Over the Edge: Galway

Over The Edge in association with Poetry Ireland presents the September Over The Edge: Open Reading.

Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway
Thursday, September 25th
6.30-8pm.

The featured readers are Orla Higgins, Des Kavanagh & Colette Bryce.

As usual there will be an open-mic when the Featured Readers have finished. This is open to anyone who has a poem or story to share. New readers are always especially welcome. The evening will also see the announcement by competition judge Celeste Augé of the winner of this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The Year. MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748.

Over The Edge acknowledges the financial support of Poetry Ireland, Galway City Council and The Arts Council http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/

Last Monday at Rio: Glasgow

Last Monday At Rio
Monday September 29, 8pm to 10-abouts
The Rio Cafe
Hyndland Street, Glasgow, G11 (Kelvinhall tube)
Admission free.

Ranters, rhymers and rhapsodists, come all ye to where speech is free. Uncensored, unfunded and (on occasion) unhinged, what goes on at the Rio Cafe is subject to one maxim only - "Ye cannae buy it". Get your kooky little act together and join us!

Headline act this month is Milton Balgoni. This compact, Bolanesque barnstormer will be holding out a guiding hand and inviting us to take a walk on the wild side of Fife.

First hour of the evening is open mic. Cairns is your compere. Should you wish to read, speak or perform please contact robin.cairns@btconnect.com

CHESTER: Zest! Open Floor Poetry Night

Monday, September 22nd, 2008, 8pm, £3/£2 on door
Alexander's Jazz Theatrebar,
Rufus Court,
Off Northgate St,
Chester
CH1 2JG.
Directions: On Northgate St, find Chez Jules then Abbey Green alleyway opposite leading to Rufus Ct. Chester Station: 20 mins’ walk. Bus station: 5 mins' walk. City Council Parking: 10 mins’ walk (£1.50 after 5pm)

An open floor poetry night, hosted by Gill McEvoy, with special guest Matt Merritt (new collection Troy Town out now). Bring your own or a favourite poem along to read at the open mic, or just enjoy listening.

London: SUNDAYS AT THE OTO

Sept 21
3-5 pm, £4 entry
Café Oto
18-22 Ashwin Street
Dalston
London E8 3DL

“poetry and music with the post-avant crowd
for your Sunday afternoon pleasure”

Tim Atkins + Isnaj Dui + Sophie Robinson

Tim Atkins’ Horace (O Books, 2007) gives the definitive, delightful & dangerous version for our days; Isnaj Dui’s www.myspace.com electroacouistic blends & improvisations are both lush and dark; Sophie Robinson’s Killin’ Kittenish (yt communications, 2006) frolics, frightens & fiercely fantasises

for further information:

www.myspace.com/sundaysattheoto

Sundays at the Oto is a regular event falling on the third Sunday of the month, www.cafeoto.co.uk, £4 entry.

Presented by Peter Philpott peter@greatworks.org.uk

The Poetry of Dancehalls & Cafés: Soho Theatre

Apples & Snakes in Soho: The poetry of dancehalls & cafes
Wednesday 24th September, 8pm
Soho Theatre, 21 Dean St, London W10 3NE
Tickets: £8 / £6

Thirty years have passed since the UK's first dub poetry hit the racks, and its exponents are now amongst the elder statespeople of spoken-word. None more so than Jean 'Binta' Breeze, who tonight demonstrates her command of those elusive rhythms and her ability to flit from street wisdom to historical fiction in the blink of an eye: two talents showcased in her most recent book, The Fifth Figure.

There'll be ample support from Niall O'Sullivan, contributing his own brand of municipal zen with tales of greasy-spoon cafés and council flower-beds;and Saran Green, who'll be whipping up a saucy, spoken medley of boy-girlintrigue and Caribbean seasoning. Meanwhile, Malika Booker temporarily swaps from being London's hardest-working poet to being London's hardest-working compere.

Book: 0870 429 6883 / www.sohotheatre.com

Apples & Snakes is the UK's leading organisation for performance poetry

Poetry at the Rustique, London

Poetry Reading: Louise Landes Levi, Alyson Torns and David Miller

Thursday 18th September, 7.30pm
Rustique Literary Café, 142 Fortess Road, Tufnell Park, London NW5
Admission: £5 / £3 (concessions).

London Irish Centre Readings & Music

Thursday 18 September
@ The London Irish Centre Camden

Simon Barraclough, Viv Fogel, Alison Hill, Paul Lyalls, Jack Stanley and Mags Treanor will be reading and there will be music from Marie McCormack and Les Coughlan.

It all kicks off at 8 p.m. and costs £5/£3 concessions. Map here.

LONDON: Haiku book launch

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

Level 2,
The Clore Ballroom
Royal Festival Hall, London,
noon-3pm

Leading haiku writers John Barlow (Liverpool); Matthew Paul (London); Alan Summers (Bradford on Avon); and Karen Hoy (Bradford on Avon) will be offering free one-to-one workshops; readings; or even just a chat about haiku. The incredible new book Wing Beats: British Birds in Haiku will be available to buy with a free Haiku Journal from With Words which acts as a perfect complement to Wing Beats.

