Tuesday, October 13th, 2009, 7pm-9.30pm, FREE
ICA lounge-bar
ICA,
The Mall,
London
SW1Y 5AH
CAST: An all-Salt line-up of Mike Barlow, Vanessa Gebbie, Katy Evans-Bush, Jay Merill and Vincent De Souza
plus
guest Pen Pusher magazine, with editor Anna Goodall, and readers Roddy Lumsden and Sara Freeman
plus limited open mic slots
Hosted by Jay Merill and Vincent De Souza
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
LONDON: Lumen Poetry Series
Tuesday, 13th October, 2009, 6.30pm for 7pm, £4/£3, wine
LUMEN
88 Tavistock Place
WC1
Tubes: Russell Square, Kings Cross, St Pancras
An invitation to the launch of A Compression of Distances (Daphne Gloag), This Is The Woman Who (Claudia Jessop), plus a reading of Cuba In The Blood (Wendy Klein).
Poets from the floor also welcome. Please bring a copy of your poem if you wish to be considered for the anthology sponsored by Cinnamon Press in aid of the Cold Weather Shelter .
About the poet:
Daphne Gloag’s poetry has an extraordinary range of reference: to books, artists, architecture, place and the physical universe. What is remarkable about her writing is the way in which she investigates these interests and uses them to illuminate human experience, in particular her close relationship with the you the poems often address. Here is a distinctive voice, both enquiring and lyrical, which affirms life and celebrates love.
All proceeds to the Cold Weather Shelter.
LUMEN
88 Tavistock Place
WC1
Tubes: Russell Square, Kings Cross, St Pancras
An invitation to the launch of A Compression of Distances (Daphne Gloag), This Is The Woman Who (Claudia Jessop), plus a reading of Cuba In The Blood (Wendy Klein).
Poets from the floor also welcome. Please bring a copy of your poem if you wish to be considered for the anthology sponsored by Cinnamon Press in aid of the Cold Weather Shelter .
About the poet:
Daphne Gloag’s poetry has an extraordinary range of reference: to books, artists, architecture, place and the physical universe. What is remarkable about her writing is the way in which she investigates these interests and uses them to illuminate human experience, in particular her close relationship with the you the poems often address. Here is a distinctive voice, both enquiring and lyrical, which affirms life and celebrates love.
All proceeds to the Cold Weather Shelter.
LONDON: Museum of East Docklands
Thursday, October 1st, 2009, sign up from 630pm, start 7pm, FREE
FREE entry to both East Words and the Museum
Museum of London Docklands, West India Quay,
Canary Wharf, London E14 4AL
Nearest tube: Canary Wharf. DLR: West India Quay.
Facebook event: http://bit.ly/eastwords
Contact: 07912539098 / richardtyronejones@gmail.com
Join us for the most exhilarating poetry and spoken word talent London has to offer in a FREE evening hosted by Christopher Horton and Richard Tyrone Jones.
Featured poets: Todd Swift, Annie Brechin, Emily Berry, Luke Heeley, David Floyd.
The Museum will be open until 9pm and entry will be FREE. A cash bar will provide refreshments set against the backdrop of 2,000 years of Docklands history. No advance booking is required.
FREE entry to both East Words and the Museum
Museum of London Docklands, West India Quay,
Canary Wharf, London E14 4AL
Nearest tube: Canary Wharf. DLR: West India Quay.
Facebook event: http://bit.ly/eastwords
Contact: 07912539098 / richardtyronejones@gmail.com
Join us for the most exhilarating poetry and spoken word talent London has to offer in a FREE evening hosted by Christopher Horton and Richard Tyrone Jones.
Featured poets: Todd Swift, Annie Brechin, Emily Berry, Luke Heeley, David Floyd.
The Museum will be open until 9pm and entry will be FREE. A cash bar will provide refreshments set against the backdrop of 2,000 years of Docklands history. No advance booking is required.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
WARWICK: Peter Carpenter and Matt Nunn
Sunday, October 4th, 2009, 1pm, FREE
Kozi Bar,
Market Square,
Warwick.
A Warwick Words Festival Event
To celebrate the launch of Peter Carpenter's After The Goldrush and Matt Nunn's Sounds In The Grass from Nine Arches Press, the poets discuss their unique perspectives on the English landscape with poet and Director of the Warwick Writing Programme, David Morley.
Whether it is the post-industrial wayside spaces in-between the Midlands' cities and country of Matt Nunn's raw and subversive poems, or Peter Carpenter's subtle yet disarming work that inhabits the hinterlands of the commuter-belt South East, both have plenty to say about the environs in and about which they write.
Discover how poetry today interprets and reinvents the unexpected and often unsung places in which we find ourselves.
About these books:
AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
Peter Carpenter
Peter Carpenter’s poetry is radiant with quiet surprises, important moments captured in the folds of an old document wallet, in back gardens or on winter sea-fronts, buried in the sand or hidden by the noise of a football crowd. Such moments take flight to uncover a distinctive take on both ‘the here and now’ and the echoes of public and private histories. After the Goldrush is thus of its time and about time, in the attentive, skilful hands of a poet truly hitting his stride.
SOUNDS IN THE GRASS
Matt Nunn
Join Matt Nunn as he travels through the spaces that define us, taking in subjects as diverse as Mother Nature, the back catalogues of youth, breaking down at the greasy spoon and hitting the highways, all accompanied by generous and bittersweet helpings of food, sex and music. Matt Nunn’s third collection, following on from Apocalyptic Bubblegum and Happy cos I’m Blue is his most complete yet.
Kozi Bar,
Market Square,
Warwick.
A Warwick Words Festival Event
To celebrate the launch of Peter Carpenter's After The Goldrush and Matt Nunn's Sounds In The Grass from Nine Arches Press, the poets discuss their unique perspectives on the English landscape with poet and Director of the Warwick Writing Programme, David Morley.
Whether it is the post-industrial wayside spaces in-between the Midlands' cities and country of Matt Nunn's raw and subversive poems, or Peter Carpenter's subtle yet disarming work that inhabits the hinterlands of the commuter-belt South East, both have plenty to say about the environs in and about which they write.
Discover how poetry today interprets and reinvents the unexpected and often unsung places in which we find ourselves.
About these books:
AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
Peter Carpenter
Peter Carpenter’s poetry is radiant with quiet surprises, important moments captured in the folds of an old document wallet, in back gardens or on winter sea-fronts, buried in the sand or hidden by the noise of a football crowd. Such moments take flight to uncover a distinctive take on both ‘the here and now’ and the echoes of public and private histories. After the Goldrush is thus of its time and about time, in the attentive, skilful hands of a poet truly hitting his stride.
SOUNDS IN THE GRASS
Matt Nunn
Join Matt Nunn as he travels through the spaces that define us, taking in subjects as diverse as Mother Nature, the back catalogues of youth, breaking down at the greasy spoon and hitting the highways, all accompanied by generous and bittersweet helpings of food, sex and music. Matt Nunn’s third collection, following on from Apocalyptic Bubblegum and Happy cos I’m Blue is his most complete yet.
LONDON: Shearsman Reading Series
Tuesday, 6th October, 2009, 7.30pm, FREE
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London
WC1A 2TH
Entrance is around the corner on Barter Street.
Details of the new collections that will be launched on the evening:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/gardner.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/selerie.html
Biographical details may be found here:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/gardnerA.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/selerieA.html
Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London
WC1A 2TH
Entrance is around the corner on Barter Street.
Details of the new collections that will be launched on the evening:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/gardner.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/selerie.html
Biographical details may be found here:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/gardnerA.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/selerieA.html
Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.
LONDON: Tongue Fu
Thursday, October 8th, 2009, 8pm, £5
Rich Mix
35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road,
London,
E1 6LA
Box Office 020 7613 7498
Online: www.richmix.org.uk/bookings
Tongue Fu
Hosted by Ventriloquist and The Tongue Fu Band. Featuring poetic polemicist in residence Shane Solanki (Last Mango in Paris), with Dizraeli, Inua Ellams, Caroline Bird and Malik Marland.
At Tongue Fu, the finest spoken word artists from the UK and beyond are invited to flex their most potent lyrical moves to an improvised soundtrack of broken jazz from the Tongue Fu Band.
http://www.richmix.org.uk/aandc_whatson.htm
Rich Mix
35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road,
London,
E1 6LA
Box Office 020 7613 7498
Online: www.richmix.org.uk/bookings
Tongue Fu
Hosted by Ventriloquist and The Tongue Fu Band. Featuring poetic polemicist in residence Shane Solanki (Last Mango in Paris), with Dizraeli, Inua Ellams, Caroline Bird and Malik Marland.
At Tongue Fu, the finest spoken word artists from the UK and beyond are invited to flex their most potent lyrical moves to an improvised soundtrack of broken jazz from the Tongue Fu Band.
http://www.richmix.org.uk/aandc_whatson.htm
Buzzwords Poetry Night in Cheltenham
Buzzwords: Next Sunday, 4th October, upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road , Cheltenham
Guest poet - Katrina Porteous
Katrina is coming a long way - from Northumberland, so please come and support her!
7pm Workshop led by Katrina Porteous
8pm - Readings and open mic
Entrance: minimum £3, £5 if you are able
Guest poet - Katrina Porteous
Katrina is coming a long way - from Northumberland, so please come and support her!
7pm Workshop led by Katrina Porteous
8pm - Readings and open mic
Entrance: minimum £3, £5 if you are able
Monday, September 28, 2009
CHELMSFORD: I Scream Sunday
Sunday, 11th October, 2009, 6pm-10pm
Zen Noodle Bar,
86-87 Duke Street,
Chelmsford,
CM1 1JP
Tickets: in advance £2 (£6 family) - on the door £4 (£8 family)
family = 2 adults & 2 children under 16
email: voiceit2006@yahoo.co.uk
I Scream Sunday
Celebration! In Black and White, a Black History Month event
Josh Idehen (MC), Musa Okwonga, Efua Sey Koi-Larbi, Bryan Wilson, Dee Mardi, Anita Marie Sackett, Martin Reed, Adrian Green.
Music from Lee from the Doll Set Tones & Jazz Trio Zhong
plus poetry open mic.
Zen Noodle Bar,
86-87 Duke Street,
Chelmsford,
CM1 1JP
Tickets: in advance £2 (£6 family) - on the door £4 (£8 family)
family = 2 adults & 2 children under 16
email: voiceit2006@yahoo.co.uk
I Scream Sunday
Celebration! In Black and White, a Black History Month event
Josh Idehen (MC), Musa Okwonga, Efua Sey Koi-Larbi, Bryan Wilson, Dee Mardi, Anita Marie Sackett, Martin Reed, Adrian Green.
Music from Lee from the Doll Set Tones & Jazz Trio Zhong
plus poetry open mic.
