Tuesday, 10th November, 2009, doors open 6.30pm for 7pm, £4/£3, Wine
88 Tavistock Place
WC1
Tubes: Russell Square , Kings Cross, St Pancras.
Ruth O'Callaghan presents Flipped Eye poets Paul Lyalls, Adrienne Odasso and Camilla Reeve.
Poets from the floor very welcome. Please bring a copy of your poem if you wish to be considered for the anthology, sponsored by the thought-provoking Cinnamon Press. Proceeds to the Cold Weather Shelter.
Monday, November 02, 2009
LIVERPOOL: Four female poets
Sunday, 15th November, 2009, 7,30pm, £7
Crosby Civic Hall,
Waterloo
Join us for an evening with four of Liverpool's very best female poets, each of whom will be reading from their publications and talking about their work.
Gladys Mary Coles is one of the nation's most prolific, admired and award-winning poets. She runs the hugely popular Headland Press, publishing new works by contemporary poets.
Mandy Coe is an award-winning poet writing for adults and children. Her poetry has appeared in The Guardian, Radio Times and on BBC television and radio.
Pauline Rowe has been widely published in magazines and has a poetry pamphlet, Playing Out Time (Driftwood Publications, 2005). Her poetry film List was made part of the Nothing Rhymes with Poets Project in 2006.
Rebecca Goss grew up in Suffolk and now lives in Liverpool. Her poems have been widely published in anthologies and magazines, including Ambit, Stand, The Reader and Mslexia, they have also been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. A collection of her poems, Keeping Houston Time, was published by Slow Dancer Press. Her first full collection is due with Flambard Press in 2010.
To book, call Box Office on 0151 928 1919 / 01704 540011 or book online at www.seftonarts.co.uk
Crosby Civic Hall,
Waterloo
Join us for an evening with four of Liverpool's very best female poets, each of whom will be reading from their publications and talking about their work.
Gladys Mary Coles is one of the nation's most prolific, admired and award-winning poets. She runs the hugely popular Headland Press, publishing new works by contemporary poets.
Mandy Coe is an award-winning poet writing for adults and children. Her poetry has appeared in The Guardian, Radio Times and on BBC television and radio.
Pauline Rowe has been widely published in magazines and has a poetry pamphlet, Playing Out Time (Driftwood Publications, 2005). Her poetry film List was made part of the Nothing Rhymes with Poets Project in 2006.
Rebecca Goss grew up in Suffolk and now lives in Liverpool. Her poems have been widely published in anthologies and magazines, including Ambit, Stand, The Reader and Mslexia, they have also been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. A collection of her poems, Keeping Houston Time, was published by Slow Dancer Press. Her first full collection is due with Flambard Press in 2010.
To book, call Box Office on 0151 928 1919 / 01704 540011 or book online at www.seftonarts.co.uk
LONDON: Tall Lighthouse
Friday, 13th November, 2009, 8pm (late bar), £3
The Old Tigers Head,
351 Lee High Road,
SE12 8RU
Tall-Lighthouse presents a seriously good poetry night, supported by the Lee Green Locality Fund
with Roddy Lumsden, Niall O’Sullivan, Christopher Horton, Jocelyn Page, Paul Blake, plus others tbc
with John Citizen (mc)
plus open mic
The Old Tigers Head,
351 Lee High Road,
SE12 8RU
Tall-Lighthouse presents a seriously good poetry night, supported by the Lee Green Locality Fund
with Roddy Lumsden, Niall O’Sullivan, Christopher Horton, Jocelyn Page, Paul Blake, plus others tbc
with John Citizen (mc)
plus open mic
LONDON: Tall-Lighthouse First Thursday
Thursday, November 5th, 2009, 8pm, £5/£4
The Poetry Cafe
Betterton Street,
WC2H 9BX
With Hugo Williams, Rhian Edwards, Rob Auton, Anne Brechin and John Citizen (mc) plus open mic.
The Poetry Cafe
Betterton Street,
WC2H 9BX
With Hugo Williams, Rhian Edwards, Rob Auton, Anne Brechin and John Citizen (mc) plus open mic.
LONDON: Shearsman Reading Series
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009, 7.30pm, FREE
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
Featuring Giles Goodland and Frances Presley
Details of the new collections that will be launched on the evening:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/Presley_lines.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/goodland.html
Biographical details may be found here:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/presleyA.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/goodlandA.html
The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 minutes' walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 minutes), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 minutes). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, underneath Bloomsbury Square.
Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
Featuring Giles Goodland and Frances Presley
Details of the new collections that will be launched on the evening:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/Presley_lines.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/goodland.html
Biographical details may be found here:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/presleyA.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/goodlandA.html
The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 minutes' walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 minutes), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 minutes). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, underneath Bloomsbury Square.
Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.
LONDON: wordPLAY
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009, 7pm for 8pm start, £4.50 / £3.50
The Good Ship,
Kilburn
London
Here's wordPLAY 3rd November illustriousness, back after a long, dark wordPLAYless autumn month to give you your much-needed injection of cultural craic...
Your literary line-up this month:
Tim Key http://www.timkey.co.uk/ - a poet so funny that he won the Edinburgh Comedy Award 2009 for his show The Slutcracker, which "attracted a strong cult following for its whimsically surreal mix of poetry, music and mock-philosopical observations on life" according to The Guardian. Made Hazel actually pee herself with laughter at 'Homework' spoken word night, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, live on Newsnight...
Bernardine Evaristo http://www.bevaristo.net/ - Bernardine Evaristo's first fully-prose novel Blonde Roots was published by Penguin UK in August 2008. It's a slavery story with a difference: Africans enslave Europeans over a 400 year period. The protagonist is a white woman from Europa who lives out her adult life as a slave in the New World. Her verse novel LARA will be published by Bloodaxe Books, October 2009.
