Monday, October 31, 2011

LONDON: Hammer and Tongue Camden 2010/11 slam final featuring Tim Clare


Monday, November 14th, 2011, 7.30pm-11pm, £5
Green Note Café
106 Parkway
Camden
Nearest tube: Camden Town

The UK's biggest poetry slam network's Camden 2010/11 final will see eight slammers battle it out for the North London crown. Featuring Time Out award winner Tim Clare.


Sunday, October 30, 2011

LONDON: Jazz Verse Jukebox


Sunday, 13th November, 2011


, doors open 6.30pm, show from 8pm, £7 (on the door only)
Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club (Upstairs)
47 Frith Street,
London
W1D 4HT
Tube: Tottenham Court Road or Leicester Square
Web:www.jumokefashola.com
Email: JazzVerseJukebox@me.com

Compered by & with music from Jumoké Fashola
(www.jumokefashola.com)


Special Guests include: 
Siddhartha Bose, Carol Grimes, Deborah Stevenson, Brigitte Beraha, Randolph Matthews

 
Plus Open Mic for poets/singers

Siddhartha Bose is a poet, playwright, and performer based in London. His work has appeared in Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century (Bloodaxe, 2009) and The HarperCollins Book of Modern English Poetry by Indians (HarperCollins, 2011). His first collection, Kalagora, appeared last year (Penned in the Margins, 2010). He has read his poetry on BBC 4, BBC Radio 3, and Times Online. He has written, performed, and toured a one-man play, also Kalagora, which recently completed a month-long run at the Edinburgh Festival. He is a Leverhulme Fellow in Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. He is developing a full-length play with WhyNotTheatre, Toronto and was dubbed  one of the ‘ten rising stars of British Poetry’ by The Times. www.kalagora.com

Carol Grimes although known mainly for her amazing singing across various genres, Carol is also a 'secret' poet! Having worked on her song poems with the Giles Perring of Echo City, she brings her unique curious songs & poems to the Jazz Verse Jukebox on the 13th November. www.carolgrimes.com

Dyslexic Deborah 'Debris' Stevenson has been writing and performing her poems across the world for the past five years, from Camden, to Shanghai. In 2008 her poetic journey was followed by Channel 4 for a year, as part of Yeardot. Since, she has organised a festival for 7,000, has taught and performed for legacies like Lyric Lounge and has been published by Oxford University Poetry Society and Louis Vuitton. She is currently running her own young collective at Nottingham Playhouse called Mouthy Poets, who have sold all their shows. Simultaneously to creating a commissioned piece for BBC Radio 3, tutoring at Nottingham University and preparing for her Roosevelt Travelling Scholarship, to research the benefits of spoken word on Young people in America.


With music from
 Brigitte Beraha
. With an astonishing range & immaculate jazz 'chops', “most musicianly singer Brigitte Beraha” performs as both ‘sideman’ and as a leader in an ever-expanding range of projects, from straight ahead jazz- singing jazz standard songs with lyrics, to more contemporary outlets- using her voice as an instrument. Brigitte has studied Music at Kingsway College, Classical and Contemporary music at Goldsmiths College, and Jazz at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. 
"...Pure-toned, wide-ranging... She's a skilful writer of patiently curling, subtly resolved tunes."John Fordham, The Guardian www.brigitteberaha.com



With music from
 Randolph Matthews
. Forget the usual tags – ‘singer-songwriter’, ‘folk-soul’, and ‘troubadour’. If you’ve caught him live, either solo or collaborating, you’ll understand Randolph Matthews operates in his own parallel world, well away from traditional mainstream record label marketing formulae. His music is an evolving journey, rooted in purity and unshackled expression, drawing on the greats of yesteryear in soul, Neo African rhythms and conscious words. As a percussionist he has played sessions for the likes of US soul / boogie legend Don Blackman, recording with Julie Dexter for her J-Life project and working with Arthur Baker on tracks for Brooklyn soul legend, Will Downing. He even voiced a high profile ad for Twix chocolate – remember the Twix ‘In The Mix’ campaign? With a voice that has echoes of Marvin Gaye, Jon Lucien and Bobby McFerrin, he has an open-minded approach to his music borne from years performing live and collaborating with a wide variety of groundbreaking London and international artists. 
"This man's is not just original, he's out there!" Blues and Soul Magazine www.randolphmatthews.com



PLUS Jukebox Open Mic:
Come & sing with our amazing house band or perform some poetry.

Saturday, October 29, 2011

BERWICK-UPON-TWEED: Bari Big Word Slam

Sunday, 30th October, 2011, 7pm, £5 (slammers go free)
The Maltings,
Eastern Lane,
Berwick-upon-Tweed,
TD15 1AJ


Apples and Snakes presents BARI BIG WORD SLAM

Radikal Words and Apples and Snakes invite you to a Borders Slam – let’s see what our friends in the North can do! Lovely quirky venue, lots of fun – make it a day out and join us! And if you’d like to slam and want some support beforehand, why not come to Scratch Northumbria between 4pm and 6pm – see under ‘Professional Development’ for more details.

www.applesandsnakes.org <http://www.applesandsnakes.org>

Friday, October 28, 2011

SHEFFIELD: Skype Me! Sheffield and the World (Off the Shelf)

Saturday 29th October, 2011, 7.30pm (& other time zones), £4/£3 entrance
Showroom Cinema 5,
15 Paternoster Row,
Sheffield,
S1 2BX
(box office 0114 275 7727)

