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

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

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

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.