LONDON: BEAT at The Drop

Tuesday 17th and 31st August, 2010, 8pm, FREE
175 Stoke Newington High Street
N16 0LH
London

It's good to be back. We have been gone. And when we are gone, we are really gone.

Poetry is a Zoo where we go to visit Demons and Angels. There's no middle ground. There are a lot of poetry nights. There is just one BEAT

BEAT means trouble. Sometimes the host passes out. Sometimes one of the performers casually drifts into the realms of the unknown. Sometimes we get banned from Soho for indecent exposure. Sometimes we get drunk.

But we take our poetry very seriously. Life is poetry and if it's not, you must be doing something seriously wrong. And like all good poetry, life hurts.

Luckily BEAT doesn't. It's free of cost, high on quality.

Welcome to 2 nights of hard hitting no bars hold self decapitating poetry

2 nights at the Drop, under Three Crowns, corner of Stoke Newington High Street/Church Street, Tuesday 17th and 31st of August.

Opening night 17th of August presents the BEAT All Stars:

Tristan Hazell - Nothing Hill haven't been more well read since Hugh Grant seduced Julia Roberts in an antiques book store. With the elegance of Dorian Gray and the voice of his portrait, poetry is seldom, as funky, as decadent and as stringent in one embodiment

Ben Graham - Brighton's answer to the call. One of the finest lyricist on the UK circuit. Wit, style but above all substance.

Tomas Adejumo - the voice of Barry White meets the mind of a scientist working full time to cure Cancer, when's he's not busy silver lining the every day clouds of London's ladies

Dougie Hastings - runner up best newcomer London 2009, the king of undercover wit. His interpretations of Jesus childhood makes you feel for the chap

Ant the Rant - legend on the UK poetry scene, the Ant is always fresh, never old, although his eternal hit on the post club generation, 50 years later: "Colostomy DelMar", might suggest otherwise. The Rant is always a pleasure, always a surprise

Plus live music by:

Fabulous John - founding father of London legendary rockabilly post punk band, as seen on the festival circuit, Fabulous Penetrators, Fabulous John christens the BEAT stage with his virgin performance and some freshly written songs

And your ever present host, racounteur, debaucher, Mr Grant is there to make sure proceedings run according to plan: "there's no plan B, there's no plan A either, but definitely no plan B"

More to be announced...

ABERDEEN: New Words Preview at Poetry Aberdeen

Thursday, 26th August, 2010, 7pm, FREE
The Coffee House,
Aberdeen

Poetry Aberdeen in August previews some of the poets appearing at this year's New Words festival: Sheena Blackhall, Rapunzel Wizard, Robert Ramsay, E. E. Chandler, Knotbrook Taylor, Grant Fraser and Olivia McMahon.

The evening will include open floor spots where you can read your own poetry.

Enjoy the poetry, enjoy the coffee, enjoy the atmosphere!
See www.poetryaberdeen.co.uk for details

The full programme for New Words 2010 will appear on www.newwords.co.uk soon. The festival begins on Wednesday 1 September with Alan Bissett performing his Moira Monologues, Rapunzel Wizard performing on Thursday 2nd, John Mackie and friends on Friday 3rd and Knotbrook Taylor on Saturday 4th, continuing until the end of the month with the widest variety of new writing you are ever likely to hear in the North-East of Scotland.

GALWAY: Over The Edge Open Reading

Thursday, August 26th, 2010, 6.30pm-8pm
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway

The August Over The Edge: Open Reading features Sarah Clancy, Aron Costello and Patrick Cotter. The reading is sponsored by Poetry Ireland.

Sarah Clancy is from Salthill. She is a participant in the Galway Arts Centre Poetry Workshops facilitated by Kevin Higgins and has previously read her poetry at North Beach Poetry Nights and the Over The Edge open-mic. This year, in a display of what she describes as beginners luck, Sarah was shortlisted in both the poetry section of the WOW awards 2010, and the Listowel Writers Week Collection of Poetry Competition 2010. Her poems feature in the soon to be launched publication of work by participants in the advanced poetry workshop at Galway Arts Centre.