Just how connected are we? Skype Me! brings together writers from Sheffield and around the world for an evening of international writing, with performances in person and on screen beamed into Showroom 5, plus the premiere of Sent/Received, an SMS ghost script by Andy Cattanach. Join us for a journey across continents and time zones, from the United States to South Africa and Japan. 
The Writers
On Skype, we'll be hearing from the master of irony himself, Canadian spoken word artist Jeff Cottrill, and Texas jam poet Thom the World Poet. We'll also be stopping by two writers in South Africa, Liesl Jobson and Tanya Chan-Sam, who'll be reading her story 'How God Blessed Africa', and Miwa Kurihara on the tsunami in Japan. Plus one international mystery guest to be announced! Spain, India, Singapore...the bets are on! (But at the moment it's very much looking like it's going to be Spain.)
In Sheffield, Rob Hindle will be reading from a new poem-drama about the last weeks in the life of Federico Garcia Lorca, Chella Quint will be putting in an epistolary performance of 'It's Not You, I Just Need Space' (interplanetary letters of love and rejection), Gaby Bila-Günther will be stopping by from Berlin, and there'll be Kenneth Penfold's radio drama 'Closure' and poetry from Liz Cashdan and Word Life's Joe Kriss. 
Sent/Received is a new SMS ghost script by Andy Cattanach, in which text messaging turns out to be the only means of communicating between slipped time streams. Starring Rachael Pennell and Jonathan Greaves, directed by Andrea Milde. 
Hosted by Robin Vaughan-Williams and Sarah Thomasin. 

HELMSLEY: What Are They Whispering?

Saturday, 29th October, 2011
Helmsley Arts Centre
What Are They Whispering? – a poetry show
Power. Who has it, who wants it, who tries to take it from you? The poets know.
What Are They Whispering? is a poetry show to nudge you or urge you to weigh up the balance of power in your own life. The dynamic trio of poets whose work will charge you up is Imtiaz Dharker, Joe Dunthorne and John Stammers. They perform a hand-picked selection of their poems about power in both its rawest and most subtle states. Poems and ideas are enhanced and amplified with lighting and sound; every spoken word special effect from a whisper to a chorus, every lighting state from a firefly glimmer to a thunderbolt.
Directed by Phoebe Stout
Produced by Jaybird

Thursday, October 27, 2011

BRADFORD: What Are They Whispering?

Friday, 28th October, 2011
Theatre in the Mill,
University of Bradford
What Are They Whispering? – a poetry show
Power. Who has it, who wants it, who tries to take it from you? The poets know.
What Are They Whispering? is a poetry show to nudge you or urge you to weigh up the balance of power in your own life. The dynamic trio of poets whose work will charge you up is Imtiaz Dharker, Joe Dunthorne and John Stammers. They perform a hand-picked selection of their poems about power in both its rawest and most subtle states. Poems and ideas are enhanced and amplified with lighting and sound; every spoken word special effect from a whisper to a chorus, every lighting state from a firefly glimmer to a thunderbolt.
Directed by Phoebe Stout
Produced by Jaybird

NOTTINGHAM: What Are They Whispering?


Thursday, 10th November, 2011
New Art Exchange,
Nottingham

What Are They Whispering? – a poetry show

Power. Who has it, who wants it, who tries to take it from you? The poets know.
What Are They Whispering? is a poetry show to nudge you or urge you to weigh up the balance of power in your own life. The dynamic trio of poets whose work will charge you up is Imtiaz Dharker, Joe Dunthorne and John Stammers. They perform a hand-picked selection of their poems about power in both its rawest and most subtle states. Poems and ideas are enhanced and amplified with lighting and sound; every spoken word special effect from a whisper to a chorus, every lighting state from a firefly glimmer to a thunderbolt.
Directed by Phoebe Stout
Produced by Jaybird

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

LONDON: Robert Stein launch


Wednesday, November 9th, 2011, 7.30pm upstairs at The Betsey Trotwood
Clerkenwell,
EC1,
nearest underground station: Farringdon.



Oversteps Books and Robert Stein are launching his new collection, The Very End of Air.


“Rarely have I read such concentrated, densely-packed and powerful poetry. It is as if a huge and strange force were contained within a little room.” Hugo Williams

“Robert Stein is a redoubtable craftsman with a patient ear for the timing of the line. His poems in The Very End of Air are both skilfully dexterous and formally patterned, whether operating as gleeman (which he does with a consistently kempt wit) or starkly surveying his protagonists through compelling time-travel sequences. In fact Stein’s ‘Seven Women’ series —possibly the best poem here — forges a new model for the dramatic monologue, memorialising voices of ur-women through an act of transubstantiation. Few poets in England could accomplish this with such finesse.” James Byrne, Editor, The Wolf

“The poems in this remarkable, wide-ranging collection are varied but cleverly interwoven into a whole, with extraordinarily memorable lines. In a series of dramatic monologues including Christendom, the Old Testament, famed figures from the worlds of literature, art and music, along with poems set in England, Scotland and Wales, Stein proves himself a virtuoso in ventriloquy. His craft is passionate, honed. He sometimes uses a deliberately naive direct lexis reminiscent of Éluard or Prévert, and takes oblique angles tinged with humour. The poems, with their startlingly accurate and original images, resonate after their endings. The whole collection is a tour-de-force.” Patricia McCarthy, Editor, Agenda