Guest Stars:
Nancy Clarik http://www.facebook.com/people/Nancy-Clarik/509141598 - wordPLAY deputy host spits her lyrical witticisms on popular culture and beyond
Agnes Lehoczky http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/agnes_lehoczky_f02025.aspx - bilingual poet Agnes reads her beautiful verse, including work from her collection 'Budapest to Babel'
Ola Rhodes http://olarhodes.wordpress.com/about/ - unpredictable stories with bite and sass are this gal's speciality
Jessica Patient http://www.writerslittlehelper.blogspot.com/ - this prose writer has had short stories published in 3:AM, The Beat, Pgymy Giant and Sleepy Orange. She won the Worldskills Gold Award in Creative Writing in 2008.
With music from the beautiful voice and guitar of Hannah Tuson, back by popular demand... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1BzbFW3_I
plus the random erratic musings and mutterings of your host Rebecca Fenton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yVAi6Yd_hA
plus - Raffle-Lit...when we find some goddamn prizes...never fear...
The Good Ship,
Kilburn
London
Here's wordPLAY 3rd November illustriousness, back after a long, dark wordPLAYless autumn month to give you your much-needed injection of cultural craic...
Your literary line-up this month:
Tim Key http://www.timkey.co.uk/ - a poet so funny that he won the Edinburgh Comedy Award 2009 for his show The Slutcracker, which "attracted a strong cult following for its whimsically surreal mix of poetry, music and mock-philosopical observations on life" according to The Guardian. Made Hazel actually pee herself with laughter at 'Homework' spoken word night, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, live on Newsnight...
Bernardine Evaristo http://www.bevaristo.net/ - Bernardine Evaristo's first fully-prose novel Blonde Roots was published by Penguin UK in August 2008. It's a slavery story with a difference: Africans enslave Europeans over a 400 year period. The protagonist is a white woman from Europa who lives out her adult life as a slave in the New World. Her verse novel LARA will be published by Bloodaxe Books, October 2009.
Guest Stars:
Nancy Clarik http://www.facebook.com/people/Nancy-Clarik/509141598 - wordPLAY deputy host spits her lyrical witticisms on popular culture and beyond
Agnes Lehoczky http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/agnes_lehoczky_f02025.aspx - bilingual poet Agnes reads her beautiful verse, including work from her collection 'Budapest to Babel'
Ola Rhodes http://olarhodes.wordpress.com/about/ - unpredictable stories with bite and sass are this gal's speciality
Jessica Patient http://www.writerslittlehelper.blogspot.com/ - this prose writer has had short stories published in 3:AM, The Beat, Pgymy Giant and Sleepy Orange. She won the Worldskills Gold Award in Creative Writing in 2008.
With music from the beautiful voice and guitar of Hannah Tuson, back by popular demand... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1BzbFW3_I
plus the random erratic musings and mutterings of your host Rebecca Fenton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yVAi6Yd_hA
plus - Raffle-Lit...when we find some goddamn prizes...never fear...
LEICESTER: Three Leicester Poets
Friday, November 13th, 2009, 7.30pm
Friends Meeting House,
16 Queen's Road,
Leicester
featuring Pam Thompson, Lydia Towsey and Matt Merritt.
Pam Thompson has been writing and performing poetry in the East Midlands for a number of years. She is part of the steering-group of and was artistic producer of the Lyric Lounge week at The Y Theatre, Leicester, in July 2009. Pam is widely published in magazines and pamphlets. Her first full collection is The Japan Quiz, published by Redbeck Press in 2008
Lydia Towsey comperes and coordinates WORD! and in 2009 has been the Artistic Director of The Lyric Lounge (www.lyriclounge.co.uk). She has performed alongside John Hegley and Jean 'Binta' Breeze and is soon to be published in POM, an anthology of new voices, co-edited by Michael Horovitz, John Hegley and Melanie Abrahams.
Matt Merritt's first full collection, Troy Town, was published by Arrowhead Press in March 2008, following a chapbook, Making The Most Of The Light, from HappenStance in 2005. He has read all over England and Scotland, and blogs at Polyolbion.
Friends Meeting House,
16 Queen's Road,
Leicester
featuring Pam Thompson, Lydia Towsey and Matt Merritt.
Pam Thompson has been writing and performing poetry in the East Midlands for a number of years. She is part of the steering-group of and was artistic producer of the Lyric Lounge week at The Y Theatre, Leicester, in July 2009. Pam is widely published in magazines and pamphlets. Her first full collection is The Japan Quiz, published by Redbeck Press in 2008
Lydia Towsey comperes and coordinates WORD! and in 2009 has been the Artistic Director of The Lyric Lounge (www.lyriclounge.co.uk). She has performed alongside John Hegley and Jean 'Binta' Breeze and is soon to be published in POM, an anthology of new voices, co-edited by Michael Horovitz, John Hegley and Melanie Abrahams.
Matt Merritt's first full collection, Troy Town, was published by Arrowhead Press in March 2008, following a chapbook, Making The Most Of The Light, from HappenStance in 2005. He has read all over England and Scotland, and blogs at Polyolbion.
Sunday, November 01, 2009
BRISTOL: Beyond Words - New Poetry From South Africa
15th November 2009, 7.30pm, £10 / £7
Bristol Old Vic,
King Street,
Bristol
BS1 4ED
Box office: 0117 987 7877 / www.bristololdvic.org.uk
Apples & Snakes presents Beyond Words: New Poetry From South Africa Live On Tour
Four incredible South African poets tour the UK together for the first time. Brought together by South African Poet Laureate and renowned exile campaigner Keorapetse Kgositsile, the show premieres specially commissioned new work. This is a blistering introduction to the new South Africa and to the power of live poetry in performance.
