EDINBURGH: Rally and Broad

Friday, December 21st, 2012, doors 7.30pm, cabaret 8pm-11pm, dancing until 1am, £5

The Counting House,

West Nicholson Street,

Edinburgh

THE FESTIVE SPECIAL!

Featuring, on words: Tim Turnbull, Sophia Walker, Kath McMahon.

And on tunes, Church of When The Shit Hits The Fan, Hannah O’Reilly & [AWRY] Psychegaelic Ceilidh

After an excellent launch and a superb second album (both attracting sell-out crowds); a one-off special for West Port Book festival featuring award-winning short story writers, new poetry, punk-rock guitars and some exceptionally bendy physical theatre, Rally & Broad is back for the festive season.

Presenting...

TIM TURNBULL:  Tim Turnbull's poems appear in Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets (ed R. Lumsden) now available from Bloodaxe. He is a former Forward Prize nominee and author of several collections including the award-winning theatre/ poetry collection Caligula On Ice (Donut Press, 2006.)

CHURCH OF WHEN THE SHIT HITS THE FAN: The harbinger of the end of all things as prophesised in the Book of Revelations 3:18: Or, the only defence protecting humanity against the majestic and awesome forces that hover outside a merely thin hymen 'twixt dimensions awaiting any chance to crush us out of existence. Depends who ye ask…

SOPHIA WALKER: Multi-award winning slam poet. Adopted Edinburger, Washington-born, performed everywhere. She’s also one of Scotland on Sunday’s Eligible Folk 2012. Oo-er…

KATH MCMAHON with FIONA KEENAN: poem-songs from this newly formed duo.

HANNAH O’REILLY: Beautifully raunchy, punk-folk tunes with a lyrical twist.

AND…. [AWRY] Psychegaelic Ceilidh! – That’s right. A ceilidh. At a spoken word cabaret. That’s how we roll…

Hosted by award winning poet and promoter Jenny Lindsay (The Big Word/ Is This Poetry?/ BBC Slam Winner 2012) & Rachel McCrum (BBC Slam finalist 2012/ Stewed Rhubarb Press/ Inky Fingers).

LONDON: Lumen Poetry Series

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012, doors open 6.30pm for 7pm, £5/£4, WINE

LUMEN

88 Tavistock Place

WC1

Ruth O'Callaghan presents Dark Ages Press poet John Gohorry and Iain Johnson (Dark Ages publisher and poet). Poets from the floor very welcome.

EDINBURGH: Inky Fingers Open Mic

Tuesday 18th December
, 8pm-11pm, FREE

The Forest,

141 Lauriston Place,

Edinburgh


The Inky Fingers Open Mic takes place every fourth Tuesday of the month, from 8-11pm. It’s free to come and free for anyone to perform, regardless of style, experience, or identity.

We want to hear from everybody. We want your poems, your rants, your ballads, your short stories, your diaries, your experimental texts, your heart, your mind, your body. We want the essay on your summer holidays you wrote when you were four, your adolescent haiku, and extracts from your eventually-to-be-completed epic fantasy quadrilogy. We want to hear your best new work as well. And we want people to care about the way words are performed.

This month we’re bringing you a feature from Bram E. Gieben, a Glasgow-based writer, emcee and musician. Bram is awesomely talented and hugely prolific: his crime novel was nominated for the 2012 CWA Debut Dagger Award; his short fiction has been published by Timid Pirate Press and Drey Magazine, and received a special mention in the Boing Boing ‘Gadget Fiction’ contest of 2009; and he set up Weaponizer Press, an open-source site publishing edgy, groundbreaking fiction by emerging authors. Under the name Texture, he also makes loop-based hip-hop with dubstep, electro, and lo-fi influences, and he also helped set up the netlabel Black Lantern Music, releasing music by more than thirty artists from Scotland and worldwide. Find out more at www.bramegieben.co.uk.

NOTE: WE’VE MOVED BACK! After a year being supported by the lovely Lothian St project, we’re back in our original home of The Forest, now at 141 Lauriston Place.