Robert Stein



GALWAY: October Over The Edge Reading

Thursday, October 27th, 2011, 6.30pm-8pm, FREE
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway
The October Over The Edge: Open Reading features Kevin Simmonds, Luke Morgan and Jessie Lendennie. This is one of a series of readings this autumn which will mark Salmon Poetry’s 30th anniversary.
Kevin Simmonds is a San Francisco-based writer, musician and filmmaker originally from New Orleans. His writing appears in journals such as Asia Literary Review, Callaloo, jubilat, Kyoto Journal and Poetry. His edited works include Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality and Ota Benga Under My Mother's Roof. His music and performances have been featured on BBC Radio 3, PBS and Japan's NHK Television and at London's Royal Festival Hall, Japan's Nakano Sun Plaza and the National Black Theatre Festival. feti(sh)ame, his genre-defying short film, based entirely on his poetry, has screened internationally and been hailed by Los Angeles film critic Ernest Hardy as "an elegantly profane meditation on desire". Mad for Meat - his debut collection of poetry, has just appeared from Salmon..
Luke Morgan is a poet based in Co. Galway. He began writing from a very young age and had poems published in the school magazines. At fifteen, he became the youngest ever contributor to Crannóg, the literary journal in Galway, with his poem "Moving On". Since then he has enjoyed publications in journals such as Limerick's Revival, ROPES 2011, and earlier this year, Poetry Ireland Review and the Poetry Ireland Newsletter. He won first place in the 2011 Windows Publications Student Poetry Awards. Apart from writing poetry, he loves writing plays and short stories.
Jessie Lendennie was born in Arkansas, USA. After years of travel, she settled in Ireland in 1981. Her previous publications include a book-length prose poem Daughter (1988); reprinted as Daughter and Other Poems in 2001. She compiled and edited: Salmon: A Journey in Poetry, 1981-2007Poetry: Reading it, Writing It, Publishing It (2009) and Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (2010).  She is co-founder (1981) and Managing Director of Salmon Poetry. She has given numerous readings, lectures and writing courses in Ireland and abroad, including Yale University; The Irish Embassy, Washington D.C; The University of Alaska, Fairbanks and Anchorage; MIT, Boston; MN; Café Teatre, Copenhagen, Denmark; the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; The Irish American Cultural Centre, Chicago and The Bowery Poetry Club, New York City. She is currently working on a memoir To Dance Beneath the Diamond Sky. Jessie’s second collection of poetry Walking Here is just published by Salmon Poetry.
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/

BIRMINGHAM: Hit The Ode

Thursday, 27th October, 2011, 7:30pm, £5 (available on door) 
The Victoria,
48 John Bright Street,
Birmingham
B1 1BN


Apples and Snakes presents HIT THE ODE
Featuring: JMS Poetry Team, Tshaka Campbell, Dizzylezz
This is Hit the Ode, bringing the best poets from the region, the country, and the world to Birmingham. A spoken word poetry night full of poems which you can wear on your skin like tattoos or wrap around your neck like ties; poems which go well with your favourite shirt, you know, the one which makes your eyes pop; poems you can use as earrings, nose rings, engagement rings; poems which will make passers-by do double-takes as you drive them home after the show. Good poems.

Info: bohdan@applesandsnakes.org

NEWCASTLE: Take Ten New Voices

Thursday, 27th October, 2011, 7pm, £4
The Cumberland Arms,
James Place Street,
Newcastle
NE6 1LD


Apples and Snakes and Take Ten presents TAKE TEN NEW VOICES

Ten poets, each with 10 minutes to entertain us – Take Ten consistently proves the dazzling diversity of spoken word in the north-east, showcasing the highest quality artists on a monthly basis. This month is special, as Apples and Snakes teams up with Take Ten to mentor 10 new voices and bring them to you.

www.applesandsnakes.org <http://www.applesandsnakes.org>

KINGSTON: Rhythm & Muse Festival in association with Kingston Writing School


Thursday, October 27th, 2011, 8.30pm, £10/£8 in advance
Ram Jam Club,
46 Richmond Road,
Kingston
KT2 5EE

A brand new festival showcasing local poets and musicians and introducing poets and writers from Kingston Writing School.
Featuring Roger McGough - That Awkward Age - an evening of poems to amaze and delight!

Roger McGough wrestles with mortality, seeks love in the launderette and jives in Macca's
trousers. He shares the pain of Lord Godiva and Mr Nightingale, considers his final poem
and shakes a fist at Alzheimer's. Addresses, elegies and ever perceptive playfulness
make this a must-not-miss. 
 

'the patron saint of poetry' Carol Anne Duffy
'a poemy torch in dark corners' Ian McMillan, Poetry Review
Followed by a book signing. www.rogermcgough.org.uk
Music from LiTTLe MACHiNe, who set poems both classic and obscure to music - Keats, Donne,
Larkin and more... all get the same treatment. Walter Wray has spent a lifetime hollering the blues and crooning tunes as a solo artist and in bands such as Junk and King Swamp. Steve Halliwell was also in King Swamp and a session musician in the post-punk world of Shriekback and other arthouse denizens. Chris Hardy is a prize-winning poet and experienced folk-blues guitarist and song-writer. www.little-machine.com
Tickets in advance on 020 8977 4610

WARWICK / COVENTRY: Salt Modern Voices reading

Thursday, October 27th, 2011, 7pm
The Writer's Room,
Warwick University,
Coventry

Readings from Emily Hasler, Robert Graham, Adrian Slatcher and Claire Trevien.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

POLESWORTH: The Fizz 10

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011, 7.30pm, FREE
The Tythe Barn,
Bridge Street,
Polesworth,
B78 1DU

Featuring The Cork Poets - Afric McGlinchey, Colm Scully and Jennifer Matthews, plus open mic.

Refreshments available.

This event is part of the Coventry-Cork Literature Exchange.

