Friday, October 8th, 2010, 7pm-9pm
The Melton Mowbray,
Marborough Court,
14-18 High Holborn,
London
EC1N 2LE
Launch party for The Mirabelles, Annie Freud's new collection of poems, to be published by Picador on 1st October 2010.
Please note this was originally posted as being on October 1st, but is actually October 8th. Many apologies for any confusion caused.
RSVP to anniefreud@googlemail.com
Thursday, September 30, 2010
LONDON: National Poetry Day
Poetry Society and Southbank Centre presents
National Poetry Day Live
Thursday 7 October 2010
2pm-6.15pm
Free event
For the second year running, the Poetry Society has organised this lively event for National Poetry Day together with the Southbank Centre. Once again the event is entirely free. All welcome, including groups.
Discover poetry in the foyers and hidden corners of the Royal Festival Hall, and make yourself at home in the Clore Ballroom for live performances by a host of poetry’s famous names and rising stars. The day’s events are hosted by Ross Sutherland & Caroline Bird, featuring:
- Simon Armitage, Jane Draycott, Ian Duhig, Luke Kennard, Daljit Nagra
- Lemn Sissay performing Coleridge’s ‘Ancient Mariner’
- Joelle Taylor & SLAMbassadors
- Former Foyle Young Poets: Jay Bernard, Swithun Cooper, Holly Hopkins, Sarah Howe & Laura Seymour
- Forward Prize Poets: Robin Robertson, Fiona Sampson & Jo Shapcott
'Getting Published’- a Poetry Review workshop ♦ Foyle Young Poets of the Year ♦ ‘Pick a Poem’ ♦
Folk in a Box presents ‘Poetry in a Box’ ♦ Screening of Postcards from Home ♦ Prescriptions & quizzes
Venue: Royal Festival Hall foyers & Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre, London SE1.
For more information visit www.poetrysociety.org.uk
LONDON: Lumen Series
Tuesday 12th October 2010
(doors open 6.30 for 7p.m.)
Ruth O'Callaghan presents Shoestring Press
Matthew Baxton
Rosemary Norman
Tony Roberts
Poets From the Floor Very Welcome
Please bring a copy of your poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology
88 Tavistock Place W.C.1
Tubes: Russell Square , Kings Cross, St Pancras.
Entrance £5/£4
WINE
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
LONDON: JAZZ VERSE JUKEBOX
SUNDAY 10th October 2010
Upstairs @ Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club (Aka Ronnies Bar),
47 Frith Street, London W1D 4HT
Show Times: Doors Open 6.30pm, Show from 8pm
Tickets: £7.00 (Tickets can only be purchased on the door)
Tube: Tottenham Court Road
Web: www.jumokefashola.com
Email: JazzVerseJukebox@me.com
The monthly JAZZ VERSE JUKEBOX has been described as "the perfect jazz poetry party" (Michael Horovitz). It's where established and upcoming spoken word poets & singers gather to share their artistry.
The brainchild of broadcaster & vocalist Jumoké Fashola, Sunday the 10th October at Ronnie Scotts Jazz Club Upstairs (aka Ronnies Bar), Soho, features an amazing line-up of artistes continuing the age-old tradition of intertwining jazz and performance poetry, plus a unique ‘jukebox’ OPEN MIC allowing the audience to showcase their skills of jazz improvisation or spoken word.
Compered by & with music from Jumoké Fashola
LIVERPOOL: Flambard Poets
Rebecca Goss and Andrew Forster
Flambard poets - FREE poetry reading
Bluecoat Chambers, Liverpool
Saturday October 16th
2-3pm £3/£2
Tickets available to buy online now:
here
Flambard poets - FREE poetry reading
Bluecoat Chambers, Liverpool
Saturday October 16th
2-3pm £3/£2
Tickets available to buy online now:
here
GALWAY: September Over The Edge Open Reading
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway
The Featured Readers are Nicola Griffin, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh & Billy Ramsell. The evening will also see the announcement of the winners of this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition by competition judge, James Martyn.
Nicola Griffin grew up in Cheshire in the North West of England and studied Psychology and Sociology at the University of Keele in Staffordshire. She has lived in East Clare since 1997. She writes poetry, non-fiction and fiction, is a graduate of the MA in Writing at NUIG and a participant in the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre. She has a regular column in Inland Waterways News and her poetry has recently been published in Ropes Unravelled, The Sunday Tribune, The Stinging Fly, Behind The Masks and Crannóg.
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh was born in Kerry in 1984. She studied Irish and French at NUI Galway. She has lived in France and spent a year teaching Irish in New York with the Fulbright programme. The Arts Council awarded her an artist’s bursary in 2008. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Fusion, An Guth, Crannóg, The Stinging Fly and Poetry Ireland Review. She has read in Ireland, New York, Montreál and the Outer Hebrides. She is currently carrying out doctoral research in Galway. Her first collection, Péacadh, was published by Coiscéim in 2008.
Billy Ramsell was born in Cork in 1977 and educated at the North Monastery and UCC. Complicated Pleasures, his first collection, was published by the Dedalus Press, Dublin, in 2007. He has been shortlisted for a Hennessy award and a Strong award. He has been invited to read his work at many festivals around the world; most recently in Shanghai and in San Francisco. He lives in Cork where he co-runs an educational publishing company.
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/
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council and The Arts Council.
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
LONDON: Hammer & Tongue Open Poetry Slam
Monday, October 11th, 2010, 7.30pm-11pm, £5
Green Note Cafe,
106 Parkway
Camden
The Hammer & Tongue Open Poetry Slam is back! After three months running around the country as an itinerant festival troupe, we are back in London for the autumn and have harvested the very best of 2010's poetry crop for your literary delectation.
BEN MELLOR - "pure undiluted talent" Lemn Sissay
Tipped as one of the most entertaning and engaging new voices in the UK by the guys at Phrazed and Confused Radio 4 slam winner Ben won the 2005 Embryo Award for Best Poetry at Studio Salford, and in September 2006 was the joint winner (with Rob Gee) of the Lit Up Festival slam. He has spent a six month residency at Contact Theatre, and also performs hip-hop music with a group called Freestyle Mondays. He's just come back from doing a run in Edinburgh with Steve Larkin and Pete the Temp and is generally rather brilliant. Ben is in fact going to performing at a gig for Radio 4's Bespoken Word tonight at the Montos Water Rats on Greys Inn Road and it's completely free, so if you want a taster, pop along and check him out!
KAREN HAYLEY - "refreshingly different from everything else around"
Actress, comedienne, poet and presenter, Karen Hayley is a rare talent and will be showcasing some lovely new material with us. Karen's TV appearances include the BAFTA Award Winning Sketch Shows "THE ARMSTRONG & MILLER SHOW", "BO SELECTA", MTV's "ILSQ" WITH RUSSELL BRAND", and current affairs comedy shows for Objective and Hat Trick Productions and she won an award for her 6 years of presenting on MTV UK. She's also performed a love poem to a door to the music from Brief Encounter which was, frankly, unforgettable.
It's a fiver on the door to get in, which pays the poets! If you are slamming you get in for free, but please do turn up early (about 7.15pm) if you want to ensure that you get in. First 8 to sign up on the door slam.Winner goes on to compete in the national final in November... so this is your last opportunity to vie for a place in the final.. competing against the best slammers from across the rest of the UK.
Hammer & Tongue is now hosting slams in 5 cities across the UK: Oxford, Brighton, London, Cambridge and Bristol....check us out at www.hammerandtongue.com, http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=6460017271&ref=ts and on twitter...
Green Note Cafe,
106 Parkway
Camden
The Hammer & Tongue Open Poetry Slam is back! After three months running around the country as an itinerant festival troupe, we are back in London for the autumn and have harvested the very best of 2010's poetry crop for your literary delectation.
BEN MELLOR - "pure undiluted talent" Lemn Sissay
Tipped as one of the most entertaning and engaging new voices in the UK by the guys at Phrazed and Confused Radio 4 slam winner Ben won the 2005 Embryo Award for Best Poetry at Studio Salford, and in September 2006 was the joint winner (with Rob Gee) of the Lit Up Festival slam. He has spent a six month residency at Contact Theatre, and also performs hip-hop music with a group called Freestyle Mondays. He's just come back from doing a run in Edinburgh with Steve Larkin and Pete the Temp and is generally rather brilliant. Ben is in fact going to performing at a gig for Radio 4's Bespoken Word tonight at the Montos Water Rats on Greys Inn Road and it's completely free, so if you want a taster, pop along and check him out!
KAREN HAYLEY - "refreshingly different from everything else around"
Actress, comedienne, poet and presenter, Karen Hayley is a rare talent and will be showcasing some lovely new material with us. Karen's TV appearances include the BAFTA Award Winning Sketch Shows "THE ARMSTRONG & MILLER SHOW", "BO SELECTA", MTV's "ILSQ" WITH RUSSELL BRAND", and current affairs comedy shows for Objective and Hat Trick Productions and she won an award for her 6 years of presenting on MTV UK. She's also performed a love poem to a door to the music from Brief Encounter which was, frankly, unforgettable.
It's a fiver on the door to get in, which pays the poets! If you are slamming you get in for free, but please do turn up early (about 7.15pm) if you want to ensure that you get in. First 8 to sign up on the door slam.Winner goes on to compete in the national final in November... so this is your last opportunity to vie for a place in the final.. competing against the best slammers from across the rest of the UK.
Hammer & Tongue is now hosting slams in 5 cities across the UK: Oxford, Brighton, London, Cambridge and Bristol....check us out at www.hammerandtongue.com, http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=6460017271&ref=ts and on twitter...
Monday, September 27, 2010
LONDON: Gladiatorial poetry slam
Museum of London
150 London Wall,
London,
EC2Y 5HN
020 7001 9844
www.museumoflondon.org.uk
The Museum of London’s youth panel Junction presents a gladiatorial poetry slam between some of the city’s most exciting young slam poets. Watch a spectacular evening of poetry performance including readings from competition winners who were given the challenge
of exploring the influence of Latin and Roman culture on the language and environment of modern day London.
LIVERPOOL: Spoken Word AllStars Tour
Bluecoat,
School Lane,
Liverpool
L1 3BX
Spoken Word AllStars Tour
An exciting mash-up of music and spoken word
SPOKEN WORD ALL STARS is exactly what it says on the tin: a stellar cast of talent from the UK's live poetry scene, performing an original live show alongside one globally acclaimed musician - the sophisticated saxman, Jason Yarde.
