneth Lewis, Patience Agbabi, Gearóid MacLachlainn and Robert Crawford - respectively representing Wales, England, Northern Ireland and Scotland - performed in each of the UK's capital cities in the first week of October, building up to this final show on National Poetry Day itself. 04 October 2007.

Tickets £8 / £5.
To book call 028 9097 1070

National Poetry Day Reading & Open Mic from tall-lighthouse

National Poetry Day Reading

'tall-lighthouse' celebrates National Poetry Day

Komedia Studio Bar, Regent Street, Brighton BN1 1UN; 7.30pm

tall-lighthouse celebrates National Poetry Day as part of THE SOUTH's Brighton International Poetry Festival with readings from Neil Rollinson, Abi Curtis, Miceal Kearney (Cuisle Limerick Poetry Slam Champion) and other poets from Limerick in Ireland.

Plus open mic.

Thursday 4th October 2007.
£5 / £4 conc.
Friends of THE SOUTH receive a £1 discount.

Further details from brighton@tall-lighthouse.co.uk

Farrago National Poetry Day Slam!

Farrago National Poetry Day SLAM!

RADA Foyer Bar, Malet St, London WC1; 7.30pm (sign up from 7pm); open mic event with featured performances from Niall Spooner-Harvey (former London & UK SLAM! Champion), Ross Sutherland (Aisle 16), Georgina Banfield, MC Excentral Tempest and Riddle Woman. With music from New Zealand singer-songwriter Kath Tait. 04 October 2007.

MC: John Paul O'Neill

Open to ANY poet SLAM! Any subject or style, read or perform. Every poet wins a prize!

Information:

07905078376
farragopoetry@yahoo.co.uk
http://london.e-poets
www.myspace.com/farragopoetry

Buzzwords at the Cheltenham Festival

"Next Sunday, 7th October, Buzzwords will be at The Cheltenham Festival of Literature. (event 61 in the festival programme).

8pm onwards in the ‘Café Theatre’ (behind the Town Hall)

Two fabulous guest poets: Kei Miller and Clare Shaw

There will be a limited open mic – first come, first served.
Please note that we have to keep the open mic spots strictly to 3 minutes: if you intend to read a long poem then please rehearse (including any preamble) and time yourself.

There will be a raffle – proceeds to support ‘Buzzwords’
Tickets £5
Please note that if you want to get a ticket on the night, you will need to go to the box office (at the front of the Town Hall)

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Gloucestershire Writers

In other festival news – please support, if you can, the Gloucestershire Writers’ Network event (event 81) on Monday 8th October at 9pm at the Town Hall. This event is the only opportunity that the main festival provides for local writers so please support it if you are able. Tickets £4

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New Venue!

We have found a new venue: from November, Buzzwords will be upstairs at The Exmouth, Bath Road (opposite the co-op). The pub has been refurbished and now has a pretty function room that is ideal for us. This means that we will be able to return to the earlier start time of 7pm, which I know is easier for many people. There is a car park and if the pub car park is full, the ‘shoppers’ car park is just around the corner.

The new management at The Exmouth are being very helpful so do come and support us to show them how we can benefit the venue."

Angela France

Poetry & Stories at the Manchester Oktoberfest

Salt Poetry & More at the Manchester Oktoberfest

"On 11th October 2007 at 6:30pm we will open the doors to The First Transmission & Salt Literary Oktoberfest and we have quite a line-up.

Representing Salt will be:
Elizabeth Baines, reading from her collection, Balancing on the Edge of the World
Steven Waling, reading from his poetry collection, Travelator
Neil Campbell, reading from his collection, Broken Doll

On the Transmission Team, reading from their excellent recent contributions, we have:
NP Murgatroyd
Emma Stockwell
Andrew Michael Hurley

On hand to bridge the gap between our organisations will be the incomparable David Gaffney reading from his collection Sawn-off Tales and his hot-off-the-press Aromabingo.

If this wasn't enough, there'll also be a chance to browse and buy selected Salt and Transmission products!