Monday, October 24, 2011

LONDON: Camden Poetry Series

Friday, 4th November, 2011, 7pm (doors open 6.30pm), £5/£4, WINE
Trinity United Reform Church,
1 Buck Street,
Camden Town
1-2 mins. Camden Town tube


Ruth O'Callaghan presents Caroline Squire, winner of the 2011 Lumen/Camden Competition, with Patrick Coldstream, Gillian Henchley and Christopher Morgan

Poets from the floor very welcome (some longer spots available). Please bring a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology 

Lumen/Camden Poetry2012 Competition.: Deadline February 14th 2012.  Fee: £2.50 per poem £10 for 6 poems. Judge: Carol Ann Duffy - Poet Laureate.
Prize: Pamphlet publication. Please send cheque made out to Cold Weather Shelter and poems to Ruth O'Callaghan 49 Ripley Gardens, Mortlake, London SW14 8HF

LONDON: Velvet Tongue


Monday, November 7th, 2011, 7pm-10.30pm, £3 on door, free to perform
Bar Kick
127 Shoreditch High Street,
Shoreditch,
London,
E1 6JE


http://www.cafekick.co.uk/bar-kick/contact.html

A literary soiree dedicated to erotic writing, performance, and anything that gets the blood pumping.

"Fun, diverse and so sexy!"
http://www.remotegoat.co.u​k/review_view.php?uid=6555

"Whether you're a performer, a poet, or just like listening to other people's fantasies, Velvet Tongue offers a place to hear and be heard." http://www.eroticreviewmag​azine.com/content/velvet-t​ongue

Featured poets in November:
Graham Buchan
Sarah Reilly
Mark Walton


...with special appearances by Rubyyy Jones (literary burlesque), Tonny A. (poetic physical theatre), Stephanie Ware (erotic monologue) and a special (remote) reading from Deborah Lazaroff in California (USA) - via Skype!

No open mic slots left!!! Due to a large number participants in November, Ernesto is not taking any more requests for open mic slots. However, if you are interested to perform, come along & put your name down at the door just in case. You will get in for free and - who knows? - you may still be able to perform if there are any drop-outs on the night...so bring along your sexy words just in case you can share them with us. Have you got an erotic poem, a sexy short story, a salacious monologue, a sexually explicit section of your novel, a provocative comic strip, a risque stand up routine? Would you like to share a piece of erotica from an author you admire? Come and read it in front of an appreciative audience. Free entrance for open mic performers.

To sign up for future (5min) open mic slots, email Ernesto: ernesto@sarezale.com

Keep your velvet tongue hot & viscous!
http://velvettongueuk.blog​spot.com/2010/09/what-is-v​elvet-tongue.html

There is no dress code as such but sexy attire, lingerie and flesh exposure will be most welcome...

Sunday, October 23, 2011

LEICESTER: Shindig!

Monday, 24th October, 2011, 7.30pm, FREE
The Western,
70 Western Road,
Leicester
LE3 0GA
Nine Arches Press & Crystal Clear Creators present Leicester Shindig!

with Mal Dewhirst, Jane Commane, Charles Lauder and Wayne Burrows.
Charles Lauder, Jr, was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas and now lives in south Leicestershire. His poems have appeared in both British and American journals, and in spring 2012 his debut pamphlet will be published by Crystal Clear Creators.
Wayne Burrows’ first collection Marginalia (Peterloo) appeared in 2001, and the latest, a sequence based on Francis Quarles’ Emblems, was published by Shoestring in 2009. His work recently featured in Said & Done: New Writing from Brittle Star (2011) and he is currently working on new material for artist Neville Gabie's The Orchard Project. He took over editorship of Staple magazine in 2008 and lives in Nottingham.
Jane Commane is Co-editor of Nine Arches Press and Under the Radar magazine. She was born in Coventry in 1983 and lives in Warwickshire. Her poetry has most recently featured in Best British Poetry 2011 (Salt) and also in Iota, Anon and Tears in the Fence magazines.
Mal Dewhirst is a poet, writer and film maker. He is the lead poet on the Polesworth Poets Trail. His poems explore themes relating to the spirit of place and have been published in magazines and anthologies. He is currently working on his first full collection.
Sign up for the Open Mic on the door.

SOUTHAMPTON: 451

Monday, 24th October, 2011, 7.30pm, £5/£3
Nuffield Studio,
University Road,
Southampton
SO17 1TR

Featuring: Dreadlockalien and Kimberly Dark
451 brings national, regional and local performance poets to the Nuffield studio in a bi-monthly show where words fly off the stage. There’s also the opportunity for you to take part in the open mic.
For further information about taking part in the open mic or Apples & Snakes in general, email pete@applesandsnakes.org or call 02380 315 500 ext 206 (Weds, Thurs and Fri).

www.nuffieldtheatre.co.uk / 02380 671 771 / www.applesandsnakes.org

Friday, October 21, 2011

DURHAM: Amuse Bouche

Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd October, 2011, 2.30pm, FREE
Durham Book Festival,
Food Festival Tent,
Palace Green,
Durham



Apples and Snakes and the ARC presents AMUSE BOUCHE
Join us in the lively surroundings of the Durham Book Festival food tent, as we enjoy an hour of civilized spoken word. Listen to delicious morsels of poetry while you sip your drinks – a new team of three poets each day. Your spoken word is served by Degna Stone, AJ McKenna and Sky Hawkins; and Poetry Jack, Michael Hann and Aidan Clarke.

www.applesandsnakes.org <http://www.applesandsnakes.org>  / www.arconline.co.uk <http://www.arconline.co.uk>

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

SHEFFIELD: Skype Me! Sheffield and the World (Off the Shelf)


Saturday 29 October, 7.30pm (& other time zones), £4/£3 entrance
Showroom Cinema 5,
15 Paternoster Row,
Sheffield,
S1 2BX
(box office 0114 275 7727)

Just how connected are we? Skype Me! brings together writers from Sheffield and around the world for an evening of international writing, with performances in person and on screen beamed into Showroom 5, plus the premiere of Sent/Received, an SMS ghost script by Andy Cattanach. Join us for a journey across continents and time zones, from the United States to South Africa and Japan. 