Open Mic slots are five minutes long; e-mail inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com to sign up and be sure of a slot, and check our website at http://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com for more details.

EDINBURGH: Readeasy Writers' Group

Wednesday 12th December, 2012, 6pm-9pm, FREE


The Forest,

141 Lauriston Place,

Edinburgh

Hello writers! Whether you are a poet, novelist, scriptwriter, or haven’t yet made up your mind, the Inky Fingers  Writers’ Group is for YOU. We meet to read and talk about each other’s work in a fun, safe, and constructive environment. It is a unique (and free) opportunity to get feedback, to experience new writing, and to hear your work read aloud: and best of all, it is anonymous, so you can feel completely at ease.

Every month a group of writers meets in a cosy café to discuss their work. Each member submits a piece of writing for the group, these are anonymised and printed out, everyone is given one piece to read, and then we take turns reading the piece aloud and giving feedback.

To attend for a session, just drop us an email at inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com, with a piece of your writing attached. Any genre, and extracts are certainly allowed, but the limit is about 500 words, so that we’ve time to read them all. Also, please use  either .pdf, .odt or .doc (not .docx!) file formats.

Come along on the night, and we will read each piece aloud and chat about it. (Let us know if you’re not going to be able to attend, so that we can make your space available to someone else.) Bring a notepad and your wonderful mind!

Places are limited, so please send your email a few days in advance to make sure you get a space.

LONDON: Word of Mouth

Monday, 10th December, 2012, 7.30pm, £4 on the door

The Last Refuge,

The Bussey Building,

Peckham Rye

SE15 3SN

A regular Monday night of poetry and entertainment! An eclectic mix of featured acts and generous open mic spots. Featuring poets Sh’Maya and Jasmine Cooray, with music from Daniel Belby and hosted by Lettie Mckie

Contact and open mic list: Lettie Mckie outspokenpoetry@yahoo.co.uk

http://www.facebook.com/events/379046738844129/?notif_t=plan_user_joined

Our Christmas line up:

Sh’maya is a spoken word artist who will carry you away with his lyricism and unique performance style.  His slick verbal riffs and incredible imagery will have you spellbound. http://www.shmaya.co.uk/

Jasmine Cooray is a poet who has a wonderful ability to tell moving stories through her simple, beautiful verse. Listening to her gentle but powerful poetry will inspire and uplift you.

Daniel Beilby - our resident pianist takes to the stage this time for a brief musical interlude as well as providing the soundtrack to the night. He blends together jazz, film themes and classical pieces in an improvisatory cocktail.

Open Mic - a chance for poets to perform their own work. From the large to small, the budding flowers to the withered stalks, everyone is welcome to regale our audience with their wit and profundity! Especially if you have never tried open mic poetry before come to visit us in Peckham and get involved in something extraordinary, listen, perform and participate in our friendly, relaxed night.

y chilled recipe for an awesome evening of cultural bliss.

LONDON: Jazz Verse Jukebox

Sunday, 9th December, 2012, doors open 6.30pm, show from 7.30pm, £8 (tickets on 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

December is the Jazz Verse Jukebox Christmas edition! Lighting up our metaphorical Christmas tree – spoken word supremos Tshaka Campbell, Nick Makoha, Hollie McNish and Abe Gibson plus music from jazz singer Julia George and from Jumoké Fashola. Join us for what promises to be a thrilling night of diverse spoken word and jazz from some of the freshest exponents on the scene.

PLUS Jukebox Open Mic: 

Come & sing with our amazing house band (Simon Wallace-Piano/ Oli Hayhurst-Bass/ Winston Clifford-Drums) or perform some poetry.

Special Guests

Tshaka Campbell, Nick Makoha, Hollie McNish, Abe Gibson 

plus music from Julia George

Compered by & with music from Jumoké Fashola

(www.jumokefashola.com)

EDINBURGH: Rally and Broad

Friday, December 21st, 2012, doors 7.30pm, cabaret 8pm-11pm, dancing until 1am, £5

The Counting House,

West Nicholson Street,

Edinburgh

THE FESTIVE SPECIAL!

Featuring, on words: Tim Turnbull, Sophia Walker, Kath McMahon.

