LONDON: Kid, I Wrote Back

Monday, May 14th, 2012, 7.30pm-10.30pm, £3 on the door, free to perform

Bar Kick

127 Shoreditch High Street,

Shoreditch,

London,

E1 6JE

'Kid,I Wrote Back' is London's freshest, most eclectic open mic spoken word night that invites both established and as yet unheard talent to the stage. It started two years ago and quickly went from strength to strength and solidified itself as one of the most exciting and eclectic poetry and spoken word nights in London.

Purposefully breaking free from promoting any one verse, word, voice or style KID, stamps a defiantly individual mark onto the capital's red-ripe spoken word and poetry scene.

'Kid, I Wrote Back' invites both established and as yet unheard talent to the stage to perform – offering a much needed dose of full-on liberalism and authenticity – that will really agitate, challenge and tickle your minds.

It is a platform for current words from current poets of all styles and experience who are looking to share words and hear others in a friendly and lively environment. It is the brainchild of Chimène Suleyman, a writer and poet who performs as part of the 'Rhymes Won’t Wait' collective and Dylan Sage, a writer and emcee who has entertained with the likes of 'The Nextmen' and 'Breaking Bread'.

If you would like to perform email kidiwroteback@instorage.org.uk or get there early on the night to sign up.

LONDON: Hammer & Tongue Camden

Monday, May 14th, 2012, 7.30pm-11pm, £5

Green Note Café
106 Parkway
Camden
Nearest tube: Camden Town

 

Hammer and Tongue Camden Open Poetry Slam featuring Gerry Potter and Kat Francois.

First 8 poets to sign up on the door come in for free and enter the competition.
Hosted by Michelle Madsen
Contact:  07514 296242
www.hammerandtongue.co.uk
http://twitter.com/hammerandtongue
http://www.myspace.com/hammerandtonguelondon

LONDON: Jazz Verse Jukebox

Sunday, 13th May, 2012, doors 6.30pm, show from 7.30pm, £8 (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

May comes with a poetic spring mixed with sublime lyricism, vocal dexterity & passionate verse. Join us for what promises to be a thrilling night of diverse spoken word & jazz from some of the freshest exponents on the scene. With live jazz trio & Open Mic.  With cushions to lunge on, cocktails to imbibe & surprises, this third Birthday is one night not to miss!


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

Special Guests
Ronnie McGrath/ Paul Lyalls / Amy Acre/ JJ von der Heydt
WITH MUSIC FROM DAVID GRANT

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

LONDON: Luxury Goods Poetry Set

Wednesday, 2nd May, 2012, 7.30pm, FREE
The Courtyard Theatre,

40 Pitfield Street,

London,

N1 6EU

Luxury Goods, the independent 50-word arts festival, presents an evening of poetry and performance at the Courtyard Theatre in Hoxton, drawing together poets from Nottingham, Sheffield, London, and Berlin

Wayne Burrows (wayneburrows.wordpress.com), editor of Staple magazine, presents ‘Disturbances’, a multimedia performance on a celluloid obsession.

Kirsten Irving (www.drfulminare.com/k.php): editor of Sidekick Books and author of Never Never Never Come Back (Salt).

Gaby Bila-Günther (www.myspace.com/ladygaby): performance and visual artist from Berlin.

Robin Vaughan-Williams (www.zeroquality.net/zqme) out-shouts the juggernauts in poems from the road.

Michael Glover (www.bowwowshop.org.uk): poet, journalist, and editor of the Bow-Wow Shop.

Doors open at 7pm, the spoken word set runs 7.30–8.45pm, and is followed at 9pm by a symposium on the Festival theme, 'the reality of art'.

See the full Festival programme:
http://www.thecourtyard.org.uk/whatson/251/luxury-goods-london-vi-the-reality-of-art

Wayne Burrows and Robin Vaughan-Williams will also be reading alongside Anna Robinson and Georgina Lock at Lee Rosy's Tea in Nottingham on 9 May: http://www.zeroquality.net/zqblog/?p=499

LONDON: Velvet Tongue

Monday, 30th April, 2012, 7pm-10.30pm, £3 (free for participants)

Bar Kick,

127 Shoreditch High Street,
London

E1 6JE  (Old St/Liverpool St tubes)

Ernesto Sarezale rededicates himself to his erotic literary soirée this spring. VELVET TONGUE will blossom again at the BAR KICK with a fresh selection of talent (and some returnees) on Monday 30th April 2012.