Featuring some of the most exciting voices of South Africa in the 21st century - Keorapetse Kgositsile, Lebo Mashile, Don Mattera and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers.
Keorapetse Kgositsile said: "I think an exchange of literature among peoples has better chances of building understanding and friendship than any diplomatic missions could ever achieve."
Bristol Old Vic,
King Street,
Bristol
BS1 4ED
Box office: 0117 987 7877 / www.bristololdvic.org.uk
Apples & Snakes presents Beyond Words: New Poetry From South Africa Live On Tour
Four incredible South African poets tour the UK together for the first time. Brought together by South African Poet Laureate and renowned exile campaigner Keorapetse Kgositsile, the show premieres specially commissioned new work. This is a blistering introduction to the new South Africa and to the power of live poetry in performance.
Featuring some of the most exciting voices of South Africa in the 21st century - Keorapetse Kgositsile, Lebo Mashile, Don Mattera and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers.
Keorapetse Kgositsile said: "I think an exchange of literature among peoples has better chances of building understanding and friendship than any diplomatic missions could ever achieve."
LONDON: Hammer and Tongue
Monday, November 2nd, 2009, 7.30pm, £5/£4
Green Note Cafe
106 Parkway
Camden
London
Call Michelle on 07809 236133 for more details
Remember, remember the SECOND of November! Brrrrr, cold! It's time for toffee apples and sparklers and long dark nights and mulched leaves and frost and dodgy fireworks and fingerless gloves and all that autumn jazz! We are all bonfired up to announce H&T's November line-up with two very, very incredible, chill-blasting poets...
Zena Edwards:
"A poet of consummate skill... truly extraordinary" - The Guardian
“One of the most refreshing, ever-developing voices in the UK”- Pure Poetry
“Internationally acclaimed - creates her own intricate, mesmerising and unforgettable performance”- Apples And Snakes
Paula Varjack:
......who comes from London, Washington and other cities she's forgotten. Last year she was nominated for “Best Performance by an International Poet” in the Farrago London Slam awards. She premiered her first solo show - Kiss and Tell - at Hau Zwei as part of the Berlin 100 grad theatre festival. She has collaborated with music producers, backdraft, Cloudfist Conceptz (aka Jonas McCloud), Filtig and Dj That F**ing Sara, to find beats that go with her words. She has been compared to that lady who found herself in a garden with a pretty but stupid boy, and a sexy but dangerous snake. As far as her performances are concerned, fasten your seatbelts and prepare to be varjacked...
PLUS... special guest poet and the OPEN SLAM- sign up from 7.30pm for a chance to win a place in the Hammer and Tongue London slam final (slammers get in for free).
Hosted with acerbic wit and an erratic blend of spiked heels and dishevelment by Michelle Madsen, Angry Sam and Sophia Blackwells, with music from H&T DJs.
Green Note Cafe
106 Parkway
Camden
London
Call Michelle on 07809 236133 for more details
Remember, remember the SECOND of November! Brrrrr, cold! It's time for toffee apples and sparklers and long dark nights and mulched leaves and frost and dodgy fireworks and fingerless gloves and all that autumn jazz! We are all bonfired up to announce H&T's November line-up with two very, very incredible, chill-blasting poets...
Zena Edwards:
"A poet of consummate skill... truly extraordinary" - The Guardian
“One of the most refreshing, ever-developing voices in the UK”- Pure Poetry
“Internationally acclaimed - creates her own intricate, mesmerising and unforgettable performance”- Apples And Snakes
Paula Varjack:
......who comes from London, Washington and other cities she's forgotten. Last year she was nominated for “Best Performance by an International Poet” in the Farrago London Slam awards. She premiered her first solo show - Kiss and Tell - at Hau Zwei as part of the Berlin 100 grad theatre festival. She has collaborated with music producers, backdraft, Cloudfist Conceptz (aka Jonas McCloud), Filtig and Dj That F**ing Sara, to find beats that go with her words. She has been compared to that lady who found herself in a garden with a pretty but stupid boy, and a sexy but dangerous snake. As far as her performances are concerned, fasten your seatbelts and prepare to be varjacked...
PLUS... special guest poet and the OPEN SLAM- sign up from 7.30pm for a chance to win a place in the Hammer and Tongue London slam final (slammers get in for free).
Hosted with acerbic wit and an erratic blend of spiked heels and dishevelment by Michelle Madsen, Angry Sam and Sophia Blackwells, with music from H&T DJs.
Friday, October 30, 2009
MANCHESTER: Beyond Words - New Poetry from South Africa
12th November 2009, 8pm, £10 / £6
Contact,
Oxford Road,
Manchester,
M15 6JA
Box office: 0161 274 0600 / www.contact-theatre.org
Apples & Snakes presents Beyond Words: New Poetry From South Africa Live On Tour
Four incredible South African poets tour the UK together for the first time. Brought together by South African Poet Laureate and renowned exile campaigner Keorapetse Kgositsile, the show premieres specially commissioned new work. This is a blistering introduction to the new South Africa and to the power of live poetry in performance.
Featuring some of the most exciting voices of South Africa in the 21st century - Keorapetse Kgositsile, Lebo Mashile, Don Mattera and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers.
Keorapetse Kgositsile said: "I think an exchange of literature among peoples has better chances of building understanding and friendship than any diplomatic missions could ever achieve."