The reading will take place on 11th October 2007 at 6:30pm in MMU's Geoffrey Manton Building on Oxford Road. It's also completely free!"

Jackie Kay and Roz Goddard at the Birmingham Festival

Jackie Kay - Poetry and Prose

CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, off Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2LF
Tickets: £9 (£7.50)
Friday 12 October 8.15 - 9.30pm
Box Office 0121 303 2323

Jackie Kay is one of our best loved writers, a gifted poet and novelist who has also written for children, a deeply thoughtful user of language and a wonderful performer of her work. With humour and sensuality her writing deftly explores issues of gender, sexuality, identity, racism and cultural differences.

Jackie comes to the Birmingham Festival to read from her new poetry collection, Darling (which includes favourite poems from her previous books along with new poems) and to talk about her life and writing.

PLUS

Writing from the Emptiness: Poetry Writing with Roz Goddard
The Studio, Cannon Street, off New Street, Birmingham, B2 5EP
Tickets: £17 (£14)
Saturday 13 October 10am - 12.30pm
Box Office 0121 246 2792

This poetry workshop will explore how we can let go of our daily concerns and distractions and find a place within ourselves that offers us the opportunity to write poetry without being over concerned with ideas and agendas. In other words: letting go in order to find the rich seam of creativity within each of us. The workshop will begin with a short meditation.

There are only limited places available on workshops. Please book in advance.
Workshop Saturday is sponsored by The Studio. The Studio's excellent restaurant will be open for lunch. For a full menu see www.studiovenues.co.uk

ALSO, FOR LOCALS!
Quick Event: Join us from 1pm to 1.30pm for a discussion on What Writers Need in the West Midlands.

Booking for the Birmingham Book Festival:
www.birminghambookfestival.org
*

Kei Miller Launch: TONIGHT, Tuesday 2nd October

Kei Miller launches 'There is an Anger that Moves'

The Calder Bookshop, 51 The Cut, London SE1 8LF
Tuesday 2nd October 2007
6.30pm



Jamaican-born poet Kei Miller launches his second collection, 'There is an Anger that Moves', published by Carcanet.
With readings, wine & refreshments
RSVP to Eleanor Crawforth: email: Eleanor@carcanet.co.uk or tel: 0161 834 8730

'Raise high the roofbeams, here comes a strong new presence in poetry...Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it speaks and sings with rare confidence and authority.' - Lorna Goodison

Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978. His first collection of short fiction, The Fear of Stones, was short-listed in 2007 for the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize. His first poetry collection, Kingdom of Empty Bellies, was published in March 2006 by Heaventree Press. He is also the editor of Carcanet's New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology. He has been a visiting writer at York University in Canada, the Department of Library Services in the British Virgin Islands and a Vera Ruben Fellow at Yaddo, and is currently a writer-in-residence at the University of Iowa. There Is an Anger That Moves will be published by Carcanet in October.

National Dream Tour kicks off today in LONDON

National Dream Tour

National Poetry Day brings you the Dream Tour – an opportunity to see four of our finest living poets performing from their work on stage.

Representing Wales, England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, the voices of Gywneth Lewis, Patience Agbabi, Gearóid MacLachlainn and Robert Crawford will bring contemporary poetry vividly alive in the UK’s capital cities during the first week of October, culminating on National Poetry Day itself.

This tour is made possible by our partners at Academi, the Poetry Society, the Scottish Poetry Library and the Seamus Heaney Centre.

London:
Monday October 1st, 7.30pm
The Arts Theatre, Great Newport Street, WC2H 7JB
Tickets £10 (£8 conc). To book call Ticketmaster on 0870 154 4040

Cardiff: Tuesday October 2nd, 7.30pm
Millennium Centre, Mount Stuart Square, CF10 5DP
Tickets £5 (£4). To book call 02920 472266 or post@academi.org

Edinburgh:
Wednesday October 3rd, 7.30pm
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 45 High Street, EH1 1SR
Tickets £8 (£5). To book call 0131 556 9579

Belfast:
Thursday October 4th, 7.30pm
The Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast, BT7 1NN
Tickets £8 (£5). To book call 028 9097 1070