Cambridge: CB1 at Michaelhouse

Tuesday 14th October 2008

The new series of poetry readings at Michaelhouse in Cambridge is launched by the award winning poet Hugo Williams.He will be supported by up the poet Rhian Edwards.
Event starts at 8pm, (doors open at 7.30pm). There will be a short open mike before the readings. There is disability access and a hearing loop available.
Come and support Poetry in Cambridge and meet other poetry-minded people. There is a bar and coffee available.
For more information visit www.cb1poetry.org.uk

Cambridge: BROKEN WORD

next show is on Sunday JULY 13
5.45 doors open (6-8pm)
@ CB1 Internet Cafe Mill Road
Cambridge CB1

BROKEN WORD is a fortnightly live literature & music event

with stand-up poet Magic Phil as MCManic street preacher Alex Iamb Local poet/rapper Hollie, Radio 209's Patrick Widdessplus, Open Floor Spots for spoken word with Musical Accompaniment from "Ban 'Jo"& local singer songwriters

Cambridge: Isobel Dixon and Simon Barraclough‏

Tuesday, 15 July 2008,
8.00pm, £3/2 on the door
Anthony Low Building, Clare Hall

Clare Hall Literary Society presents
Summer Reading Series: Isobel Dixon and Simon Barraclough

Is the heat getting to you? Feeling deprived of poetry over these long, sultry summer months? The Clare Hall Literary Society presents a reading by two poets whose recent collections have set the UK publishing world ablaze, a reading which promises to fight fire with more fire. Isobel Dixon, author of ‘A Fold in the Map’ (Salt, 2007), and Simon Barraclough, author of ‘Los Alamos Mon Amour’ (Salt, 2008), will be reading from their work; introductions to each poet by Helen Mort and Melanie Challenger. Cash bar available, any questions to Benjamin Morris at bam32@cam.ac.uk.

Cambridge: Broken Word

JUNE 29
5.45 doors open (6-8pm)
CB1 Internet Cafe
Mill Road Cambridge CB1

BROKEN WORD is a fortnightly live literature & music event, this Sunday with:

stand-up poet Magic Phil as MC, Manic street preacher Alex Iamb, Local poet/rapper Hollie, Radio 209's Patrick Widdess plus Open Floor Spots for spoken word with Musical Accompaniment from "Ban 'Jo"Jeff Houghton & local singer songwriters

CAMBRIDGE: CB1 Poetry

13 May 2008
8pm £5 / £3 conc.
Michaelhouse
Trinity Street
Cambridge CB2 1SU

Readings from Susan Utting (Peterloo Poetry Prize Winner 2007, Poetry Business prize, Forward Best Single Poem commendation) and Will Stone. Plus short floor spots, books for sale and licensed bar.

CB1 readings take place on the second Tuesday of each month at Michaelhouse.
www.cb1poetry.org.uk

CAMBRIDGE: CB1 Poetry

13 May 2008
8pm £5 / £3 conc.
Michaelhouse
Trinity Street
Cambridge CB2 1SU

Readings from Susan Utting (Peterloo Poetry Prize Winner 2007, Poetry Business prize, Forward Best Single Poem commendation) and Will Stone. Plus short floor spots, books for sale and licensed bar.

CB1 readings take place on the second Tuesday of each month at Michaelhouse.
www.cb1poetry.org.uk

Brian Turner at Michaelhouse, Cambridge, TONIGHT!

Reading by Brian Turner, Tuesday 25th March, Michaelhouse

Tuesday, March 25, 2008
7:45pm - 10:00pm
Michaelhouse Cafe, Trinity Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom

CB1 Poetry is pleased to announce a special additional event on Tuesday 25th March at 8pm at the Michaelhouse. This is the day after Easter Monday and five days after the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. We have been lucky enough to secure a reading by the American poet Brian Turner, who is on a limited tour of the UK - this will be his only reading in East Anglia.

Brian Turner’s poetry collection, Here, Bullet has recently been published in this country by Bloodaxe Press. Brian was a soldier for several years and spent a year as a team leader with an infantry unit in Iraq. His collection is unique in its exploration of what life in the middle of such a conflict is like for both the ordinary soldier and civilians.

This collection has won several prestigious awards in the States and Sarah Crown, when reviewing the collection in The Guardian, said:

"Turner proves himself an ideal chronicler, eloquent and detached. Above all, he affords dignity to the participants through acknowledgment of their individuality, giving names, recognising relationships, delineating histories. The power of this collection extends far beyond its harrowing subject-matter."