Contact,
Oxford Road,
Manchester,
M15 6JA
Box office: 0161 274 0600 / www.contact-theatre.org
Apples & Snakes presents Beyond Words: New Poetry From South Africa Live On Tour
Four incredible South African poets tour the UK together for the first time. Brought together by South African Poet Laureate and renowned exile campaigner Keorapetse Kgositsile, the show premieres specially commissioned new work. This is a blistering introduction to the new South Africa and to the power of live poetry in performance.
Featuring some of the most exciting voices of South Africa in the 21st century - Keorapetse Kgositsile, Lebo Mashile, Don Mattera and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers.
Keorapetse Kgositsile said: "I think an exchange of literature among peoples has better chances of building understanding and friendship than any diplomatic missions could ever achieve."
LEEDS: Grey Hen Press anthology launch
Friday, November 13th, 2009, noon-1.30pm
Leeds Central Library
The launch of the new anthology from Grey Hen Press 'Cracking On - Poems on ageing by older women'. A C Clarke, Pat Borthwick, Ann Drysdale, Kate Foley, Angela Kirby, Christine Webb and others will be reading.
Leeds Central Library
The launch of the new anthology from Grey Hen Press 'Cracking On - Poems on ageing by older women'. A C Clarke, Pat Borthwick, Ann Drysdale, Kate Foley, Angela Kirby, Christine Webb and others will be reading.
GALWAY: Gary King book launch
Saturday, 31st October, 2009, noon
Galway City Museum
North Beach Publications and Doire Press are pleased to announce the launch of 2008 North Beach Poetry Nights Grand Slam winner Gary King's debut collection Pluto's Noon Sky, which includes his winning poem, After Disco Lights.
Susan DuMars, poet, fiction writer and co-organizer of Over the Edge, will launch Gary's collection. All are welcome.
Gary King won the 2008 North Beach Poetry Nights Grand Slam. He was also the runner-up in the 2007 Cuirt Festival Poetry Grand Slam. He has read his poems at the White House reading series in Limerick, the Over The Edge series in Galway and O’Bhéal in Cork. He was short-listed for the 2006 Cuirt Festival/Over The Edge showcase reading. Gary’s poems have been published widely in magazines such as Poetry Nottingham, Criterion, West 47 and The Burning Bush. A chapbook of his poems, Ambiguous Lights, was published by Over The Edge in 2004.
Galway City Museum
North Beach Publications and Doire Press are pleased to announce the launch of 2008 North Beach Poetry Nights Grand Slam winner Gary King's debut collection Pluto's Noon Sky, which includes his winning poem, After Disco Lights.
Susan DuMars, poet, fiction writer and co-organizer of Over the Edge, will launch Gary's collection. All are welcome.
Gary King won the 2008 North Beach Poetry Nights Grand Slam. He was also the runner-up in the 2007 Cuirt Festival Poetry Grand Slam. He has read his poems at the White House reading series in Limerick, the Over The Edge series in Galway and O’Bhéal in Cork. He was short-listed for the 2006 Cuirt Festival/Over The Edge showcase reading. Gary’s poems have been published widely in magazines such as Poetry Nottingham, Criterion, West 47 and The Burning Bush. A chapbook of his poems, Ambiguous Lights, was published by Over The Edge in 2004.
BIRMINGHAM: Beyond Words - New Poetry From South Africa
Saturday, 31st October, 2009, 7.30pm, £7/£5
The Drum,
144 Potters Lane,
Birmingham,
B6 4UU
Box office: 0121 333 2444
www.the-drum.org.uk
Apples & Snakes presents Beyond Words: New Poetry From South Africa Live On Tour
Four incredible South African poets tour the UK together for the first time. Brought together by South African Poet Laureate and renowned exile campaigner Keorapetse Kgositsile, the show premieres specially commissioned new work. This is a blistering introduction to the new South Africa and to the power of live poetry in performance.
Featuring some of the most exciting voices of South Africa in the 21st century - Keorapetse Kgositsile, Lebo Mashile, Don Mattera and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers.
Keorapetse Kgositsile said: "I think an exchange of literature among peoples has better chances of building understanding and friendship than any diplomatic missions could ever achieve."
The Drum,
144 Potters Lane,
Birmingham,
B6 4UU
Box office: 0121 333 2444
www.the-drum.org.uk
Apples & Snakes presents Beyond Words: New Poetry From South Africa Live On Tour
Four incredible South African poets tour the UK together for the first time. Brought together by South African Poet Laureate and renowned exile campaigner Keorapetse Kgositsile, the show premieres specially commissioned new work. This is a blistering introduction to the new South Africa and to the power of live poetry in performance.
Featuring some of the most exciting voices of South Africa in the 21st century - Keorapetse Kgositsile, Lebo Mashile, Don Mattera and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers.
Keorapetse Kgositsile said: "I think an exchange of literature among peoples has better chances of building understanding and friendship than any diplomatic missions could ever achieve."
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
ORANMORE: Charlie Byrne's Bookshop launch
Thursday, November 5th, 2009, 6pm
Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop,
Oranmore Village (near the filling station!)
Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, in association with Over The Edge, presents an evening of poetry to celebrate their new shop in Oranmore
Local poets, including John Walsh, Mary Mullen, Jarlath Fahy, Miceal Kearney, Edward Lee, Connie Masterson and Bernie Crawford will read their work. Come along and enjoy refreshments and browse through our selection of new and remaindered books. If you haven't gotten the chance to visit our Oranmore shop yet, this is the perfect opportunity!
http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/2009/10/evening-of-poetry-to-celebrate-new.html
Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop,
Oranmore Village (near the filling station!)
Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, in association with Over The Edge, presents an evening of poetry to celebrate their new shop in Oranmore
Local poets, including John Walsh, Mary Mullen, Jarlath Fahy, Miceal Kearney, Edward Lee, Connie Masterson and Bernie Crawford will read their work. Come along and enjoy refreshments and browse through our selection of new and remaindered books. If you haven't gotten the chance to visit our Oranmore shop yet, this is the perfect opportunity!
http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/2009/10/evening-of-poetry-to-celebrate-new.html
GALWAY: October Over The Edge Open Reading
Thursday, October 29th, 2009, 6.30pm-8pm
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway
The featured readers are Connie Masterson, Trevor Conway and Denisa Mirena Piscu.
Connie Masterson is originally from Co. Fermanagh. She moved to Galway 25 years ago. She has been attending workshops with Kevin Higgins at Galway Arts Centre for the last four years. Connie’s poetry has been published in Crannóg and she is currently a member of the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre, whose recent publication Lady Gregory's Townhouse has been a rare poetry sell-out. She has read her work at Clifden Arts Week. Connie was long-listed in this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition.
Trevor Conway is from Sligo and is studying the MA in Writing at NUI Galway. He writes fiction, poetry and music, dabbling in drama and script-writing. Currently, he is working on his first collection of poetry. His work has been published in magazines such as Poetry Salzburg Review, Flash Magazine, Decanto and Inclement. He has also been included in the anthology Poetic Expressions, published by Forward Press. He has attended classes with Kevin Higgins, Dermot Healy and DBC Pierre. Trevor promises never to write a poem about the recession, unless it refers to his hairline.
Denisa Mirena Piscu hails from Bucharest, Romania. Her debut collection, Fluffy and Mechanical, was published in 2003 by Vinea Publishing House and was awarded the prize for best debut by the Association of Writers in Bucharest. Her poems are included in many anthologies, including Generation 2000 in Romanian Poetry, edited by Stefania Mincu, (Pontica, 2007). During 2007-2008, she was involved in the international project Overcoming Dictatorships – the Encounter of Artists, Poets and Writers, sponsored by the EU, gathering artists and writers from the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Poland. This tour of Ireland sees Denisa launch her second full collection, Disposable People, published by Galway Print, which will be available at the reading.
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 MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748.
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway
The featured readers are Connie Masterson, Trevor Conway and Denisa Mirena Piscu.
Connie Masterson is originally from Co. Fermanagh. She moved to Galway 25 years ago. She has been attending workshops with Kevin Higgins at Galway Arts Centre for the last four years. Connie’s poetry has been published in Crannóg and she is currently a member of the Advanced Poetry Workshop at Galway Arts Centre, whose recent publication Lady Gregory's Townhouse has been a rare poetry sell-out. She has read her work at Clifden Arts Week. Connie was long-listed in this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition.
Trevor Conway is from Sligo and is studying the MA in Writing at NUI Galway. He writes fiction, poetry and music, dabbling in drama and script-writing. Currently, he is working on his first collection of poetry. His work has been published in magazines such as Poetry Salzburg Review, Flash Magazine, Decanto and Inclement. He has also been included in the anthology Poetic Expressions, published by Forward Press. He has attended classes with Kevin Higgins, Dermot Healy and DBC Pierre. Trevor promises never to write a poem about the recession, unless it refers to his hairline.
Denisa Mirena Piscu hails from Bucharest, Romania. Her debut collection, Fluffy and Mechanical, was published in 2003 by Vinea Publishing House and was awarded the prize for best debut by the Association of Writers in Bucharest. Her poems are included in many anthologies, including Generation 2000 in Romanian Poetry, edited by Stefania Mincu, (Pontica, 2007). During 2007-2008, she was involved in the international project Overcoming Dictatorships – the Encounter of Artists, Poets and Writers, sponsored by the EU, gathering artists and writers from the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Poland. This tour of Ireland sees Denisa launch her second full collection, Disposable People, published by Galway Print, which will be available at the reading.
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 MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
CAMBRIDGE: CB1 Poetry - Roddy Lumsden and Tom Warner
Tuesday, 10th November, 2009, 8pm (doors open 7.30pm)
Michaelhouse,
Trinity Street,
Cambridge
For directions to our venue visit our website at: www.cb1poetry.org.uk
CB1 Poetry @Michaelhouse
This month we present
Roddy Lumsden and Tom Warner
Roddy Lumsden’s first book Yeah Yeah Yeah (1997) was shortlisted for Forward and Saltire prizes. His second collection The Book of Love (2000), a Poetry Book Society Choice, was short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Mischief Night: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Third Wish Wasted (Bloodaxe Books, 2009) is his latest collection. He was a “poet-in-residence” to the music industry when he co-wrote The Message, a book on poetry and pop music (Poetry Society, 1999). His other books include Vitamin Q: a temple of trivia, lists and curious words (Chambers Harrap, 2004). His anthology Identity Parade: New British and Irish poets is due from Bloodaxe Books in 2010. Born in St Andrews, he lived in Edinburgh before moving to London.
Tom Warner is currently the poet in residence for Newark as is busy preparing poems about the River Trent. In 2010 he will be one of the new Faber poets. He won an Eric Gregory Major Award in 2001 and his work has been published in a number of places including The Rialto, Smith's Knoll and Stand. He is 28 and lives in Norfolk.
"This is exquisite work ... Thomas Warner has an exceptional gift as a serious poet", Denise Riley
"Thomas Warner is one of the most interesting poets I've taught...I've no doubt we'll be hearing more of him in the future", Andrew Motion;
"There is a genuine sensibility at work here ... Poetry used as a vehicle of serious investigation", Christopher Reid;
"Tom Warner's poems seem to be carved from firm, natural material. They are austere structures but moving and humane at core, indeed all the more humane for their austerity", George Szirtes.
There will be a short open mike. 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.