Featured poets:
* DZIFA BENSON (http://www.itzcaribbean.com/dzifabenson )
* DOMINIC BERRY (http://dominicberry.net/ )

Special appearances by: Sarah Berry, Becky Fury, Katie Sarra...  and plenty of open mic slots!

On facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/334413446601020/

OPEN MIC SLOTS: Bring along your sexy words and 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 risqué 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 to open mic performers.

To sign up for the 5min open mic slots, email  Ernesto:
ernesto(at)sarezale.com (or give your name on the night in case  there are any slots left)

Contact phone number: 07733263823 (Ernesto)
Email:ernesto@sarezale.com
Web: http://velvettongueuk.blogspot.com/

http://www.sarezale.com
http://www.vimeo.com/ernesto

LONDON: Camden Poetry Series

Friday, 4th May, 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 Shoestring poets Christopher Southgate, Rosemary Norman and Paul McLoughlin. 

                        

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

GALWAY: May Over The Edge Writers' Gathering

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012, 8pm, FREE

The Kitchen @ The Museum

Spanish Arch

Galway 

The May Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering presents readings by John Corless, Elaine Cosgrove, Mick Donnellan and visiting Australian poet Ross Donlon. The evening will also see the launch of novels by two unique Galway-based writers Rejini Samuel and Yvonne McEvaddy.

Yvonne McEvaddy has been dabbling in the written word since early childhood, having decided at the age of 5, when she read her first Enid Blyton book, that she wanted to be a writer. Her summer holidays were often spent writing adventures in the remaining pages of her school copybooks. When not writing she was daydreaming about her books being available in her local bookstore. Her novel, Passion Killer, is just published.

Ross Donlon has featured at poetry festivals in Australia and England. He has won spoken words events as well as international poetry competitions including the Wenlock Festival Poetry Prize (U.K.) judged by Carol Ann Duffy (2010), the MPU International Poetry Competition (2011) and was shortlisted for this year’s Bridport Prize (U.K.) from 8, 200 entries. His latest book, The Blue Dressing Gown and other poems, is published by Profile Poetry.

Elaine Cosgrove is 26, comes from Sligo and lives in Galway City. Her writing has been published online at wordlegs, minus 9 squared and UpStart. She was short listed for both the Over the Edge 'New Writer of the Year Competition' and the Fish Publishing 'One Page Story Prize' in 2010. Most recently, two of her poems were included in the wordlegs '30 Under 30' ebook anthology of thirty younger Irish writers. Elaine was long listed in the poetry category of the Doire Press '1st Annual Chapbook Competition'.  She has recently being accepted onto the MPhil in Creative Writing at Trinity College Dublin.

John Corless  lives near Claremorris, in County Mayo, and is a vastly experienced creative writing tutor. Many satisfied students have taken John’s creative writing courses at GMIT Castlebar, over the past number of years. John’s debut poetry collection, Are you ready?, was published by Salmon Poetry in 2009 and has been a poetry bestseller. He is the judge for this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition.

Mick Donnellan is originally from Ballinrobe. He had an immensely successful year in the theatre in 2011. His most popular plays to date – Sunday Morning Coming Down, Shortcut to Halleljuah and Gun Metal Grey – have sold out across the country, inspiring excellent reviews and standing ovations from sell-out crowds. Mick  Donnellan’s artistic metirs are now also being recognised in the fiction world. His debut crime novel, El Niño, has just been published.

Rejini Samuel was short-listed for the 2011 Over the Edge ‘New Writer of the Year Competition’ and she was the only entrant to have both her fiction and her poetry long-listed for the Doire Press ‘1st Annual International Fiction and Poetry Chapbook Competition’ in January 2012. Under her pen name R J Samuel, she has just published her first novel Heart Stopper.

There is no entrance fee. The Kitchen @ The Museum has a wine licence.

For further information contact 087-6431748.

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

GALWAY: Cuirt Over The Edge Showcase

KINGSTON: Rhythm & Muse

Thursday, 26 April, 2012, 8.30pm 

Ram Jam Club

Kingston

Featuring guest poet Allison McVety

Winner of The Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition 2006, Allison’s collection, The Night Trotsky Came to Stay (Smith/Doorstop), was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Review, The Guardian, The Times and PN Review, have been broadcast on BBC radio and appear in the Forward anthologies 2007 and 2008 and in the Forward Poems of the Decade 2002-2011. Her second collection, Miming Happiness (Smith/Doorstop), was published in 2010 and her poem, To the Lighthouse, won the 2011 National Poetry Competition.