And on tunes, Church of When The Shit Hits The Fan, Hannah O’Reilly & [AWRY] Psychegaelic Ceilidh

After an excellent launch and a superb second album (both attracting sell-out crowds); a one-off special for West Port Book festival featuring award-winning short story writers, new poetry, punk-rock guitars and some exceptionally bendy physical theatre, Rally & Broad is back for the festive season.

Presenting...

TIM TURNBULL:  Tim Turnbull's poems appear in Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets (ed R. Lumsden) now available from Bloodaxe. He is a former Forward Prize nominee and author of several collections including the award-winning theatre/ poetry collection Caligula On Ice (Donut Press, 2006.)

CHURCH OF WHEN THE SHIT HITS THE FAN: The harbinger of the end of all things as prophesised in the Book of Revelations 3:18: Or, the only defence protecting humanity against the majestic and awesome forces that hover outside a merely thin hymen 'twixt dimensions awaiting any chance to crush us out of existence. Depends who ye ask…

SOPHIA WALKER: Multi-award winning slam poet. Adopted Edinburger, Washington-born, performed everywhere. She’s also one of Scotland on Sunday’s Eligible Folk 2012. Oo-er…

KATH MCMAHON with FIONA KEENAN: poem-songs from this newly formed duo.

HANNAH O’REILLY: Beautifully raunchy, punk-folk tunes with a lyrical twist.

AND…. [AWRY] Psychegaelic Ceilidh! – That’s right. A ceilidh. At a spoken word cabaret. That’s how we roll…

Hosted by award winning poet and promoter Jenny Lindsay (The Big Word/ Is This Poetry?/ BBC Slam Winner 2012) & Rachel McCrum (BBC Slam finalist 2012/ Stewed Rhubarb Press/ Inky Fingers).

LONDON: The Morning Star and the Stoke Newington Literary Festival Christmas Assembly

Saturday, 8th December, 2012, 8pm-3am, FREE

Mascara Bar

72 Stamford Hill,

London,

N16 6XS

The Morning Star and the Stoke Newington Literary Festival are joining forces to bring you a one-off Christmas assembly at Stoke Newington's own Mascara Bar, featuring:

Tim Wells (Donut Press, editor of Rising, Forward Prize nominee)

Graham Bendel (cult filmmaker published by Blackheath Books)

Niall O'Sullivan (host of Poetry Unplugged, once poet-in-residence of Wimbledon)

Anne Brechin (poet and editor of the Prague Revue)

Sophia Blackwell (poet and novelist)

Emlyn Hugill (Stoke Newington's favourite butcher)

Also featuring Matthew Hedley Stoppard, Jah-Mir Early, Nicola Gledhill, Charlotte Henson

Plus short talk about the upcoming Fifth Monarchist film by Ian Bone and Suzy Gillett

DJs till late: Graham Bendel + John the Revelator

Prizes donated by Stoke Newington Literary Festival

More acts TBA

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/221755151289608/

http://morningstaronline.co.uk/

http://stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/

http://facebook.com/WellVersedMorningStar

TODMORDEN: Grey Hen Press reading

Saturday, 8th December, 2012, 2pm-3.30pm

Todmorden Library

Strand,

Rochdale Road,

Todmorden

OL14  7LB

‘Skeps and keepers, queens and workers, lore, science, craft and myth, all the way from Ljubljana to Aberdeen, down the centuries from the middle ages to our own, in a rich honeycomb of bee-poems' Anne-Marie Fyfe 

Reading, with Jo Haslam, Joy Howard, Gina Shaw, Margaret Speak and Sue Wood.

Wine and mince pies - all welcome

LONDON: Lumen Poetry Series

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012, doors open 6.30pm for 7pm, £5/£4, WINE

LUMEN

88 Tavistock Place

WC1

Ruth O'Callaghan presents Dark Ages Press poet John Gohorry and Iain Johnson (Dark Ages publisher and poet). Poets from the floor very welcome.