The Writers
On Skype, we'll be hearing from the master of irony himself, Canadian spoken word artist Jeff Cottrill, and Texas jam poet Thom the World Poet. We'll also be stopping by two writers in South Africa, Liesl Jobson and Tanya Chan-Sam, who'll be reading her story 'How God Blessed Africa', and Miwa Kurihara on the tsunami in Japan. Plus one international mystery guest to be announced! Spain, India, Singapore...the bets are on! (But at the moment it's very much looking like it's going to be Spain.)

In Sheffield, Rob Hindle will be reading from a new poem-drama about the last weeks in the life of Federico Garcia Lorca, Chella Quint will be putting in an epistolary performance of 'It's Not You, I Just Need Space' (interplanetary letters of love and rejection), Gaby Bila-Günther will be stopping by from Berlin, and there'll be Kenneth Penfold's radio drama 'Closure' and poetry from Liz Cashdan and Word Life's Joe Kriss. 

Sent/Received is a new SMS ghost script by Andy Cattanach, in which text messaging turns out to be the only means of communicating between slipped time streams. Starring Rachael Pennell and Jonathan Greaves, directed by Andrea Milde. 

Hosted by Robin Vaughan-Williams and Sarah Thomasin. 


NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE: What Are They Whispering?


Wednesday, 1st November, 2011
Northern Stage,
Newcastle upon Tyne

What Are They Whispering? – a poetry show

Power. Who has it, who wants it, who tries to take it from you? The poets know.
What Are They Whispering? is a poetry show to nudge you or urge you to weigh up the balance of power in your own life. The dynamic trio of poets whose work will charge you up is Imtiaz Dharker, Joe Dunthorne and John Stammers. They perform a hand-picked selection of their poems about power in both its rawest and most subtle states. Poems and ideas are enhanced and amplified with lighting and sound; every spoken word special effect from a whisper to a chorus, every lighting state from a firefly glimmer to a thunderbolt.
Directed by Phoebe Stout
Produced by Jaybird

LONDON: What Are They Whispering?


Tuesday, 31st October, 2011
Kings Place,
London

What Are They Whispering? – a poetry show

Power. Who has it, who wants it, who tries to take it from you? The poets know.
What Are They Whispering? is a poetry show to nudge you or urge you to weigh up the balance of power in your own life. The dynamic trio of poets whose work will charge you up is Imtiaz Dharker, Joe Dunthorne and John Stammers. They perform a hand-picked selection of their poems about power in both its rawest and most subtle states. Poems and ideas are enhanced and amplified with lighting and sound; every spoken word special effect from a whisper to a chorus, every lighting state from a firefly glimmer to a thunderbolt.
Directed by Phoebe Stout
Produced by Jaybird

HELMSLEY: What Are They Whispering?


Saturday, 29th October, 2011
Helmsley Arts Centre

What Are They Whispering? – a poetry show

Power. Who has it, who wants it, who tries to take it from you? The poets know.
What Are They Whispering? is a poetry show to nudge you or urge you to weigh up the balance of power in your own life. The dynamic trio of poets whose work will charge you up is Imtiaz Dharker, Joe Dunthorne and John Stammers. They perform a hand-picked selection of their poems about power in both its rawest and most subtle states. Poems and ideas are enhanced and amplified with lighting and sound; every spoken word special effect from a whisper to a chorus, every lighting state from a firefly glimmer to a thunderbolt.
Directed by Phoebe Stout
Produced by Jaybird

BRADFORD: What Are They Whispering?


Friday, 28th October, 2011
Theatre in the Mill,
University of Bradford

What Are They Whispering? – a poetry show

Power. Who has it, who wants it, who tries to take it from you? The poets know.
What Are They Whispering? is a poetry show to nudge you or urge you to weigh up the balance of power in your own life. The dynamic trio of poets whose work will charge you up is Imtiaz Dharker, Joe Dunthorne and John Stammers. They perform a hand-picked selection of their poems about power in both its rawest and most subtle states. Poems and ideas are enhanced and amplified with lighting and sound; every spoken word special effect from a whisper to a chorus, every lighting state from a firefly glimmer to a thunderbolt.
Directed by Phoebe Stout
Produced by Jaybird

LONDON: Chill Pill

Thursday, October 20th, 2011, 7.30pm, £8/£6, £5 each for groups of five people

The Albany,
Douglas Way,
Deptford,
London
SE8 4AG
T: 020 8692 0231 ext. 267

The Albany presents Chill Pill – a Spoken Word club night where emerging poets share the stage with some of the finest Spoken Word artists in the UK. There will be an Open Mic with six slots available, and we’re really keen to reach out to emerging poets who might be interested in coming along and signing up to perform.