CHELMSFORD: Big Day of Poetry
Saturday, 10th October, 2009
The Cramphorn Theatre,
Fairfield Road,
Chelmsford,
Essex
CM1 1JG
Big Day of Poetry
Evening:
John Hartley Williams, Kathryn Simmonds and Inua Ellams, plus competition winners reading introduced by adjudicator Jo Bell.
Afternoon:
Essex Poets: Jeremy Over, Joanna Ezekiel and Sally Festing.
Tall Lighthouse poets: Alex Brockhurst, Alan Buckley, Brendan Cleary, David Crystal and Helen Mort.
Plus open mic at 1.30pm (sign up from 1pm)
Full details: www.essex-poetry-festival.co.uk
The Cramphorn Theatre,
Fairfield Road,
Chelmsford,
Essex
CM1 1JG
Big Day of Poetry
Evening:
John Hartley Williams, Kathryn Simmonds and Inua Ellams, plus competition winners reading introduced by adjudicator Jo Bell.
Afternoon:
Essex Poets: Jeremy Over, Joanna Ezekiel and Sally Festing.
Tall Lighthouse poets: Alex Brockhurst, Alan Buckley, Brendan Cleary, David Crystal and Helen Mort.
Plus open mic at 1.30pm (sign up from 1pm)
Full details: www.essex-poetry-festival.co.uk
LONDON: Hammer and Tongue
Monday, October 12th, 2009, 7.30pm-11pm, £5/£4
Green Note Café
106 Parkway
Camden
London
London’s feistiest and finest slam night presents ‘astounding’ Welsh performer Rhian Edwards, with support from up-and-coming Londoner Alex Gwyther for the second night of our autumn season.
A poet and singer-song writer, Rhian’s poetry reflects her entanglement with musical rhythm and her pamphlet Parade the Fib (tall-lighthouse, 2008) was awarded the Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice for autumn 2008. Having delivered 300 stage, radio and festival performances worldwide since she started writing poetry six years ago, Rhian’s deliciously acid tongue and arresting characterisations leave audiences breathless. Her poems bristle with sensual wit, chronicling relationships young and old, personal portraits and the minutiae of life as we live it.
Winner of the Hammer and Tongue Braindrop slam in August, Alex is a fast ascending light in the UK spoken word scene. Having taken the title of Farrago slam champion earlier this year, Gwyther will be appearing alongside the One Taste collective and in Trafalgar Square as part of London’s Week of Peace in late September.
There are 8 slots up for grabs in the open slam - sign up from 7pm on the door to take a place for your chance to win a place in the H&T London final.
Contact: Michelle Madsen on 07809 236 133
http://twitter.com/hammerandtongue
http://www.myspace.com/hammerandtonguelondon
Green Note Café
106 Parkway
Camden
London
London’s feistiest and finest slam night presents ‘astounding’ Welsh performer Rhian Edwards, with support from up-and-coming Londoner Alex Gwyther for the second night of our autumn season.
A poet and singer-song writer, Rhian’s poetry reflects her entanglement with musical rhythm and her pamphlet Parade the Fib (tall-lighthouse, 2008) was awarded the Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice for autumn 2008. Having delivered 300 stage, radio and festival performances worldwide since she started writing poetry six years ago, Rhian’s deliciously acid tongue and arresting characterisations leave audiences breathless. Her poems bristle with sensual wit, chronicling relationships young and old, personal portraits and the minutiae of life as we live it.
Winner of the Hammer and Tongue Braindrop slam in August, Alex is a fast ascending light in the UK spoken word scene. Having taken the title of Farrago slam champion earlier this year, Gwyther will be appearing alongside the One Taste collective and in Trafalgar Square as part of London’s Week of Peace in late September.
There are 8 slots up for grabs in the open slam - sign up from 7pm on the door to take a place for your chance to win a place in the H&T London final.
Contact: Michelle Madsen on 07809 236 133
http://twitter.com/hammerandtongue
http://www.myspace.com/hammerandtonguelondon
GLASGOW: Last Monday at Rio
Monday September 28
The Rio cafe, 27 Hyndland Street
Glasgow
8pm - 10pm-ish FREE
At Partick's premier spoken word stage this month we host the effervescent and dynamic ANITA GOVAN. Anita is the performance poet made manifest, mixing radical verse with hypnotic repetitions, using props, whistles, whirlie things and instances of glorious unbridled noise to claim all adjacent airspace as her own. Don't miss.
The first hour of the evening features five minute spots at the mic from poets ranging through those of some standing to utter novices. Get yourself in amongst them by claiming a slot. Cairns is your compere. Contact him on robin.cairns@btconnect.com.
The Rio cafe, 27 Hyndland Street
Glasgow
8pm - 10pm-ish FREE
At Partick's premier spoken word stage this month we host the effervescent and dynamic ANITA GOVAN. Anita is the performance poet made manifest, mixing radical verse with hypnotic repetitions, using props, whistles, whirlie things and instances of glorious unbridled noise to claim all adjacent airspace as her own. Don't miss.
The first hour of the evening features five minute spots at the mic from poets ranging through those of some standing to utter novices. Get yourself in amongst them by claiming a slot. Cairns is your compere. Contact him on robin.cairns@btconnect.com.
GALWAY: Connacht Regional Heat for the All Ireland Poetry Grand Slam
Monday, September 28th, 2009, 9pm
The Crane Bar,
Sea Road,
Galway
North Beach Poetry Nights announces the Connacht Regional Heat for the All Ireland Poetry Grand Slam.
It i open to poets who
- are living in the Connacht region
- are over 18 years of age
- will perform two 3-minute, self-composed and memorized poems
- have registered for entry (no fee) at johnwa@iolfree.ie on or before 18th September.
There are 16 places in the regional heat, which will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. So register quickly!
Regional heats are also being held in Derry, Belfast, Dublin, Cork, Limerick during September.
Two winners from each province will go through to the All Ireland Grand Slamwhich is being hosted by North Beach Poetry Nights in the Crane Bar on Monday, October 26th.
Prizes for the Grand Slam winners are:
1st Prize-200 Euro
2nd prize-100 Euro
3rd Prize-50 Euro
info: john walsh @ 091-593290
North Beach Poetry Nights gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Arts Council and Galway City Council.
http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/2009/08/connacht-regional-final-for-all-ireland.html
The Crane Bar,
Sea Road,
Galway
North Beach Poetry Nights announces the Connacht Regional Heat for the All Ireland Poetry Grand Slam.
It i open to poets who
- are living in the Connacht region
- are over 18 years of age
- will perform two 3-minute, self-composed and memorized poems
- have registered for entry (no fee) at johnwa@iolfree.ie on or before 18th September.
There are 16 places in the regional heat, which will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. So register quickly!
Regional heats are also being held in Derry, Belfast, Dublin, Cork, Limerick during September.
Two winners from each province will go through to the All Ireland Grand Slamwhich is being hosted by North Beach Poetry Nights in the Crane Bar on Monday, October 26th.
Prizes for the Grand Slam winners are:
1st Prize-200 Euro
2nd prize-100 Euro
3rd Prize-50 Euro
info: john walsh @ 091-593290
North Beach Poetry Nights gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Arts Council and Galway City Council.
http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/2009/08/connacht-regional-final-for-all-ireland.html
Thursday, September 24, 2009
TONBRIDGE: Michael McKimm
Thursday 8th October, 2009, 7.30pm, £6
EM Forster Theatre,
Tonbridge School
Kent
e-mail: boxoffice@tonbridge-school.org
tel: 01732 304 241
Michael McKimm was born in Belfast in 1983 and grew up near the Giant’s Causeway. He graduated from the Warwick Writing Programme in 2004 and won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007. He lives in London, where he works for the Geological Society Library. His poetry is widely published, most recently in Dossier Journal (New York), Horizon Review, Magma, PN Review, The Warwick Review, The Wolf and The Best of Irish Poetry 2010 (edited by Matthew Sweeney). He has read his work throughout the UK and Ireland, including at the Ledbury Poetry Festival, the Stanza Festival and the Solstice Festival in Co. Kerry. Still This Need, his first full-length collection, was published by Heaventree in 2009.
EM Forster Theatre,
Tonbridge School
Kent
e-mail: boxoffice@tonbridge-school.org
tel: 01732 304 241
Michael McKimm was born in Belfast in 1983 and grew up near the Giant’s Causeway. He graduated from the Warwick Writing Programme in 2004 and won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007. He lives in London, where he works for the Geological Society Library. His poetry is widely published, most recently in Dossier Journal (New York), Horizon Review, Magma, PN Review, The Warwick Review, The Wolf and The Best of Irish Poetry 2010 (edited by Matthew Sweeney). He has read his work throughout the UK and Ireland, including at the Ledbury Poetry Festival, the Stanza Festival and the Solstice Festival in Co. Kerry. Still This Need, his first full-length collection, was published by Heaventree in 2009.
SOUTHEND: Allison McVety and Susan Utting
Wednesday, 7th October, 2009, 8pm, £2
Naval and Military Club,
20 Royal Terrace,
Southend-on-Sea,
Essex
SS1 1DU
Reading at Southend Poetry Group by Allison McVety and Susan Utting, as part of Essex Poetry Festival.
Naval and Military Club,
20 Royal Terrace,
Southend-on-Sea,
Essex
SS1 1DU
Reading at Southend Poetry Group by Allison McVety and Susan Utting, as part of Essex Poetry Festival.
ROCHFORD: Three Essex Poets
Friday, 2nd October, 2009, 8pm-9.30pm
Rochford Library,
8 Roche Close,
Rochford,
Essex
SS4 1PX
Three Essex poets, Derek Adams, Tim Cunningham and Adrian Green, read as part of Essex Poetry Festival.
Telephone: 01702 546 688 to book.
Rochford Library,
8 Roche Close,
Rochford,
Essex
SS4 1PX
Three Essex poets, Derek Adams, Tim Cunningham and Adrian Green, read as part of Essex Poetry Festival.
Telephone: 01702 546 688 to book.
KING'S LYNN: 25th Poetry Festival
Friday, September 25th to Sunday, September 27th
Thoresby College,
South Quay,
King's Lynn,
Norfolk
The 25th Festival has a special international theme, with Russian poet Larissa Miller, French poet Valerie Rouzeau and Basque poet Eli Toaretxipi. More familiar names include Pascale Petit, John Hartley Williams, and celebrating his 80th birthday at our Festival, Peter Porter.
Full details on the website: www.lynnlitfests.com
Thoresby College,
South Quay,
King's Lynn,
Norfolk
The 25th Festival has a special international theme, with Russian poet Larissa Miller, French poet Valerie Rouzeau and Basque poet Eli Toaretxipi. More familiar names include Pascale Petit, John Hartley Williams, and celebrating his 80th birthday at our Festival, Peter Porter.