EDINBURGH: Inky Fingers Open Mic

Tuesday 18th December
, 8pm-11pm, FREE

The Forest,

141 Lauriston Place,

Edinburgh


The Inky Fingers Open Mic takes place every fourth Tuesday of the month, from 8-11pm. It’s free to come and free for anyone to perform, regardless of style, experience, or identity.

We want to hear from everybody. We want your poems, your rants, your ballads, your short stories, your diaries, your experimental texts, your heart, your mind, your body. We want the essay on your summer holidays you wrote when you were four, your adolescent haiku, and extracts from your eventually-to-be-completed epic fantasy quadrilogy. We want to hear your best new work as well. And we want people to care about the way words are performed.

This month we’re bringing you a feature from Bram E. Gieben, a Glasgow-based writer, emcee and musician. Bram is awesomely talented and hugely prolific: his crime novel was nominated for the 2012 CWA Debut Dagger Award; his short fiction has been published by Timid Pirate Press and Drey Magazine, and received a special mention in the Boing Boing ‘Gadget Fiction’ contest of 2009; and he set up Weaponizer Press, an open-source site publishing edgy, groundbreaking fiction by emerging authors. Under the name Texture, he also makes loop-based hip-hop with dubstep, electro, and lo-fi influences, and he also helped set up the netlabel Black Lantern Music, releasing music by more than thirty artists from Scotland and worldwide. Find out more at www.bramegieben.co.uk.

NOTE: WE’VE MOVED BACK! After a year being supported by the lovely Lothian St project, we’re back in our original home of The Forest, now at 141 Lauriston Place.

Open Mic slots are five minutes long; e-mail inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com to sign up and be sure of a slot, and check our website at http://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com for more details.

EDINBURGH: Readeasy Writers' Group

Wednesday 12th December, 2012, 6pm-9pm, FREE


The Forest,

141 Lauriston Place,

Edinburgh

Hello writers! Whether you are a poet, novelist, scriptwriter, or haven’t yet made up your mind, the Inky Fingers  Writers’ Group is for YOU. We meet to read and talk about each other’s work in a fun, safe, and constructive environment. It is a unique (and free) opportunity to get feedback, to experience new writing, and to hear your work read aloud: and best of all, it is anonymous, so you can feel completely at ease.

Every month a group of writers meets in a cosy café to discuss their work. Each member submits a piece of writing for the group, these are anonymised and printed out, everyone is given one piece to read, and then we take turns reading the piece aloud and giving feedback.

To attend for a session, just drop us an email at inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com, with a piece of your writing attached. Any genre, and extracts are certainly allowed, but the limit is about 500 words, so that we’ve time to read them all. Also, please use  either .pdf, .odt or .doc (not .docx!) file formats.

Come along on the night, and we will read each piece aloud and chat about it. (Let us know if you’re not going to be able to attend, so that we can make your space available to someone else.) Bring a notepad and your wonderful mind!

Places are limited, so please send your email a few days in advance to make sure you get a space.

LONDON: Camden Poetry Series

Friday, 7th December, 2012, 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 Lumen/Camden Poetry Competition winners Bob Cooper, Zelda Chappell, Peter Kennedy and Eleanor Vale.

                            

Poets from the floor very welcome. Please bring a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.

GALWAY: Over The Edge Open Reading

Thursday, December 13th, 2012, 6.30pm-8pm, FREE

Galway City Library

The Featured Readers are Judith Mok, Gabriel Lacey and Hannah Kiely. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are especially welcome. The Over The Edge Christmas celebration will take place afterwards.

Hannah Kiely was born in Waterford and has been living in Galway for several years.  She attended both NUIG and GMIT in Galway.  Hannah is a well known business woman, member of many boards and a regular contributor to Money Matters in the Galway Independent and also a commentator in many other business publications. Hannah has been writing since she was very young and has been attending classes with Susan Millar DuMars at GTI over the past number of years. Hannah writes from the heart and her poetry is a wonderful insight into people and the events happening around us all.  She writes of the moment, with an immediacy of observation.  In between working and volunteering with many charities, Hannah somehow finds time to cycle and write.