SCARBOROUGH: Andrew McMillan

Thursday, October 20th, 2011, 6pm-7.30pm, £3 on door, refreshments provided
Scarborough Library,
Vernon Road,
Scarborough,
North Yorkshire
YO11 2NN

Scarborough Library will host a reading by Andrew McMillan - one of the most exciting young poets currently working in the UK. As well as reading now-classic works from his 2009 pamphlet Every Salt Advance, Andrew will dip into the sequence he produced in 2010 for the iMove project, and give poems from his new pamphlet The Moon is a Supporting Player their first North Yorkshire airing.

Andrew, who is described in The Salt Book of Younger Poets as one of the writers who 'will dominate UK poetry in years to come', has been Poet-in-Residence for Off the Page and the Regional Youth Theatre Festival; writer-in-residence for the Watershed Landscape Project and Apprentice Poet-in-Residence for the Ilkley Literature Festival. He edits Cake magazine, alongside Martha Sprackland, and is poetry editor for noted ezine The Cadaverine.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

LONDON: Hammer and Tongue Hackney Slam Final


Tuesday, November 1st, 2011, 7.30pm, £5/£4
@ The Victoria,
451 Queensbridge Road,
Dalston,
E8 3AS
 
Eight previous winners battle it out for the top prize. Contestants include:

Peter Hayhoe: amusingly creative poetry with crazy delivery

Tina Fasciglione: Canadian surprise-poet

Rob Auton: Deadpan poet of the strange and the ordinary.

Amy McAllister: Successful actor and emerging star of poetry scene.

David Lee Morgan: U.S. born poet, street musician and political activist.

Adam Kammerling: Don’t Flop Battle League rap veteran and multiple poetry slam winner.

Gary from Leeds: aggressive poetry punches delivered with mischievous energy

LONDON: Chill Pill

Thursday, October 20th, 2011, 7.30pm, £8/£6, £5 each for groups of five people

The Albany,
Douglas Way,
Deptford,
London
SE8 4AG
T: 020 8692 0231 ext. 267

The Albany presents Chill Pill – a Spoken Word club night where emerging poets share the stage with some of the finest Spoken Word artists in the UK. There will be an Open Mic with six slots available, and we’re really keen to reach out to emerging poets who might be interested in coming along and signing up to perform.

NEWCASTLE: Amuse Bouche


Wednesday, 19th October, 2011, 8pm, FREE
Live Theatre,
Broad Chare,
Newcastle
NE1 3DQ



Apples and Snakes and the ARC presents AMUSE BOUCHE
Three poets, an hour of beautiful spoken word, in a lovely café-bar. What could be better?

www.applesandsnakes.org <http://www.applesandsnakes.org>  / www.arconline.co.uk <http://www.arconline.co.uk>

Monday, October 17, 2011

LEICESTER: Shindig!


Monday, 24th October, 2011, 7.30pm, FREE
The Western,
70 Western Road,
Leicester
LE3 0GA

Nine Arches Press & Crystal Clear Creators present Leicester Shindig!

with Mal Dewhirst, Jane Commane, Charles Lauder and Wayne Burrows.

Charles Lauder, Jr, was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas and now lives in south Leicestershire. His poems have appeared in both British and American journals, and in spring 2012 his debut pamphlet will be published by Crystal Clear Creators.

Wayne Burrows’ first collection Marginalia (Peterloo) appeared in 2001, and the latest, a sequence based on Francis Quarles’ Emblems, was published by Shoestring in 2009. His work recently featured in Said & Done: New Writing from Brittle Star (2011) and he is currently working on new material for artist Neville Gabie's The Orchard Project. He took over editorship of Staple magazine in 2008 and lives in Nottingham.

Jane Commane is Co-editor of Nine Arches Press and Under the Radar magazine. She was born in Coventry in 1983 and lives in Warwickshire. Her poetry has most recently featured in Best British Poetry 2011 (Salt) and also in Iota, Anon and Tears in the Fence magazines.

Mal Dewhirst is a poet, writer and film maker. He is the lead poet on the Polesworth Poets Trail. His poems explore themes relating to the spirit of place and have been published in magazines and anthologies. He is currently working on his first full collection.

Sign up for the Open Mic on the door.


GALWAY: October Over The Edge Reading


Thursday, October 27th, 2011, 6.30pm-8pm, FREE
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway

The October Over The Edge: Open Reading features Kevin Simmonds, Luke Morgan and Jessie Lendennie. This is one of a series of readings this autumn which will mark Salmon Poetry’s 30th anniversary.

Kevin Simmonds is a San Francisco-based writer, musician and filmmaker originally from New Orleans. His writing appears in journals such as Asia Literary Review, Callaloo, jubilat, Kyoto Journal and Poetry. His edited works include Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality and Ota Benga Under My Mother's Roof. His music and performances have been featured on BBC Radio 3, PBS and Japan's NHK Television and at London's Royal Festival Hall, Japan's Nakano Sun Plaza and the National Black Theatre Festival. feti(sh)ame, his genre-defying short film, based entirely on his poetry, has screened internationally and been hailed by Los Angeles film critic Ernest Hardy as "an elegantly profane meditation on desire". Mad for Meat - his debut collection of poetry, has just appeared from Salmon..

Luke Morgan is a poet based in Co. Galway. He began writing from a very young age and had poems published in the school magazines. At fifteen, he became the youngest ever contributor to Crannóg, the literary journal in Galway, with his poem "Moving On". Since then he has enjoyed publications in journals such as Limerick's Revival, ROPES 2011, and earlier this year, Poetry Ireland Review and the Poetry Ireland Newsletter. He won first place in the 2011 Windows Publications Student Poetry Awards. Apart from writing poetry, he loves writing plays and short stories.