Following the Royal Festival event, there is a launch of Wing Beats at the Poetry Society's Poetry Cafe.
22 Betterton Street,
Covent Garden,
London,
WC2H 9BX
7.30pm for 8pm, FREE

RSVP is preferred for this event – email: alan@withwords.org.uk

LONDON: Odes In Autumn at The Troubadour

Monday, September 22nd, 2008, 8pm-10pm, £6 / £5 concs
The Troubadour,
263-267 Old Brompton Road,
London,
SW5
near junction of Earls Court Road and Old Brompton Road. Nearest Tube station: Earls Court (District & Piccadilly Lines).

Odes in Autumn – new and established voices, with Moniza Alvi, Miriam Gamble, John Weston, Naomi Foyle, Norbert Hirschhorn, Jacqueline Saphra, Mary Macrae and Joanna Ezekiel.

The Night Pavilion (Waterloo, 2008), by Bangor Creative-Writing postgrad Naomi Foyle, is a PBS Recommendation.

International public-health specialist Norbert Hirschhorn lives in London & Beirut – latest book Mourning in the Presence of a Corpse (Dar al-Jadeed, Beirut, 2008).

Playwright and Good Housekeeping Online poet-in-residence Jacqueline Saphra won first prize at Ledbury in 2007.

As Birds Do (Second Light, 2007) is the first collection from much-anthologised former English teacher, Mary MacRae.

Joanna Ezekiel has a Creative-Writing MA from Sussex – Safe Passage (White Leaf Press, 2007) is her second pamphlet.

Former diplomat John Weston is an energetic poetry-&-arts activist & advocate – his poems are published in Chasing The Hoopoe (Peterloo, 2005).

Bloodaxe’s launch of Moniza Alvi’s Europa coincides with publication of her selected, Split World: Poems 1990-2005.

2007 Gregory-winner Miriam Gamble is Research Fellow at Belfast’s Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry – her pamphlet is This Man’s Town (Tall Lighthouse, 2007).

Season tickets 30% off…cheques payable to Coffee-House Poetry, no credit cards.

LONDON: June English book launch

Thursday, September 11th, 2008, 7.30pm-9.30pm
Studio,
Poetry Cafe,
22 Betterton Street,
Covent Garden,
London
WC2H 9BX

Hearing Eye is staging the launch of Sunflower Equations, by June English. Wine and nibbles are included - come along and enjoy...

MANCHESTER: The Poetry Party

Sunday, September 7th, 2008, 7.30pm, £3
Fuel Café Bar,
Wilmslow Road,
Withington,
Manchester
M20 4AN

This is a night created by Citizen 32 Editor John G Hall and has guest poets and an open mic slot, so come along and take part.

CHELTENHAM: Buzzwords Poetry Night

Sunday, September 7th, 2008, 7pm+, £3
Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms,
Bath Road,
Cheltenham

Guest Poet - Todd Swift.
7pm Workshop led by Todd Swift.
8pm - open mic and guest poet reading.

READING: Poets Cafe

Friday, September 19^th, 2008, 8pm doors, £6/£4

South Street Arts Centre,
Reading.

This month the special guest is Maggie Sawkins (http://maggiesawkins.moonfruit.com/) whose first collection, The Zig Zag Woman is just recently out. There are the usual open mic slots available on the night, and it will all be quite wonderful.

LEICESTER: D A Prince and Marilyn Ricci

Saturday, September 6th, 2008, 2.45 for 3pm, FREE
Friends’ Meeting House,
16 Queens Road (junction with Victoria Park Road),
Leicester
LE2 1WP

Two new HappenStance poetry publications by Leicestershire poets will be launched – D A Prince’s Nearly The Happy Hour, a first book-length collection for both author and publisher, and Rebuilding A Number 39, by Marilyn Ricci, the author’s first chapbook collection. Come along and listen and celebrate the launch, and talk to the poets and publisher Helena Nelson in person.

Email nell@happenstancepress.com if you plan to attend.

LONDON: Unspeakably Toothsome

Friday, September 5th, 2008, 8pm, £5
At The Betsey Trotwood,
56 Farringdon Road,
London

Annie Freud and Roddy Lumsden co-host an evening where poets read their own and other writers' favourite poems on the subject of food.

A very tasteful line-up of readers: Isobel Dixon, Heather Phillipson, John Stammers, Angela Kirby, Simon Barraclough, Julia Bird, Cath Drake, Tim Wells, Mark Waldron, Susan Grindley, Annie Freud and Roddy Lumsden.

Readings on and off from 8pm sharp - 10pm.

LONDON: Apples & Snakes at SW11 Literary Festival

Poetic Frenzy
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008, 7pm, £3
The Taybridge,
47-49 Lavender Hill,
London
SW11 5QN

Seasoned performer Niall O'Sullivan wraps up his stint as SW11 Lit Fest's resident poet with a star-studded evening of spoken word. Join him as he
introduces some of the most finely-honed voices from today's live-lit scene: The Speech Painter, Nandita Ghose, Inua Ellams and Sam Cox. Beware of
fast-moving verbs, and prepare to have your thoughts well and truly provoked.