Gabriel Lacey is a retired civil servant who was born in Co. Tipperary and lived in Dublin for many years before moving to Galway 23 years ago. He has travelled extensively in Europe and America. As a result, he doesn’t know where he is most of the time and this is what inspires him as a writer. He was a member of Tallaght Theatre Group in Dublin from 1979-89 and played several leading roles in various plays; he also directed The Factory Girls, by Frank McGuinness. He has been an enthusiastic student of Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar Du Mars. Both of them, to their credit, resisted the urge to kick him out of writing classes.  He is a member of Javawriters and is thrilled to be included in their first anthology, Infusions, released this Christmas. 

Judith Mok was born in Bergen in the Netherlands. She has published three novels and four books of poetry as well as short stories. She has written for Radio and Newspapers. Her short stories have been short listed twice for the Francis Mc Manus award and her first novel The innocents at the Circus for the Prix de l’Academie Francaise. Her work has appeared nationally and internationally in literary magazines and Anthologies. She travels the world working as a classical singer. Judith’s most recent poetry collection, Gods of Babel, was published in 2011 by Salmon Poetry. http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=236&a=207

As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are always most welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748.

Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council & The Arts Council. We were delighted to be informed recently that our Arts Council funding for 2013 will remain at the same level as it was for this year, which was itself an increase on what we received in 2011. A great result in the circumstances. http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com 

LONDON: Word of Mouth

Monday, 10th December, 2012, 7.30pm, £4 on the door

The Last Refuge,

The Bussey Building,

Peckham Rye

SE15 3SN

A regular Monday night of poetry and entertainment! An eclectic mix of featured acts and generous open mic spots. Featuring poets Sh’Maya and Jasmine Cooray, with music from Daniel Belby and hosted by Lettie Mckie

Contact and open mic list: Lettie Mckie outspokenpoetry@yahoo.co.uk

http://www.facebook.com/events/379046738844129/?notif_t=plan_user_joined

Our Christmas line up:

Sh’maya is a spoken word artist who will carry you away with his lyricism and unique performance style.  His slick verbal riffs and incredible imagery will have you spellbound. http://www.shmaya.co.uk/

Jasmine Cooray is a poet who has a wonderful ability to tell moving stories through her simple, beautiful verse. Listening to her gentle but powerful poetry will inspire and uplift you.

Daniel Beilby - our resident pianist takes to the stage this time for a brief musical interlude as well as providing the soundtrack to the night. He blends together jazz, film themes and classical pieces in an improvisatory cocktail.

Open Mic - a chance for poets to perform their own work. From the large to small, the budding flowers to the withered stalks, everyone is welcome to regale our audience with their wit and profundity! Especially if you have never tried open mic poetry before come to visit us in Peckham and get involved in something extraordinary, listen, perform and participate in our friendly, relaxed night.

y chilled recipe for an awesome evening of cultural bliss.

LONDON: The Morning Star and the Stoke Newington Literary Festival Christmas Assembly

Saturday, 8th December, 2012, 8pm-3am, FREE

Mascara Bar

72 Stamford Hill,

London,

N16 6XS

The Morning Star and the Stoke Newington Literary Festival are joining forces to bring you a one-off Christmas assembly at Stoke Newington's own Mascara Bar, featuring:

Tim Wells (Donut Press, editor of Rising, Forward Prize nominee)

Graham Bendel (cult filmmaker published by Blackheath Books)

Niall O'Sullivan (host of Poetry Unplugged, once poet-in-residence of Wimbledon)

Anne Brechin (poet and editor of the Prague Revue)

Sophia Blackwell (poet and novelist)

Emlyn Hugill (Stoke Newington's favourite butcher)

Also featuring Matthew Hedley Stoppard, Jah-Mir Early, Nicola Gledhill, Charlotte Henson

Plus short talk about the upcoming Fifth Monarchist film by Ian Bone and Suzy Gillett

DJs till late: Graham Bendel + John the Revelator

Prizes donated by Stoke Newington Literary Festival

More acts TBA

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/221755151289608/

http://morningstaronline.co.uk/

http://stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/

http://facebook.com/WellVersedMorningStar

LONDON: Jazz Verse Jukebox

Sunday, 9th December, 2012, doors open 6.30pm, show from 7.30pm, £8 (tickets on 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

December is the Jazz Verse Jukebox Christmas edition! Lighting up our metaphorical Christmas tree – spoken word supremos Tshaka Campbell, Nick Makoha, Hollie McNish and Abe Gibson plus music from jazz singer Julia George and from Jumoké Fashola. Join us for what promises to be a thrilling night of diverse spoken word and jazz from some of the freshest exponents on the scene.