Join the All Stars across the UK, as they interweave their words with live and improvised loops, beats and melodies, featuring:
El Crisis - his unique style combines a hypnotic mixture of rap, spoken word, song and chant.
OneNess - spoken word soulsista from Grenada.
Kat Francois - slamtastic, superphysical storyteller.
Ventriloquist - wordsmith wizard from the west.
Kate Tempest - hellfiery powerhouse of socio-poetry.
Jason Yarde - the king of improv sax.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT
The Slug & Lettuce,
Leamington Spa.
As you know, each month we also invite a fabulous guest performance poet. This month we are hosting the very wonderful duo Project Adorno.
They are a double act employing voice, electronic sounds, a few props and occasional acoustic guitar. Subject matter, ranging from the surreal to the downright nonsensical, includes the smell of second-hand books, love affairs with Daleks and photocopiers, and poems about old computer games.
Project Adorno have performed at venues around the country including shows at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Buxton Fringe & Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They have also written music for theatre productions, produced multimedia installations for art exhibitions and made a number of short films.
Other info can be found at www.projectadorno.net
DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED!
With open mic support from…….yes……YOU!
Come and share your poems - seasoned poets & first time performers most welcome! As we aim for a 7.30pm start 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
Look forward to seeing you there!
Friday, September 24, 2010
LONDON: New Norwegian Poetry
Rich Mix
35-47 Bethnal Green Road,
London
E1 6LA)
Ny Poesi: 3am magazine's Maintenant interview series presents New Norwegian Poetry, with Jenny Hval, Endre Ruset, Paal Bjelke Andersen and Audun Mortensen.
A free evening of International poetry and performance from four of the most vibrant and resounding young poetic talents in a grand Scandinavian tradition. Hval, Ruset, Mortensen and Andersen belong to a generation of poets that measure the sophistication of literary poetry with the groundbreaking developments of the avant-garde poetic practise and performance. This reading will feature poets who have already gained prominence for their originality and power, and seemlessly engage the boundaries of what poetry can and should become as we reconfigure poetry as song, as lyric, as art and text.
The event will also see the release of a one off special publication from Knives Forks and Spoons press featuring poetic collaborations between the visiting Norwegian poets and Jeff Hilson, Sean Bonney, Agnes Lehoczky and Sam Riviere.
Jenny Hval - http://www.myspace.com/rockettothesky
Audun Mortensen - http://www.audunmortensen.com/
Endre Ruset - http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-16-%e2%80%93-endre-ruset/
Paal Bjelke Andersen - http://nypoesi.net/
In association with NORLA and the Norwegian embassy in London.
Special thanks to Susanne Christensen, Andrine Pollen, Anne Ulset, Judith Palmer, Oliver Carruthers, Øyvind Rimbereid & Caroline Bergvall.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
ILKLEY LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2010: A Flambard Affair
Thursday, 7th October, 2010, 9pm, FREE
Ilkley Playhouse (Wharfeside),
Weston Road,
Ilkley,
West Yorkshire,
LS29 8DW
FREE Fringe event on National Poetry Day: A Flambard Affair
Sensual, evocative poetry from Mary Robinson and Rebecca Goss, reading from their first collections, published by Flambard Press. Mary Robinson’s The Art of Gardening is ‘an immensely varied collection – about childhood and family, people and places, nature and memory’. Rebecca Goss’s The Anatomy of Structures is ‘fearless, fresh and utterly engaging – strong on intelligence as well as emotion’ – Tribune.
Ilkley Playhouse (Wharfeside),
Weston Road,
Ilkley,
West Yorkshire,
LS29 8DW
FREE Fringe event on National Poetry Day: A Flambard Affair
Sensual, evocative poetry from Mary Robinson and Rebecca Goss, reading from their first collections, published by Flambard Press. Mary Robinson’s The Art of Gardening is ‘an immensely varied collection – about childhood and family, people and places, nature and memory’. Rebecca Goss’s The Anatomy of Structures is ‘fearless, fresh and utterly engaging – strong on intelligence as well as emotion’ – Tribune.
BIRMINGHAM: Rhymes On The Roof
The Old Fire Station,
Moseley Road,
Moseley,
Birmingham
As well as upcoming talent, a chilled-out atmosphere, and cake! Limited spaces, advanced booking is recommended.
Yes, you read it right. Weather permitting, September Rhymes will be coming to you live from the intimate roof space of RoguePlay's new space. Bringing you the usual poetry goodness and awesome Raffle, but this time with a pretty view and some fresh Brummie air too, so bring a brolly and a jumper just in case and come get poetical! This month's poets are;
Bohdan Piasecki, a Polish poet who currently lives in England. He represented Poland at the 2007 Poetry Slam World Cup in Paris and proudly wore the title of the 2008 Hammer & Tongue Oxford Season Slam Champion, and was an artist in residence at the European Poetry Slam Days in Berlin in 2009. Bohdan is also the West Midlands Programme Coordinator for Apples & Snakes Performance Poetry Organisation.
"His intense delivery and ability to express what many people struggle to put into words won the audience over." Julia Bell, Oxford Daily Info
Afrobehn, who explores the ways in which the creative and the theological interact and inform each other and how spoken word blurs the boundaries between poetry, prose and drama. Her writing is shaped by her experience of mental illness and her interest in theology and gender. She has written and performed with the r:evolve theatre company and Apples and Snakes in Things That Can't Be Said.
Lady Josephine Whittle a.k.a Claire Corfield. Since graduating from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2002, Claire has worked extensively as a comedy performer; from twisted cabaret theatre company Voodoo Vaudeville, to Rogueplay's improvisation troupe, Funbags. Claire invites you to meet character comedy creation Lady Josephine Whittle, whose poems may not be everyone's cup of tea, but then neither is her dress sense.
M.C Lorna Meehan
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
NOTICE
Due to unavoidable absence, listings sent to Poets On Fire between today and October 12th are unlikely to get posted before that date (although we'll do our best if at all possible). We've tried to post anything already with us - all events are listed two weeks before they happen, and again the day before.
We're also working on a new look for the site, and hopefully an expansion of its aims and scope, so we hope you'll bear with us, and normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
THANK YOU!
We're also working on a new look for the site, and hopefully an expansion of its aims and scope, so we hope you'll bear with us, and normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
THANK YOU!
LONDON: Philip Wells THE FIRE POET
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010, 7pm, £10 (concessons available) in aid of THE ALICE FUND for poetry and the healing arts
St Peter's Church,
Black Lion Lane,
Hammersmith
Philip Wells ("the foremost performance poet in England" - EVENING STANDARD) celebrates the special talents of profoundly disabled children, who've helped him pioneer a new form of inteactive, improvised poetry therapy in children's hospices, homes and special needs schools. HARVEST for the LISTENERS will be a magical, alchemical evening, featuring Philip alongside jazz flautist Keith Waithe, tabla maestro Sirishkumar and music therapist Rebecca O'Connor.
St Peter's Church,
Black Lion Lane,
Hammersmith
Philip Wells ("the foremost performance poet in England" - EVENING STANDARD) celebrates the special talents of profoundly disabled children, who've helped him pioneer a new form of inteactive, improvised poetry therapy in children's hospices, homes and special needs schools. HARVEST for the LISTENERS will be a magical, alchemical evening, featuring Philip alongside jazz flautist Keith Waithe, tabla maestro Sirishkumar and music therapist Rebecca O'Connor.
LONDON: Camden Poetry Series
Friday, 24th September, 2010, 7pm, 7pm (doors open 6.30pm), £5/£4, WINE
Trinity United Reform Church
1 Buck Street,
Camden Town
London
Ruth O'Callaghan presents An Open Evening.
Poets from the floor are the stars and will be given longer spots to show a greater range of their poetry than usual. Please leave a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.
Lumen/Camden Poetry Competition. Poems up to 40 lines £2.50 per poem, 6 poems £10. Deadline: 14th February 2011. Judge: Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate. Proceeds to the Cold Weather Shelter. Submissions and cheques to Ruth O’Callaghan, 49 Ripley Gardens, Mortlake London SW14 8HF. Prize: Pamphlet publication of winner's poems - 50 free copies plus reading.
Trinity United Reform Church
1 Buck Street,
Camden Town
London
Ruth O'Callaghan presents An Open Evening.
Poets from the floor are the stars and will be given longer spots to show a greater range of their poetry than usual. Please leave a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.
Lumen/Camden Poetry Competition. Poems up to 40 lines £2.50 per poem, 6 poems £10. Deadline: 14th February 2011. Judge: Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate. Proceeds to the Cold Weather Shelter. Submissions and cheques to Ruth O’Callaghan, 49 Ripley Gardens, Mortlake London SW14 8HF. Prize: Pamphlet publication of winner's poems - 50 free copies plus reading.
LONDON: Annie Freud
Friday, October 1st, 2010, 7pm-9pm
The Melton Mowbray,
Marborough Court,
14-18 High Holborn,
London
EC1N 2LE
Launch party for The Mirabelles, Annie Freud's new collection of poems, to be published by Picador on 1st October 2010.
RSVP to anniefreud@googlemail.com
The Melton Mowbray,
Marborough Court,
14-18 High Holborn,
London
EC1N 2LE
Launch party for The Mirabelles, Annie Freud's new collection of poems, to be published by Picador on 1st October 2010.
RSVP to anniefreud@googlemail.com
Saturday, September 18, 2010
BRIGHTON: Urban Disquiet
Iambic Arts Theatre
Entrance on Regent St,
North Laine
(above Bell Book and Candle, Gardner St)
Cash bar
Waterloo Press invites you to URBAN DISQUIET, an evening of poetry and music to celebrate the launch of two new collections:
Micrographia
Robert Dickinson
'Dickinson's poetry crackles with energy and wit; utterly clear-sighted, it's also
compassionate, exploring the emotional territory of oddballs, conspiracy theorists,
those on the margins ...' - Catherine Smith
&
Thumbing from Lipik to Pakrac
New and Selected Poems
Peter Street
Peter Street's poems celebrate 'ordinary life'. But he knows that covers every kind
of fear, frustration, hope disappointed or fulfilled; pleasure denied or achieved.'