With music from singer-songwriter and accordionist Hannah Rose Tristram.

Singer, dancer and musician, Hannah Rose has been touring internationally with world music choirs Village Harmony and Northern Harmony from the age of ten. She is a talented mult-instrumentalist, working and playing as an accordionist, flautist, singer and poet. 

She has led regular groups including The Breath of Life Singers in West Sussex, the World Music Chorus and The Wilful Choir in London. Hannah also runs Kripalu Yoga workshops and is available for one-to-one yoga tuition. 

http://www.naturalvoice.net/pages/hannah-rose.html 

Plus open mic and the chance to submit poems and lyrics to the forthcoming R&M anthology

Email alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk to book a floorspot or for more information.

www.rhythmandmuse.org

LOCHWINNOCH: Grey Hen Press reading

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012, 6.30pm-8pm, FREE

Lochwinnoch RSPB Reserve,

Largs Road,

Lochwinnoch,

Renfrewshire

PA12 4JF 

A reading from the Grey Hen Press anthologies No Space But There Own and The Price of Gold, with A C Clarke, Sally Evans, Katherine Gallagher, Geraldine Green, Eleanor Livingstone and Sheila Templeton.

CHIPPING CAMPDEN: Poetry and Pints

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012, 9pm, £5

Church Rooms,

Chipping Campden

Chipping Campden Literature Festival 2012

Angela France is back by popular demand for a third year with Nine Arches Poets Daniel Sluman, Matt Merritt and Maria Taylor.

Open mic spots for audience members to read their own work, or much loved poems by others.  

Please sign up on the door.  

Book tickets: 01386 841 222

http://www.campdenlitfest.co.uk/contentok.php?id=88

ALDWINCLE: Riverlands - a journey on the Nene

Saturday, April 21, and Sunday 22, 2012, 7.30pm-8.30pm, £10, £8 concessions (includes £2 donation to The Churches Conservation Trust)

All Saints Church,

Thorpe Road,

Aldwincle,

NN14 3EA

Riverlands - a journey on the Nene

The national premiere of a performance by poet Jo Bell and storyteller Jo Blake Cave.
Inspired by their journey along the Nene in the footsteps of nature writer BB, this hour-long performance brings you atmosphere, mesmerising stories, humour and humanity.
This evening will also mark the first availability of: ALWALTON - WOLLASTON
A visual response to our journey on the Nene by Jo Dacombe and Kate Dyer.
A limited edtion will be for sale at this performance.

If event is not sold out, tickets will be available on the door.

For further information please contact:
Rosalind Stoddart
01536 370108
ros@rosalindstoddart.co.uk
www.rosalindstoddart.co.uk

CHELTENHAM: Nine Arches Poetry Jukebox

Saturday, 21st April, 2012 at 5pm, £6/£4

The Exmouth Arms,

Cheltenham

Cheltenham Poetry Festival 2012

Poetry Jukebox with Nine Arches Press: Luke Kennard, Daniel Sluman and Phil Brown

Nine Arches Press presents a poetry reading with a unique twist: the audience has a hand in choosing the themes of the poems. So prepare for work that touches on the big issues, and some of the little ones too – everything from love, death and madness to laughter, losing and being drunk...!

This promises to be a show full of surprises, with three poets who are among the most striking voices in contemporary British poetry.

http://www.cheltenhampoetryfest.co.uk/eventdetail.php?ID=31

CHELTENHAM: Grey Hen Press reading

Friday, 20th April, 2012, 2pm-3pm

The Frog and Fiddle,

313-315 High Street,

Cheltenham

Cheltenham Poetry Festival

With Alison Brackenbury, Ann Drysdale, Angela France, Joy Howard, Pat Simmons and Christine Webb.

Required reading for all ages but especially for the young-and-grumpy-in-heart. ‘This world’, say these poets, ‘is not a better place. Deal with it’, they say.  Then they show us how.  Penelope Shuttle (re Get Me Out of Here!)