Aron Costello was born in Tuam in 1975. He has lived in Galway City for the past 11 years. Writing since the age of six, he has completed dozens of short stories, plays, poems, and songs. A fan of the horror/thriller genre, he is currently finishing his fifth (and sixth!) novels, and has been longlisted in the Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition. Aron is also reading his work at the Tuam Arts Festival, the evening before his Over The Edge reading.

Patrick Cotter was born in Cork in 1963. His work has appeared in the anthologies Separate Islands: Contemporary British and Irish poetry (Quarry, Ontario), Irish Poetry Now (Wolfhound), Jumping off Shadows - Some Contemporary Irish Poets (Cork University Press), The Irish Eros (Gill & Macmillan), The Backyards of Heaven (Newfoundland), Something Beginning with P (O'Brien Press) and in The Great Book of Ireland. In 1984 he was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award. Cotter was runner-up in the Patrick Kavanagh award in 1988. His poems have been translated into Chinese, Estonian, Italian, Norse, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. He currently directs the Munster Literature. Patrick’s first full-length collection of poems Perplexed Skin was published by Arlen House in 2008. Making Music followed in 2009.

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 MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars.

For further details phone 087-6431748 or see our website http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/

LONDON: Poets@Duckie

Saturday, 4th September, 2010, 9pm-2am, performances at 11pm, £6
Duckie at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern,
372 Kennington Lane
London
Info: www.duckie.co.uk / www.applesandsnakes.org

Apples & Snakes presents
POETS@DUCKIE
Apples & Snakes have programmed different performance poets for every Saturday at Duckie throughout September! Kicking off this series we have Byron Vincent - with poems such as Kevin’s an 'Erbert and Never Buy Drugs at a Festival amongst his repertoire, Byron’s subversive brand of barking doggerel has taken the UK poetry scene by storm and kicked it until it handed over its wallet.

LONDON: Jawdance@Rich Mix

Wednesday, 18th August 2010, 7.30pm, FREE
Rich Mix,
35–47 Bethnal Green Road,
London,
E1 6LA
www.richmix.org.uk / 020 7613 7498 / www.applesandsnakes.org

Jawdance is a crunchy, chewy, new poetry concoction: fresh poets, seasoned poets, poetry books and singers (who are poets by any other name). Plus specially selected poetry films from Viral Verse.net.

LONDON: Calling all young poets!

Museum of London
150 London Wall
London. EC2Y 5HN

We have a written poetry competition
http://www.mymuseumoflondon.org.uk/blogs/blog/latin-isn%e2%80%99t-dead-prove-it-by-entering-our-young-poets-competition/
end date 25th August

We are also looking for slam poets to perform at our ‘Gladiatorial poetry slam’ on 28th September
http://www.mymuseumoflondon.org.uk/blogs/blog/calling-all-slam-poets/
deadline for submission also 25th August

LONDON: BEAT at The Drop

Tuesday 17th and 31st August, 2010, 8pm, FREE
175 Stoke Newington High Street
N16 0LH
London

It's good to be back. We have been gone. And when we are gone, we are really gone.

Poetry is a Zoo where we go to visit Demons and Angels. There's no middle ground. There are a lot of poetry nights. There is just one BEAT

BEAT means trouble. Sometimes the host passes out. Sometimes one of the performers casually drifts into the realms of the unknown. Sometimes we get banned from Soho for indecent exposure. Sometimes we get drunk.

But we take our poetry very seriously. Life is poetry and if it's not, you must be doing something seriously wrong. And like all good poetry, life hurts.

Luckily BEAT doesn't. It's free of cost, high on quality.

Welcome to 2 nights of hard hitting no bars hold self decapitating poetry

2 nights at the Drop, under Three Crowns, corner of Stoke Newington High Street/Church Street, Tuesday 17th and 31st of August.