Michaelhouse,
Trinity Street,
Cambridge
For directions to our venue visit our website at: www.cb1poetry.org.uk
CB1 Poetry @Michaelhouse
This month we present
Roddy Lumsden and Tom Warner
Roddy Lumsden’s first book Yeah Yeah Yeah (1997) was shortlisted for Forward and Saltire prizes. His second collection The Book of Love (2000), a Poetry Book Society Choice, was short-listed for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Mischief Night: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Third Wish Wasted (Bloodaxe Books, 2009) is his latest collection. He was a “poet-in-residence” to the music industry when he co-wrote The Message, a book on poetry and pop music (Poetry Society, 1999). His other books include Vitamin Q: a temple of trivia, lists and curious words (Chambers Harrap, 2004). His anthology Identity Parade: New British and Irish poets is due from Bloodaxe Books in 2010. Born in St Andrews, he lived in Edinburgh before moving to London.
Tom Warner is currently the poet in residence for Newark as is busy preparing poems about the River Trent. In 2010 he will be one of the new Faber poets. He won an Eric Gregory Major Award in 2001 and his work has been published in a number of places including The Rialto, Smith's Knoll and Stand. He is 28 and lives in Norfolk.
"This is exquisite work ... Thomas Warner has an exceptional gift as a serious poet", Denise Riley
"Thomas Warner is one of the most interesting poets I've taught...I've no doubt we'll be hearing more of him in the future", Andrew Motion;
"There is a genuine sensibility at work here ... Poetry used as a vehicle of serious investigation", Christopher Reid;
"Tom Warner's poems seem to be carved from firm, natural material. They are austere structures but moving and humane at core, indeed all the more humane for their austerity", George Szirtes.
There will be a short open mike. 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.
LONDON: Shearsman Reading Series
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009, 7.30pm, FREE
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
Featuring Giles Goodland and Frances Presley
Details of the new collections that will be launched on the evening:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/Presley_lines.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/goodland.html
Biographical details may be found here:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/presleyA.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/goodlandA.html
The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 minutes' walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 minutes), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 minutes). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, underneath Bloomsbury Square.
Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
Featuring Giles Goodland and Frances Presley
Details of the new collections that will be launched on the evening:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/Presley_lines.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/goodland.html
Biographical details may be found here:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/presleyA.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/goodlandA.html
The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 minutes' walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 minutes), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 minutes). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, underneath Bloomsbury Square.
Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.
LONDON: Shearsman Reading Series
Wednesday, 28th October, 2009, 7:30pm, FREE
[PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A DIFFERENT DAY OF THE WEEK THAN USUAL!]
featuring W.D. Jackson & Alice Kavounas
Reading held jointly with The Menard Press, publishers of W.D. Jackson's previous collections.
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 minutes' walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 minutes), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 minutes). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, underneath Bloomsbury Square.
Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.
Further details here of the venue:www.shearsman.com.
[PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A DIFFERENT DAY OF THE WEEK THAN USUAL!]
featuring W.D. Jackson & Alice Kavounas
Reading held jointly with The Menard Press, publishers of W.D. Jackson's previous collections.
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 minutes' walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 minutes), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 minutes). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, underneath Bloomsbury Square.
Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.
Further details here of the venue:www.shearsman.com.
LONDON: Beyond Words - New Poetry From South Africa
10th November 2009, 8pm, £8 / £5
The Albany,
Douglas Way,
Deptford,
London
SE8 4AG
Box office: 020 8692 4446 / www.thealbany.org.uk
Apples & Snakes presents Beyond Words: New Poetry From South Africa Live On Tour
Four incredible South African poets tour the UK together for the first time. Brought together by South African Poet Laureate and renowned exile campaigner Keorapetse Kgositsile, the show premieres specially commissioned new work. This is a blistering introduction to the new South Africa and to the power of live poetry in performance.
Featuring some of the most exciting voices of South Africa in the 21st century - Keorapetse Kgositsile, Lebo Mashile, Don Mattera and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers.
Keorapetse Kgositsile said: "I think an exchange of literature among peoples has better chances of building understanding and friendship than any diplomatic missions could ever achieve."
The Albany,
Douglas Way,
Deptford,
London
SE8 4AG
Box office: 020 8692 4446 / www.thealbany.org.uk
Apples & Snakes presents Beyond Words: New Poetry From South Africa Live On Tour
Four incredible South African poets tour the UK together for the first time. Brought together by South African Poet Laureate and renowned exile campaigner Keorapetse Kgositsile, the show premieres specially commissioned new work. This is a blistering introduction to the new South Africa and to the power of live poetry in performance.
Featuring some of the most exciting voices of South Africa in the 21st century - Keorapetse Kgositsile, Lebo Mashile, Don Mattera and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers.
Keorapetse Kgositsile said: "I think an exchange of literature among peoples has better chances of building understanding and friendship than any diplomatic missions could ever achieve."
Monday, October 26, 2009
LONDON: wordPLAY
Tuesday, 3rd November, 2009, 7pm for 8pm start, £4.50 / £3.50
The Good Ship,
Kilburn
London
Here's wordPLAY 3rd November illustriousness, back after a long, dark wordPLAYless autumn month to give you your much-needed injection of cultural craic...
Your literary line-up this month:
Tim Key http://www.timkey.co.uk/ - a poet so funny that he won the Edinburgh Comedy Award 2009 for his show The Slutcracker, which "attracted a strong cult following for its whimsically surreal mix of poetry, music and mock-philosopical observations on life" according to The Guardian. Made Hazel actually pee herself with laughter at 'Homework' spoken word night, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, live on Newsnight...
