LONDON: Jazz Verse Jukebox

Sunday, 14th April, 2013, doors open 6.30pm, show from 7.30pm, £8

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

On Sunday 14th April 2013, the Jazz Verse Jukebox celebrates its FOURTH anniversary with special guests including pioneer of hip hop theatre & Leicester B-boy John Berkavitch; poet, film-maker, jazz/hip hop practitioner HKB FiNN; poet and award-winning screenwriter E Amato; poet and theatre-maker Siddhartha Bose and ‘queen of the spoken word and live music scene’ FLOetic Lara.

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 a live jazz trio and open mic, cushions to lunge on, cocktails to imbibe & surprises, this 4th birthday is one night not to miss!

Jukebox Open Mic

Come & sing with the amazing Jazz Verse Jukebox trio (Simon Wallace - Piano / Oli Hayhurst - Bass/ Winston Clifford-Drums) or perform some poetry.

Special Guests

John Berkavitch / HKB Finn / Siddhartha Bose / E. Amato / FLOetic Lara 

Compered by and with music from Jumoké Fashola

www.jumokefashola.com

LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT

Monday, April 8th, 2013, 7.30pm, £3 (£2 student/OAP)

The Sozzled Sausage,

Leamington Spa

CV32 4NX

Every second Monday of the month except December. 

This month's special guest poet is the amazing Ash Dickinson. Multiple slam champion Ash has performed in the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Spain and Jordan and has headlined and featured at shows throughout the UK. His long-overdue debut collection, Slinky Espadrilles was published in 2012.

DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED! 

With open mic support from…….yes……YOU!

From time to time we are located upstairs, so please let us know if you require disabled access before the event. 

If you would like to know more about the niht email: pgrpoetry@gmail.com 

GALWAY: March Over The Edge Open Reading

Thursday, March 28th, 2013, 6.30-8pm, FREE

Galway City Library

The Featured Readers are Colm Keegan, Yvonne McEvaddy and Pat McDonnell. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are especially welcome.

Pat McDonnell works at NUI Galway. He has been writing for some years and was an early attender at Over The Edge readings back in 2003. He is also an accomplished musician and regularly participates in sessions at the Crane Bar. Pat writes mostly fiction and has been a participant in creative writing classes, facilitated by Susan Millar DuMars at Galway Technical Institute.

Yvonne McEvaddy lives in Headford. She is the author of two novels, Passion Killer and Shadows of the Dead. She was long-listed in the 2012 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year competition.  She took part in the first ever short story compiled by tweets, found at: http://www.eastcoast.co.uk/shortcrimestory. Yvonne is a member of the Java Writers, who, before Christmas, published Infusions, an anthology of their work. She recently collaborated with a group of writers from around the globe to write an ebook called 8 Slices of Cake. She is currently working on her third novel, and a children’s book.

Colm Keegan has read and performed his poetry at various festivals, including the Flat Lakes Festival, Electric Picnic and the Festival of World Cultures. He was the All Ireland Slam Poetry Champion in 2010. He also writes short stories and screenplays and has been shortlisted four times for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award for both poetry and fiction. In 2008 he was shortlisted for the International Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition. In 2011 he was nominated for the Absolut Fringe’s ‘Little Gem’ Award for the play Three Men Talking About Things They Kinda Know About (co-written with Kalle Ryan and Stephen James Smith) which is touring 2012/2013.  He is a poetry/arts reviewer and contributing poet for RTE Radio One’s nightly arts show ARENA and co-founder of ‘Nighthawks at the Cobalt’. He is co-founder and facilitator of Inklinks, a young writers club in Clondalkin and teaches creative writing in secondary schools across Ireland. He maintains a popular blog and his poetry performances are widely viewed on YouTube. He is currently finishing his first novel. Colm’s debut collection of poetry, Don’t Go There, was published last year by Salmon Poetry.

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

EDINBURGH: Bletherskites!

EDINBURGH: Inky Fingers Open Mic

LONDON: Camden Poetry Series

Friday, 5th April 2013, 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 Ward Wood poets Sue Guiney and Peter Phillips.

                                                    

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

GALWAY: Susan Millar DuMars launch

Saturday, March 23rd, 2013, 2pm, FREE

Galway City Museum

Salmon Poetry invites you to the Galway launch of The God Thing, the new collection of poetry by Susan Millar DuMars. The book will be launched by Reverend Canon Maureen Ryan. Everyone is welcome.  

Maureen Ryan has lived most of her adult life in Galway. She has published two novels and over 400 academic papers, essays, sermons, meditations and reflections. She is a psychologist, a Priest in the Church of Ireland and a Canon in the National Cathedral of St. Patrick’s, Dublin.