-Alan Brownjohn
with live music
from electronica soundscape artist Richard Miles
set your ear to the erratic heartbeat of contemporary life
Peter Street, born in Wigan, 1948, is a national and international poet with three major collections to his name. The Wall Street Journal has described him as 'a wandering minstrel ... bringing his art to his people.' ITV made a twelve minute Remembrance Sunday Special about his time as a war poet in 1993 during the Bosnian/Croat conflict. A former BBC writer-in-residence and qualified youth worker, he has also worked as a forester, gravedigger and a chef in his own Mediterranean cafe.
Robert Dickinson was born in London in 1962, has worked in finance in both the private and public sectors. Has published poems in numerous magazines. In association with The Extra Theatre Company, has written plays, including Murder's Last Case (2004). His libretto for a choral piece on the pilgrimage to Santiago received its premiere at the 2005 City of London Festival. His first novel, The Noise of Strangers, appeared from Myriad Editions in 2010.
Richard Miles is a musician and visual artist living in East Sussex. His collaborative projects include Armchair Astronaut and Tomas Hiltz.
NOTTINGHAM: Shindig!
Sunday, September 19th, 2010, 7pm onwards, FREE
Jam Cafe,
12 Heathcote Street,
Nottingham
NG1 3AA
Nine Arches Press & LeftLion Magazine present...Nottingham Shindig!
The first ever Nottingham Shindig! - join us for open mic readings and special guest poets Wayne Burrows, Roz Goddard, Éireann Lorsung and Simon Turner.
Wayne Burrows' first collection Marginalia appeared from Peterloo Poets in 2001, and his second appeared from Shoestring Press in 2009. His work has featured in the British Council anthologies New Writing 12 and NW15, as well as the Forward anthology for 2002 and many magazines and anthologies. He is editor of Staple magazine and currently lives in Nottingham.
Roz Goddard’s fourth poetry collection is The Sopranos Sonnets & Other Poems. She is a former poet-laureate for Birmingham. Her poetry has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She runs writing workshops and courses, including for the Arvon Foundation and mentors individual writers. She is currently studying for an MPhil in writing at Glamorgan University.
Éireann Lorsung is the author of Music for Landing Planes By (Milkweed Editions, 2007) and Projet Linguistique (forthcoming, Milkweed Editions). Her poems appear widely in magazines and in two recent anthologies. Prior to coming to the UK, she lived in Italy and France. She is the organiser of the Nottingham Poetry Series.
Simon Turner was born in Birmingham in 1981 and his first collection, You Are Here, was published in 2007. Difficult Second Album is his second collection, launched by Nine Arches Press in April 2010. With George Ttoouli, he co-edits Gists and Piths, a blog dedicated to the publication and discussion of contemporary poetry. He lives and works in Warwickshire.
Sign up for open mic on the door.
This event is co-hosted by LeftLion Magazine and kindly sponsored by Writing East Midlands.
Jam Cafe,
12 Heathcote Street,
Nottingham
NG1 3AA
Nine Arches Press & LeftLion Magazine present...Nottingham Shindig!
The first ever Nottingham Shindig! - join us for open mic readings and special guest poets Wayne Burrows, Roz Goddard, Éireann Lorsung and Simon Turner.
Wayne Burrows' first collection Marginalia appeared from Peterloo Poets in 2001, and his second appeared from Shoestring Press in 2009. His work has featured in the British Council anthologies New Writing 12 and NW15, as well as the Forward anthology for 2002 and many magazines and anthologies. He is editor of Staple magazine and currently lives in Nottingham.
Roz Goddard’s fourth poetry collection is The Sopranos Sonnets & Other Poems. She is a former poet-laureate for Birmingham. Her poetry has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She runs writing workshops and courses, including for the Arvon Foundation and mentors individual writers. She is currently studying for an MPhil in writing at Glamorgan University.
Éireann Lorsung is the author of Music for Landing Planes By (Milkweed Editions, 2007) and Projet Linguistique (forthcoming, Milkweed Editions). Her poems appear widely in magazines and in two recent anthologies. Prior to coming to the UK, she lived in Italy and France. She is the organiser of the Nottingham Poetry Series.
Simon Turner was born in Birmingham in 1981 and his first collection, You Are Here, was published in 2007. Difficult Second Album is his second collection, launched by Nine Arches Press in April 2010. With George Ttoouli, he co-edits Gists and Piths, a blog dedicated to the publication and discussion of contemporary poetry. He lives and works in Warwickshire.
Sign up for open mic on the door.
This event is co-hosted by LeftLion Magazine and kindly sponsored by Writing East Midlands.
LONDON: Poetic Frenzy
BAC Café,
Battersea Arts Centre,
Lavender Hill,
SW11 5TN
www.bac.org.uk
020 7223 2223
In association with BAC and Apples & Snakes, Poetic Frenzy!
SW11 poet-in-residence Paul Lyalls fronts an extravaganza of live verse in the laid-back environment of the BAC bar. Guests Jahnell, Indigo Williams and Alex Gwyther ensure that, in the right hands, poetry can be a shattering live experience, whilst Cecelia Delatori displays her own brand of ditzy musical storytelling. Get down to BAC and get down with the poets.
Friday, September 17, 2010
LONDON: Peter Riley and Kelvin Corcoran
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010, 7.30pm, FREE
Swedenborg Hall,
Swedenborg House,
20/21 Bloomsbury Way,
London
WC1A 2TH
Reading for the publication by Shearsman of The Derbyshire Poems, by Peter Riley, and Hotel Shadow, by Kelvin Corcoran.
Swedenborg Hall,
Swedenborg House,
20/21 Bloomsbury Way,
London
WC1A 2TH
Reading for the publication by Shearsman of The Derbyshire Poems, by Peter Riley, and Hotel Shadow, by Kelvin Corcoran.
LONDON: Ambit at the Betsey Trotwood
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010, 7pm, FREE/donation
The Betsey Trotwood
Farringdon Road
Clerkenwell
London
(nearest tube Farringdon)
Penelope Shuttle, Sonja Besford, Anthony Howell and Abigail Parry will be reading to mark the first of AMBIT magazine's three winter events at Betsey Trotwood.
Doors will open at 7am. There will be also be open floor spots for you to read your own work- get there early to sign up.
The Betsey Trotwood
Farringdon Road
Clerkenwell
London
(nearest tube Farringdon)
Penelope Shuttle, Sonja Besford, Anthony Howell and Abigail Parry will be reading to mark the first of AMBIT magazine's three winter events at Betsey Trotwood.
Doors will open at 7am. There will be also be open floor spots for you to read your own work- get there early to sign up.
OXFORD: Cabaret Clandestino
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010, 9pm-2am, £6
The East Oxford Community Centre
Cowley Road
Corner of Princes Street
Featuring stand-up poetry from:
Rachael Pantechnicon and her poems for cats and humans.
'Technicolour suburban entertainment' (John Hegley).
The Geees
Little dark sketch Comedy (Four stars, Oxford Theatre Review)
Matt Chararin
Hosted by Pete the Temp
'He makes you laugh like a schoolgirl who's just found out what a penis looks like' (Fringereport.com)
www.myspace.com/cabaretclandestino
The East Oxford Community Centre
Cowley Road
Corner of Princes Street
Featuring stand-up poetry from:
Rachael Pantechnicon and her poems for cats and humans.
'Technicolour suburban entertainment' (John Hegley).
The Geees
Little dark sketch Comedy (Four stars, Oxford Theatre Review)
Matt Chararin
Hosted by Pete the Temp
'He makes you laugh like a schoolgirl who's just found out what a penis looks like' (Fringereport.com)
www.myspace.com/cabaretclandestino
LONDON: Poetry Cafe
The Poetry Cafe,
22 Betterton Street,
London,
WC2H 9BX
Simon Smith, Eleanor Rees, Tamy Yoseloff, Agnieszka Studzinska and Julia Bird will be reading from their work.
On Simon Smith's London Bridge:
The occupants of Simon Smith’s poems are names for contemporary urban detail ratcheted up to experiential intensities that actually open (rather than shut down, as all too customary) the reader’s senses of place and person. The “mesh” is thereby not amiss, nor are these “Great buckets of Reality” hoisted to no purpose. A rare pleasure found so succinctly in the telling. As Smith’s refresher take on Martial has it, “Wouldn’t every man live, if he knew how,/Giving it all away to here and now?” -- Bill Berkson
Robert Browning lived at the foot of Telegraph Hill and Chaucer’s pilgrims went along the Old Kent Road. This is a Londoner’s book, south of the river going east: brick built and bomb-damaged, with Roman remains, Oyster cards, Green Shield stamps, Keats, O’Hara, John James, Apollinaire, and everywhere unforeseen beauty and wit. I think ‘Honeymoon’ is my favourite, but sometimes I like ‘The Table’ best of all, what do you think? -- Tony Lopez
HAWORTH: Grey Hen Press reading
Brontë Parsonage Musem,
Haworth
A reading from the 2011 Poem Calendar produced by Grey Hen Press, featuring month-by-month poems about the Brontë family. Poets reading include Carole Bromley, Marianne Burton, Joy Howard, Pauline Kirk, Wendy Klein, Char March, Katrina Naomi, Christine Webb and Sue Wood.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
GALWAY: September Over The Edge Open Reading
Thursday, September 30th, 6.30pm-8pm
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway
The Featured Readers are Nicola Griffin, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh & Billy Ramsell. The evening will also see the announcement of the winners of this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition by competition judge, James Martyn.
Nicola Griffin grew up in Cheshire in the North West of England and studied Psychology and Sociology at the University of Keele in Staffordshire. She has lived in East Clare since 1997. She writes poetry, non-fiction and fiction, is a graduate of the MA in Writing at NUIG and a participant in the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre. She has a regular column in Inland Waterways News and her poetry has recently been published in Ropes Unravelled, The Sunday Tribune, The Stinging Fly, Behind The Masks and Crannóg.
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh was born in Kerry in 1984. She studied Irish and French at NUI Galway. She has lived in France and spent a year teaching Irish in New York with the Fulbright programme. The Arts Council awarded her an artist’s bursary in 2008. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Fusion, An Guth, Crannóg, The Stinging Fly and Poetry Ireland Review. She has read in Ireland, New York, Montreál and the Outer Hebrides. She is currently carrying out doctoral research in Galway. Her first collection, Péacadh, was published by Coiscéim in 2008.
