Monday, 22nd August, 2011, 7.30pm onwards, FREE
The Western,
70 Western Road,
70 Western Road,
Leicester
LE3 0GA
Nine Arches Press & Crystal Clear
Creators present: Leicester Shindig!
WITH SPECIAL GUEST WRITERS: Deborah
Tyler-Bennett, Alex Plasatis, Roy Marshall and Matt Merritt
Deborah Tyler-Bennett's
latest collection is Revudeville, and her chapbook, Mytton... Dyer... Sweet
Billy Gibson, three poetry portraits, came out from Nine Arches in 2011. In
2010 Smokestack published Pavilion, a volume set in Brighton and full of images
of dandies. In 2010 she was a Poetry Lives Here Resident Writer at Keats House.
Roy Marshall has been writing songs and
poems since childhood. His first ever spoken word performance was at WORD! In
2009. He has since been published in a number of magazines and has a pamphlet
forthcoming in 2012. His website is roymarshall. wordpress.com
Matt Merritt is a poet and wildlife
journalist from Leicester. Nine Arches Press published his second collection of
poems, hydrodaktulopsychicharmonica, in November 2010.
Alex Plasatis is an exophonic writer
undertaking a Creative Writing Ph.D at De Montfort University. He has co-edited
the third volume of Hearing Voices, performed his writing in various venues,
and has a story forthcoming in Coffee House Magazine. He is currently working
on his first novel.
Sign up for the Open Mic on the
door.
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