For further information, you can download an event programme by following
this link:
www.wandsworth.gov.uk/Home/CommunityServices/Businesssupport/Towncentres/Cla
phamJunction.htm

EALING: Poetry Reading

Thursday, September 4th, 2008, 6.30pm
Central Library,
103 Ealing Broadway Centre,
The Broadway
W5 5JY.

Readers will be Ruth O'Callaghan, Rosemary Norman and Agnes Meadows.

MANCHESTER: The Poetry Party

Sunday, September 7th, 2008, 7.30pm, £3
Fuel Café Bar,
Wilmslow Road,
Withington,
Manchester
M20 4AN

This is a night created by Citizen 32 Editor John G Hall and has guest poets and an open mic slot, so come along and take part.

DUBLIN: Poetry Launch

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008, 6.30pm
The UNITARIAN CHURCH
112 ST. STEPHEN'S GREEN WEST
DUBLIN 2

ALL WELCOME!

Poetry Ireland in association with Salmon Poetry presents the Dublin launch of 'Big Pink Umbrella' by Susan Millar DuMars 'Torching The Brown River' by Lorna Shaughnessy & 'Time Gentlemen, Please' by Kevin Higginson more about these three poetry collections see www.salmonpoetry.com.

Related Link: www.poetryireland.ie

BRISTOL: Ash Dickinson - The Disposable Lifestyle Show

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008, 8pm doors, 8.30pm show, £4/£3
The Lansdown,
8 Clifton Road,
Bristol

Returning to Bristol, multiple slam champion Ash Dickinson weaves stand-up into verse and raps on over-population, dental eroticism, the rubbishness of men's fashion and what happens when your fridge falls in love with you.

Ash Dickinson is a writer, poet and comedy performer. The 2007 Edinburgh Poetry Slam Champion, he also won the inaugural Museum of Scotland Slam in 2005. He had a four-star rated one man show – Electric Dandyland – at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the following year formed part of Scotland's renowned Big Word Performance Poetry during its run at the Edinburgh Comedy Rooms. He has also performed in Australia, the USA, and New Zealand. He has played shows throughout the UK, including feature appearances at Express Excess, The Poetry Shack, Brixtongue, Bang Said The Gun (all London), The Stand Comedy Club, the Bristol Poetry Festival, the Glasgow Comedy Festival, Big In Falkirk, Aberdeen Wordfringe and performing pioneering one man shows.

Derwent Poetry Festival 2008

Here's some advance warning of a Festival event taking this autumn. The 2008 Derwent Poetry Festival takes place over the weekend of 17th & 19th October 2008 at Masson Mills, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire.

The festival features the launch of ten new poetry titles from Templar Poetry including the presentation of the 2008 Templar Poetry Pamphlets Prizes. It is accompanied by readings from Paul Farley, Tim Liardet, Jane Weir, Pat Winslow, Rob Hindle, Dawn Wood, Siobhan Campbell, Mike Barlow, Angela Cleland, Pat Borthwick, Katrina Naomi and many others. There is a Festival Bookshop, stands from magazines and an exhibition of paintings by Artist in Residence, Karen Isherwood.

The full festival programme is listed on www.templarpoetry.co.uk.

Box Office Telephone 01629 582500

Ealing Poetry Reading

4th September at Ealing 6.30

Ruth O'Callaghan
Rosemary Norman
Agnes Meadows

Central Library, 103 Ealing Broadway Centre, The Broadway W5 5JY.
The Broadway Centre is behind a large and conspicuous Marks & Spencer.

Toothsome Poetry

UNSPEAKABLY TOOTHSOME! - Friday September 5th

Annie Freud and Roddy Lumsden co-host an evening where poets read their own and other writers' favourite poems on the subject of food.

A very tasteful line-up of readers: Isobel Dixon, Heather Phillipson, John Stammers, Angela Kirby, Simon Barraclough, Julia Bird, Cath Drake, Tim Wells, Mark Waldron, Susan Grindley, Annie Freud and Roddy Lumsden.

At The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Road, London
Readings on and off from 8pm sharp - 10pm. Entry £5

Bluechrome Poets

Friday 19th September 2008 at 7.00 (doors open 6.30)
Ruth O'Callaghan presents
bluechrome poets
Harry Guest
Caroline Oulton
Tony Turner

Poets from the floor very welcome & there will be a few 5 minute spots.

Please bring two copies of the poem if you wish to be considered for the bluechrome anthology. There are at least 10 major poets who will also be contributing to the anthology inc. UA Fanthorpe, Fiona Sampson, Marilyn Hacker , Penelope Shuttle, Peter Porter to name but a few.

Trinity United Reform Church
1 Buck St, Camden Town.
1-2 minutes Camden Town tube..
Entry £4/£3
Wine
Proceeds to COLD WEATHER SHELTER

Buzzwords Poetry Night in Cheltenham

Buzzwords: Next Sunday, 7th September

Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

Guest Poet - Todd Swift
7pm Workshop led by Todd Swift
8pm - open mic and Guest poet reading

Entrance £3