Wednesday, October 14, 2009

LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT

Sunday, October 25th, 2009, 7.30pm, £3 (£2 Student/OAP)
The Stables,
Newbold Comyn Arms,
Newbold Terrace East,
Leamington Spa,
CV32 4EU
(please follow directions from the pub’s website as the postcode information is misleading if you are using GPS or multimap).

Our special guest for October is the highly recommended and published poet Emily Wills.

She lives and works in Gloucestershire. She has had two collections published by The Rialto: Diverting the Sea (2000) and Developing the Negative (2008). Emily has read at various festivals including Ledbury and Aldeburgh, and was a semi-finalist in the first (and only) poetry slam in Wotton-under-Edge. She is an enthusiastic, if occasional, poetry tutor and has been poet in residence in a GP surgery.

Her poems have appeared in magazines including Anon, Iota, Magma, Other Poetry, Acumen, Quattrocentro, Seam, Smiths Knoll, Staple, The Frogmore Papers, The Rialto and in the anthologies Reactions 2 and 3, published by UEA.

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

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