Bernardine Evaristo http://www.bevaristo.net/ - Bernardine Evaristo's first fully-prose novel Blonde Roots was published by Penguin UK in August 2008. It's a slavery story with a difference: Africans enslave Europeans over a 400 year period. The protagonist is a white woman from Europa who lives out her adult life as a slave in the New World. Her verse novel LARA will be published by Bloodaxe Books, October 2009.
Guest Stars:
Nancy Clarik http://www.facebook.com/people/Nancy-Clarik/509141598 - wordPLAY deputy host spits her lyrical witticisms on popular culture and beyond
Agnes Lehoczky http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/agnes_lehoczky_f02025.aspx - bilingual poet Agnes reads her beautiful verse, including work from her collection 'Budapest to Babel'
Ola Rhodes http://olarhodes.wordpress.com/about/ - unpredictable stories with bite and sass are this gal's speciality
Jessica Patient http://www.writerslittlehelper.blogspot.com/ - this prose writer has had short stories published in 3:AM, The Beat, Pgymy Giant and Sleepy Orange. She won the Worldskills Gold Award in Creative Writing in 2008.
With music from the beautiful voice and guitar of Hannah Tuson, back by popular demand... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1BzbFW3_I
plus the random erratic musings and mutterings of your host Rebecca Fenton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yVAi6Yd_hA
plus - Raffle-Lit...when we find some goddamn prizes...never fear...
The Good Ship,
Kilburn
London
Here's wordPLAY 3rd November illustriousness, back after a long, dark wordPLAYless autumn month to give you your much-needed injection of cultural craic...
Your literary line-up this month:
Tim Key http://www.timkey.co.uk/ - a poet so funny that he won the Edinburgh Comedy Award 2009 for his show The Slutcracker, which "attracted a strong cult following for its whimsically surreal mix of poetry, music and mock-philosopical observations on life" according to The Guardian. Made Hazel actually pee herself with laughter at 'Homework' spoken word night, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, live on Newsnight...
Bernardine Evaristo http://www.bevaristo.net/ - Bernardine Evaristo's first fully-prose novel Blonde Roots was published by Penguin UK in August 2008. It's a slavery story with a difference: Africans enslave Europeans over a 400 year period. The protagonist is a white woman from Europa who lives out her adult life as a slave in the New World. Her verse novel LARA will be published by Bloodaxe Books, October 2009.
Guest Stars:
Nancy Clarik http://www.facebook.com/people/Nancy-Clarik/509141598 - wordPLAY deputy host spits her lyrical witticisms on popular culture and beyond
Agnes Lehoczky http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/agnes_lehoczky_f02025.aspx - bilingual poet Agnes reads her beautiful verse, including work from her collection 'Budapest to Babel'
Ola Rhodes http://olarhodes.wordpress.com/about/ - unpredictable stories with bite and sass are this gal's speciality
Jessica Patient http://www.writerslittlehelper.blogspot.com/ - this prose writer has had short stories published in 3:AM, The Beat, Pgymy Giant and Sleepy Orange. She won the Worldskills Gold Award in Creative Writing in 2008.
With music from the beautiful voice and guitar of Hannah Tuson, back by popular demand... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1BzbFW3_I
plus the random erratic musings and mutterings of your host Rebecca Fenton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yVAi6Yd_hA
plus - Raffle-Lit...when we find some goddamn prizes...never fear...
Saturday, October 24, 2009
LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT
Sunday, October 25th, 2009, 7.30pm, £3 (£2 Student/OAP)
The Stables,
Newbold Comyn Arms,
Newbold Terrace East,
Leamington Spa,
CV32 4EU
(please follow directions from the pub’s website as the postcode information is misleading if you are using GPS or multimap).
Our special guest for October is the highly recommended and published poet Emily Wills.
She lives and works in Gloucestershire. She has had two collections published by The Rialto: Diverting the Sea (2000) and Developing the Negative (2008). Emily has read at various festivals including Ledbury and Aldeburgh, and was a semi-finalist in the first (and only) poetry slam in Wotton-under-Edge. She is an enthusiastic, if occasional, poetry tutor and has been poet in residence in a GP surgery.
Her poems have appeared in magazines including Anon, Iota, Magma, Other Poetry, Acumen, Quattrocentro, Seam, Smiths Knoll, Staple, The Frogmore Papers, The Rialto and in the anthologies Reactions 2 and 3, published by UEA.
With open mic support from…….yes……YOU!
Come and share your poems - seasoned poets & first time performers most welcome! We aim for a 7.30pm start, so please arrive a bit earlier to book a slot!!!
If you're planning to come along, or would like to know more about the night, please email pgrpoetryandpints@talktalk.net
The Stables,
Newbold Comyn Arms,
Newbold Terrace East,
Leamington Spa,
CV32 4EU
(please follow directions from the pub’s website as the postcode information is misleading if you are using GPS or multimap).
Our special guest for October is the highly recommended and published poet Emily Wills.
She lives and works in Gloucestershire. She has had two collections published by The Rialto: Diverting the Sea (2000) and Developing the Negative (2008). Emily has read at various festivals including Ledbury and Aldeburgh, and was a semi-finalist in the first (and only) poetry slam in Wotton-under-Edge. She is an enthusiastic, if occasional, poetry tutor and has been poet in residence in a GP surgery.
Her poems have appeared in magazines including Anon, Iota, Magma, Other Poetry, Acumen, Quattrocentro, Seam, Smiths Knoll, Staple, The Frogmore Papers, The Rialto and in the anthologies Reactions 2 and 3, published by UEA.
With open mic support from…….yes……YOU!
Come and share your poems - seasoned poets & first time performers most welcome! We aim for a 7.30pm start, so please arrive a bit earlier to book a slot!!!