Full details on the website: www.lynnlitfests.com
GALWAY: Artspace Studios reading
Friday, September 25th, 2009, 8pm
Artspace Studios,
7/8 Addley Park,
Liosban,
Tuam Road,
Galway
As part of Culture Night, Artspace Studios are hosting a poetry reading which will take place in conjunction with their exhibition of visual art.
The participating poets are Gerard Hanberry, Susan Millar DuMars, Celeste Augé and Kevin Higgins.
For details contact Artspace Studios on 091 773046 or email: artspacegalway@eircom.net
http://www.artspacegalway.com
Artspace Studios,
7/8 Addley Park,
Liosban,
Tuam Road,
Galway
As part of Culture Night, Artspace Studios are hosting a poetry reading which will take place in conjunction with their exhibition of visual art.
The participating poets are Gerard Hanberry, Susan Millar DuMars, Celeste Augé and Kevin Higgins.
For details contact Artspace Studios on 091 773046 or email: artspacegalway@eircom.net
http://www.artspacegalway.com
OUGHTERARD: Culture Night
Friday, September 25th, 2009, 8pm
Lake Hotel,
Oughterard
As part of Oughterard’s Culture Night event, the poets of the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre will take to the stage.
They will read from their recently published anthology Lady Gregory’s Townhouse, which includes poems by Mary Madec, Tom Lavelle, Denise Heneghan, Deirdre Kearney, Liam Duffy, Maureen Ryan, Des Kavanagh, Lorna Shaughnessy, Brian O’Connell, Rita O’Donoghue, Mary Hanlon, Jean Kavanagh, Susan Lindsay, Connie Masterson and Marie Cadden.
The event is organised by Oughterard Community Arts Group in association with Over The Edge.
For further details contact Anne Quinn, Village Bookshop, Moycullen, Co Galway, tel: 091 868612
http://www.galwayculturenight.com/
Lake Hotel,
Oughterard
As part of Oughterard’s Culture Night event, the poets of the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre will take to the stage.
They will read from their recently published anthology Lady Gregory’s Townhouse, which includes poems by Mary Madec, Tom Lavelle, Denise Heneghan, Deirdre Kearney, Liam Duffy, Maureen Ryan, Des Kavanagh, Lorna Shaughnessy, Brian O’Connell, Rita O’Donoghue, Mary Hanlon, Jean Kavanagh, Susan Lindsay, Connie Masterson and Marie Cadden.
The event is organised by Oughterard Community Arts Group in association with Over The Edge.
For further details contact Anne Quinn, Village Bookshop, Moycullen, Co Galway, tel: 091 868612
http://www.galwayculturenight.com/
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Cinnamon Press Launches this October
An invitation to the launch of A Compression of Distances (Daphne Gloag), This is the woman who (Claudia Jessop), plus a reading of Cuba in the Blood (Wendy Klein)
Tuesday 13th October.
6.30 for 7.00p.m.
LUMEN 88 Tavistock Place W.C.1 Tubes: Russell Square, Kings Cross, St Pancras. Entry £4/£3 Wine, proceeds to the Cold Weather Shelter.
Poets from the Floor also welcome. Please bring a copy of your poem if you wish to be considered for the anthology sponsored by Cinnamon Press in aid of the Cold Weather Shelter.
Rhymes Won't Wait
Supported by Ideas Tap (www.ideastap.com) and produced by Time Won’t Wait (www.timewontwait.com), Rhymes Won’t Wait is the beginning of a new world of spoken word. Fusing the art form with YOUR opinions on issues that matter – raising the profile, raising the stakes, taking it to the next level.
WE ARE: Thinking it’s the right time, it’s about time, for us to bring about a first-time event that will showcase a collective of London’s top spoken word talent whilst addressing socially-engaged issues which effect us all every day. The subject for the first event is 'CONFLICT'.
WE WANT: You to apply to be a part of the Rhymes Won’t Wait collective. If you love making words paint a picture of how you see the world, then we want to see them, hear them, read them. Get on it.
YOU CAN: Send us your poem, of up to 350 words, on conflict - what it means to you, your experiences with it, what you want to say about it.
YOU CAN: Send us audio clips of a conflict-themed poem / spoken word piece.
YOU CAN: Send us a video of a conflict-themed poem/spoken word piece. You can choose whether to be in it or not, but as with each method of submission ALL WORDS MUST BE YOUR OWN. Visit www.rhymeswontwait.ning.com for inspiration and more details.
Please send you submission with your name, age, email, phone number. You can add a few words about yourself too although we're happy to let your poetry do the talking.
But if there's something really special you need to share, like your mode of transport is fire-powered boots or your Granddad was in the A-Team, then do let us know.
CLOSING DATE: Thursday 15 OCTOBER 2009 Criteria: 18-30 year olds
WE WILL: Select up to 10 lucky finalists to become part of the Rhymes Won’t Wait Collective.
YOU WILL: Have a stage, a space to show your work off to the world, to shout about what you think and why. You will get workshops and training with some of London’s most respected and established superstar poets, writers, spoken word artists and rappers.
YOU WILL: With the group, create an exciting and unique spoken word show which will present your individual and collective responses to the theme of CONFLICT in a central London venue; to an audience of talent-spotters and with the support of your people, our people, all the people!
If you’re not feeling being on stage but would still like to contribute, please upload words, images, audio to do with CONFLICT onto our Ning site. This material will inform and inspire our rising spoken word stars and all work will be credited. Also, COME TO THE EVENT! Updates on dates and venue will be posted on Ning.com.
Send to: Sabrina@timewontwait.com Visit: www.rhymeswontwait.ning.com
WE ARE: Thinking it’s the right time, it’s about time, for us to bring about a first-time event that will showcase a collective of London’s top spoken word talent whilst addressing socially-engaged issues which effect us all every day. The subject for the first event is 'CONFLICT'.
WE WANT: You to apply to be a part of the Rhymes Won’t Wait collective. If you love making words paint a picture of how you see the world, then we want to see them, hear them, read them. Get on it.
YOU CAN: Send us your poem, of up to 350 words, on conflict - what it means to you, your experiences with it, what you want to say about it.
YOU CAN: Send us audio clips of a conflict-themed poem / spoken word piece.
YOU CAN: Send us a video of a conflict-themed poem/spoken word piece. You can choose whether to be in it or not, but as with each method of submission ALL WORDS MUST BE YOUR OWN. Visit www.rhymeswontwait.ning.com for inspiration and more details.
Please send you submission with your name, age, email, phone number. You can add a few words about yourself too although we're happy to let your poetry do the talking.
But if there's something really special you need to share, like your mode of transport is fire-powered boots or your Granddad was in the A-Team, then do let us know.
CLOSING DATE: Thursday 15 OCTOBER 2009 Criteria: 18-30 year olds
WE WILL: Select up to 10 lucky finalists to become part of the Rhymes Won’t Wait Collective.
YOU WILL: Have a stage, a space to show your work off to the world, to shout about what you think and why. You will get workshops and training with some of London’s most respected and established superstar poets, writers, spoken word artists and rappers.
YOU WILL: With the group, create an exciting and unique spoken word show which will present your individual and collective responses to the theme of CONFLICT in a central London venue; to an audience of talent-spotters and with the support of your people, our people, all the people!
If you’re not feeling being on stage but would still like to contribute, please upload words, images, audio to do with CONFLICT onto our Ning site. This material will inform and inspire our rising spoken word stars and all work will be credited. Also, COME TO THE EVENT! Updates on dates and venue will be posted on Ning.com.
Send to: Sabrina@timewontwait.com Visit: www.rhymeswontwait.ning.com
CO. DONEGAL: Blue Stacks Festival - Poetry Sunday
This intimate literary event is the last event of the Blue Stacks Festival 09, and is based this year at the Sand House Hotel, Rossnowlagh, with its beauty, ambience and wild ocean waves, offering a wonderful setting for those who write and those who want to soak up the mixture of spoken word and music that Donegal has to offer.
We are extending the literary offerings to include Saturday, October 3rd, hosting a range of creative short story writing and poetry workshops to cover new and advanced writers, adults and juniors. On Saturday night we have an enjoyable open mic and music evening. We are delighted once again to host the successful Poetry Sunday afternoon with readings from local and visiting writers. Whether you are a writer or just a lover of words you will enjoy all the weekend has to offer.
Saturday Oct. 3rd
Writing Workshops Sat. 2-30 : 5:00 cost €25
( A minimum of 6 names needed for workshops to be held.)
Creative Writing - for beginners or experienced writers who want to create new pieces during the workshop
Annie Deppe
Advanced Poetry – for poets interested in critiquing their work
Kevin Higgins
Short Story Writing - the principles involved in writing a successful short story
Ted Deppe
Creative Writing for Juniors - a workshop for 12 – 16 yr olds
Susan Millar Du Mars
Booking ; denise@donegal.net 087-6486079
“Literary Gems” on Sat 3rd Oct 09 @8:30 adm €10/8
Saturday night promises to offer a relaxed evening, with talented writers of the area, reading in an open mic “ literary Gems” session and music by singer songwriter Patrica Morris.
Poetry Sunday Oct 4th
Poetry Sunday will take place from 2. 30pm to 5.30pm at the Sand House Hotel with its medley of readings from local and visiting writers. Poets include:
Kathryn Daily, Imelda Maguire, Annie Deppe, Susan Millar Du Mars, Kevin Higgins, Ted Deppe, and local writers.
The author and publisher, John Throne, who wrote the very successful book The Donegal Woman, will also launch a new title from Drumkeen Press: At Miss Mulligans by Bridget O’Toole
Poetry Sunday Price € 15 & cons €12
Contact coordinator Denise Blake on 0876486079 or denise@donegal.net for details. Check out Sand House Hotel . Hotel rate ; €65 per per night B&B
contact: 071 9851777 or info@sandhouse.ie ref: Blue Stacks Festival
We are extending the literary offerings to include Saturday, October 3rd, hosting a range of creative short story writing and poetry workshops to cover new and advanced writers, adults and juniors. On Saturday night we have an enjoyable open mic and music evening. We are delighted once again to host the successful Poetry Sunday afternoon with readings from local and visiting writers. Whether you are a writer or just a lover of words you will enjoy all the weekend has to offer.
Saturday Oct. 3rd
Writing Workshops Sat. 2-30 : 5:00 cost €25
( A minimum of 6 names needed for workshops to be held.)
Creative Writing - for beginners or experienced writers who want to create new pieces during the workshop
Annie Deppe
Advanced Poetry – for poets interested in critiquing their work
Kevin Higgins
Short Story Writing - the principles involved in writing a successful short story
Ted Deppe
Creative Writing for Juniors - a workshop for 12 – 16 yr olds
Susan Millar Du Mars
Booking ; denise@donegal.net 087-6486079
“Literary Gems” on Sat 3rd Oct 09 @8:30 adm €10/8
Saturday night promises to offer a relaxed evening, with talented writers of the area, reading in an open mic “ literary Gems” session and music by singer songwriter Patrica Morris.