The New York Times Book Review said:

"The day of the first moonwalk, my father's college literature professor told his class, ‘Someday they'll send a poet, and we'll find out what it's really like.’ Turner has sent back a dispatch from a place arguably more incomprehensible than the moon—the war in Iraq—and deserves our thanks..."

A Q&A session after the reading will give you the opportunity to put your questions to this exceptional poet and discover some more of the background to his unique work. For more information about Brian Turner's work, please visit www.blueflowerarts.com/bturner.html

N.B. As this is an extra event unfortunately we are unable to offer concessions at this reading, so all tickets will be £5

Guest Poets & Open Mic in Cambridge at CB1: Tuesday March 11th

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
7:30pm - 10:30pm
Michaelhouse Cafe, Trinity Street, Cambridge

Email: cb1poetry@fastmail.fm

Matthew Caley's first collection Thirst, described by Time out as "a joy, comic, witty, even touchingly poignant", was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The work has been acclaimed as offering "stunning invention and remarkable versatility" (Sophie Hannah), "shaped and honed to a mosaic brilliance" (Ken Smith). His latest collection, The Scene Of My Former Triumph (Wrecking Ball, 2005) has received highly enthusiastic reviews, with Poetry London calling it "drop dead brilliant" and Magma commending that "from the first page to the last the book crackles with linguistic invention".

Rychard Carrington is well known in Cambridge for his highly inventive poetry and at times outlandish readings. Expect a distinctive, by turns wry and by turns challenging performance from a writer who sums himself up like this: 'Rychard Carrington is ninety per cent water. He has written poems in the morning, in the evening, and occasionally in the afternoon. His work is popular in the north and south, but less so in the east and west.'

The event also features short poem floor spots, books for sale and a licensed bar. Doors open at 7:30pm, come early to sign up for open mic. £5 / £3 entry fee

TONIGHT: Richard Osmond (Foyle Young Poet of the Year 2005) at CB1 Poetry Cafe

CB1 Open Mic featuring Richard Osmond

New poetry at CB1 cafe, Mill Road, Cambridge
Tuesday, February 26th
7:45pm - 10:00pm

The fourth in our popular open mic series features a guest slot from Cambridge poet Richard Osmond.

Richard was a winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award in 2005, and since then he has performed his poetry at events New Blood and Broadcast at the Poetry Cafe in London. He has also been published in online 'zines 'Don't Panic', and 'Pomegranate'. He is 20 years old and currently reading English at Queens' College.

OPEN MIC:
Open mic starts at 8pm and the most voted for poem on the night wins a prize. Come at 7.45 to sign up, £3 / £2 entry.

CB1 Cafe: Guest Poets & Open Mic in Cambridge

Frances Leviston and Simon Pomery at Michaelhouse, Cambridge

CB1 Poetry presents two exciting new voices on the British poetry scene.

CB1 Poetry
Tuesday, February 12th
7:30pm - 10:30pm
Michaelhouse Cafe
Trinity Street
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Frances Leviston was born in Edinburgh in 1982, and grew up in Sheffield. She read English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and has an MA in Writing from Sheffield Hallam University. Her pamphlet Lighter (Mews Press) was the Pamphlet Choice in the PBS Bulletin of Spring 2005, and her poems have appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry London, British Council/Granta’s New Writing 14, and the TLS. She received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2006, and her first collection, Public Dream (Picador) was recently shortlisted for the 2007 T S Eliot Prize.

Simon Pomery was born in Galway, Ireland, and grew up in the Peak District, Derbyshire. He studied English at the University of Leeds, where he won the Alison Moreland Prize for Poetry, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he won a Brewer Hall prize. His poems have been published in various magazines including Agenda, Poetry London, P.N. Review and Tower Poetry.

The event also features short poem floor spots, books for sale and a licensed bar. Doors open at 7:30pm. £5 / £3 entry.

www.cb1poetry.org.uk

Open Mic at CB1: this Tuesday

Open Mic @ CB1

Brand new poetry in Cambridge this Tuesday

CB1 Poetry
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
7:45pm - 10:00pm
CB1 cafe
32 Mill Road
Cambridge, United Kingdom

After some excellent performances from old and new faces last year, CB1 Poetry invites you to the first open mic of 2008: a chance to read your work in a relaxed atmosphere, or just come and listen with a cup of coffee. Most voted for poem on the night wins a prize!

Subject to confirmation, there'll be a guest reading from CB1 regular and designer of our new website, Ian Cartland. Ian's poems are both playful and thought-provoking, drawing much of their inspiration from the work of Peter Redgrove. His eye for detail and the ambiguities of language make the poems sharp, witty and engaging; you can hear them from 8pm on Tuesday.