PLUS Jukebox Open Mic: 

Come & sing with our amazing house band (Simon Wallace-Piano/ Oli Hayhurst-Bass/ Winston Clifford-Drums) or perform some poetry.

Special Guests

Tshaka Campbell, Nick Makoha, Hollie McNish, Abe Gibson 

plus music from Julia George

Compered by & with music from Jumoké Fashola

(www.jumokefashola.com)

TODMORDEN: Grey Hen Press reading

Saturday, 8th December, 2012, 2pm-3.30pm

Todmorden Library

Strand,

Rochdale Road,

Todmorden

OL14  7LB

‘Skeps and keepers, queens and workers, lore, science, craft and myth, all the way from Ljubljana to Aberdeen, down the centuries from the middle ages to our own, in a rich honeycomb of bee-poems' Anne-Marie Fyfe 

Reading, with Jo Haslam, Joy Howard, Gina Shaw, Margaret Speak and Sue Wood.

Wine and mince pies - all welcome

LONDON: Camden Poetry Series

Friday, 7th December, 2012, 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 Lumen/Camden Poetry Competition winners Bob Cooper, Zelda Chappell, Peter Kennedy and Eleanor Vale.

                            

Poets from the floor very welcome. Please bring a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.

GALWAY: Dead Good Poetry and Music Society

Friday, November 23rd, 2012, 7pm-10pm, FREE

Galway Rape Crisis Centre,

The Lodge,

Forster Court,

Galway City

For further details: 091-564800

Following the success of Galway Rape Crisis Centre’s Culture Night event, their Dead Good Poetry & Music Society returns in association with Over the Edge at Galway Rape Crisis Centre. The GRCC is proud to present poets Marie Cadden and Susan Lindsay, music from My Fellow Sponges and some other very special musical guests.

Marie Cadden was winner of the 2011 Cuirt New Writing Prize for Poetry, Runner-Up 2012 Westport Arts Festival Poetry Prize, 3rd Prize Francis Ledwidge Poetry Competition 2012, shortlisted for Desmond O'Grady Poetry Competition 2012, Bradshaw Books/Cork Literary Review Manuscript Competition 2011, Over the Edge New Writer of the Year Award 2010.

Susan Lindsay was a founding Director of the Creative Counselling Centre and Connect Assocs. Dublin. Having previously had her book, The Love Crucible (self-help genre) published by Marino in 1995, in 2011 she was selected by Poetry Ireland to read for the Introductions Series & her debut collection of poems, Whispering the Secrets (http://www.doirepress.ie/) was published.

Take an obsession with words; add a splash of weirdness, some theatrical training and you'd have something like what My Fellow Sponges get up to on and off stage. They are a five-piece Galway-based band with very diverse musical and non-musical interests who sing in three part harmonyand are influenced by a wide range of genres and musical styles.

For more about the work of Galway Rape Crisis Centre http://www.galwayrcc.org/

KINGSTON: Rhythm & Muse Festival

Tuesday, 20th November, 2012, to Thursday, 29th November, 2012.

Rhythm & Muse and Kingston Writing School present a week of readings,

music, workshops and events:

AF Harrold – Schools event at the Rose Theatre, Tuesday 20 November,

10.30 – 11.30 am, in association with Kingston Libraries and RBK

Poetry Meets Art – Judith Watts leads a workshop at the new-look

Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, Thursday 22 November, 3 –

5pm

(places free, but book in advance via Alison Hill –

alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk)

Poetry in Performance – interactive workshop led by performance poet

Martin Daws, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Room JG0001, Saturday

24 November, 11am – 1pm (places free, but book in advance via Laura

Bottomley - L.Bottomley@kingston.ac.uk)

Wendy Cope & Laurence Owen – Lyrical Laughter at Kingston University,

Penrhyn Road, Room JG003, Wednesday 28 November, 6-8pm, free event

LiTTLe MACHiNe and Slam at the Ram, hosted by Nick Poole – Thursday 29

November, Ram Jam Club, Kingston, 8.30pm onwards, £6/£5 on the door.