Poetry Sunday Oct 4th
Poetry Sunday will take place from 2. 30pm to 5.30pm at the Sand House Hotel with its medley of readings from local and visiting writers. Poets include:
Kathryn Daily, Imelda Maguire, Annie Deppe, Susan Millar Du Mars, Kevin Higgins, Ted Deppe, and local writers.
The author and publisher, John Throne, who wrote the very successful book The Donegal Woman, will also launch a new title from Drumkeen Press: At Miss Mulligans by Bridget O’Toole
Poetry Sunday Price € 15 & cons €12
Contact coordinator Denise Blake on 0876486079 or denise@donegal.net for details. Check out Sand House Hotel . Hotel rate ; €65 per per night B&B
contact: 071 9851777 or info@sandhouse.ie ref: Blue Stacks Festival
LONDON: LitroLive
Thursday, September 24th, 2009, 6pm-midnight
An evening of live words and music devoted to food, glorious food at St. Pancras International Station
LitroLive! returns to St. Pancras International Station for a night of live spoken word and music (with exotic cookery in the melting pot), exploring the many ways in which food infuses our imaginations.
LitroLive! partners – for the second time this Summer – with St. Pancras International Station and the Betjeman Arms, bringing Litro's inventiveness – as well as an armful of artists, established and new – to Londoners, commuters, and lovers of the spoken and sung word. LitroLive! takes place during St Pancras's Foodie Fortnight, and we'll be entering into the spirit, with many of our artists performing new commissions on a gastronomic theme.
Ian Kelly (www.iankelly.net)
An evening of live words and music devoted to food, glorious food at St. Pancras International Station
LitroLive! returns to St. Pancras International Station for a night of live spoken word and music (with exotic cookery in the melting pot), exploring the many ways in which food infuses our imaginations.
LitroLive! partners – for the second time this Summer – with St. Pancras International Station and the Betjeman Arms, bringing Litro's inventiveness – as well as an armful of artists, established and new – to Londoners, commuters, and lovers of the spoken and sung word. LitroLive! takes place during St Pancras's Foodie Fortnight, and we'll be entering into the spirit, with many of our artists performing new commissions on a gastronomic theme.
Ian Kelly (www.iankelly.net)
BIRMINGHAM: Rhymes
Thursday, September 24th, 2009, 8pm, £5
The Mixing Bowl Theatre@The Custard Factory
Birmingham
The Best of Birmingham’s Performance Poetry
Marcus Taylor started performing his own poetry through the encouragement and tutelage of Wrote Under's Sunday Express. He has a large quantity of self penned 'straight' poetry and a small collection of 'comedic' poetry and supported John Cooper Clarke as part of last year's Comedy Festival
Dave Reeves was editor of Raw Edge Magazine for 13 years and now presents a spoken word and music show for www..radiowildfire.com, the internet spoken word broadcaster and has had work commissioned by BBC Radios 4 & 5.
Kerry Orange writes poems that combine a sense of place with intimate memories. His work is full of play with sounds as well as details of towns, landscapes and journeys. He is also guitarist and singer of The Orange, whose debut album Concealed Exit is available on itunes.
Kimmy Sue Ann, freshly arrived from her most recent bemused and accidental appearances on1click2fame talent show, is dysfunctional and proud of it and regales audiences with recitations of her poetry wot has got social comment in it. Innit. Visit www.1click2fame for a sneak preview.
MC Lorna Meehan
Plus The Rhymes Raffle and The Wordbag Challenge!
The Mixing Bowl Theatre@The Custard Factory
Birmingham
The Best of Birmingham’s Performance Poetry
Marcus Taylor started performing his own poetry through the encouragement and tutelage of Wrote Under's Sunday Express. He has a large quantity of self penned 'straight' poetry and a small collection of 'comedic' poetry and supported John Cooper Clarke as part of last year's Comedy Festival
Dave Reeves was editor of Raw Edge Magazine for 13 years and now presents a spoken word and music show for www..radiowildfire.com, the internet spoken word broadcaster and has had work commissioned by BBC Radios 4 & 5.
Kerry Orange writes poems that combine a sense of place with intimate memories. His work is full of play with sounds as well as details of towns, landscapes and journeys. He is also guitarist and singer of The Orange, whose debut album Concealed Exit is available on itunes.
Kimmy Sue Ann, freshly arrived from her most recent bemused and accidental appearances on1click2fame talent show, is dysfunctional and proud of it and regales audiences with recitations of her poetry wot has got social comment in it. Innit. Visit www.1click2fame for a sneak preview.
MC Lorna Meehan
Plus The Rhymes Raffle and The Wordbag Challenge!
LONDON: Ride The Word XV
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009, 7pm-9.15pm, FREE
The CAFE YUMCHAA
45 Berwick Street,
Soho,
London
W1
Cast: Vincent De Souza, Tania Hershman, Jeremy Worman, Richard Dyer, Jay Merill
plus floor spots, by popular demand, on first-come, first-served basis.
Hosted by Jay Merill and Vincent de Souza
The CAFE YUMCHAA
45 Berwick Street,
Soho,
London
W1
Cast: Vincent De Souza, Tania Hershman, Jeremy Worman, Richard Dyer, Jay Merill
plus floor spots, by popular demand, on first-come, first-served basis.
Hosted by Jay Merill and Vincent de Souza
GALWAY: October Over The Edge Open Reading
Thursday, September 24th, 2009, 6.30pm-8pm
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway
Featured readers are Marcella Morgan, Shane Ó Maoildhia and Bernadette Cremin.
Marcella Morgan is originally from Maynooth, but has been living in Galway for the past year and a half. She spends her days fixin’ troushers in an alterations shop in town, and her nights writing poems about her angry womb. She has attended several writing workshops with Susan Millar DuMars where she learnt how to make a bomb using bread soda, an empty beer can and a thong. Susan also taught her how to spell trousers. Marcella has been short-listed for 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year.
Shane Ó Maoildhia is from Carraroe in Connemara. He has been writing poetry since primary school. In May 2008 he attended a series of writing classes with Susan Millar DuMars to get some constructive criticism on his poetry, and started writing short stories. He graduated with a science degree from NUI Galway in 2005, and hopes to be teaching English in Japan this time next year. Shane has been short-listed for 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year.
Bernadette Cremin lives in Brighton and has previously worked as a social worker, tea lady, sociology lecturer, TEFL teacher, bank clerk and waitress. She has published two collections of poetry, the award winning Perfect Mess (Biscuit Publishing, 2005) and Speechless (Waterloo Press, 2007). Bernadette has won a Year Of The Artist award, a performance poetry bursary and been published widely in the UK and Ireland. Her work featured in last year’s Forward Book of Poetry. She is currently doing a whistle stop reading tour of Ireland.
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 evening will also see the announcement of the winners of the 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars.
For further details phone 087-6431748.
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway
Featured readers are Marcella Morgan, Shane Ó Maoildhia and Bernadette Cremin.
Marcella Morgan is originally from Maynooth, but has been living in Galway for the past year and a half. She spends her days fixin’ troushers in an alterations shop in town, and her nights writing poems about her angry womb. She has attended several writing workshops with Susan Millar DuMars where she learnt how to make a bomb using bread soda, an empty beer can and a thong. Susan also taught her how to spell trousers. Marcella has been short-listed for 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year.
Shane Ó Maoildhia is from Carraroe in Connemara. He has been writing poetry since primary school. In May 2008 he attended a series of writing classes with Susan Millar DuMars to get some constructive criticism on his poetry, and started writing short stories. He graduated with a science degree from NUI Galway in 2005, and hopes to be teaching English in Japan this time next year. Shane has been short-listed for 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year.
Bernadette Cremin lives in Brighton and has previously worked as a social worker, tea lady, sociology lecturer, TEFL teacher, bank clerk and waitress. She has published two collections of poetry, the award winning Perfect Mess (Biscuit Publishing, 2005) and Speechless (Waterloo Press, 2007). Bernadette has won a Year Of The Artist award, a performance poetry bursary and been published widely in the UK and Ireland. Her work featured in last year’s Forward Book of Poetry. She is currently doing a whistle stop reading tour of Ireland.
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 evening will also see the announcement of the winners of the 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars.
For further details phone 087-6431748.
Linton Kwesi Johnson, London
Photo of Linton Kwesi Johnson by Rankin
WEDNESDAY 7 OCTOBER
LINTON KWESI JOHNSON HEADLINES TUC's POETRY NIGHT
In a highly innovative move the Trades Union Congress has chosen poetry as a way to celebrate the cause of 'decent work'. Wednesday 7 October sees a superb line up of poets united around the the theme of 'Rhyme, Rhythm & Reason.' Headlining will be the legendary Linton Kwesi Johnson, making a rare London live appearance. Linton will be showcasing his work of dissenting poetry, with fellow dub poet, the incomparable Jean 'Binta' Breeze. The night also features one of the best of a new generation of young spoken word artists, poet Laura Dockrill, see http://www.myspace.com/lauradockrill
And opening the night, Congolese band, The Zong Zing All Stars.
Combining the rhyme and the rhythm with some reason will be TUC Deputy General Secretary Frances O' Grady and Paul Mason author of Meltdown : The End of the Age of Greed.
Rhyme Rhythm & Reason is a TUC night out for the 'World Day for Decent Work'. This global campaign demands that Decent work must be at the centre of government actions to bring back economic growth and build a new global economy that puts people first. The campaign defines 'decent work' as founded on recognition of trade union rights, accountable governance and sustainable, green investment. With activities from Australia to Zanzibar the TUC concert is a major contribution to the day's international impact.
Wednesday 7 October, advance booking is strongly advised. At TUC Congress Centre. 23-28 Great Russell Street, London WC1.
Tickets are just just £9.99. Booking from here
Or call 020 8802 3499
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Poetry Bites, Birmingham: Tuesday 22nd September
IN VIEW OF THE LARGE NUMBER OF READERS AT RECENT POETRY BITES, I CAN'T GUARANTEE A SPOT TO ANYONE SIGNING UP AFTER 7.30. CONTACT ME IF YOU WANT TO SIGN UP IN ADVANCE.
Jacqui
POETRY BITES AT THE KITCHEN GARDEN CAFE WITH NIGEL McLOUGHLIN
Born in Enniskillen, Nigel McLoughlin teaches Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire. His latest collection, Chora: New and Selected Poems is published by Templar.
Poetry Bites also includes floor spots where you can share your own poetry with an appreciative audience. Please arrive early to book a spot.