Opening night 17th of August presents the BEAT All Stars:

Tristan Hazell - Nothing Hill haven't been more well read since Hugh Grant seduced Julia Roberts in an antiques book store. With the elegance of Dorian Gray and the voice of his portrait, poetry is seldom, as funky, as decadent and as stringent in one embodiment

Ben Graham - Brighton's answer to the call. One of the finest lyricist on the UK circuit. Wit, style but above all substance.

Tomas Adejumo - the voice of Barry White meets the mind of a scientist working full time to cure Cancer, when's he's not busy silver lining the every day clouds of London's ladies

Dougie Hastings - runner up best newcomer London 2009, the king of undercover wit. His interpretations of Jesus childhood makes you feel for the chap

Ant the Rant - legend on the UK poetry scene, the Ant is always fresh, never old, although his eternal hit on the post club generation, 50 years later: "Colostomy DelMar", might suggest otherwise. The Rant is always a pleasure, always a surprise

Plus live music by:

Fabulous John - founding father of London legendary rockabilly post punk band, as seen on the festival circuit, Fabulous Penetrators, Fabulous John christens the BEAT stage with his virgin performance and some freshly written songs

And your ever present host, racounteur, debaucher, Mr Grant is there to make sure proceedings run according to plan: "there's no plan B, there's no plan A either, but definitely no plan B"

More to be announced...

GALWAY: Over The Edge Open Reading

Thursday, August 26th, 2010, 6.30pm-8pm
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway

The August Over The Edge: Open Reading features Sarah Clancy, Aron Costello and Patrick Cotter. The reading is sponsored by Poetry Ireland.

Sarah Clancy is from Salthill. She is a participant in the Galway Arts Centre Poetry Workshops facilitated by Kevin Higgins and has previously read her poetry at North Beach Poetry Nights and the Over The Edge open-mic. This year, in a display of what she describes as beginners luck, Sarah was shortlisted in both the poetry section of the WOW awards 2010, and the Listowel Writers Week Collection of Poetry Competition 2010. Her poems feature in the soon to be launched publication of work by participants in the advanced poetry workshop at Galway Arts Centre.

Aron Costello was born in Tuam in 1975. He has lived in Galway City for the past 11 years. Writing since the age of six, he has completed dozens of short stories, plays, poems, and songs. A fan of the horror/thriller genre, he is currently finishing his fifth (and sixth!) novels, and has been longlisted in the Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition. Aron is also reading his work at the Tuam Arts Festival, the evening before his Over The Edge reading.

Patrick Cotter was born in Cork in 1963. His work has appeared in the anthologies Separate Islands: Contemporary British and Irish poetry (Quarry, Ontario), Irish Poetry Now (Wolfhound), Jumping off Shadows - Some Contemporary Irish Poets (Cork University Press), The Irish Eros (Gill & Macmillan), The Backyards of Heaven (Newfoundland), Something Beginning with P (O'Brien Press) and in The Great Book of Ireland. In 1984 he was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award. Cotter was runner-up in the Patrick Kavanagh award in 1988. His poems have been translated into Chinese, Estonian, Italian, Norse, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. He currently directs the Munster Literature. Patrick’s first full-length collection of poems Perplexed Skin was published by Arlen House in 2008. Making Music followed in 2009.

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 MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars.

For further details phone 087-6431748 or see our website http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/

LONDON: Jawdance@Rich Mix

Wednesday, 18th August 2010, 7.30pm, FREE
Rich Mix,
35–47 Bethnal Green Road,
London,
E1 6LA
www.richmix.org.uk / 020 7613 7498 / www.applesandsnakes.org

Jawdance is a crunchy, chewy, new poetry concoction: fresh poets, seasoned poets, poetry books and singers (who are poets by any other name). Plus specially selected poetry films from Viral Verse.net.

LONDON: BEAT at The Drop

Tuesday 17th and 31st August, 2010, 8pm, FREE
175 Stoke Newington High Street
N16 0LH
London

It's good to be back. We have been gone. And when we are gone, we are really gone.