Billy Ramsell was born in Cork in 1977 and educated at the North Monastery and UCC. Complicated Pleasures, his first collection, was published by the Dedalus Press, Dublin, in 2007. He has been shortlisted for a Hennessy award and a Strong award. He has been invited to read his work at many festivals around the world; most recently in Shanghai and in San Francisco. He lives in Cork where he co-runs an educational publishing company.
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/
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council and The Arts Council.
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway
The Featured Readers are Nicola Griffin, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh & Billy Ramsell. The evening will also see the announcement of the winners of this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of the Year competition by competition judge, James Martyn.
Nicola Griffin grew up in Cheshire in the North West of England and studied Psychology and Sociology at the University of Keele in Staffordshire. She has lived in East Clare since 1997. She writes poetry, non-fiction and fiction, is a graduate of the MA in Writing at NUIG and a participant in the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre. She has a regular column in Inland Waterways News and her poetry has recently been published in Ropes Unravelled, The Sunday Tribune, The Stinging Fly, Behind The Masks and Crannóg.
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh was born in Kerry in 1984. She studied Irish and French at NUI Galway. She has lived in France and spent a year teaching Irish in New York with the Fulbright programme. The Arts Council awarded her an artist’s bursary in 2008. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Fusion, An Guth, Crannóg, The Stinging Fly and Poetry Ireland Review. She has read in Ireland, New York, Montreál and the Outer Hebrides. She is currently carrying out doctoral research in Galway. Her first collection, Péacadh, was published by Coiscéim in 2008.
Billy Ramsell was born in Cork in 1977 and educated at the North Monastery and UCC. Complicated Pleasures, his first collection, was published by the Dedalus Press, Dublin, in 2007. He has been shortlisted for a Hennessy award and a Strong award. He has been invited to read his work at many festivals around the world; most recently in Shanghai and in San Francisco. He lives in Cork where he co-runs an educational publishing company.
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/
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council and The Arts Council.
LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT
Sunday, September 26th, 2010, 7.30pm, £3 (£2 Student/OAP)
The Slug & Lettuce,
Leamington Spa.
As you know, each month we also invite a fabulous guest performance poet. This month we are hosting the very wonderful duo Project Adorno.
They are a double act employing voice, electronic sounds, a few props and occasional acoustic guitar. Subject matter, ranging from the surreal to the downright nonsensical, includes the smell of second-hand books, love affairs with Daleks and photocopiers, and poems about old computer games.
Project Adorno have performed at venues around the country including shows at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Buxton Fringe & Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They have also written music for theatre productions, produced multimedia installations for art exhibitions and made a number of short films.
Other info can be found at www.projectadorno.net
DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED!
With open mic support from…….yes……YOU!
Come and share your poems - seasoned poets & first time performers most welcome! As we aim for a 7.30pm start 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
Look forward to seeing you there!
The Slug & Lettuce,
Leamington Spa.
As you know, each month we also invite a fabulous guest performance poet. This month we are hosting the very wonderful duo Project Adorno.
They are a double act employing voice, electronic sounds, a few props and occasional acoustic guitar. Subject matter, ranging from the surreal to the downright nonsensical, includes the smell of second-hand books, love affairs with Daleks and photocopiers, and poems about old computer games.
Project Adorno have performed at venues around the country including shows at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, Buxton Fringe & Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They have also written music for theatre productions, produced multimedia installations for art exhibitions and made a number of short films.
Other info can be found at www.projectadorno.net
DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED!
With open mic support from…….yes……YOU!
Come and share your poems - seasoned poets & first time performers most welcome! As we aim for a 7.30pm start 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
Look forward to seeing you there!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
LONDON: Gladiatorial poetry slam
Tuesday, 28th September, 2010, 6.30pm–8.30pm, FREE
Museum of London
150 London Wall,
London,
EC2Y 5HN
020 7001 9844
www.museumoflondon.org.uk
The Museum of London’s youth panel Junction presents a gladiatorial poetry slam between some of the city’s most exciting young slam poets. Watch a spectacular evening of poetry performance including readings from competition winners who were given the challenge
of exploring the influence of Latin and Roman culture on the language and environment of modern day London.
Museum of London
150 London Wall,
London,
EC2Y 5HN
020 7001 9844
www.museumoflondon.org.uk
The Museum of London’s youth panel Junction presents a gladiatorial poetry slam between some of the city’s most exciting young slam poets. Watch a spectacular evening of poetry performance including readings from competition winners who were given the challenge
of exploring the influence of Latin and Roman culture on the language and environment of modern day London.
LIVERPOOL: Spoken Word AllStars Tour
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
Bluecoat,
School Lane,
Liverpool
L1 3BX
Spoken Word AllStars Tour
An exciting mash-up of music and spoken word
SPOKEN WORD ALL STARS is exactly what it says on the tin: a stellar cast of talent from the UK's live poetry scene, performing an original live show alongside one globally acclaimed musician - the sophisticated saxman, Jason Yarde.
Join the All Stars across the UK, as they interweave their words with live and improvised loops, beats and melodies, featuring:
El Crisis - his unique style combines a hypnotic mixture of rap, spoken word, song and chant.
OneNess - spoken word soulsista from Grenada.
Kat Francois - slamtastic, superphysical storyteller.
Ventriloquist - wordsmith wizard from the west.
Kate Tempest - hellfiery powerhouse of socio-poetry.
Jason Yarde - the king of improv sax.
Bluecoat,
School Lane,
Liverpool
L1 3BX
Spoken Word AllStars Tour
An exciting mash-up of music and spoken word
SPOKEN WORD ALL STARS is exactly what it says on the tin: a stellar cast of talent from the UK's live poetry scene, performing an original live show alongside one globally acclaimed musician - the sophisticated saxman, Jason Yarde.
Join the All Stars across the UK, as they interweave their words with live and improvised loops, beats and melodies, featuring:
El Crisis - his unique style combines a hypnotic mixture of rap, spoken word, song and chant.
OneNess - spoken word soulsista from Grenada.
Kat Francois - slamtastic, superphysical storyteller.
Ventriloquist - wordsmith wizard from the west.
Kate Tempest - hellfiery powerhouse of socio-poetry.
Jason Yarde - the king of improv sax.
BRISTOL: Brizzlemania 2.0 - The September Slam
The Old Fire Station
Silver Street,
Bristol,
BS1 2AG
Featuring...
Brizzlemania and Hammer and Tongue Southwest Champion Steve Blesshead
Young and fresh homegrown talent Agatha Nagual
Farrago Champion, all the way from the Big Smoke, Vanessa Kisuule
And reintroducing the OPEN POETRY SLAM: Two Tickets to Carnyville for the winner; any poet can sign up on the door or in advance by emailing jack.dean@bathspa.org
Come chill with your host Jack Dean and the rest of the gang.
Monday, September 13, 2010
LONDON: Lumen Poetry Series
LUMEN
88 Tavistock Place
WC1
Tubes: Russell Square , Kings Cross, St Pancras.
Ruth O'Callaghan presents Cinnamon Press poets Sheila Hillier and Omar Sabbagh. Poets from the floor very welcome. Please bring a copy of your poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.
Patron Carol Ann Duffy - Poet Laureate.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
LONDON: New Norwegian Poetry
Saturday, September 25th, 2010, 7pm, FREE
Rich Mix
35-47 Bethnal Green Road,
London
E1 6LA)
Ny Poesi: 3am magazine's Maintenant interview series presents New Norwegian Poetry, with Jenny Hval, Endre Ruset, Paal Bjelke Andersen and Audun Mortensen.
A free evening of International poetry and performance from four of the most vibrant and resounding young poetic talents in a grand Scandinavian tradition. Hval, Ruset, Mortensen and Andersen belong to a generation of poets that measure the sophistication of literary poetry with the groundbreaking developments of the avant-garde poetic practise and performance. This reading will feature poets who have already gained prominence for their originality and power, and seemlessly engage the boundaries of what poetry can and should become as we reconfigure poetry as song, as lyric, as art and text.
The event will also see the release of a one off special publication from Knives Forks and Spoons press featuring poetic collaborations between the visiting Norwegian poets and Jeff Hilson, Sean Bonney, Agnes Lehoczky and Sam Riviere.
Jenny Hval - http://www.myspace.com/rockettothesky
Audun Mortensen - http://www.audunmortensen.com/
Endre Ruset - http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-16-%e2%80%93-endre-ruset/
Paal Bjelke Andersen - http://nypoesi.net/
In association with NORLA and the Norwegian embassy in London.
Special thanks to Susanne Christensen, Andrine Pollen, Anne Ulset, Judith Palmer, Oliver Carruthers, Øyvind Rimbereid & Caroline Bergvall.
Rich Mix
35-47 Bethnal Green Road,
London
E1 6LA)
Ny Poesi: 3am magazine's Maintenant interview series presents New Norwegian Poetry, with Jenny Hval, Endre Ruset, Paal Bjelke Andersen and Audun Mortensen.
A free evening of International poetry and performance from four of the most vibrant and resounding young poetic talents in a grand Scandinavian tradition. Hval, Ruset, Mortensen and Andersen belong to a generation of poets that measure the sophistication of literary poetry with the groundbreaking developments of the avant-garde poetic practise and performance. This reading will feature poets who have already gained prominence for their originality and power, and seemlessly engage the boundaries of what poetry can and should become as we reconfigure poetry as song, as lyric, as art and text.
The event will also see the release of a one off special publication from Knives Forks and Spoons press featuring poetic collaborations between the visiting Norwegian poets and Jeff Hilson, Sean Bonney, Agnes Lehoczky and Sam Riviere.
Jenny Hval - http://www.myspace.com/rockettothesky
Audun Mortensen - http://www.audunmortensen.com/
Endre Ruset - http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-16-%e2%80%93-endre-ruset/
Paal Bjelke Andersen - http://nypoesi.net/
In association with NORLA and the Norwegian embassy in London.
Special thanks to Susanne Christensen, Andrine Pollen, Anne Ulset, Judith Palmer, Oliver Carruthers, Øyvind Rimbereid & Caroline Bergvall.
Friday, September 10, 2010
BIRMINGHAM: Rhymes On The Roof
Friday, September 24th, 2010, 8pm
The Old Fire Station,
Moseley Road,
Moseley,
Birmingham
As well as upcoming talent, a chilled-out atmosphere, and cake! Limited spaces, advanced booking is recommended.