If you're planning to come along, or would like to know more about the night, please email pgrpoetryandpints@talktalk.net
NORTH SHIELDS: Beyond Words - New Poetry From South Africa
7th November 2009, 7.30pm, £8/£6
Saville Exchange,
Howard Street,
North Shields
NE30 1SE
Box office 0191 643 7093
Apples & Snakes presents Beyond Words: New Poetry From South Africa Live On Tour
Four incredible South African poets tour the UK together for the first time. Brought together by South African Poet Laureate and renowned exile campaigner Keorapetse Kgositsile, the show premieres specially commissioned new work. This is a blistering introduction to the new South Africa and to the power of live poetry in performance.
Featuring some of the most exciting voices of South Africa in the 21st century - Keorapetse Kgositsile, Lebo Mashile, Don Mattera and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers.
Keorapetse Kgositsile said: "I think an exchange of literature among peoples has better chances of building understanding and friendship than any diplomatic missions could ever achieve."
Saville Exchange,
Howard Street,
North Shields
NE30 1SE
Box office 0191 643 7093
Apples & Snakes presents Beyond Words: New Poetry From South Africa Live On Tour
Four incredible South African poets tour the UK together for the first time. Brought together by South African Poet Laureate and renowned exile campaigner Keorapetse Kgositsile, the show premieres specially commissioned new work. This is a blistering introduction to the new South Africa and to the power of live poetry in performance.
Featuring some of the most exciting voices of South Africa in the 21st century - Keorapetse Kgositsile, Lebo Mashile, Don Mattera and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers.
Keorapetse Kgositsile said: "I think an exchange of literature among peoples has better chances of building understanding and friendship than any diplomatic missions could ever achieve."
Friday, October 23, 2009
Last Monday at Rio, Monday October 26th, Glasgow
Monday October 26
8pm- 10pm-ish
FREE
OPEN MIC SLOTS AVAILABLE
The Rio Cafe, 27 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11
Before the word was broadcast the word was spoken. Before the word was published the word was spoken. Before the word was written the word was spoken. The spoken word is live at the Rio Cafe.
This month we have three fine poets travelling in from other cities. ANNE CONNOLLY from Edinburgh is of course our current Glasgow Slam Champion, proof that poets who stir the spirit can win in the rammy of live competition. IRENE BROWN, originally of Weegie ways now crafts her warm, often humorous verse in Scotland's capital. ANNA S. BJORNSDOTTIR is flying in from Iceland specially to share her work with us at the Rio Cafe. This is a strong line-up - augmented by our praetorian guard of open mic speakers. One or two five minute spots still available. If you want to read, speak or perform contact your compere robin.cairns@btconnect.com.
8pm- 10pm-ish
FREE
OPEN MIC SLOTS AVAILABLE
The Rio Cafe, 27 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11
Before the word was broadcast the word was spoken. Before the word was published the word was spoken. Before the word was written the word was spoken. The spoken word is live at the Rio Cafe.
This month we have three fine poets travelling in from other cities. ANNE CONNOLLY from Edinburgh is of course our current Glasgow Slam Champion, proof that poets who stir the spirit can win in the rammy of live competition. IRENE BROWN, originally of Weegie ways now crafts her warm, often humorous verse in Scotland's capital. ANNA S. BJORNSDOTTIR is flying in from Iceland specially to share her work with us at the Rio Cafe. This is a strong line-up - augmented by our praetorian guard of open mic speakers. One or two five minute spots still available. If you want to read, speak or perform contact your compere robin.cairns@btconnect.com.
The Other Room at OXJAM, this Sunday 25th October
THE OTHER ROOM AT OXJAM
25/10/2009, 13:45.
Apotheca, 17 Thomas Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester M4 1FS.
STUART CALTON has published four books of poems: three with Barque Press, and one on his own press, Fenland Hi-Brow. His fifth, Three Reveries, is awaiting publication. He is also a musician who records and performs Free Improvisation and Musique Concrète under the nom de Dictaphone T.H.F. Drenching.
JAMES DAVIES has two short e-collections: The Manual Handling Process (Beard of Bees) and Acronyms (onedit). He has a collection Plants due from Reality Street in 2012. He is one half of the poetry/photography duo Joy as Tiresome Vandalism who have a collection aRb (if p then q) and are currently working on Absolute Elsewhere found in progress at www.joyastiresomevandalism.wordpress.com. In addition he is editor of if p then q and one of the organisers of The Other Room.
Based in Manchester, TONY TREHY is an international art curator, poet, and Director of the Text Festival; Publications include Text, Vertigo, 50 Heads, Reykjavik and The Irony of Flatness. His next book Space: The Soldier Who Died For Perspective will be published by Veer in November 2009. He has exhibited site-specific text installations in various galleries from Reykjavik to Melbourne.
25/10/2009, 13:45.
Apotheca, 17 Thomas Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester M4 1FS.
STUART CALTON has published four books of poems: three with Barque Press, and one on his own press, Fenland Hi-Brow. His fifth, Three Reveries, is awaiting publication. He is also a musician who records and performs Free Improvisation and Musique Concrète under the nom de Dictaphone T.H.F. Drenching.
JAMES DAVIES has two short e-collections: The Manual Handling Process (Beard of Bees) and Acronyms (onedit). He has a collection Plants due from Reality Street in 2012. He is one half of the poetry/photography duo Joy as Tiresome Vandalism who have a collection aRb (if p then q) and are currently working on Absolute Elsewhere found in progress at www.joyastiresomevandalism.wordpress.com. In addition he is editor of if p then q and one of the organisers of The Other Room.
Based in Manchester, TONY TREHY is an international art curator, poet, and Director of the Text Festival; