Open Mic Platform in Birmingham THIS AFTERNOON: Sunday 29th July

Sunday XPress in Digbeth, Birmingham

"FREE roast potatoes at the Sunday Xpress!!"

Come down to the Market Tavern, Moseley Street, Digbeth, from 2pm-6pm this
Sunday and every last Sunday of the month, and prepare yourself for some of
the best underground oddities Birmingham has to offer.

All open mic - all styles, abilities, artforms and experiments encouraged.

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Tamsin Kendrick in Galway: Wednesday 18th & Friday 20th July

Tamsin Kendrick returns to Galway
at the invitation of North Beach Poetry Nights
ON WEDNESDAY 18th July at 9pm

Also: Last Open-Mic before the Slam returns in August!

BK's Winebar, Spanish Parade, Galway
Admission: 5 Euro

Poet and performer Tamsin Kendrick from London made a brief appearance at Over the Edge in November '06 and then went on to blow every one away at The Voice and Verse evening in the Crane. This is your chance to catch up with her and see for yourself.

Tamsin will also be the guest poet at
Friday Lunchtime Readings in Galway City Museum
on Friday 20th July at 1pm.

Info: John Walsh @593290

Freedom Showcase at Leicester: Thursday 19th July

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Worcester SpeakEasy: Tuesday July 14th

Worcester SpeakEasy changes venues

The next Worcester SpeakEasy experience is due to take place on Tuesday the 24th of July at The Plough in Fish Street, Worcester starting at about 7.30pm.

All are welcome FOR FREE to either come and soak in the athmosphere or even to get up and perform themselves. It's a date for your diary!

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BIG WORD, EDINBURGH: Thursday 19th July

THE BIG WORD - END OF SEASON

Thursday 19th July
@ The Jazz Bar, Chambers St, Edinburgh.
Doors 8.30 - show 9-11pm
£4/3 concs.

Featuring: Aisle 16-er ROSS SUTHERLAND, Slam winners Robin Cairns & Nic E Melville, GRAEME HAWLEY, newcomer Drew Taylor & music from HAZEL MORRISON
Hosted by Jenny Lindsay

The annual chaos and influx of 'artistes' and fashionable bohemians into the Scottish capital is nigh upon us! THE BIG WORD ends its season before it becomes impossible to rent a venue for less than ten million thousand pints of virgins blood...

Come celebrate the end of a great season, which has seen a truly brilliant change of venue, some of the best performance poets in Britain, a guarantee of funding for another season, and a heated Summer Slam! (The Big Word uses the word 'summer' ironically, and in denial of the fact that June is the wettest month on record. Every single year.)

ROSS SUTHERLAND, from 'poetry boyband' Aisle 16. Also featuring are NIC E MELVILLE & ROBIN CAIRNS, GRAEME HAWLEY, DREW TAYLOR, and HAZEL MORRISON!

SHORTFUSE: Last Show of the Season

Shortfuse: Last Show of the Season

Thursday 19th July

Nathan Penlington hosts a feature length performance from the forthcoming
Edinburgh Fringe show by the other star of 'Fist of Fun' and 'This morning
with Richard not Judy' Stewart Lee. Plus American poet Jamie Kilstein, and
the fantastic troubadour poet and comedian A.F. Harrold.

SHORTFUSE returns
on 13th September 2007.

With Resident Host:
NATHAN PENLINGTON-
'A natural performer, witty, inventive, stylish and original' - Rob Newman
'The best qualified performance poet in the country' - BBC Radio 3, The Verb

Every Thursday @ The Camden Head, Camden Walk, Islington, London, N1
Tube: Angel.
Doors: 8.30pm. Admission: £5 waged / £3 concessions.

Westside Arts Fest. Open Mic: Wednesday 25th July

Westside Arts Festival presents the 2007 Over The Edge Summer Open-Mic

Readings by Margaret Cullagh, Susan Millar DuMars & Kevin Higgins will open the Westside Arts Festival/Over The Edge Summer Open-Mic at Westside Library, Seamus Quirke Road, on Wednesday 25th July at 7pm.

Susan Millar DuMars will MC the event. Anyone who has a poem or story they want to share is welcome to take part. Each reader will have a three minute slot; but there is no limit on the number of readers. If you come along and sign up for the open-mike, you will definitely get to read.

Date/Time: Wednesday 25th July, 7pm
Venue: Westside Library

For details contact 087-6431748

Over The Edge acknowledges the financial support of Galway City Council and The Arts Council. overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com

Elvis McGonagall at PUREandGOODandRIGHT: TONIGHT, Sunday 15th July, in Leamington Spa

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Freedom Showcase, Leicester: Thursday 19th July

THE FREEDOM SHOWCASE
Thursday 19th July, 7.30pm
Phoenix Arts, Leicester
Tickets: £7 / £5 concession
Box Office: 0116 2554854

"A fantastic night of lyrical genius, dynamic vocal dexterity and mesmerising oral eloquence. Featuring nine talented writers and performers sharing their personal visions of 'Freedom' in poetry, rap monologue and comedy. An exciting experience of cutting edge spoken word at its very best.

2007 is the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Slave Trade by Parliament throughout the former British Empire. The country as a whole commemorates this significant moment in history."

www.myspace.com/freedomshowcase

Award Winners and New Salt Poets at the Poetry Cafe: Friday 20th July

Friday 20th July
Poetry Studio, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden London
(Holborn or Covent Garden tube)
7.30-9pm
£5 entry

Philip Nikolayev - author of the collections Letters from Aldenderry (Salt) and Monkey Time (Verse Prize winner), and editor of Fulcrum. http://www.myspace.com/nikolayev - will be reading at the Poetry Cafe next Friday.

Plus short readings from six other poets!

Three poets whose first collections are forthcoming from Salt: Simon Barraclough, Isobel Dixon and Mark Waldron, plus renowned London-based poets Annie Freud, Roddy Lumsden and Tim Wells.

Port Eliot Lit Fest, Cornwall: 20th - 22nd July

Lit Fest in Cornwall

Next weekend

The fifth Port Eliot Lit Fest, at Port Eliot, Saltash, Cornwall, takes place next week from Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd July.

The organisers have discovered ‘a host of eclectic, fresh, exciting new poets who are completely turning the art on its head’, and amongst others, you can now see the likes of Matt Harvey, Murray Lachlan Young and Aisle 16 on stage with self-styled Poet Laureate Luke Wright down there in sunny Saltash. There will also be a live 'seance' with spiritualist Margo Forbes. What more could you ask?

Find out more at http://www.porteliotlitfest.com

Summer Festival Open Mic in Galway: Wednesday 25th July

The Westside Arts Festival presents the 2007 Over The Edge Summer Open Mic

Readings by Margaret Cullagh, Susan Millar DuMars & Kevin Higgins will open the Westside Arts Festival/Over The Edge Summer Open Mic on Wednesday 25th July at 7pm. Susan Millar DuMars will MC the event. Anyone who has a poem or story they want to share is welcome to take part. Each reader will have a three minute slot; but there is no limit on the number of readers. If you come along and sign up for the open mic, you will definitely get to read.

Venue: Westside Library
Date/Time: Wednesday 25th July, 7pm
For details contact 087-6431748

Over The Edge acknowledges the financial support of Galway City Council and The Arts Council

http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com

Wordplay in Brighton: TONIGHT Wednesday 11th July

SHARON LEWIS PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS

Wednesday 11th July
Time: 7.45pm

Wordplay evening with music, hip hop, rap and poetry, fun cabaret night ...

The Sanctuary Cafe
Brunswick Street East
BRIGHTON
£5 entrance fee

Big Mouth Poetry Tent: 14th and 15th July

Big Mouth Poetry Tent @ Ashton Court Festival
Saturday 14th and Sun 15th July

Featuring BIG poets and showcasing new local talent too. Plus top music acts! More next newsletter.

www.ashtoncourtfestival.com

Over the Edge in Galway: this Friday 13th July

Over The Edge in Galway presents a reading by Eamonn Wall, Celeste Auge & Michael O’Loughlin, plus the Galway launch of Trio, a collection showcasing Limerick poets, Noel Harrington, Ger Sheehy and Edward O’Dwyer.