Seriously good poetry…the fruit of long-life experience – brave writing, full of love and subversive wit and lyricism. R V Bailey (re Cracking On)

‘Nothing mimsy about these poems by older women. Fierce, funny, disturbing and fairly vicious. Lovely’. Michele Hanson (re A Twist of Malice)

WORCESTER: Nigel McLoughlin and Kathleen Jones

Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 7.30pm, FREE

The Lamb & Flag

30 The Tything,

Worcester,

WR1 1JL

Northern Irish poet Nigel McLaughlin and Kathleen Jones will be reading at The Lamb & Flag.

Nigel will be reading from his fifth collection, Chora, and Kathleen from her prize-winning Not Saying Goodbye at Gate 21.

In partnership with Templar Poetry

LONDON: 'A Summit Of Joyful Old Savages'

Wednesday, 18th April, 2012, 7.30pm, Tickets - £8 in advance at www.thehorsehospital.com

The Horse Hospital
Colonnade,

Bloomsbury
London

WC1N 1JD

020 7833 3644

A summit of joyful old savages: a world-premiere reading by four poets who unsettled England and freaked out America:

Anselm Hollo

Tom Raworth

Gunnar Harding

Andrei Codrescu

ALDWINCLE: Riverlands - a journey on the Nene

Saturday, April 21, and Sunday 22, 2012, 7.30pm-8.30pm, £10, £8 concessions (includes £2 donation to The Churches Conservation Trust)
All Saints Church,

Thorpe Road,

Aldwincle,

NN14 3EA

Riverlands - a journey on the Nene

The national premiere of a performance by poet Jo Bell and storyteller Jo Blake Cave.
Inspired by their journey along the Nene in the footsteps of nature writer BB, this hour-long performance brings you atmosphere, mesmerising stories, humour and humanity.
This evening will also mark the first availability of: ALWALTON - WOLLASTON
A visual response to our journey on the Nene by Jo Dacombe and Kate Dyer.
A limited edtion will be for sale at this performance.

If event is not sold out, tickets will be available on the door.

For further information please contact:
Rosalind Stoddart
01536 370108
ros@rosalindstoddart.co.uk
www.rosalindstoddart.co.uk

LONDON: Velvet Tongue

Monday, 30th April, 2012, 7pm-10.30pm, £3 (free for participants)

Bar Kick,

127 Shoreditch High Street,
London

E1 6JE  (Old St/Liverpool St tubes)

Ernesto Sarezale rededicates himself to his erotic literary soirée this spring. VELVET TONGUE will blossom again at the BAR KICK with a fresh selection of talent (and some returnees) on Monday 30th April 2012.

Featured poets:
* DZIFA BENSON (http://www.itzcaribbean.com/dzifabenson )
* DOMINIC BERRY (http://dominicberry.net/ )

Special appearances by: Sarah Berry, Becky Fury, Katie Sarra...  and plenty of open mic slots!

On facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/334413446601020/

OPEN MIC SLOTS: Bring along your sexy words and 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 risqué 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 to open mic performers.

To sign up for the 5min open mic slots, email  Ernesto:
ernesto(at)sarezale.com (or give your name on the night in case  there are any slots left)

Contact phone number: 07733263823 (Ernesto)
Email:ernesto@sarezale.com
Web: http://velvettongueuk.blogspot.com/

http://www.sarezale.com
http://www.vimeo.com/ernesto

LIVERPOOL: Dead Good Poets Society Guest Night – Rebecca Goss & Alicia Stubbersfield

Wednesday, 18th April, 2012, 7.30pm–10pm, £3/£2 pay on the door

The Garden Café,
Blackburne House,
Hope Street,
Liverpool

Alicia Stubbersfield has published three collections of poetry & her fourth, The Yellow Table, is forthcoming from Pindrop Press in 2012. As well as many other places she has run workshops for, &  read at, The Southbank Centre, & Ledbury & Aldeburgh Poetry Festivals. She frequently tutors courses for The Arvon Foundation, The Taliesin Trust at Ty Newydd & The Poetry School, & is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University. 

“These sparkling poems ring true in a shrewd, honest, lyrical voice unfurling the colours of love.”  - Robert Hamburger

“Her world is witty, moving, affectionate and gaudy yet it is a place where the brilliance of the colours is haunted by what lies in the shadows.” – Maura Dooley

Rebecca Goss began writing poetry as a teenager & was a Special Award winner in the 1991 WH Smith Young Writer’s Competition, judged by Ted Hughes. Her poems have appeared in many literary magazines & anthologies including Stand, Ambit & Magma.  The Anatomy of Structures, her first full length collection, was published by Flambard Press in 2010.  She was Highly Commended in The Forward Prize 2010 & has success in other competitions including The Bridport Prize, Mirehouse/ways with words & the Torriano Poetry Competition.  She was awarded an Authors' Foundation Grant from The Society of Authors in 2011, to assist with the completion of her next collection.