7.30pm, Tuesday 22nd September, 2009 (Food available from 6.30pm)
Kitchen Garden Café , 17 York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7SA
£5 (£4) To reserve a place email jacquirowe@hotmail.co.uk or pay at the door.
“One of the top 10 venues for poetry in the UK” – Radio 4 poet, Susan Richardson
24th November – Poetry Bites at the Kitchen Garden Cafe with Angela France
www.jacquirowe.com
Jacqui
POETRY BITES AT THE KITCHEN GARDEN CAFE WITH NIGEL McLOUGHLIN
Born in Enniskillen, Nigel McLoughlin teaches Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire. His latest collection, Chora: New and Selected Poems is published by Templar.
Poetry Bites also includes floor spots where you can share your own poetry with an appreciative audience. Please arrive early to book a spot.
7.30pm, Tuesday 22nd September, 2009 (Food available from 6.30pm)
Kitchen Garden Café , 17 York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham, B14 7SA
£5 (£4) To reserve a place email jacquirowe@hotmail.co.uk or pay at the door.
“One of the top 10 venues for poetry in the UK” – Radio 4 poet, Susan Richardson
24th November – Poetry Bites at the Kitchen Garden Cafe with Angela France
www.jacquirowe.com
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Two Glasgow Events
Last Monday at Rio
Monday September 28
The Rio cafe, 27 Hyndland Street
Glasgow
8pm - 10pm-ish FREE
At Partick's premier spoken word stage this month we host the effervescent and dynamic ANITA GOVAN. Anita is the performance poet made manifest, mixing radical verse with hypnotic repetitions, using props, whistles, whirlie things and instances of glorious unbridled noise to claim all adjacent airspace as her own. Don't miss.
The first hour of the evening features five minute spots at the mic from poets ranging through those of some standing to utter novices. Get yourself in amongst them by claiming a slot. Cairns is your compere. Contact him on robin.cairns@btconnect.com.
THE GLASGOW SLAM, October 09
The Rio Cafe
27 Hyndland Street, Glasgow
Sunday 4th October - 8pm
Admission Free
Poets from all parts are invited to test their rubber claws in the Teddy-bear-pit of Slam Competition. Usual Glasgow rules. Everyone goes up to the mic twice, 2 minutes each time. (Don't run over, you will be honked off) The panel of judges will mark for poem, for performance and for audience reaction. The three highest scorers go through to the final on the night in which they have 3 minutes to try to snag the prize money and the title of Glasgow Slam Champion. (£50 for the winner).
Enter by contacting robin.cairns@btconnect.com
Come and have a go if you think you're bard enough!
Monday September 28
The Rio cafe, 27 Hyndland Street
Glasgow
8pm - 10pm-ish FREE
At Partick's premier spoken word stage this month we host the effervescent and dynamic ANITA GOVAN. Anita is the performance poet made manifest, mixing radical verse with hypnotic repetitions, using props, whistles, whirlie things and instances of glorious unbridled noise to claim all adjacent airspace as her own. Don't miss.
The first hour of the evening features five minute spots at the mic from poets ranging through those of some standing to utter novices. Get yourself in amongst them by claiming a slot. Cairns is your compere. Contact him on robin.cairns@btconnect.com.
THE GLASGOW SLAM, October 09
The Rio Cafe
27 Hyndland Street, Glasgow
Sunday 4th October - 8pm
Admission Free
Poets from all parts are invited to test their rubber claws in the Teddy-bear-pit of Slam Competition. Usual Glasgow rules. Everyone goes up to the mic twice, 2 minutes each time. (Don't run over, you will be honked off) The panel of judges will mark for poem, for performance and for audience reaction. The three highest scorers go through to the final on the night in which they have 3 minutes to try to snag the prize money and the title of Glasgow Slam Champion. (£50 for the winner).
Enter by contacting robin.cairns@btconnect.com
Come and have a go if you think you're bard enough!
Thursday, September 17, 2009
LitroLive at St. Pancras Station, Sept. 24th
LitroLive! September 24th, 6pm-midnight - an evening of live words and music devoted to food, glorious food
St. Pancras International Station
On Thursday 24th September, from 6pm to midnight, LitroLive! returns to St. Pancras International Station for a night of live spoken word and music (with exotic cookery in the melting pot), exploring the many ways in which food infuses our imaginations.
LitroLive! partners – for the second time this Summer – with St. Pancras International Station and the Betjeman Arms, bringing Litro's inventiveness – as well as an armful of artists, established and new – to Londoners, commuters, and lovers of the spoken and sung word. LitroLive! takes place during St Pancras's Foodie Fortnight, and we'll be entering into the spirit, with many of our artists performing new commissions on a gastronomic theme.
Ian Kelly (www.iankelly.net)
St. Pancras International Station
On Thursday 24th September, from 6pm to midnight, LitroLive! returns to St. Pancras International Station for a night of live spoken word and music (with exotic cookery in the melting pot), exploring the many ways in which food infuses our imaginations.
LitroLive! partners – for the second time this Summer – with St. Pancras International Station and the Betjeman Arms, bringing Litro's inventiveness – as well as an armful of artists, established and new – to Londoners, commuters, and lovers of the spoken and sung word. LitroLive! takes place during St Pancras's Foodie Fortnight, and we'll be entering into the spirit, with many of our artists performing new commissions on a gastronomic theme.
Ian Kelly (www.iankelly.net)
October event, advance notification!
Join us for the most exhilarating poetry and spoken word talent London has to offer in a FREE evening hosted by Christopher Horton and Richard Tyrone Jones.
Open mic signup from 630pm, start time 7pm, Thurs Oct 1st 2009
FREE entry to both East Words and the Museum
Museum of London Docklands, West India Quay,
Canary Wharf, London E14 4AL
Nearest tube: Canary Wharf. DLR: West India Quay.
Facebook event: http://bit.ly/eastwords
Contact: 07912539098 / richardtyronejones@gmail.com
Featured poets: Todd Swift, Annie Brechin, Emily Berry, Luke Heeley, David Floyd.
The Museum will be open until 9pm and entry will be FREE. A cash bar will provide refreshments set against the backdrop of 2,000 years of Docklands history. No advance booking is required.
--
Richard Tyrone Jones
Poet, host and Director of 'Utter!' spoken word
http://twitter.com/rtyronejones
www.utterspokenword.com
Open mic signup from 630pm, start time 7pm, Thurs Oct 1st 2009
FREE entry to both East Words and the Museum
Museum of London Docklands, West India Quay,
Canary Wharf, London E14 4AL
Nearest tube: Canary Wharf. DLR: West India Quay.
Facebook event: http://bit.ly/eastwords
Contact: 07912539098 / richardtyronejones@gmail.com
Featured poets: Todd Swift, Annie Brechin, Emily Berry, Luke Heeley, David Floyd.
The Museum will be open until 9pm and entry will be FREE. A cash bar will provide refreshments set against the backdrop of 2,000 years of Docklands history. No advance booking is required.
--
Richard Tyrone Jones
Poet, host and Director of 'Utter!' spoken word
http://twitter.com/rtyronejones
www.utterspokenword.com
Music and Spoken Word in Hackney, 21st September
Hackney Unemployed Workers Action Group
Present:
An evening of food, live spoken word and DJs
Featuring: Kate Tempest - inspirational young MC-poet from South London, currently blazing a trail across the spoken word world. Catch her while you still can afford to!
Jonny Fluffypunk - the 'pastoral nihilist' famous for his comic insight born of bitter experience.
HKB Finn - Former Katch 22 MC and front man in an 'acoustic-afro-hiphop' band. Mojo said of his latest album that this "ruminative and politically insightful record confirms his status as an innovator...Urban album of the year"
Angry Sam - Hammer and Tongue host: "Sam kills the crowd softly with rare wit and a laid back style that softens the knife wounds left by his acid political poetics and searing urban imagery."
Raising money to support the unemployed in Hackney
3 pound donation on the door.
Monday 21st September 7-11pm, Pogo Cafe, 76 Clarence Road, Hackney, E5
(London Campaign Against Poverty)
Present:
An evening of food, live spoken word and DJs
Featuring: Kate Tempest - inspirational young MC-poet from South London, currently blazing a trail across the spoken word world. Catch her while you still can afford to!
Jonny Fluffypunk - the 'pastoral nihilist' famous for his comic insight born of bitter experience.
HKB Finn - Former Katch 22 MC and front man in an 'acoustic-afro-hiphop' band. Mojo said of his latest album that this "ruminative and politically insightful record confirms his status as an innovator...Urban album of the year"
Angry Sam - Hammer and Tongue host: "Sam kills the crowd softly with rare wit and a laid back style that softens the knife wounds left by his acid political poetics and searing urban imagery."
Raising money to support the unemployed in Hackney
3 pound donation on the door.
Monday 21st September 7-11pm, Pogo Cafe, 76 Clarence Road, Hackney, E5
(London Campaign Against Poverty)
Monday, September 14, 2009
LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT
Sunday, September 27th, 2009, 7.30pm, £3/£2
The Stables,
Newbold Comyn Arms,
Leamington Spa
Our special guest for September is the much acclaimed (and also comes highly recommended by our guest MC this month, the lovely Mark Niel)...Andre Mangeot
André Mangeot lives and works in Cambridge, UK. He has published two poetry collections to date: Natural Causes (Shoestring, 2003) and Mixer (Egg Box, 2005) along with a book of short stories, A Little Javanese (Salt, 2008). A second volume is due in early 2010 and he is currently working on a novel set in Romania. He has won recent prizes in many leading UK poetry competitions such as the Bridport and Scottish National (twice). He was a finalist in the Hammer & Tongue London Poetry Slam earlier this year and is a member of the poetry performance collective The Joy of Six which has performed at festivals across England & Wales and in New York.
“One of the best performers we’ve seen – entertaining, humane, poignant – a natural poetic voice.” (Leicester Poetry Society)
“There's an element of Raymond Carver about these poems, in their humanity, their poignancy, their story-telling tightness … “ (George Szirtes)
“Mixer’ is a glorious book.- he looks through a glass (or bottle) brightly at so many aspects of humanity ... great premise, excellent execution.” (Alicia Ostriker, US poet)
With open mic support from…….yes……YOU!
Come and share your poems - seasoned poets & first time performers most welcome! We aim for a 7.30pm start so please arrive a bit earlier to book a slot!!!
If you're planning to come along, or would like to know more about the night, please email pgrpoetryandpints@talktalk.net
The Stables,
Newbold Comyn Arms,
Leamington Spa
Our special guest for September is the much acclaimed (and also comes highly recommended by our guest MC this month, the lovely Mark Niel)...Andre Mangeot
André Mangeot lives and works in Cambridge, UK. He has published two poetry collections to date: Natural Causes (Shoestring, 2003) and Mixer (Egg Box, 2005) along with a book of short stories, A Little Javanese (Salt, 2008). A second volume is due in early 2010 and he is currently working on a novel set in Romania. He has won recent prizes in many leading UK poetry competitions such as the Bridport and Scottish National (twice). He was a finalist in the Hammer & Tongue London Poetry Slam earlier this year and is a member of the poetry performance collective The Joy of Six which has performed at festivals across England & Wales and in New York.
“One of the best performers we’ve seen – entertaining, humane, poignant – a natural poetic voice.” (Leicester Poetry Society)
“There's an element of Raymond Carver about these poems, in their humanity, their poignancy, their story-telling tightness … “ (George Szirtes)
“Mixer’ is a glorious book.- he looks through a glass (or bottle) brightly at so many aspects of humanity ... great premise, excellent execution.” (Alicia Ostriker, US poet)
With open mic support from…….yes……YOU!
Come and share your poems - seasoned poets & first time performers most welcome! We aim for a 7.30pm start so please arrive a bit earlier to book a slot!!!
If you're planning to come along, or would like to know more about the night, please email pgrpoetryandpints@talktalk.net
GALWAY: Connacht Regional Heat for the All Ireland Poetry Grand Slam
Monday, September 28th, 2009, 9pm
The Crane Bar,
Sea Road,
Galway
North Beach Poetry Nights announces the Connacht Regional Heat for the All Ireland Poetry Grand Slam.
It i open to poets who
- are living in the Connacht region
- are over 18 years of age
- will perform two 3-minute, self-composed and memorized poems
- have registered for entry (no fee) at johnwa@iolfree.ie on or before 18th September.
There are 16 places in the regional heat, which will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. So register quickly!
Regional heats are also being held in Derry, Belfast, Dublin, Cork, Limerick during September.
Two winners from each province will go through to the All Ireland Grand Slamwhich is being hosted by North Beach Poetry Nights in the Crane Bar on Monday, October 26th.
Prizes for the Grand Slam winners are:
1st Prize-200 Euro
2nd prize-100 Euro
3rd Prize-50 Euro
info: john walsh @ 091-593290
North Beach Poetry Nights gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Arts Council and Galway City Council.
http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/2009/08/connacht-regional-final-for-all-ireland.html
The Crane Bar,
Sea Road,
Galway
North Beach Poetry Nights announces the Connacht Regional Heat for the All Ireland Poetry Grand Slam.
It i open to poets who
- are living in the Connacht region
- are over 18 years of age
- will perform two 3-minute, self-composed and memorized poems
- have registered for entry (no fee) at johnwa@iolfree.ie on or before 18th September.
There are 16 places in the regional heat, which will be given on a first-come, first-served basis. So register quickly!
Regional heats are also being held in Derry, Belfast, Dublin, Cork, Limerick during September.
Two winners from each province will go through to the All Ireland Grand Slamwhich is being hosted by North Beach Poetry Nights in the Crane Bar on Monday, October 26th.
Prizes for the Grand Slam winners are:
1st Prize-200 Euro
2nd prize-100 Euro
3rd Prize-50 Euro
info: john walsh @ 091-593290
North Beach Poetry Nights gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Arts Council and Galway City Council.
http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/2009/08/connacht-regional-final-for-all-ireland.html
LONDON: The Poets in the Anthology
Friday, September 18th, 2009, 7pm (doors open 6.30pm), £4/£3, wine
Trinity United Reform Church,
1 Buck St,
Camden Town
(2 minutes Camden Town tube)
Ruth O'Callaghan presents The Poets in the Anthology, plus Alan Brownjohn. Poets from the floor very welcome.
Cinnamon Press is our new sponsor. Please bring a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.
Proceeds to the Cold Weather Shelter for the Homeless.
Trinity United Reform Church,
1 Buck St,
Camden Town
(2 minutes Camden Town tube)
Ruth O'Callaghan presents The Poets in the Anthology, plus Alan Brownjohn. Poets from the floor very welcome.
Cinnamon Press is our new sponsor. Please bring a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.
Proceeds to the Cold Weather Shelter for the Homeless.
Friday, September 11, 2009
KING'S LYNN: 25th Poetry Festival
Friday, September 25th to Sunday, September 27th
Thoresby College,
South Quay,
King's Lynn,
Norfolk
The 25th Festival has a special international theme, with Russian poet Larissa Miller, French poet Valerie Rouzeau and Basque poet Eli Toaretxipi. More familiar names include Pascale Petit, John Hartley Williams, and celebrating his 80th birthday at our Festival, Peter Porter.
Full details on the website: www.lynnlitfests.com
Thoresby College,
South Quay,
King's Lynn,
Norfolk
The 25th Festival has a special international theme, with Russian poet Larissa Miller, French poet Valerie Rouzeau and Basque poet Eli Toaretxipi. More familiar names include Pascale Petit, John Hartley Williams, and celebrating his 80th birthday at our Festival, Peter Porter.
Full details on the website: www.lynnlitfests.com
GALWAY: Artspace Studios reading
Friday, September 25th, 2009, 8pm
Artspace Studios,
7/8 Addley Park,
Liosban,
Tuam Road,
Galway
As part of Culture Night, Artspace Studios are hosting a poetry reading which will take place in conjunction with their exhibition of visual art.
The participating poets are Gerard Hanberry, Susan Millar DuMars, Celeste Augé and Kevin Higgins.
For details contact Artspace Studios on 091 773046 or email: artspacegalway@eircom.net
http://www.artspacegalway.com
Artspace Studios,
7/8 Addley Park,
Liosban,
Tuam Road,
Galway
As part of Culture Night, Artspace Studios are hosting a poetry reading which will take place in conjunction with their exhibition of visual art.
The participating poets are Gerard Hanberry, Susan Millar DuMars, Celeste Augé and Kevin Higgins.
For details contact Artspace Studios on 091 773046 or email: artspacegalway@eircom.net
http://www.artspacegalway.com
OUGHTERARD: Culture Night
Friday, September 25th, 2009, 8pm
Lake Hotel,
Oughterard
As part of Oughterard’s Culture Night event, the poets of the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre will take to the stage.
They will read from their recently published anthology Lady Gregory’s Townhouse, which includes poems by Mary Madec, Tom Lavelle, Denise Heneghan, Deirdre Kearney, Liam Duffy, Maureen Ryan, Des Kavanagh, Lorna Shaughnessy, Brian O’Connell, Rita O’Donoghue, Mary Hanlon, Jean Kavanagh, Susan Lindsay, Connie Masterson and Marie Cadden.
The event is organised by Oughterard Community Arts Group in association with Over The Edge.
For further details contact Anne Quinn, Village Bookshop, Moycullen, Co Galway, tel: 091 868612
http://www.galwayculturenight.com/
Lake Hotel,
Oughterard
As part of Oughterard’s Culture Night event, the poets of the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre will take to the stage.
They will read from their recently published anthology Lady Gregory’s Townhouse, which includes poems by Mary Madec, Tom Lavelle, Denise Heneghan, Deirdre Kearney, Liam Duffy, Maureen Ryan, Des Kavanagh, Lorna Shaughnessy, Brian O’Connell, Rita O’Donoghue, Mary Hanlon, Jean Kavanagh, Susan Lindsay, Connie Masterson and Marie Cadden.
The event is organised by Oughterard Community Arts Group in association with Over The Edge.
For further details contact Anne Quinn, Village Bookshop, Moycullen, Co Galway, tel: 091 868612
http://www.galwayculturenight.com/
MILTON KEYNES: Tongue In Chic
Sunday, September 13th, 2009, 7.30pm, £5/£3
MADCAP,
Creed Street,
Wolverton
Milton Keynes
Those of you who came to our last gig enjoyed an outstanding evening of poetic entertainment courtesy of John Hegley, Richard Tyrone Jones and an assortment of local (and not so local) poets.
MADCAP,
Creed Street,
Wolverton
Milton Keynes
Those of you who came to our last gig enjoyed an outstanding evening of poetic entertainment courtesy of John Hegley, Richard Tyrone Jones and an assortment of local (and not so local) poets.
We have another great line-up this Sunday with special guests: the wonderfully lyrical Zena Edwards and the energetic Steve Larkin. Throw in local gal making waves the fabulous Fay Roberts and you are guaranteed another wonderful evening.
Open mic is available to everyone with a timed three-minute slot each.
Phone 07968 845 187 to reserve tickets.
Thursday, September 10, 2009
BIRMINGHAM: Rhymes
Thursday, September 24th, 2009, 8pm, £5
The Mixing Bowl Theatre@The Custard Factory
Birmingham
The Best of Birmingham’s Performance Poetry
Marcus Taylor started performing his own poetry through the encouragement and tutelage of Wrote Under's Sunday Express. He has a large quantity of self penned 'straight' poetry and a small collection of 'comedic' poetry and supported John Cooper Clarke as part of last year's Comedy Festival
Dave Reeves was editor of Raw Edge Magazine for 13 years and now presents a spoken word and music show for www..radiowildfire.com, the internet spoken word broadcaster and has had work commissioned by BBC Radios 4 & 5.
Kerry Orange writes poems that combine a sense of place with intimate memories. His work is full of play with sounds as well as details of towns, landscapes and journeys. He is also guitarist and singer of The Orange, whose debut album Concealed Exit is available on itunes.
Kimmy Sue Ann, freshly arrived from her most recent bemused and accidental appearances on1click2fame talent show, is dysfunctional and proud of it and regales audiences with recitations of her poetry wot has got social comment in it. Innit. Visit www.1click2fame for a sneak preview.
MC Lorna Meehan
Plus The Rhymes Raffle and The Wordbag Challenge!
The Mixing Bowl Theatre@The Custard Factory
Birmingham
The Best of Birmingham’s Performance Poetry
Marcus Taylor started performing his own poetry through the encouragement and tutelage of Wrote Under's Sunday Express. He has a large quantity of self penned 'straight' poetry and a small collection of 'comedic' poetry and supported John Cooper Clarke as part of last year's Comedy Festival
Dave Reeves was editor of Raw Edge Magazine for 13 years and now presents a spoken word and music show for www..radiowildfire.com, the internet spoken word broadcaster and has had work commissioned by BBC Radios 4 & 5.
Kerry Orange writes poems that combine a sense of place with intimate memories. His work is full of play with sounds as well as details of towns, landscapes and journeys. He is also guitarist and singer of The Orange, whose debut album Concealed Exit is available on itunes.
Kimmy Sue Ann, freshly arrived from her most recent bemused and accidental appearances on1click2fame talent show, is dysfunctional and proud of it and regales audiences with recitations of her poetry wot has got social comment in it. Innit. Visit www.1click2fame for a sneak preview.
MC Lorna Meehan
Plus The Rhymes Raffle and The Wordbag Challenge!