Yes, you read it right. Weather permitting, September Rhymes will be coming to you live from the intimate roof space of RoguePlay's new space. Bringing you the usual poetry goodness and awesome Raffle, but this time with a pretty view and some fresh Brummie air too, so bring a brolly and a jumper just in case and come get poetical! This month's poets are;
Bohdan Piasecki, a Polish poet who currently lives in England. He represented Poland at the 2007 Poetry Slam World Cup in Paris and proudly wore the title of the 2008 Hammer & Tongue Oxford Season Slam Champion, and was an artist in residence at the European Poetry Slam Days in Berlin in 2009. Bohdan is also the West Midlands Programme Coordinator for Apples & Snakes Performance Poetry Organisation.
"His intense delivery and ability to express what many people struggle to put into words won the audience over." Julia Bell, Oxford Daily Info
Afrobehn, who explores the ways in which the creative and the theological interact and inform each other and how spoken word blurs the boundaries between poetry, prose and drama. Her writing is shaped by her experience of mental illness and her interest in theology and gender. She has written and performed with the r:evolve theatre company and Apples and Snakes in Things That Can't Be Said.
Lady Josephine Whittle a.k.a Claire Corfield. Since graduating from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2002, Claire has worked extensively as a comedy performer; from twisted cabaret theatre company Voodoo Vaudeville, to Rogueplay's improvisation troupe, Funbags. Claire invites you to meet character comedy creation Lady Josephine Whittle, whose poems may not be everyone's cup of tea, but then neither is her dress sense.
M.C Lorna Meehan
The Old Fire Station,
Moseley Road,
Moseley,
Birmingham
As well as upcoming talent, a chilled-out atmosphere, and cake! Limited spaces, advanced booking is recommended.
Yes, you read it right. Weather permitting, September Rhymes will be coming to you live from the intimate roof space of RoguePlay's new space. Bringing you the usual poetry goodness and awesome Raffle, but this time with a pretty view and some fresh Brummie air too, so bring a brolly and a jumper just in case and come get poetical! This month's poets are;
Bohdan Piasecki, a Polish poet who currently lives in England. He represented Poland at the 2007 Poetry Slam World Cup in Paris and proudly wore the title of the 2008 Hammer & Tongue Oxford Season Slam Champion, and was an artist in residence at the European Poetry Slam Days in Berlin in 2009. Bohdan is also the West Midlands Programme Coordinator for Apples & Snakes Performance Poetry Organisation.
"His intense delivery and ability to express what many people struggle to put into words won the audience over." Julia Bell, Oxford Daily Info
Afrobehn, who explores the ways in which the creative and the theological interact and inform each other and how spoken word blurs the boundaries between poetry, prose and drama. Her writing is shaped by her experience of mental illness and her interest in theology and gender. She has written and performed with the r:evolve theatre company and Apples and Snakes in Things That Can't Be Said.
Lady Josephine Whittle a.k.a Claire Corfield. Since graduating from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2002, Claire has worked extensively as a comedy performer; from twisted cabaret theatre company Voodoo Vaudeville, to Rogueplay's improvisation troupe, Funbags. Claire invites you to meet character comedy creation Lady Josephine Whittle, whose poems may not be everyone's cup of tea, but then neither is her dress sense.
M.C Lorna Meehan
LONDON: BEAT
Monday, September 13th, 2010, FREE
Charlie Wright's,
45 Pitfield Street,
London
N1 6DA
beat. v (beats, beating, beat; pats part. beaten)
1. hit someone repeatedly and violently. 2. hit something repeatedly. 3. defeat or be better than: he beat his own world record. 4 informal baffle someone. 5 (of the heart) throb. 6 (of a bird) move the wings up and down. 7. stir cooking ingredients vigorously. n 1 an act of of beating. 2 a main accent in music or poetry. 3 a brief pause. 4 an area patrolled by a police officer. a......dj informal completely exhausted.
phrases beat around the bush discuss a matter without coming to the point. beat down shine very brightly. beat it informal leave beat someone up attack someone and hit them repeatedly. off the beaten track isolated
BEAT - a poetry night like no other
DAVE BRYANT - has performed sets for (amongst others):
Apples and Snakes, BEAT, Utter!, New Blood, The George Tavern , The Cellar at The Poetry Cafe, Whitechapel Art Gallery , Novas Gallery , Tall Lighthouse , The Klinker . Y Tuesday Poetry Club, Borders Bookstore (RIP). Has been published alongside John Hegley and Paul Birtill in the Hearing Eye anthology of London writers and performers In The Company of Poets which is still commercially available. You can also find some of his work in the "Delinquent" series of anthologies which can be ordered through http://www.thedelinquent.co.uk/.
PAULINE SEWARDS - writes accessible, observational poetry for performance. Since moving to London in late 2008 has read at a lot of the wonderful regular nights in the city including, BEAT, Unplugged at the Poetry cafe, Farrago, Catweazle, bang said the Gun and the Rose theatre Kingston
NICK STIBBS one of our favourite Cambridge poets returns. Radioman Nick likes Whitman and Neruda, has a degree in social science and social psychology and still finds people, including himself quite weird
SIOFRA MCSHERRY - bookworm and poet, sometimes art critic, curator, lit teacher, with special panache for american writers, bouncing between the States, native Ireland and London
ALEXANDER THANNI http://www.myspace.com/plantainuk - 'The Reverend' preaches his mantra to all, with some fine sounds and arresting politics
LIVE MUSIC FROM MAGIC: SORREL CHRYSTAL WALDIE
http://www.myspace.com/noplato
HOST:
ANDREAS GRANT - a London based poet, promoter and visual artist. Kicked of as a performance poet in February 2009, since then performed at: Dark Carnival, Old Vic Tunnels 2010, Summer festivals Standon Calling & Kimberly and these nights(amongst many others); Unlit, Hammer & Tongue, Writer's Block, Book Club Boutique, Rum Punch, Hackney Empire, Everybody's Got to Be Somewhere, Brighton, Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Social, et. published: Beat the Dust lit mag, 20 Hoxton Street Gallery Art Mag. Has run his own performance nights in the West and East End of London: Glitterbeast, Not Night, THISISNOTABAR, No Strings Attached and now - BEAT
http://www.writeoutloud.net/poets/andreasgrant
Charlie Wright's,
45 Pitfield Street,
London
N1 6DA
beat. v (beats, beating, beat; pats part. beaten)
1. hit someone repeatedly and violently. 2. hit something repeatedly. 3. defeat or be better than: he beat his own world record. 4 informal baffle someone. 5 (of the heart) throb. 6 (of a bird) move the wings up and down. 7. stir cooking ingredients vigorously. n 1 an act of of beating. 2 a main accent in music or poetry. 3 a brief pause. 4 an area patrolled by a police officer. a......dj informal completely exhausted.
phrases beat around the bush discuss a matter without coming to the point. beat down shine very brightly. beat it informal leave beat someone up attack someone and hit them repeatedly. off the beaten track isolated
BEAT - a poetry night like no other
DAVE BRYANT - has performed sets for (amongst others):
Apples and Snakes, BEAT, Utter!, New Blood, The George Tavern , The Cellar at The Poetry Cafe, Whitechapel Art Gallery , Novas Gallery , Tall Lighthouse , The Klinker . Y Tuesday Poetry Club, Borders Bookstore (RIP). Has been published alongside John Hegley and Paul Birtill in the Hearing Eye anthology of London writers and performers In The Company of Poets which is still commercially available. You can also find some of his work in the "Delinquent" series of anthologies which can be ordered through http://www.thedelinquent.co.uk/.
PAULINE SEWARDS - writes accessible, observational poetry for performance. Since moving to London in late 2008 has read at a lot of the wonderful regular nights in the city including, BEAT, Unplugged at the Poetry cafe, Farrago, Catweazle, bang said the Gun and the Rose theatre Kingston
NICK STIBBS one of our favourite Cambridge poets returns. Radioman Nick likes Whitman and Neruda, has a degree in social science and social psychology and still finds people, including himself quite weird
SIOFRA MCSHERRY - bookworm and poet, sometimes art critic, curator, lit teacher, with special panache for american writers, bouncing between the States, native Ireland and London
ALEXANDER THANNI http://www.myspace.com/plantainuk - 'The Reverend' preaches his mantra to all, with some fine sounds and arresting politics
LIVE MUSIC FROM MAGIC: SORREL CHRYSTAL WALDIE
http://www.myspace.com/noplato
HOST:
ANDREAS GRANT - a London based poet, promoter and visual artist. Kicked of as a performance poet in February 2009, since then performed at: Dark Carnival, Old Vic Tunnels 2010, Summer festivals Standon Calling & Kimberly and these nights(amongst many others); Unlit, Hammer & Tongue, Writer's Block, Book Club Boutique, Rum Punch, Hackney Empire, Everybody's Got to Be Somewhere, Brighton, Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Social, et. published: Beat the Dust lit mag, 20 Hoxton Street Gallery Art Mag. Has run his own performance nights in the West and East End of London: Glitterbeast, Not Night, THISISNOTABAR, No Strings Attached and now - BEAT
http://www.writeoutloud.net/poets/andreasgrant
LEAMINGTON SPA: Shindig!
Wilde's Wine Bar,
The Parade,
Leamington Spa
Leamington Spa Shindig!
To celebrate October's Warwick Words festival, we will have a reading from Warwick Laureates past and present, plus a prize draw for FREE tickets to two Warwick Words events and some Nine Arches goodies!
Warwick Laureates past and present confirmed to be reading so far are: Helen Yendall, Jane Holland, Cathy Whittaker and Marg Roberts.
Plus: Special guest poet Mark Goodwin reads from his latest Nine Arches collection, Shod.
Mark Goodwin’s third full-length collection is Shod. He has previously published two collections with Shearsman Books, Else and Back of A Vast; and also a chapbook entitled Distance a Sudden with Longbarrow Press. He has been fascinated by religions and mysticism since he started writing; being much inspired and informed by the works of Ted Hughes, Peter Redgrove and Penelope Shuttle. Mark lives in Leicestershire where he works as a community poet.
PLUS: Live music from local musicians
Open mic slots also available, please sign up on the door.
www.ninearchespress.com/events.html
LONDON: Tongues on Fire: A tribute to the Black Panthers
Barbican Hall
Tongues on Fire: A tribute to the Black Panthers
Featuring The Roots, The Last Poets, members of Living Colour, Doctor L, with music director David Murray and the visuals of Emory Douglas. A unique evening of musical, lyrical and visual pyrotechnics inspired by 1960s African-American radical activism and the revolutionary art of the Black Panther Party’s cultural guru, Emory Douglas.
Thursday, September 09, 2010
GALWAY: Over The Edge Writer's Gathering
Friday, September 10th, 2010, 8pm
Café 8 @ The Museum,
Spanish Arch,
Galway
The Over The Edge September Writers’ Gathering presents readings by poets from Ireland, the UK and Australia.
Jean O’Brien, James Byrne, Niall McDevitt and Geoff Page will read their work. The evening will also see the launch of Behind The Masks, a collection of work by the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre, co-edited by Marie Cadden, Denise Garvey, Nicki Griffin & Tom Lavelle.
Jean O'Brien is a Dubliner now living in the Midlands. She has published three collections of poetry, The Shadow Keeper (Salmon, 1997), Dangerous Dresses (Bradshaw Books, 2005) & Lovely Legs (Salmon Poetry, 2009). She facilitates creative writing classes for venues as diverse as the Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin City Council and Mountjoy and Limerick Prisons. She was Writer-in-Residence for Co. Laois in 2005 and received Fish International Poetry Award in 2008. Her poetry was described by Fiona Sampson in the Irish Times as “effortless writing, graceful and exact as any pirouette in its insight”.
James Byrne is the Editor and co-founder of The Wolf poetry magazine. His debut collection, Passages of Time, was published by Flipped Eye in 2003. Blood / Sugar his second collection was published recently by Arc. He is the co-editor of Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, an anthology of British and Irish poets under 35, published by Bloodaxe in 2009, and the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees, forthcoming from Carcanet in 2011. In 2008 he won the Treci Trg poetry prize in Serbia. As a result his Selected Poems was published (in a bilingual edition) in Belgrade in 2009. Since 2006 James has taught the regular Wolf Workshops, which have helped many students with first book and pamphlet publications. He was born in 1977 and lives in London and New York.
Niall McDevitt is an Irish poet based in London. He has worked as an actor/ mus
ician in Neil Oram’s 24-hour play The Warp, Ken Campbell’s Pidgin Macbeth, and John ‘Crow’ Constable’s The Southwark Mysteries. For radio, he was resident Pidgin poet/translator on John Peel’s Home Truths. As an activist, McDevitt has campaigned to secure the future of the Rimbaud/Verlaine House at 8 Royal College Street, and for the release of poet Saw Wai from Insein prison in Burma. His poetry collection ‘b/w’ was published this year by Waterloo Press. Fans of his poetry include such luminaries as Patti Smith and John Cooper Clarke.
Geoff Page is an Australian poet who has published eighteen collections of poetry as well as two novels, four verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann. He retired at the end of 2001 from being in charge of the English Department at Narrabundah College, a position he had held since 1974. He has won several awards, including the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Poetry and the 2001 Patrick White Literary Award. Selections from his work have been translated into Chinese, Hindi, German, Serbian, Slovenian and Greek. Geoff is delighted to be returning to Galway having previously read for Over The Edge in 2007.
Behind The Masks 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 foreword by Galway City Council’s Arts Officer, James Harrold, and a thought provoking introductory essay by co-editors, Marie Cadden, Denise Garvey, Nicki Griffin & Tom Lavelle.
There is no entrance fee. Café 8 @ The Museum has a wine licence. All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748.
Café 8 @ The Museum,
Spanish Arch,
Galway
The Over The Edge September Writers’ Gathering presents readings by poets from Ireland, the UK and Australia.
Jean O’Brien, James Byrne, Niall McDevitt and Geoff Page will read their work. The evening will also see the launch of Behind The Masks, a collection of work by the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre, co-edited by Marie Cadden, Denise Garvey, Nicki Griffin & Tom Lavelle.
Jean O'Brien is a Dubliner now living in the Midlands. She has published three collections of poetry, The Shadow Keeper (Salmon, 1997), Dangerous Dresses (Bradshaw Books, 2005) & Lovely Legs (Salmon Poetry, 2009). She facilitates creative writing classes for venues as diverse as the Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin City Council and Mountjoy and Limerick Prisons. She was Writer-in-Residence for Co. Laois in 2005 and received Fish International Poetry Award in 2008. Her poetry was described by Fiona Sampson in the Irish Times as “effortless writing, graceful and exact as any pirouette in its insight”.
James Byrne is the Editor and co-founder of The Wolf poetry magazine. His debut collection, Passages of Time, was published by Flipped Eye in 2003. Blood / Sugar his second collection was published recently by Arc. He is the co-editor of Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, an anthology of British and Irish poets under 35, published by Bloodaxe in 2009, and the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees, forthcoming from Carcanet in 2011. In 2008 he won the Treci Trg poetry prize in Serbia. As a result his Selected Poems was published (in a bilingual edition) in Belgrade in 2009. Since 2006 James has taught the regular Wolf Workshops, which have helped many students with first book and pamphlet publications. He was born in 1977 and lives in London and New York.
Niall McDevitt is an Irish poet based in London. He has worked as an actor/ mus
ician in Neil Oram’s 24-hour play The Warp, Ken Campbell’s Pidgin Macbeth, and John ‘Crow’ Constable’s The Southwark Mysteries. For radio, he was resident Pidgin poet/translator on John Peel’s Home Truths. As an activist, McDevitt has campaigned to secure the future of the Rimbaud/Verlaine House at 8 Royal College Street, and for the release of poet Saw Wai from Insein prison in Burma. His poetry collection ‘b/w’ was published this year by Waterloo Press. Fans of his poetry include such luminaries as Patti Smith and John Cooper Clarke.
Geoff Page is an Australian poet who has published eighteen collections of poetry as well as two novels, four verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann. He retired at the end of 2001 from being in charge of the English Department at Narrabundah College, a position he had held since 1974. He has won several awards, including the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Poetry and the 2001 Patrick White Literary Award. Selections from his work have been translated into Chinese, Hindi, German, Serbian, Slovenian and Greek. Geoff is delighted to be returning to Galway having previously read for Over The Edge in 2007.
Behind The Masks 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 foreword by Galway City Council’s Arts Officer, James Harrold, and a thought provoking introductory essay by co-editors, Marie Cadden, Denise Garvey, Nicki Griffin & Tom Lavelle.
There is no entrance fee. Café 8 @ The Museum has a wine licence. All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748.
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
LONDON: Poetry Cafe
Saturday, September 18th, 2010, 7pm-9pm
The Poetry Cafe,
22 Betterton Street,
London,
WC2H 9BX
Simon Smith, Eleanor Rees, Tamy Yoseloff, Agnieszka Studzinska and Julia Bird will be reading from their work.
On Simon Smith's London Bridge:
The occupants of Simon Smith’s poems are names for contemporary urban detail ratcheted up to experiential intensities that actually open (rather than shut down, as all too customary) the reader’s senses of place and person. The “mesh” is thereby not amiss, nor are these “Great buckets of Reality” hoisted to no purpose. A rare pleasure found so succinctly in the telling. As Smith’s refresher take on Martial has it, “Wouldn’t every man live, if he knew how,/Giving it all away to here and now?” -- Bill Berkson
Robert Browning lived at the foot of Telegraph Hill and Chaucer’s pilgrims went along the Old Kent Road. This is a Londoner’s book, south of the river going east: brick built and bomb-damaged, with Roman remains, Oyster cards, Green Shield stamps, Keats, O’Hara, John James, Apollinaire, and everywhere unforeseen beauty and wit. I think ‘Honeymoon’ is my favourite, but sometimes I like ‘The Table’ best of all, what do you think? -- Tony Lopez
The Poetry Cafe,
22 Betterton Street,
London,
WC2H 9BX
Simon Smith, Eleanor Rees, Tamy Yoseloff, Agnieszka Studzinska and Julia Bird will be reading from their work.
On Simon Smith's London Bridge:
The occupants of Simon Smith’s poems are names for contemporary urban detail ratcheted up to experiential intensities that actually open (rather than shut down, as all too customary) the reader’s senses of place and person. The “mesh” is thereby not amiss, nor are these “Great buckets of Reality” hoisted to no purpose. A rare pleasure found so succinctly in the telling. As Smith’s refresher take on Martial has it, “Wouldn’t every man live, if he knew how,/Giving it all away to here and now?” -- Bill Berkson
Robert Browning lived at the foot of Telegraph Hill and Chaucer’s pilgrims went along the Old Kent Road. This is a Londoner’s book, south of the river going east: brick built and bomb-damaged, with Roman remains, Oyster cards, Green Shield stamps, Keats, O’Hara, John James, Apollinaire, and everywhere unforeseen beauty and wit. I think ‘Honeymoon’ is my favourite, but sometimes I like ‘The Table’ best of all, what do you think? -- Tony Lopez
Monday, September 06, 2010
BRIGHTON: Urban Disquiet
Sunday, September 19th, 2010, 7pm for 7.30pm, £5/£4
Iambic Arts Theatre
Entrance on Regent St,
North Laine
(above Bell Book and Candle, Gardner St)
Cash bar
Waterloo Press invites you to URBAN DISQUIET, an evening of poetry and music to celebrate the launch of two new collections:
Micrographia
Robert Dickinson
'Dickinson's poetry crackles with energy and wit; utterly clear-sighted, it's also
compassionate, exploring the emotional territory of oddballs, conspiracy theorists,
those on the margins ...' - Catherine Smith
&
Thumbing from Lipik to Pakrac
New and Selected Poems
Peter Street
Peter Street's poems celebrate 'ordinary life'. But he knows that covers every kind
of fear, frustration, hope disappointed or fulfilled; pleasure denied or achieved.'
-Alan Brownjohn
with live music
from electronica soundscape artist Richard Miles
set your ear to the erratic heartbeat of contemporary life
Peter Street, born in Wigan, 1948, is a national and international poet with three major collections to his name. The Wall Street Journal has described him as 'a wandering minstrel ... bringing his art to his people.' ITV made a twelve minute Remembrance Sunday Special about his time as a war poet in 1993 during the Bosnian/Croat conflict. A former BBC writer-in-residence and qualified youth worker, he has also worked as a forester, gravedigger and a chef in his own Mediterranean cafe.
Robert Dickinson was born in London in 1962, has worked in finance in both the private and public sectors. Has published poems in numerous magazines. In association with The Extra Theatre Company, has written plays, including Murder's Last Case (2004). His libretto for a choral piece on the pilgrimage to Santiago received its premiere at the 2005 City of London Festival. His first novel, The Noise of Strangers, appeared from Myriad Editions in 2010.