"What is remarkable about her poems is that they make the most intimate experiences of love and death both shocking and simple... It is a fine first book" - Jon Glover, Stand, Volume 10 (2), 2011

"This is Rebecca Goss’ first full collection, and it’s a startlingly good beginning. For her the poem’s the thing. When she chooses to write about imaginary situations, she still achieves the tang of truth. This is good, strong, efficient writing, accurate, economical, clear-sighted, from a woman who has her finger on the pulse of life."  - R.V. Bailey, Envoi, 157, October 2010

KINGSTON: Rhythm & Muse

Thursday, 26 April, 2012, 8.30pm 

Ram Jam Club

Kingston

Featuring guest poet Allison McVety

Winner of The Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition 2006, Allison’s collection, The Night Trotsky Came to Stay (Smith/Doorstop), was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Review, The Guardian, The Times and PN Review, have been broadcast on BBC radio and appear in the Forward anthologies 2007 and 2008 and in the Forward Poems of the Decade 2002-2011. Her second collection, Miming Happiness (Smith/Doorstop), was published in 2010 and her poem, To the Lighthouse, won the 2011 National Poetry Competition.

With music from singer-songwriter and accordionist Hannah Rose Tristram.

Singer, dancer and musician, Hannah Rose has been touring internationally with world music choirs Village Harmony and Northern Harmony from the age of ten. She is a talented mult-instrumentalist, working and playing as an accordionist, flautist, singer and poet. 

She has led regular groups including The Breath of Life Singers in West Sussex, the World Music Chorus and The Wilful Choir in London. Hannah also runs Kripalu Yoga workshops and is available for one-to-one yoga tuition. 

http://www.naturalvoice.net/pages/hannah-rose.html 

Plus open mic and the chance to submit poems and lyrics to the forthcoming R&M anthology

Email alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk to book a floorspot or for more information.

www.rhythmandmuse.org

GALWAY: Cuirt Over The Edge Showcase

LONDON: Lumen Poetry Series

Tuesday, 17th April, 2012, 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 Bill Greenwell, Will Kemp and Sue Rose.      Poets from the floor very welcome.

LONDON: Andrei Codrescu

Monday, April 16th, 2012, doors 7pm, tickets £8 from www.freewordonline.com

Free Word Centre
60 Farringdon Road
London

EC1R 3GA 

Tel: 020 7324 2570

Andrei Codrescu will read from his upcoming poetry book So Recently Rent A World: Selected Poems 1968-2012, and will talk about his work in progress, The Archived Future (with life in footnotes,) an essay about the digital future and how to live with it, and a bildungsroman about how we got here.

SOUTHAMPTON: 451

Monday, 16th April, 2012, 7pm, £5/£3 open mic
Nuffield Studio,
University Road,
Southampton
SO17 1TR
www.applesandsnakes.org / www.nuffieldtheatre.co.uk

Apples and Snakes presents 451
A bi-monthly showcase of local, national and international spoken word. Expect articulate artistry, expressive eloquence and verbal thrills’n’spills. Also open mic slots are available on the door.

LONDON: Paper Tiger Poetry

Friday, April 13th, 2012, 7.30pm

Tea House Theatre

139 Vauxhall Walk

Vauxhall

London
SE11 5HL

With Toby Davies, Lucy Leagrave, Dangerous T and Vis the Spoon!

WORCESTER: Nigel McLoughlin and Kathleen Jones

Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 7.30pm, FREE

The Lamb & Flag

30 The Tything,

Worcester,

WR1 1JL

Northern Irish poet Nigel McLaughlin and Kathleen Jones will be reading at The Lamb & Flag.

Nigel will be reading from his fifth collection, Chora, and Kathleen from her prize-winning Not Saying Goodbye at Gate 21.

In partnership with Templar Poetry

LONDON: Kathleen Jones

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012, 7.30pm, FREE

The Green Pub,

Clerkenwell Green,

London, EC1R 0DU

Tel 0207 490 8010

Templar Poetry Press poet Kathleen Jones will be reading from her new collection, Not Saying Goodbye at Gate 21.