GALWAY: Over The Edge
Friday, September 11th, 2009, 8pm, FREE
Sheridan’s Wine Bar,
14-16 Church Yard Street,
Galway
Over The Edge presents readings by poet Liz Gallagher and fiction writer Paul Lenehan. The evening will also see short readings by visiting American Salmon poets Ron Houchin and Art Stringer and the launch of Lady Gregory’s Townhouse, a collection of work by the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre, co-edited by Susan Lindsay, Mary Madec and Maureen Ryan.
Liz Gallagher is from Donegal but has been living in the Canary Islands for the past 14 years. Liz was the featured poet in this winter’s issue of The Stinging Fly. Her work featured in the 50 Best New Poets 2007 Anthology from Meridian Press at Virginia University. She is also one of six winners for the Oxfam Ireland Poetry Calendar 2009. Her first full collection, titled The Wrong Miracle, is just published by Salt Publishing. http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844715671.htm
Paul Lenehan is a fiction writer from Dublin where he works with Poetry Ireland and is editor of Poetry Ireland Newsletter. Paul was shortlisted twice for a Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Short Story Prize. His most recent work is included in The Clifden Anthology and The Cork Literary Review, and he has a story forthcoming in a Leaf Books anthology in the UK. He received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Glamorgan in Wales.
Art Stringer lives in Huntingdon, West Virginia. His poetry collection Human Costume is just published by Salmon Poetry. http://www.salmonpoetry.com/humancostume.html
Ron Houchin taught in the public school system of the Appalachian region of southernmost Ohio for 30 years. His most recent collection of poetry, the third he has published with Salmon poetry, is just published. http://www.salmonpoetry.com/museumcrows.html
Lady Gregory’s Townhouse is a collection of poems by participants in the renowned Thursday afternoon Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre. The poems are accompanied by a thought provoking introduction by co-editors, Susan Lindsay, Mary Madec and Maureen Ryan.
All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748.
Sheridan’s Wine Bar,
14-16 Church Yard Street,
Galway
Over The Edge presents readings by poet Liz Gallagher and fiction writer Paul Lenehan. The evening will also see short readings by visiting American Salmon poets Ron Houchin and Art Stringer and the launch of Lady Gregory’s Townhouse, a collection of work by the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre, co-edited by Susan Lindsay, Mary Madec and Maureen Ryan.
Liz Gallagher is from Donegal but has been living in the Canary Islands for the past 14 years. Liz was the featured poet in this winter’s issue of The Stinging Fly. Her work featured in the 50 Best New Poets 2007 Anthology from Meridian Press at Virginia University. She is also one of six winners for the Oxfam Ireland Poetry Calendar 2009. Her first full collection, titled The Wrong Miracle, is just published by Salt Publishing. http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844715671.htm
Paul Lenehan is a fiction writer from Dublin where he works with Poetry Ireland and is editor of Poetry Ireland Newsletter. Paul was shortlisted twice for a Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Short Story Prize. His most recent work is included in The Clifden Anthology and The Cork Literary Review, and he has a story forthcoming in a Leaf Books anthology in the UK. He received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Glamorgan in Wales.
Art Stringer lives in Huntingdon, West Virginia. His poetry collection Human Costume is just published by Salmon Poetry. http://www.salmonpoetry.com/humancostume.html
Ron Houchin taught in the public school system of the Appalachian region of southernmost Ohio for 30 years. His most recent collection of poetry, the third he has published with Salmon poetry, is just published. http://www.salmonpoetry.com/museumcrows.html
Lady Gregory’s Townhouse is a collection of poems by participants in the renowned Thursday afternoon Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre. The poems are accompanied by a thought provoking introduction by co-editors, Susan Lindsay, Mary Madec and Maureen Ryan.
All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748.
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
LONDON: Ride The Word XV
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009, 7pm-9.15pm, FREE
The CAFE YUMCHAA
45 Berwick Street,
Soho,
London
W1
Cast: Vincent De Souza, Tania Hershman, Jeremy Worman, Richard Dyer, Jay Merill
plus floor spots, by popular demand, on first-come, first-served basis.
Hosted by Jay Merill and Vincent de Souza
The CAFE YUMCHAA
45 Berwick Street,
Soho,
London
W1
Cast: Vincent De Souza, Tania Hershman, Jeremy Worman, Richard Dyer, Jay Merill
plus floor spots, by popular demand, on first-come, first-served basis.
Hosted by Jay Merill and Vincent de Souza
GALWAY: October Over The Edge Open Reading
Thursday, September 24th, 2009, 6.30pm-8pm
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway
Featured readers are Marcella Morgan, Shane Ó Maoildhia and Bernadette Cremin.
Marcella Morgan is originally from Maynooth, but has been living in Galway for the past year and a half. She spends her days fixin’ troushers in an alterations shop in town, and her nights writing poems about her angry womb. She has attended several writing workshops with Susan Millar DuMars where she learnt how to make a bomb using bread soda, an empty beer can and a thong. Susan also taught her how to spell trousers. Marcella has been short-listed for 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year.
Shane Ó Maoildhia is from Carraroe in Connemara. He has been writing poetry since primary school. In May 2008 he attended a series of writing classes with Susan Millar DuMars to get some constructive criticism on his poetry, and started writing short stories. He graduated with a science degree from NUI Galway in 2005, and hopes to be teaching English in Japan this time next year. Shane has been short-listed for 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year.
Bernadette Cremin lives in Brighton and has previously worked as a social worker, tea lady, sociology lecturer, TEFL teacher, bank clerk and waitress. She has published two collections of poetry, the award winning Perfect Mess (Biscuit Publishing, 2005) and Speechless (Waterloo Press, 2007). Bernadette has won a Year Of The Artist award, a performance poetry bursary and been published widely in the UK and Ireland. Her work featured in last year’s Forward Book of Poetry. She is currently doing a whistle stop reading tour of Ireland.
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 evening will also see the announcement of the winners of the 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars.
For further details phone 087-6431748.
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway
Featured readers are Marcella Morgan, Shane Ó Maoildhia and Bernadette Cremin.
Marcella Morgan is originally from Maynooth, but has been living in Galway for the past year and a half. She spends her days fixin’ troushers in an alterations shop in town, and her nights writing poems about her angry womb. She has attended several writing workshops with Susan Millar DuMars where she learnt how to make a bomb using bread soda, an empty beer can and a thong. Susan also taught her how to spell trousers. Marcella has been short-listed for 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year.
Shane Ó Maoildhia is from Carraroe in Connemara. He has been writing poetry since primary school. In May 2008 he attended a series of writing classes with Susan Millar DuMars to get some constructive criticism on his poetry, and started writing short stories. He graduated with a science degree from NUI Galway in 2005, and hopes to be teaching English in Japan this time next year. Shane has been short-listed for 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year.
Bernadette Cremin lives in Brighton and has previously worked as a social worker, tea lady, sociology lecturer, TEFL teacher, bank clerk and waitress. She has published two collections of poetry, the award winning Perfect Mess (Biscuit Publishing, 2005) and Speechless (Waterloo Press, 2007). Bernadette has won a Year Of The Artist award, a performance poetry bursary and been published widely in the UK and Ireland. Her work featured in last year’s Forward Book of Poetry. She is currently doing a whistle stop reading tour of Ireland.
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 evening will also see the announcement of the winners of the 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars.
For further details phone 087-6431748.
Monday, September 07, 2009
MILTON KEYNES: Tongue In Chic
Sunday, September 13th, 2009, 7.30pm, £5/£3
MADCAP,
Creed Street,
Wolverton
Milton Keynes
Those of you who came to out last gig enjoyed an outstanding evening of poetic entertainment courtesy of John Hegley, Richard Tyrone Jones and an assortment of local (and not so local) poets.
MADCAP,
Creed Street,
Wolverton
Milton Keynes
Those of you who came to out last gig enjoyed an outstanding evening of poetic entertainment courtesy of John Hegley, Richard Tyrone Jones and an assortment of local (and not so local) poets.
We have another great line-up this Sunday with special guests: the wonderfully lyrical Zena Edwards and the energetic Steve Larkin. Throw in local gal making waves the fabulous Fay Roberts and you are guaranteed another wonderful evening.
Open mic is available to everyone with a timed three-minute slot each.
Phone 07968 845 187 to reserve tickets.
LONDON: Lumen Poetry Series
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009, 7pm (doors open 6.30pm), £4/£3, wine
88 Tavistock Place
WC1
Ruth O'Callaghan presents: Lapwing poets Milner Place, Geraldine Page, Peter Pegnall.
Poets from the floor very welcome; there will be a few five-minute spots (please leave a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the Cinnamon Press anthology which will also include major poets).
Proceeds to COLD WEATHER SHELTER
88 Tavistock Place
WC1
Ruth O'Callaghan presents: Lapwing poets Milner Place, Geraldine Page, Peter Pegnall.
Poets from the floor very welcome; there will be a few five-minute spots (please leave a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the Cinnamon Press anthology which will also include major poets).
Proceeds to COLD WEATHER SHELTER
Sunday, September 06, 2009
GALWAY: North Beach Poetry Nights
Monday September 7th, 2009, 9pm
The Crane Bar,
Sea Road,
Galway
The North Beach Poetry Nights' Slam and guest poet Martina Evans from Cork via London.
Here's the line-up for the autumn.
September 7th-Martina Evans (Cork-London)
September 28th-Connacht Heat of the All-Ireland Slam
October 5th-Iggy McGovern (Dublin)
October 26th- All-Ireland Poetry Grand Slam
November 9th-Linda Cleary (Cornwall)
December 14th-North Beach Poetry Nights' Grand Slam with guest poet and judge: RAVEN (Dublin)
Info: John Walsh @ 091-593290
North Beach Poetry Nights gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Arts Council and Galway City Council.
Click here for more information.
The Crane Bar,
Sea Road,
Galway
The North Beach Poetry Nights' Slam and guest poet Martina Evans from Cork via London.
Here's the line-up for the autumn.
September 7th-Martina Evans (Cork-London)
September 28th-Connacht Heat of the All-Ireland Slam
October 5th-Iggy McGovern (Dublin)
October 26th- All-Ireland Poetry Grand Slam
November 9th-Linda Cleary (Cornwall)
December 14th-North Beach Poetry Nights' Grand Slam with guest poet and judge: RAVEN (Dublin)
Info: John Walsh @ 091-593290
North Beach Poetry Nights gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Arts Council and Galway City Council.
Click here for more information.
Saturday, September 05, 2009
CHELTENHAM: Nigel McLoughlin at Buzzwords, with Open Mic
Sunday, September 6th, 2009, 7pm, £3, £5 if you are able
upstairs at The Exmouth Arms,
Bath Road,
Cheltenham.
Pascale Petit has had to postpone - she will now be coming in February. However, this has created a gap for Nigel McLoughlin to come and read from his new book Chora.