Jessie Lendennie was born in Arkansas, USA. After years of travel, she settled in Ireland in 1981. Her previous publications include a book-length prose poem Daughter (1988); reprinted as Daughter and Other Poems in 2001. She compiled and edited: Salmon: A Journey in Poetry, 1981-2007Poetry: Reading it, Writing It, Publishing It (2009) and Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (2010).  She is co-founder (1981) and Managing Director of Salmon Poetry. She has given numerous readings, lectures and writing courses in Ireland and abroad, including Yale University; The Irish Embassy, Washington D.C; The University of Alaska, Fairbanks and Anchorage; MIT, Boston; MN; Café Teatre, Copenhagen, Denmark; the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; The Irish American Cultural Centre, Chicago and The Bowery Poetry Club, New York City. She is currently working on a memoir To Dance Beneath the Diamond Sky. Jessie’s second collection of poetry Walking Here is just published by Salmon Poetry.

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/


Sunday, October 16, 2011

BERWICK-UPON-TWEED: Bari Big Word Slam


Sunday, 30th October, 2011, 7pm, £5 (slammers go free)
 The Maltings,
Eastern Lane,
Berwick-upon-Tweed,
TD15 1AJ


Apples and Snakes presents BARI BIG WORD SLAM

Radikal Words and Apples and Snakes invite you to a Borders Slam – let’s see what our friends in the North can do! Lovely quirky venue, lots of fun – make it a day out and join us! And if you’d like to slam and want some support beforehand, why not come to Scratch Northumbria between 4pm and 6pm – see under ‘Professional Development’ for more details.

www.applesandsnakes.org <http://www.applesandsnakes.org>

Saturday, October 15, 2011

KINGSTON: Kingston Writing School Guest Readings


Friday, 28 October, 2011, 8pm, use Festival Ram Jam tickets or £6/£5 on the door

Space Bar,
Kingston University,
Penrhyn Road campus


Featuring poets and writers associated with KWS:
Liz Berry, Fiona Curran, Martin Daws, Maggie Harris, Paul Perry, Todd Swift and Judith Watts.
Plus music from local band Nomi & The Points.


LONDON: Wordamouth present Open/Wide


Saturday, October 29th, 2011, 8pm-midnight, £5 
Alaska Studios,
Alaska Street,
London
SE1 8XE

London's MOST open mic returns to Alaska studios. Angry Sam and curious host a night of spoken word and music where everyone gets a spot on the mic! Kicking off the first night of this new season of OPEN/WIDE at Alaska studios is the hip hop poet and storyteller - Martin Daws - complete with bass player! And Berlin's only real Londoner, on her latest home visit - Paula Varjack.

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Friday, October 14, 2011

KINGSTON: Poetry Breakout


Friday, October 28th, 2011, 10am onwards, FREE
Kingston University,
Penryhn Road campus courtyard

(details and directions available in main reception)


Poetry Breakout - Pop-up Festival Tent
A day of readings and performances hosted by performance poet Martin Daws.
Open mic slots available - email alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk for more information


Thursday, October 13, 2011

BIRMINGHAM: Hit The Ode


Thursday, 27th October, 2011, 7:30pm, £5 (available on door) 
The Victoria,
48 John Bright Street,
Birmingham
B1 1BN


Apples and Snakes presents HIT THE ODE
Featuring: JMS Poetry Team, Tshaka Campbell, Dizzylezz
This is Hit the Ode, bringing the best poets from the region, the country, and the world to Birmingham. A spoken word poetry night full of poems which you can wear on your skin like tattoos or wrap around your neck like ties; poems which go well with your favourite shirt, you know, the one which makes your eyes pop; poems you can use as earrings, nose rings, engagement rings; poems which will make passers-by do double-takes as you drive them home after the show. Good poems.

Info: bohdan@applesandsnakes.org

NEWCASTLE: Take Ten New Voices


Thursday, 27th October, 2011, 7pm, £4The Cumberland Arms,
James Place Street,
Newcastle
NE6 1LD


Apples and Snakes and Take Ten presents TAKE TEN NEW VOICES

Ten poets, each with 10 minutes to entertain us – Take Ten consistently proves the dazzling diversity of spoken word in the north-east, showcasing the highest quality artists on a monthly basis. This month is special, as Apples and Snakes teams up with Take Ten to mentor 10 new voices and bring them to you.

www.applesandsnakes.org <http://www.applesandsnakes.org>

KINGSTON: Rhythm & Muse Festival in association with Kingston Writing School


Thursday, October 27th, 2011, 8.30pm, £10/£8 in advance
Ram Jam Club,
46 Richmond Road,
Kingston
KT2 5EE

A brand new festival showcasing local poets and musicians and introducing poets and writers from Kingston Writing School.

Featuring Roger McGough - That Awkward Age - an evening of poems to amaze and delight!


Roger McGough wrestles with mortality, seeks love in the launderette and jives in Macca's
trousers. He shares the pain of Lord Godiva and Mr Nightingale, considers his final poem
and shakes a fist at Alzheimer's. Addresses, elegies and ever perceptive playfulness
make this a must-not-miss. 
 