Come at 7.45pm to sign up for open mic slots.

£3 / £2 concessions

www.cb1poetry.org.uk

Matthew Hollis at the Michaelhouse Cafe, Cambridge

CB1 Poetry at the Michaelhouse Cafe

Tonight, Tuesday January 8th
7.30 - 10.30pm
Michaelhouse Cafe, Trinity Street, Cambridge

Matthew Hollis was born in Norwich in 1971. Ground Water (Bloodaxe 2004), his first full-length collection, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He published a pamphlet, The Boy on the Edge of Happiness, with Smith/Doorstop in 1996 and won an Eric Gregory Award in 1999.

He is co-editor of 101 Poems Against War (Faber, 2003) and Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry (Bloodaxe, 2000), and works as an editor at Faber and Faber. He is Writer-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust. Visit his website at www.matthewhollis.com

Emily Dening was born in London and lives in Cambridge. Her poems have been published in a number of poetry journals, and her poem Curtains was runner up in the 2005 Mslexia poetry competition. Dening's first pamphlet, A Stash of Gin (Mainsail Press) is published in January 2008.

The event also features short poem floor spots, books for sale and a licensed bar. Doors open at 7:30pm.

www.cb1poetry.org.uk

CB1 Poetry: Tuesday 11th December

CB1 Poetry at Michaelhouse

Tuesday 11th December 2007
8 - 10pm
Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1SU
£5 / £3 concessions

Live poetry readings from Esther Morgan, Joanne Limburg & Helen Ivory (Eric Gregory winners, Aldeburgh best first collection / Forward prize shortlist / Poetry Archive Editor).

Visit www.cb1poetry.org.uk - part of a major new series of city centre readings with well-known guest poets, each event will feature short floor spots, books for sale and a licensed bar, as well as support readings from rising stars of the Cambridge and UK poetry scene.

Events start at 8pm (floor spot sign up by 7:45).
Contact Name: Ian Cartland
Contact Telephone: 07985 708422
Contact Email: cb1poetry@fastmail.fm
Website: www.cb1poetry.org.uk

Kettle's Yard Anthology Launch: TONIGHT, Friday 30th November

A ROOM TO LIVE IN: A Kettle’s Yard Anthology

LAUNCH EVENING
FRIDAY 30 NOVEMBER 6.30pm
Free - everyone welcome

With readings by Ian Patterson and Sharon Morris and music by Anton Lukoszevieze.

To celebrate the first 50 years of Kettle's Yard, Salt is publishing an anthology of new poetry and prose featuring thirty of our best writers, edited by poet Tamar Yoseloff.

Friday, November 30, 2007
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Phone: 4401223352124
Email: mail@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk

Contributors include: Alan Bennett, Anne Berkeley, Meredith Bowles, Richard Burns, Michael Bywater, Clare Crossman, Tony Curtis, Fred D'Aguiar, Jane Duran, Elaine Feinstein, John Greening, David Hare, Jeremy Hooker, Sue Hubbard, Martha Kapos, John Kinsella, Rod Mengham, John Mole, Sharon Morris, Ruth Padel, Ian Patterson, Jacob Polley, Andrea Porter, Lawrence Sail, Fiona Sampson, Sarah Skinner, Ali Smith, Robert Vas Dias, Susan Watson, Neil Wenborn, Tamar Yoseloff.

"You know those dreams where a door opens into further rooms in a familiar house, rooms you never knew were there? Kettle's Yard opens up like that, and so does this anthology in its honour. Freedom, intimacy, space and the unexpected are all realised in the poems and reflections. The book is filled with pleasure" — Dame Gillian Beer

Published in hardback 30 November 2007
12.99 GBP
ISBN 978-1-84471-420-9

Tall Lighthouse in Cambridge: Tuesday November 20th

Tall Lighthouse Poetry @ the Picturehouse

Featuring Adam O'Riordan with support from Neil Singh and Benjamin Morris

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Arts Picturehouse, 38-39 St Andrews Street, Cambridge, UK

Tall lighthouse presents one of the most exciting emerging talents in performance supported by two up and coming Cambridge poets....

Adam O'Riordan was born in Manchester. He read English at Oxford University and studied poetry under Michael Donaghy. Later, he won a scholarship to study under Andrew Motion at the University of London where he was awarded the inaugural Peters Fraser and Dunlop poetry prize. His first pamphlet 'queen of the cotton cities' was released to wide acclaim earlier this year.