7pm Workshop led by Nigel McLoughlin
8pm - Readings and open mic
upstairs at The Exmouth Arms,
Bath Road,
Cheltenham.
Pascale Petit has had to postpone - she will now be coming in February. However, this has created a gap for Nigel McLoughlin to come and read from his new book Chora.
7pm Workshop led by Nigel McLoughlin
8pm - Readings and open mic
Friday, September 04, 2009
LONDON: Voice Recognition anthology launch
Saturday, September 5th, 2009, 2.45pm, 4pm and 5.15pm, £6.50 (£4.50 if booked via www.kingsplace.co.uk)
St Pancras Room,
Kings Place,
90 York Way,
London,
N1 9AG
Three readings to celebrate the launch of the new Bloodaxe anthology Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, with four poets from the collection per event.
2.45pm: Myth and Family. Toby Martinez de las Rivas, Miriam Gamble, Jonathan Morley, Sandeep Parmar
4pm: Tales of the City. Heather Phillipson, Amy Blakemore, Siddhartha Bose, James Womack.
5.15pm: Modern Love. Joe Dunthorne, Sophie Robinson, Emily Berry, Sarah Jackson.
Tickets must be booked for each event. Please visit www.kingsplace.co.uk for more information or call Box Office on 020 7520 1490.
St Pancras Room,
Kings Place,
90 York Way,
London,
N1 9AG
Three readings to celebrate the launch of the new Bloodaxe anthology Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, with four poets from the collection per event.
2.45pm: Myth and Family. Toby Martinez de las Rivas, Miriam Gamble, Jonathan Morley, Sandeep Parmar
4pm: Tales of the City. Heather Phillipson, Amy Blakemore, Siddhartha Bose, James Womack.
5.15pm: Modern Love. Joe Dunthorne, Sophie Robinson, Emily Berry, Sarah Jackson.
Tickets must be booked for each event. Please visit www.kingsplace.co.uk for more information or call Box Office on 020 7520 1490.
LONDON: Rambling Tongue - Food, Poetry and Music
Saturday, 5th September, 2009, 7pm, £15
(3-course meal, poetry and dancing, 7pm-12pm - tickets available from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/57753)
£5 (poetry and dancing - £5 on the door, from 9pm)
Vulpes Vulpes,
Unit 4,
Prout Road,
E5 9NP
London
Nearest rail: Clapton Station
Hammer and Tongue London and foodrambler are joining forces once again to bring you the best of London's poetry, feasting and music in an evening of glorious food, thought-provoking words and riotous fun.
We are vastly excited to be welcoming a cabal of some of the UK's very best spoken word artists along on the night, including the very brilliant poet, comedienne and actress Karen Hayley
(www.karenhayley.com) and Brighton rapper, poet, radio 4 slam winner and general all-round star, Dizraeli (www.dizraeli.com).
All this will be followed by DJing from The Mighty Worm, playing a delicious selection of afro, reggae, dub, world and bassline.
It's not BYO this time, but there will be a bar selling very delicious, very cheap drinks. If you are vegetarian please contact ramblingrestaurant@googlemail.com once you have booked your ticket to request a veg meal. For more info please call Michelle on 07809 236133 or Abi on 07771895946
(3-course meal, poetry and dancing, 7pm-12pm - tickets available from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/57753)
£5 (poetry and dancing - £5 on the door, from 9pm)
Vulpes Vulpes,
Unit 4,
Prout Road,
E5 9NP
London
Nearest rail: Clapton Station
Hammer and Tongue London and foodrambler are joining forces once again to bring you the best of London's poetry, feasting and music in an evening of glorious food, thought-provoking words and riotous fun.
We are vastly excited to be welcoming a cabal of some of the UK's very best spoken word artists along on the night, including the very brilliant poet, comedienne and actress Karen Hayley
(www.karenhayley.com) and Brighton rapper, poet, radio 4 slam winner and general all-round star, Dizraeli (www.dizraeli.com).
All this will be followed by DJing from The Mighty Worm, playing a delicious selection of afro, reggae, dub, world and bassline.
It's not BYO this time, but there will be a bar selling very delicious, very cheap drinks. If you are vegetarian please contact ramblingrestaurant@googlemail.com once you have booked your ticket to request a veg meal. For more info please call Michelle on 07809 236133 or Abi on 07771895946
Thursday, September 03, 2009
NOTTINGHAM: Let Your Left Hand Sing?
Thursday, 17th September, 2009, 6pm, £6
Nottingham Playhouse
Kevin Fegan will be performing his dramatic poem of migrant workers Let Your Left Hand Sing.
One morning on his way to work Kevin decided he would knock on all his neighbours' doors, not just to say hello but to find out what their stories where. By the time he’d reached the end of the street he’d met pretty much half the populations of the world and they were just like him. Let Your Left Hand Sing recounts these stories as well as Kevin’s own.
Kevin has written over 40 plays for the stage, seven plays for BBC Radio 4 plus a Woman’s Hour Serial and a Classic Serial, a few short films plus a spell as a storyline writer for Coronation Street and eight volumes of poetry. Kevin is a regular performer of his own poetry.
Box office open 10am-8pm - 0115 941 9419 to book a ticket or pop in to see us.
For more information on Kevin please go to www.kevinfegan.co.uk
For more information on forthcoming shows at Nottingham Playhouse please visit www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk
Nottingham Playhouse
Kevin Fegan will be performing his dramatic poem of migrant workers Let Your Left Hand Sing.
One morning on his way to work Kevin decided he would knock on all his neighbours' doors, not just to say hello but to find out what their stories where. By the time he’d reached the end of the street he’d met pretty much half the populations of the world and they were just like him. Let Your Left Hand Sing recounts these stories as well as Kevin’s own.
Kevin has written over 40 plays for the stage, seven plays for BBC Radio 4 plus a Woman’s Hour Serial and a Classic Serial, a few short films plus a spell as a storyline writer for Coronation Street and eight volumes of poetry. Kevin is a regular performer of his own poetry.
Box office open 10am-8pm - 0115 941 9419 to book a ticket or pop in to see us.
For more information on Kevin please go to www.kevinfegan.co.uk
For more information on forthcoming shows at Nottingham Playhouse please visit www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk
GALWAY: Over The Edge
Friday, September 11th, 2009, 8pm, FREE
Sheridan’s Wine Bar,
14-16 Church Yard Street,
Galway
Over The Edge presents readings by poet Liz Gallagher and fiction writer Paul Lenehan. The evening will also see short readings by visiting American Salmon poets Ron Houchin and Art Stringer and the launch of Lady Gregory’s Townhouse, a collection of work by the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre, co-edited by Susan Lindsay, Mary Madec and Maureen Ryan.
Liz Gallagher is from Donegal but has been living in the Canary Islands for the past 14 years. Liz was the featured poet in this winter’s issue of The Stinging Fly. Her work featured in the 50 Best New Poets 2007 Anthology from Meridian Press at Virginia University. She is also one of six winners for the Oxfam Ireland Poetry Calendar 2009. Her first full collection, titled The Wrong Miracle, is just published by Salt Publishing. http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844715671.htm
Paul Lenehan is a fiction writer from Dublin where he works with Poetry Ireland and is editor of Poetry Ireland Newsletter. Paul was shortlisted twice for a Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Short Story Prize. His most recent work is included in The Clifden Anthology and The Cork Literary Review, and he has a story forthcoming in a Leaf Books anthology in the UK. He received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Glamorgan in Wales.
Art Stringer lives in Huntingdon, West Virginia. His poetry collection Human Costume is just published by Salmon Poetry. http://www.salmonpoetry.com/humancostume.html
Ron Houchin taught in the public school system of the Appalachian region of southernmost Ohio for 30 years. His most recent collection of poetry, the third he has published with Salmon poetry, is just published. http://www.salmonpoetry.com/museumcrows.html
Lady Gregory’s Townhouse is a collection of poems by participants in the renowned Thursday afternoon Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre. The poems are accompanied by a thought provoking introduction by co-editors, Susan Lindsay, Mary Madec and Maureen Ryan.
All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748.
Sheridan’s Wine Bar,
14-16 Church Yard Street,
Galway
Over The Edge presents readings by poet Liz Gallagher and fiction writer Paul Lenehan. The evening will also see short readings by visiting American Salmon poets Ron Houchin and Art Stringer and the launch of Lady Gregory’s Townhouse, a collection of work by the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre, co-edited by Susan Lindsay, Mary Madec and Maureen Ryan.
Liz Gallagher is from Donegal but has been living in the Canary Islands for the past 14 years. Liz was the featured poet in this winter’s issue of The Stinging Fly. Her work featured in the 50 Best New Poets 2007 Anthology from Meridian Press at Virginia University. She is also one of six winners for the Oxfam Ireland Poetry Calendar 2009. Her first full collection, titled The Wrong Miracle, is just published by Salt Publishing. http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844715671.htm
Paul Lenehan is a fiction writer from Dublin where he works with Poetry Ireland and is editor of Poetry Ireland Newsletter. Paul was shortlisted twice for a Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Short Story Prize. His most recent work is included in The Clifden Anthology and The Cork Literary Review, and he has a story forthcoming in a Leaf Books anthology in the UK. He received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Glamorgan in Wales.
Art Stringer lives in Huntingdon, West Virginia. His poetry collection Human Costume is just published by Salmon Poetry. http://www.salmonpoetry.com/humancostume.html
Ron Houchin taught in the public school system of the Appalachian region of southernmost Ohio for 30 years. His most recent collection of poetry, the third he has published with Salmon poetry, is just published. http://www.salmonpoetry.com/museumcrows.html
Lady Gregory’s Townhouse is a collection of poems by participants in the renowned Thursday afternoon Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre. The poems are accompanied by a thought provoking introduction by co-editors, Susan Lindsay, Mary Madec and Maureen Ryan.
All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748.
LONDON: Utter! Weirdness
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009, 8pm
Whitechapel Gallery
Utter! Weirdness
Open mic special: read your weirdest and most experimental poems, songs and stand-up routines. Audience decides on the winner, who wins something weird and a place in the Utter! Ajar Mic 2009 grand final. Special guests: Spinmaster Plantpot, Jason King of Delinquent magazine, and Jow Lindsay (post-poet).
Sign up between 6.30-7.30pm for one of the 10 slots.
No booking is required to attend this event.
Whitechapel Gallery
Utter! Weirdness
Open mic special: read your weirdest and most experimental poems, songs and stand-up routines. Audience decides on the winner, who wins something weird and a place in the Utter! Ajar Mic 2009 grand final. Special guests: Spinmaster Plantpot, Jason King of Delinquent magazine, and Jow Lindsay (post-poet).
Sign up between 6.30-7.30pm for one of the 10 slots.
No booking is required to attend this event.
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