Email Alison Hill for more details or to sign up for a slam spot –

alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk

www.rhythmandmuse.org

www.kingstonwritingschool.com

EDINBURGH: Rally and Broad

Friday, 16th November, 2012, doors 7.30pm, cabaret 8–11pm, dancing shoes till 1am, £5.

The Counting House,

West Nicholson Street,

Edinburgh

After a packed out launch, featuring award winning writers, cabaret, punk-rock and three men wrestling (it’s physical theatre y’know), Rally & Broad are back with another eclectic bill of lyrical fayre!

Presenting...

One woman performance powerhouse PAULA VARJACK

Carcanet poet WILLIAM LETFORD, with work from his debut collection Bevel.

HAILEY BEAVIS well-known local singer-songwriter.

Inky Finger’s performer and poet, HARRY GILES.

And introducing ALEX HOWARD.

Plus very special guests to be announced on the night!

Hosted by award winning poet and promoter Jenny Lindsay (The Big Word/ Is This Poetry?/ BBC Slam Winner 2012) & Rachel McCrum (BBC Slam finalist 2012/ Stewed Rhubarb Press/ Inky Fingers).

With dancin’ and DJs to follow, til the wee sma’ hours.

Contact: rallyandbroad@gmail.com/

07989 508 436

GALWAY: November Over The Edge Open Reading

Thursday, November 15th, 6.30-8pm, FREE

Galway City Library

The Featured Readers are Mary Noonan, Dave Donovan and Fiona Scoble. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are especially welcome.

Fiona Scoble was born in Kent and now lives in Galway, working as an artist and illustrator. She studied English at Cambridge University and went on to be a documentary researcher for Maximum Exposure Productions, driving from England to India in a London taxi. She has also worked as a journalist. In 2011 her short non-fiction children’s book, Bright Minds in the “Dark Ages”, was published by CE4CE as a teaching resource. She recently attended creative writing classes at Galway Technical Institute and as a result joined the “Java Writers” in publishing a collection of short stories, entitled Infusions, to be launched this December. Fiona was longlisted in the 2012 Over The Edge New Writer of the Year Competition.

Dave Donovan was born in Dublin. His family moved between Ireland the USA and Zambia before settling in Galway in the early seventies. Apart from a few brief sojourns in other jurisdictions he has lived here since then. He has worked in the fields of residential care, intellectual disability and community arts. Currently he is undertaking graduate studies in Applied Social Studies in NUI Maynooth. He has been attending poetry workshops in the Arts Centre with Kevin Higgins since early 2011. More latterly he has been associated with the Tuesday Nights and their upcoming publication Wayword Tuesdays. He has read at the open mic space at Over the Edge readings. Poems he finds either while cycling, walking or sometimes sleeping.

Mary Noonan lives in Cork, where she works as a lecturer in French literature at University College Cork.. Her poems have appeared in The Dark Horse, The Stinging Fly, Southword, The SHOp, Cyphers, Blackbox Manifold, BigCityLit, Wasafiri, Tears in the Fence, The Moth, The Echo Room, The Same, The Cork Literary Review, The Alhambra Poetry Calendar 2010, Best of Irish Poetry 2010, and The Threepenny Review (Summer 2012). She won the Listowel Poetry Collection Prize in 2010. Her first collection – The Fado House – was published by Dedalus Press, Dublin in 2012.

As usual there will be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished.

This will include a sneak preview reading by the MA in Writing Class of 2011/12 from their forthcoming anthology The Abandoned Darlings http://abandoneddarlings.tumblr.com/.

New readers are always most welcome at the open-mic. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748.



Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council & The Arts Council. http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com