A native of Mississippi, Benjamin Morris is a PhD student at Cambridge. In 2005 he earned a master's in poetry from the University of Edinburgh; his work has appeared in such publications as Seam, Chapman, Poetry
Southeast, The Independent on Sunday, and the Mays Anthology, and earned such honours as a Pushcart nomination and a Commendation in the National
Poetry Competition. In 2006 he won both the Brewer Hall Prize and the Chancellor's Medal for Poetry at Cambridge.

Neil Singh is a student doctor who has read his poetry alongside major writers including Simon Armitage, Jacob Polley and Carol Ann Duffy. Some of his poems appear in The Mays Anthology 2007 and The National Poetry Anthology 2008. He is currently writing a collection of poetry on the theme of health and disease.

There will be a short open mic slot at the start of the event, come early to sign up.
Voluntary contribution £3 / £2
www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk

Tall Lighthouse in Cambridge: Tuesday November 20th

Tall Lighthouse Poetry @ the Picturehouse

Featuring Adam O'Riordan with support from Neil Singh and Benjamin Morris

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Arts Picturehouse, 38-39 St Andrews Street, Cambridge, UK

Tall lighthouse presents one of the most exciting emerging talents in performance supported by two up and coming Cambridge poets....

Adam O'Riordan was born in Manchester. He read English at Oxford University and studied poetry under Michael Donaghy. Later, he won a scholarship to study under Andrew Motion at the University of London where he was awarded the inaugural Peters Fraser and Dunlop poetry prize. His first pamphlet 'queen of the cotton cities' was released to wide acclaim earlier this year.

A native of Mississippi, Benjamin Morris is a PhD student at Cambridge. In 2005 he earned a master's in poetry from the University of Edinburgh; his work has appeared in such publications as Seam, Chapman, Poetry
Southeast, The Independent on Sunday, and the Mays Anthology, and earned such honours as a Pushcart nomination and a Commendation in the National
Poetry Competition. In 2006 he won both the Brewer Hall Prize and the Chancellor's Medal for Poetry at Cambridge.

Neil Singh is a student doctor who has read his poetry alongside major writers including Simon Armitage, Jacob Polley and Carol Ann Duffy. Some of his poems appear in The Mays Anthology 2007 and The National Poetry Anthology 2008. He is currently writing a collection of poetry on the theme of health and disease.

There will be a short open mic slot at the start of the event, come early to sign up.
Voluntary contribution £3 / £2
www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk

CB1 Poetry with Michael Laskey: Tuesday November 13th

CB1 Poetry
Tuesday November 13th
7.30pm - 10pm
Michaelhouse Cafe, Trinity Street, Cambridge


This popular Cambridge poetry events boasts two guest readers, this month Michael Laskey and Andrea Holland. The event also features short poem floor spots, books for sale and a licensed bar. Doors open at 7:30pm.

www.cb1poetry.org.uk

Cambridge Open Mic: Tuesday 23rd October

CB1 Poetry Night

Our next event is this coming Tuesday, 23rd October, at CB1 Cafe on Mill Road, Cambridge. Patrick Widdess will be giving readings as our featured local poet, and there will be plenty of opportunity for open mike readers, with a vote and prize for the most popular poem.

Entry is £3/£2 concessions; please arrive in good time for readings to start at 8pm sharp -- sign up is at 7:45 for open mike slots.

All CB1 Cafe events are on the fourth Tuesday of the month, hence on the 23rd this month. Our next event after that is on the 13th of November with Michael Laskey at the Michaelhouse.

Patrick Widdess did his first reading at CB1 in 2001 shortly after graduating from Liverpool John Moores with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. Following this he spent many years living abroad, teaching English as a foreign language; resurfacing from time to time in Cambridge and at CB1.

Tobias Hill at CB1, plus Open Mic: Tuesday 9th October

Tobias Hill: Cambridge CB1 Poetry at Michaelhouse

Tuesday 9th October
8pm

Well-known and popular Salt poet Tobias Hill reads at CB1 poetry event plus guest support and open floor spots. Come along to listen and bring your own poems to read.

Please note the new venue for CB1: Michaelhouse, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1SU.
Entrance ?5/?3.
Contact Ian Cartland 07985 708422

Tobias Hill at CB1 with Open Mic: Tuesday October 9th

Cambridge CB1 Poetry at Michaelhouse

Tuesday 9th October
8pm

Well-known and popular Salt poet Tobias Hill reads at CB1 poetry event plus guest support and open floor spots. Come along to listen and bring your own poems to read.

Please note the new venue for CB1: Michaelhouse, Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1SU.
Entrance ?5/?3.
Contact Ian Cartland 07985 708422