In The God Thing, Susan Millar DuMars writes with compassion and clarity about the terminal illness and death of a family member, and her own resulting struggle to keep faith and love alive within herself.  The poems question and rage, and find unexpected moments of humour and buoyancy.  DuMars looks for God in the stories of the Bible’s women; in the transcendent paintings of Matisse and the soulful images of Hopper; in the transience of cities, the memory of mountains, the freedom of water and the spilt sugar stars in the sky.  An excavation of grief which unearths, if not the Divine, then hope – as necessary and fragile as our next breath.

For more about The God Thing http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=286&a=39

BATH: Whistle, by Martin Figura

Wednesday, 20th March, 2013, 8pm, £12 (£10 concessions)

The Rondo Theatre

St Saviour’s Road

Larkhall

Bath

BA1 6RT

Whistle

Written and performed by Martin Figura

When the poet and photographer Martin Figura was nine years old, his father murdered his mother. This shocking event is at the heart of his powerful one-man show ‘Whistle’, but it is by no means the whole story.  

Set against a backdrop of family photographs, letters and documents, Whistle’ is a tour de force of poetry in performance. Martin Figura eloquently transcends the tragic details to deliver a coming of age story that is funny, moving and uplifting in equal measure. 

“Profoundly honest and at the same time joyfully entertaining” Independent on Sunday

“Martin Figura's riveting sequence of poems about his childhood, his father killing his mother, and the consequences of that upon the whole family is remarkable” Jackie Kay


Available from Bath Box Office. Tel: 01225 463362
www.bathboxoffice.org.uk  

GALWAY: March Over The Edge Open Reading

Thursday, March 28th, 2013, 6.30-8pm, FREE

Galway City Library

The Featured Readers are Colm Keegan, Yvonne McEvaddy and Pat McDonnell. There will as usual be an open-mic after the Featured Readers have finished. New readers are especially welcome.

Pat McDonnell works at NUI Galway. He has been writing for some years and was an early attender at Over The Edge readings back in 2003. He is also an accomplished musician and regularly participates in sessions at the Crane Bar. Pat writes mostly fiction and has been a participant in creative writing classes, facilitated by Susan Millar DuMars at Galway Technical Institute.

Yvonne McEvaddy lives in Headford. She is the author of two novels, Passion Killer and Shadows of the Dead. She was long-listed in the 2012 Over the Edge New Writer of the Year competition.  She took part in the first ever short story compiled by tweets, found at: http://www.eastcoast.co.uk/shortcrimestory. Yvonne is a member of the Java Writers, who, before Christmas, published Infusions, an anthology of their work. She recently collaborated with a group of writers from around the globe to write an ebook called 8 Slices of Cake. She is currently working on her third novel, and a children’s book.

Colm Keegan has read and performed his poetry at various festivals, including the Flat Lakes Festival, Electric Picnic and the Festival of World Cultures. He was the All Ireland Slam Poetry Champion in 2010. He also writes short stories and screenplays and has been shortlisted four times for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award for both poetry and fiction. In 2008 he was shortlisted for the International Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition. In 2011 he was nominated for the Absolut Fringe’s ‘Little Gem’ Award for the play Three Men Talking About Things They Kinda Know About (co-written with Kalle Ryan and Stephen James Smith) which is touring 2012/2013.  He is a poetry/arts reviewer and contributing poet for RTE Radio One’s nightly arts show ARENA and co-founder of ‘Nighthawks at the Cobalt’. He is co-founder and facilitator of Inklinks, a young writers club in Clondalkin and teaches creative writing in secondary schools across Ireland. He maintains a popular blog and his poetry performances are widely viewed on YouTube. He is currently finishing his first novel. Colm’s debut collection of poetry, Don’t Go There, was published last year by Salmon Poetry.

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

LONDON: Lumen Poetry Series

Tuesday, March 19th 2013, doors open 6.30 for 7pm, £5/£4, WINE

LUMEN

88 Tavistock Place

WC1

Tubes: Russell Square , Kings Cross, St Pancras

Ruth O'Callaghan presents Gillian Allnut, Elaine Feinstein, Fiona Sampson. Poets from the floor very welcome. Please leave the poem you read to be considered for the next anthology. 

EDINBURGH: Rally and Broad

Friday, 15th March, 2013, doors 7.30pm, cabaret 8pm-11pm, dancing until 1am, £5

The Counting House,

West Nicholson Street,

Edinburgh

Featuring...

Writer and critic MIRIAM GAMBLE

The anti-folk lyricism of LACH

COLIN MCGUIRE: The inimitable (no: really) spoken word stylings of Glasgow-born bard.

BENOFFICIAL: Tiger suits, tunes, random acts of kindness. Poetry of its own kind…

Introducing: MIKO KOKO, a new spoken word act currently making folks sit up and listen on the Edinburgh poetry scene.

Plus: MORE MUSIC TBA!!