'the patron saint of poetry' Carol Anne Duffy
'a poemy torch in dark corners' Ian McMillan, Poetry Review

Followed by a book signing. www.rogermcgough.org.uk

Music from LiTTLe MACHiNe, who set poems both classic and obscure to music - Keats, Donne,
Larkin and more... all get the same treatment. Walter Wray has spent a lifetime hollering the blues and crooning tunes as a solo artist and in bands such as Junk and King Swamp. Steve Halliwell was also in King Swamp and a session musician in the post-punk world of Shriekback and other arthouse denizens. Chris Hardy is a prize-winning poet and experienced folk-blues guitarist and song-writer. www.little-machine.com

Tickets in advance on 020 8977 4610

WARWICK / COVENTRY: Salt Modern Voices reading


Thursday, October 27th, 2011, 7pm
The Writer's Room,
Warwick University,
Coventry

Readings from Emily Hasler, Robert Graham, Adrian Slatcher and Claire Trevien.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

DURHAM: Amuse Bouche

Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd October, 2011, 2.30pm, FREEDurham Book Festival,
Food Festival Tent,
Palace Green,
Durham



Apples and Snakes and the ARC presents AMUSE BOUCHE
Join us in the lively surroundings of the Durham Book Festival food tent, as we enjoy an hour of civilized spoken word. Listen to delicious morsels of poetry while you sip your drinks – a new team of three poets each day. Your spoken word is served by Degna Stone, AJ McKenna and Sky Hawkins; and Poetry Jack, Michael Hann and Aidan Clarke.

www.applesandsnakes.org <http://www.applesandsnakes.org>  / www.arconline.co.uk <http://www.arconline.co.uk>

NEWCASTLE: Amuse Bouche

Wednesday, 19th October, 2011, 8pm, FREELive Theatre,
Broad Chare,
Newcastle
NE1 3DQ



Apples and Snakes and the ARC presents AMUSE BOUCHE
Three poets, an hour of beautiful spoken word, in a lovely café-bar. What could be better?

www.applesandsnakes.org <http://www.applesandsnakes.org>  / www.arconline.co.uk <http://www.arconline.co.uk>

BIRMINGHAM: Dice Slam (Hit The Ode Special)


Thursday, 13th October, 2011, 7pm, £7/£5
Ikon Eastside,
183 Fazeley Street,
Fazeley Studios,
Digbeth,
Birmingham
B5 5SE
Info: bohdan@applesandsnakes.org

Is it a serious poetry competition? Is it absurdist comedy? No, it's the Dice Slam, a truly unique event bringing together an astounding number of top international performance poets and an absurd set of rules. The poets perform, we throw some dice, the result becomes their score - and a hand-picked jury of quick-witted experts attempts to justify it. The audience gets to vote for their favourite critic, and in the end, poetry wins. Not to be missed!
Featuring: “B-boy” Biru, Indigo Williams, Bernhard Christiansen, Bas Boettcher, Henry Bowers, Grzegorz Bruszewski, Abby Oliveira

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

SCARBOROUGH: Andrew McMillan


Thursday, October 20th, 2011, 6pm-7.30pm, £3 on door, refreshments providedScarborough Library,
Vernon Road,
Scarborough,
North Yorkshire
YO11 2NN

Scarborough Library will host a reading by Andrew McMillan - one of the most exciting young poets currently working in the UK. As well as reading now-classic works from his 2009 pamphlet Every Salt Advance, Andrew will dip into the sequence he produced in 2010 for the iMove project, and give poems from his new pamphlet The Moon is a Supporting Player their first North Yorkshire airing.

Andrew, who is described in The Salt Book of Younger Poets as one of the writers who 'will dominate UK poetry in years to come', has been Poet-in-Residence for Off the Page and the Regional Youth Theatre Festival; writer-in-residence for the Watershed Landscape Project and Apprentice Poet-in-Residence for the Ilkley Literature Festival. He edits Cake magazine, alongside Martha Sprackland, and is poetry editor for noted ezine The Cadaverine.



CAMBRIDGE: Hammer and Tongue featuring Henry Bowers and John Osbourne


Wednesday, October 12th, 2011, 8pm-10.30pm
The Emperor,
21 Hills Road,
Cambridge
CB2 1NW

Hosted by Alex Iamb and Fay Roberts.

Monday, October 10, 2011

SOUTHAMPTON: 451


Monday, 24th October, 2011, 7.30pm, £5/£3
Nuffield Studio,
University Road,
Southampton
SO17 1TR

Featuring: Dreadlockalien and Kimberly Dark

451 brings national, regional and local performance poets to the Nuffield studio in a bi-monthly show where words fly off the stage. There’s also the opportunity for you to take part in the open mic.
For further information about taking part in the open mic or Apples & Snakes in general, email pete@applesandsnakes.org or call 02380 315 500 ext 206 (Weds, Thurs and Fri).

www.nuffieldtheatre.co.uk / 02380 671 771 / www.applesandsnakes.org

Sunday, October 09, 2011

LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT

Monday, October 10th, 2011, 7.30pm

The Sozzled Sausage,
Leamington Spa
CV32 4NX.

Join us for what promises to be an inspiring, hilarious and moving evening as the PGR family celebrates the life of one of its most treasured regulars: Dick Leith.
Throughout this evening our usual guest poet slot will be filled by a selection of the songs and poems Dick committed to CD before his passing.
If you've ever wondered why the Elephants needed ironing, you'll know this will be a night not to be missed.
Old hands and new poets alike are invited to come and share their wares and raise a smile.
PS. For those regulars who would like a writing challenge, and who would appreciate the chance to share what Dick meant to them...do take the opportunity to create something new...perhaps beginning 'I celebrate Dick because...'

DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED!
With open mic support from…….yes……YOU!
Come and share your poems or enjoy the talent of others- seasoned poets & first time performers most welcome!
Admission : Donations to the charity 'Mind'.
If you would like to know more about the night, please email pgrpoetry@gmail.com
  Remember to check out our blog at http://pgrpoetry.blogspot.com !