Sheridan’s Wine Bar, 14-16 Church Yard Street, Galway on Friday, July 13th, 8pm. There is no entrance fee. All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748.

Over The Edge acknowledges the financial support of the Arts Council and Galway City Council. www.overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com

Farrago Slam, London: Wednesday, 18th July

The FARRAGO SCHOOL'S (almost) OUT SLAM!

Wednesday, 18th July, 7:30pm.
@ RADA Foyer Bar, Malet St, WC1. Goodge St Tube.
Multi-map location

Open to ANY poet SLAM! Any subject or style, read or perform.

Features: Vanessa Christain, AF Harrold, David Hill, Michelle Hubbard, Valeria Melchioretto, Maiden Speech & Under Da Poetree.

Emcee: John Paul O'Neill. Tickets: £6/£5.
Information: 07905078376. farragopoetry@yahoo.co.uk. http://london.e-poets www.myspace.com/farragopoetry

Poetry Flash!

This just in today, from the organisers of the Poet's Letter:

Poet's Letter Poetry Performance and Live Music, Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden

Monday July 9th, 7 pm (Tonight).

Poets reading are: Lorraine Irwin, Rebecca Atherton, Kerry-Fleur Schleifer and Munayem Mayenin. Open Mic as usual. Music: Kerry-Fleur Schleifer. Everyone welcome. 07809 682 065

Look forward to seeing you tonight

www.poetsletter.com

Pure and Good and Right in Leamington Spa: Sunday 15th May

PureandGoodandRight

PureandGoodandRight is an open mic with guest poets night in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. "PureandGoodandRight is DELIGHTED and EXCITED this month to present World Poetry Slam Champion, ELVIS McGONAGALL. Elvis will be supported by a popular and regular visitor to PureandGoodandRight, Oxford’s Laura King. And budding local poets will take the stage in our open mic sessions to present their own varied and wonderful poetry!"

It’s all happening from 7.30pm on Sunday 15th July at the Fox, Clarendon Avenue, Leamington Spa CV32 4RU. Admission is £3 (£2 NUS/OAP).

You can find out more at www.kellywit.com.

London's Speakeasy: Monday 9th July

London's Speakeasy

Marie Lloyd Bar, 289 Mare Street, Hackney, London E8
7pm
Monday July 9th

The latest in the regular poetry and spoken word night features performances from Ebele, FLOetic Lara, Naomi Woddis, Patricia Foster and "Salena Saliva" Godden. Opening event in Hackney Empire Theatre's SPICE Festival.

Free event.

"The centerpiece of July's Speakeasy is Ebele's solo show, WomaniFunkHerDeliQa, a powerful mix of personal and ancient myth, crossing continents, time and breaking taboos - embellished with a warm, rich and original sense of humour. Ebele will be ably supported by some of Baden (and the Speakeasy crowd)'s favourite female poets and performers, namely:

FLOetic Lara: a dynamic artiste, combining sensational singing with passionate poetry

Naomi Woddis - a writer and performer at present living a pauper's existence in Highbury.

Patricia Foster: emotive writer and performer, one of the nicest insomniacs you'll ever meet

Notorious poet, singer & writer "Salena Saliva" Godden: sassy, savvy & salacious."

Word Incest, London: Monday 9th July

Word Incest

Riflemaker Gallery, 79 Beak Street, London W1F 9SU
6.30pm
Monday 9th July

Malgorzata Kitowski and the Word Incest poets present an experimental happening combining words, music and performance.

"Malgorzata Kitowski and the Word Incest poets Cut-up text read simultaneously with other overlapping material will create re-cut-up Word Incest: text rounds and simultaneous sounds punctuated by improvised music. The performers will move about through the audience to create spacial and aural osmosis. Every member of the (kinetic) audience will experience a unique event as sound/vision/voices blur-merge."

See www.riflemaker.org