 

CHELTENHAM: Grey Hen Press reading

Friday, 20th April, 2012, 2pm-3pm

The Frog and Fiddle,

313-315 High Street,

Cheltenham

Cheltenham Poetry Festival

With Alison Brackenbury, Ann Drysdale, Angela France, Joy Howard, Pat Simmons and Christine Webb.

Required reading for all ages but especially for the young-and-grumpy-in-heart. ‘This world’, say these poets, ‘is not a better place. Deal with it’, they say.  Then they show us how.  Penelope Shuttle (re Get Me Out of Here!)

Seriously good poetry…the fruit of long-life experience – brave writing, full of love and subversive wit and lyricism. R V Bailey (re Cracking On)

‘Nothing mimsy about these poems by older women. Fierce, funny, disturbing and fairly vicious. Lovely’. Michele Hanson (re A Twist of Malice)

LONDON: Lumen Poetry Series

Tuesday, 17th April, 2012, 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 Bill Greenwell, Will Kemp and Sue Rose.      Poets from the floor very welcome.

LONDON: 'A Summit Of Joyful Old Savages'

Wednesday, 18th April, 2012, 7.30pm, Tickets - £8 in advance at www.thehorsehospital.com

The Horse Hospital
Colonnade,

Bloomsbury
London

WC1N 1JD

020 7833 3644

A summit of joyful old savages: a world-premiere reading by four poets who unsettled England and freaked out America:

Anselm Hollo

Tom Raworth

Gunnar Harding

Andrei Codrescu

LONDON: Andrei Codrescu

Monday, April 16th, 2012, doors 7pm, tickets £8 from www.freewordonline.com

Free Word Centre
60 Farringdon Road
London

EC1R 3GA 

Tel: 020 7324 2570

Andrei Codrescu will read from his upcoming poetry book So Recently Rent A World: Selected Poems 1968-2012, and will talk about his work in progress, The Archived Future (with life in footnotes,) an essay about the digital future and how to live with it, and a bildungsroman about how we got here.

LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT

Monday, 9th April, 2012, 7.30pm, £3/£2

The Sozzled Sausage,

Leamingon Spa

CV32 4N

This month's guest poet is the outstandingly talented Martin Daws

An electrifying poet whose live sets blend free musicality and innovative lyricism in a unique improvised theatre, Martin Daws’ work explores life, nature and who the hell we think we are, anyway! Martin’s poetry shows a rare breadth of style and voice, and he has  been introduced to an audience as ‘a thoroughly nice man’.

Martin is a double Farrago Slam Champ, and has been runner-up in both the Glastonbury Festival Slam and the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry. He received a coveted five star review on debut at the Edinburgh Festival (2008) and is the author of the acclaimed book/cd 'Skin Tight the Sidewalk'

Broadcast on numerous occasions, Martin has published in international journals, and performed extensively around the UK and Ireland. His musical collaborations with Electro-Acoustic Composer Rob Mackay have toured internationally, taking video of Martin in performance and recordings of his voice to multi-media performances in 4 continents.

'One of the UK's Top Performance Poets'

(Square Magazine)

If you would like to know more about the night, please email pgrpoetry@gmail.com 

http://pgrpoetry.blogspot.com

LONDON: Paper Tiger Poetry

Friday, April 13th, 2012, 7.30pm

Tea House Theatre

139 Vauxhall Walk

Vauxhall

London
SE11 5HL

With Toby Davies, Lucy Leagrave, Dangerous T and Vis the Spoon!

LONDON: Tokens for Foundlings

Saturday, 14th April, 2012, 2pm-3pm
Foundling Museum,
40 Brunswick Square,
London

WC1N 1AZ

020 7841 3600
enquiries@foundlingmuseum.org.uk
Free with Museum admission (£7.50, £5 concessions, children free), but booking required.

Join us for a poetry reading and help us celebrate the launch of the Foundling Museum’s new poetry anthology, Tokens for the Foundlings. It is an anthology of poems about orphans, childhood and family inspired by and supporting the work of the Foundling Museum.

Edited by Tony Curtis, foreword by Daisy Goodwin, contributors include many of the finest poets from the Britain, Ireland and the USA. This includes Dannie Abse, Jane Clarke, Lynette Craig, Tony Curtis, Carol Ann Duffy, Helen Dunmore, Seamus Heaney, Crystal Jeans, Mimi Khalvati, Rosie Sheppherd, George Szirtes and many more.

www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk

COVENTRY: Nightblue Fruit, with Michael McKimm