Poetry is a Zoo where we go to visit Demons and Angels. There's no middle ground. There are a lot of poetry nights. There is just one BEAT

BEAT means trouble. Sometimes the host passes out. Sometimes one of the performers casually drifts into the realms of the unknown. Sometimes we get banned from Soho for indecent exposure. Sometimes we get drunk.

But we take our poetry very seriously. Life is poetry and if it's not, you must be doing something seriously wrong. And like all good poetry, life hurts.

Luckily BEAT doesn't. It's free of cost, high on quality.

Welcome to 2 nights of hard hitting no bars hold self decapitating poetry

2 nights at the Drop, under Three Crowns, corner of Stoke Newington High Street/Church Street, Tuesday 17th and 31st of August.

Opening night 17th of August presents the BEAT All Stars:

Tristan Hazell - Nothing Hill haven't been more well read since Hugh Grant seduced Julia Roberts in an antiques book store. With the elegance of Dorian Gray and the voice of his portrait, poetry is seldom, as funky, as decadent and as stringent in one embodiment

Ben Graham - Brighton's answer to the call. One of the finest lyricist on the UK circuit. Wit, style but above all substance.

Tomas Adejumo - the voice of Barry White meets the mind of a scientist working full time to cure Cancer, when's he's not busy silver lining the every day clouds of London's ladies

Dougie Hastings - runner up best newcomer London 2009, the king of undercover wit. His interpretations of Jesus childhood makes you feel for the chap

Ant the Rant - legend on the UK poetry scene, the Ant is always fresh, never old, although his eternal hit on the post club generation, 50 years later: "Colostomy DelMar", might suggest otherwise. The Rant is always a pleasure, always a surprise

Plus live music by:

Fabulous John - founding father of London legendary rockabilly post punk band, as seen on the festival circuit, Fabulous Penetrators, Fabulous John christens the BEAT stage with his virgin performance and some freshly written songs

And your ever present host, racounteur, debaucher, Mr Grant is there to make sure proceedings run according to plan: "there's no plan B, there's no plan A either, but definitely no plan B"

More to be announced...

LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT Summer Slam

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010, 7.30pm
The Slug & Lettuce
Leamington Spa

Greetings one and all...announcing the arrival of the first ever PGR Summer Slam. This is not some wrestling event where over-steroided Sylvester Stallone lookalikes wear ill fitting lycra and throw each other around a ring. No...this is a poetry slam. The poems can rhyme, they can reason, they can be crimes of high treason...they just have to win the hearts of the audience and the judges. For those nervous of the competitive element, don't be. The same supportive and familial atmosphere that makes PGR so unique will be there to encourage and uplift.

Here's how it will work...
* Each poem must be no longer than 3 minutes (or less if you want!)
* The theme for the first round of poems is whatever the phrase 'pure, good and right' inspires in you - a challenge to each to get some new writing done!
* The highest scoring four poets from the first round will go through to the semi finals
* The winners of the two semi finals will compete in the grand-mega finale.
* The victor and the runner up will share the door takings in some fitting proportion

Participants in the slam will not go home empty handed - George will be baking chocolate brownies as both an incentive and reward for taking part.

There will of course be open mic slots available for those who wish to share their creative words but not take part in the slam.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to give George a call on 07939 855 774.

BIRMINGHAM: 333 Half Evil’s Jammin with Jefferama

Saturday, 7th August, 2010, 8pm
The Adam and Eve
54 Bradford Street
Digbeth
B12 0JD

333 Half Evil’s Jammin with Jefferama poetry and acoustic tour hits Birmingham, where they’ll be dropping by the Adam and Eve in Digbeth for the evening.

The night will featuring two of the city’s leading poets, Brendan Higgins and Louis Campbell, with two of the best songwriters from the region in Lizzy Piffany and Dik Guru. The night will be headlined by local beat combo Where who will come prepared with fancy sounds and marvellous dress. There will also be open mic slots available for any poet who would like to join us – places will be limited.

Showcasing the best in Birmingham’s underground talent, this will be an event not to be missed.

For more info please contact Jim on cowcud2001@yahoo.co.uk

LEICESTER: Shodfest @ Shindig