Richard Miles is a musician and visual artist living in East Sussex. His collaborative projects include Armchair Astronaut and Tomas Hiltz.
Iambic Arts Theatre
Entrance on Regent St,
North Laine
(above Bell Book and Candle, Gardner St)
Cash bar
Waterloo Press invites you to URBAN DISQUIET, an evening of poetry and music to celebrate the launch of two new collections:
Micrographia
Robert Dickinson
'Dickinson's poetry crackles with energy and wit; utterly clear-sighted, it's also
compassionate, exploring the emotional territory of oddballs, conspiracy theorists,
those on the margins ...' - Catherine Smith
&
Thumbing from Lipik to Pakrac
New and Selected Poems
Peter Street
Peter Street's poems celebrate 'ordinary life'. But he knows that covers every kind
of fear, frustration, hope disappointed or fulfilled; pleasure denied or achieved.'
-Alan Brownjohn
with live music
from electronica soundscape artist Richard Miles
set your ear to the erratic heartbeat of contemporary life
Peter Street, born in Wigan, 1948, is a national and international poet with three major collections to his name. The Wall Street Journal has described him as 'a wandering minstrel ... bringing his art to his people.' ITV made a twelve minute Remembrance Sunday Special about his time as a war poet in 1993 during the Bosnian/Croat conflict. A former BBC writer-in-residence and qualified youth worker, he has also worked as a forester, gravedigger and a chef in his own Mediterranean cafe.
Robert Dickinson was born in London in 1962, has worked in finance in both the private and public sectors. Has published poems in numerous magazines. In association with The Extra Theatre Company, has written plays, including Murder's Last Case (2004). His libretto for a choral piece on the pilgrimage to Santiago received its premiere at the 2005 City of London Festival. His first novel, The Noise of Strangers, appeared from Myriad Editions in 2010.
Richard Miles is a musician and visual artist living in East Sussex. His collaborative projects include Armchair Astronaut and Tomas Hiltz.
BRISTOL: Brizzlemania 2.0 - The September Slam
Wednesday, 15th September, 2010, 7.30pm-11.30pm, £3
The Old Fire Station
Silver Street,
Bristol,
BS1 2AG
Featuring...
Brizzlemania and Hammer and Tongue Southwest Champion Steve Blesshead
Young and fresh homegrown talent Agatha Nagual
Farrago Champion, all the way from the Big Smoke, Vanessa Kisuule
And reintroducing the OPEN POETRY SLAM: Two Tickets to Carnyville for the winner; any poet can sign up on the door or in advance by emailing jack.dean@bathspa.org
Come chill with your host Jack Dean and the rest of the gang.
The Old Fire Station
Silver Street,
Bristol,
BS1 2AG
Featuring...
Brizzlemania and Hammer and Tongue Southwest Champion Steve Blesshead
Young and fresh homegrown talent Agatha Nagual
Farrago Champion, all the way from the Big Smoke, Vanessa Kisuule
And reintroducing the OPEN POETRY SLAM: Two Tickets to Carnyville for the winner; any poet can sign up on the door or in advance by emailing jack.dean@bathspa.org
Come chill with your host Jack Dean and the rest of the gang.
Sunday, September 05, 2010
NOTTINGHAM: Shindig!
Sunday, September 19th, 2010, 7pm onwards, FREE
Jam Cafe,
12 Heathcote Street,
Nottingham
NG1 3AA
Nine Arches Press & LeftLion Magazine present...Nottingham Shindig!
The first ever Nottingham Shindig! - join us for open mic readings and special guest poets Wayne Burrows, Roz Goddard, Éireann Lorsung and Simon Turner.
Wayne Burrows' first collection Marginalia appeared from Peterloo Poets in 2001, and his second appeared from Shoestring Press in 2009. His work has featured in the British Council anthologies New Writing 12 and NW15, as well as the Forward anthology for 2002 and many magazines and anthologies. He is editor of Staple magazine and currently lives in Nottingham.
Roz Goddard’s fourth poetry collection is The Sopranos Sonnets & Other Poems. She is a former poet-laureate for Birmingham. Her poetry has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She runs writing workshops and courses, including for the Arvon Foundation and mentors individual writers. She is currently studying for an MPhil in writing at Glamorgan University.
Éireann Lorsung is the author of Music for Landing Planes By (Milkweed Editions, 2007) and Projet Linguistique (forthcoming, Milkweed Editions). Her poems appear widely in magazines and in two recent anthologies. Prior to coming to the UK, she lived in Italy and France. She is the organiser of the Nottingham Poetry Series.
Simon Turner was born in Birmingham in 1981 and his first collection, You Are Here, was published in 2007. Difficult Second Album is his second collection, launched by Nine Arches Press in April 2010. With George Ttoouli, he co-edits Gists and Piths, a blog dedicated to the publication and discussion of contemporary poetry. He lives and works in Warwickshire.
Sign up for open mic on the door.
This event is co-hosted by LeftLion Magazine and kindly sponsored by Writing East Midlands.
Jam Cafe,
12 Heathcote Street,
Nottingham
NG1 3AA
Nine Arches Press & LeftLion Magazine present...Nottingham Shindig!
The first ever Nottingham Shindig! - join us for open mic readings and special guest poets Wayne Burrows, Roz Goddard, Éireann Lorsung and Simon Turner.
Wayne Burrows' first collection Marginalia appeared from Peterloo Poets in 2001, and his second appeared from Shoestring Press in 2009. His work has featured in the British Council anthologies New Writing 12 and NW15, as well as the Forward anthology for 2002 and many magazines and anthologies. He is editor of Staple magazine and currently lives in Nottingham.
Roz Goddard’s fourth poetry collection is The Sopranos Sonnets & Other Poems. She is a former poet-laureate for Birmingham. Her poetry has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She runs writing workshops and courses, including for the Arvon Foundation and mentors individual writers. She is currently studying for an MPhil in writing at Glamorgan University.
Éireann Lorsung is the author of Music for Landing Planes By (Milkweed Editions, 2007) and Projet Linguistique (forthcoming, Milkweed Editions). Her poems appear widely in magazines and in two recent anthologies. Prior to coming to the UK, she lived in Italy and France. She is the organiser of the Nottingham Poetry Series.
Simon Turner was born in Birmingham in 1981 and his first collection, You Are Here, was published in 2007. Difficult Second Album is his second collection, launched by Nine Arches Press in April 2010. With George Ttoouli, he co-edits Gists and Piths, a blog dedicated to the publication and discussion of contemporary poetry. He lives and works in Warwickshire.
Sign up for open mic on the door.
This event is co-hosted by LeftLion Magazine and kindly sponsored by Writing East Midlands.
LONDON: Poetic Frenzy
Sunday, September 19th, 2010, 7pm, £3
BAC Café,
Battersea Arts Centre,
Lavender Hill,
SW11 5TN
www.bac.org.uk
020 7223 2223
In association with BAC and Apples & Snakes, Poetic Frenzy!
SW11 poet-in-residence Paul Lyalls fronts an extravaganza of live verse in the laid-back environment of the BAC bar. Guests Jahnell, Indigo Williams and Alex Gwyther ensure that, in the right hands, poetry can be a shattering live experience, whilst Cecelia Delatori displays her own brand of ditzy musical storytelling. Get down to BAC and get down with the poets.
BAC Café,
Battersea Arts Centre,
Lavender Hill,
SW11 5TN
www.bac.org.uk
020 7223 2223
In association with BAC and Apples & Snakes, Poetic Frenzy!
SW11 poet-in-residence Paul Lyalls fronts an extravaganza of live verse in the laid-back environment of the BAC bar. Guests Jahnell, Indigo Williams and Alex Gwyther ensure that, in the right hands, poetry can be a shattering live experience, whilst Cecelia Delatori displays her own brand of ditzy musical storytelling. Get down to BAC and get down with the poets.
Friday, September 03, 2010
LONDON: Poets@Duckie
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.
LEAMINGTON SPA: Shindig!
Sunday 12th September 2010, doors open 6.30pm, readings from 7.30pm, FREE
Wilde's Wine Bar,
The Parade,
Leamington Spa
Leamington Spa Shindig!
To celebrate October's Warwick Words festival, we will have a reading from Warwick Laureates past and present, plus a prize draw for FREE tickets to two Warwick Words events and some Nine Arches goodies!
Warwick Laureates past and present confirmed to be reading so far are: Helen Yendall, Jane Holland, Cathy Whittaker and Marg Roberts.
Plus: Special guest poet Mark Goodwin reads from his latest Nine Arches collection, Shod.
Mark Goodwin’s third full-length collection is Shod. He has previously published two collections with Shearsman Books, Else and Back of A Vast; and also a chapbook entitled Distance a Sudden with Longbarrow Press. He has been fascinated by religions and mysticism since he started writing; being much inspired and informed by the works of Ted Hughes, Peter Redgrove and Penelope Shuttle. Mark lives in Leicestershire where he works as a community poet.
PLUS: Live music from local musicians
Open mic slots also available, please sign up on the door.
www.ninearchespress.com/events.html
Wilde's Wine Bar,
The Parade,
Leamington Spa
Leamington Spa Shindig!
To celebrate October's Warwick Words festival, we will have a reading from Warwick Laureates past and present, plus a prize draw for FREE tickets to two Warwick Words events and some Nine Arches goodies!
Warwick Laureates past and present confirmed to be reading so far are: Helen Yendall, Jane Holland, Cathy Whittaker and Marg Roberts.
Plus: Special guest poet Mark Goodwin reads from his latest Nine Arches collection, Shod.
Mark Goodwin’s third full-length collection is Shod. He has previously published two collections with Shearsman Books, Else and Back of A Vast; and also a chapbook entitled Distance a Sudden with Longbarrow Press. He has been fascinated by religions and mysticism since he started writing; being much inspired and informed by the works of Ted Hughes, Peter Redgrove and Penelope Shuttle. Mark lives in Leicestershire where he works as a community poet.
PLUS: Live music from local musicians
Open mic slots also available, please sign up on the door.
www.ninearchespress.com/events.html
HAWORTH: Grey Hen Press reading
Saturday, September 18th, 2010, 2pm
Brontë Parsonage Musem,
Haworth
A reading from the 2011 Poem Calendar produced by Grey Hen Press, featuring month-by-month poems about the Brontë family. Poets reading include Carole Bromley, Marianne Burton, Joy Howard, Pauline Kirk, Wendy Klein, Char March, Katrina Naomi, Christine Webb and Sue Wood.
Brontë Parsonage Musem,
Haworth
A reading from the 2011 Poem Calendar produced by Grey Hen Press, featuring month-by-month poems about the Brontë family. Poets reading include Carole Bromley, Marianne Burton, Joy Howard, Pauline Kirk, Wendy Klein, Char March, Katrina Naomi, Christine Webb and Sue Wood.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
ATTENTION!
One or two recent computer problems mean that we may have lost details of a small number of events. We try to post events two weeks before they happen, then again a day before, so if you have sent anything in and it hasn't appeared, feel free to send again. We're clearing a small backlog but things should be up to date by the end of Friday, September 3rd.
ABERDEEN: New Words 2010
New Words 2010
Festival of New Writing in Aberdeen and North-East Scotland
1st–30th September, 2010
Venues throughout Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
New Words 2010, North-East Scotland's month-long festival of literature in performance, begins today, Wednesday 1 September with Alan Bissett performing his Moira Monologues at Woodend Barn. Come along and see what the critics have been raving about!
Rapunzel Wizard and Amanda Aitken perform in Aberdeen on Thursday 2nd, John Mackie, Neil Hankin and Haworth Hodgkinson present a mix of poetry and music in Portsoy on Friday 3rd, and Knotbrook Taylor launches his collection of Scottish Lighthouse Poetry in Fraserburgh on Saturday 4th.
The festival continues 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.
See www.newwords.co.uk for the full New Words 2010 programme.
Festival of New Writing in Aberdeen and North-East Scotland
1st–30th September, 2010
Venues throughout Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
New Words 2010, North-East Scotland's month-long festival of literature in performance, begins today, Wednesday 1 September with Alan Bissett performing his Moira Monologues at Woodend Barn. Come along and see what the critics have been raving about!
Rapunzel Wizard and Amanda Aitken perform in Aberdeen on Thursday 2nd, John Mackie, Neil Hankin and Haworth Hodgkinson present a mix of poetry and music in Portsoy on Friday 3rd, and Knotbrook Taylor launches his collection of Scottish Lighthouse Poetry in Fraserburgh on Saturday 4th.
The festival continues 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.
See www.newwords.co.uk for the full New Words 2010 programme.
GALWAY: Over The Edge Writer's Gathering
Friday, September 10th, 2010, 8pm
Café 8 @ The Museum,
Spanish Arch,
Galway
The Over The Edge September Writers’ Gathering presents readings by poets from Ireland, the UK and Australia.
Jean O’Brien, James Byrne, Niall McDevitt and Geoff Page will read their work. The evening will also see the launch of Behind The Masks, a collection of work by the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre, co-edited by Marie Cadden, Denise Garvey, Nicki Griffin & Tom Lavelle.
Jean O'Brien is a Dubliner now living in the Midlands. She has published three collections of poetry, The Shadow Keeper (Salmon, 1997), Dangerous Dresses (Bradshaw Books, 2005) & Lovely Legs (Salmon Poetry, 2009). She facilitates creative writing classes for venues as diverse as the Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin City Council and Mountjoy and Limerick Prisons. She was Writer-in-Residence for Co. Laois in 2005 and received Fish International Poetry Award in 2008. Her poetry was described by Fiona Sampson in the Irish Times as “effortless writing, graceful and exact as any pirouette in its insight”.
James Byrne is the Editor and co-founder of The Wolf poetry magazine. His debut collection, Passages of Time, was published by Flipped Eye in 2003. Blood / Sugar his second collection was published recently by Arc. He is the co-editor of Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, an anthology of British and Irish poets under 35, published by Bloodaxe in 2009, and the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees, forthcoming from Carcanet in 2011. In 2008 he won the Treci Trg poetry prize in Serbia. As a result his Selected Poems was published (in a bilingual edition) in Belgrade in 2009. Since 2006 James has taught the regular Wolf Workshops, which have helped many students with first book and pamphlet publications. He was born in 1977 and lives in London and New York.
Niall McDevitt is an Irish poet based in London. He has worked as an actor/ mus
ician in Neil Oram’s 24-hour play The Warp, Ken Campbell’s Pidgin Macbeth, and John ‘Crow’ Constable’s The Southwark Mysteries. For radio, he was resident Pidgin poet/translator on John Peel’s Home Truths. As an activist, McDevitt has campaigned to secure the future of the Rimbaud/Verlaine House at 8 Royal College Street, and for the release of poet Saw Wai from Insein prison in Burma. His poetry collection ‘b/w’ was published this year by Waterloo Press. Fans of his poetry include such luminaries as Patti Smith and John Cooper Clarke.
Geoff Page is an Australian poet who has published eighteen collections of poetry as well as two novels, four verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann. He retired at the end of 2001 from being in charge of the English Department at Narrabundah College, a position he had held since 1974. He has won several awards, including the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Poetry and the 2001 Patrick White Literary Award. Selections from his work have been translated into Chinese, Hindi, German, Serbian, Slovenian and Greek. Geoff is delighted to be returning to Galway having previously read for Over The Edge in 2007.
Behind The Masks 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 foreword by Galway City Council’s Arts Officer, James Harrold, and a thought provoking introductory essay by co-editors, Marie Cadden, Denise Garvey, Nicki Griffin & Tom Lavelle.
There is no entrance fee. Café 8 @ The Museum has a wine licence. All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748.
Café 8 @ The Museum,
Spanish Arch,
Galway
The Over The Edge September Writers’ Gathering presents readings by poets from Ireland, the UK and Australia.
Jean O’Brien, James Byrne, Niall McDevitt and Geoff Page will read their work. The evening will also see the launch of Behind The Masks, a collection of work by the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre, co-edited by Marie Cadden, Denise Garvey, Nicki Griffin & Tom Lavelle.
Jean O'Brien is a Dubliner now living in the Midlands. She has published three collections of poetry, The Shadow Keeper (Salmon, 1997), Dangerous Dresses (Bradshaw Books, 2005) & Lovely Legs (Salmon Poetry, 2009). She facilitates creative writing classes for venues as diverse as the Irish Writers’ Centre, Dublin City Council and Mountjoy and Limerick Prisons. She was Writer-in-Residence for Co. Laois in 2005 and received Fish International Poetry Award in 2008. Her poetry was described by Fiona Sampson in the Irish Times as “effortless writing, graceful and exact as any pirouette in its insight”.
James Byrne is the Editor and co-founder of The Wolf poetry magazine. His debut collection, Passages of Time, was published by Flipped Eye in 2003. Blood / Sugar his second collection was published recently by Arc. He is the co-editor of Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century, an anthology of British and Irish poets under 35, published by Bloodaxe in 2009, and the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees, forthcoming from Carcanet in 2011. In 2008 he won the Treci Trg poetry prize in Serbia. As a result his Selected Poems was published (in a bilingual edition) in Belgrade in 2009. Since 2006 James has taught the regular Wolf Workshops, which have helped many students with first book and pamphlet publications. He was born in 1977 and lives in London and New York.
Niall McDevitt is an Irish poet based in London. He has worked as an actor/ mus
ician in Neil Oram’s 24-hour play The Warp, Ken Campbell’s Pidgin Macbeth, and John ‘Crow’ Constable’s The Southwark Mysteries. For radio, he was resident Pidgin poet/translator on John Peel’s Home Truths. As an activist, McDevitt has campaigned to secure the future of the Rimbaud/Verlaine House at 8 Royal College Street, and for the release of poet Saw Wai from Insein prison in Burma. His poetry collection ‘b/w’ was published this year by Waterloo Press. Fans of his poetry include such luminaries as Patti Smith and John Cooper Clarke.
Geoff Page is an Australian poet who has published eighteen collections of poetry as well as two novels, four verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann. He retired at the end of 2001 from being in charge of the English Department at Narrabundah College, a position he had held since 1974. He has won several awards, including the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Poetry and the 2001 Patrick White Literary Award. Selections from his work have been translated into Chinese, Hindi, German, Serbian, Slovenian and Greek. Geoff is delighted to be returning to Galway having previously read for Over The Edge in 2007.
Behind The Masks 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 foreword by Galway City Council’s Arts Officer, James Harrold, and a thought provoking introductory essay by co-editors, Marie Cadden, Denise Garvey, Nicki Griffin & Tom Lavelle.
There is no entrance fee. Café 8 @ The Museum has a wine licence. All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748.
LONDON: Tongues on Fire: A tribute to the Black Panthers
Saturday, September 11th, 2010
Barbican Hall
Tongues on Fire: A tribute to the Black Panthers
Featuring The Roots, The Last Poets, members of Living Colour, Doctor L, with music director David Murray and the visuals of Emory Douglas. A unique evening of musical, lyrical and visual pyrotechnics inspired by 1960s African-American radical activism and the revolutionary art of the Black Panther Party’s cultural guru, Emory Douglas.
Check out the trailer [link to: http://bit.ly/clolTe]
Barbican Hall
Tongues on Fire: A tribute to the Black Panthers
Featuring The Roots, The Last Poets, members of Living Colour, Doctor L, with music director David Murray and the visuals of Emory Douglas. A unique evening of musical, lyrical and visual pyrotechnics inspired by 1960s African-American radical activism and the revolutionary art of the Black Panther Party’s cultural guru, Emory Douglas.
Check out the trailer [link to: http://bit.ly/clolTe]
LONDON: Lumen Poetry Series
Tuesday, 14th September, 2010, doors open 6.30pm for 7pm, £5/£4, WINE
LUMEN
88 Tavistock Place
WC1
Tubes: Russell Square , Kings Cross, St Pancras.
Ruth O'Callaghan presents Cinnamon Press poets Sheila Hillier and Omar Sabbagh. Poets from the floor very welcome. Please bring a copy of your poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.
Patron Carol Ann Duffy - Poet Laureate.
LUMEN
88 Tavistock Place
WC1
Tubes: Russell Square , Kings Cross, St Pancras.
Ruth O'Callaghan presents Cinnamon Press poets Sheila Hillier and Omar Sabbagh. Poets from the floor very welcome. Please bring a copy of your poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.
Patron Carol Ann Duffy - Poet Laureate.
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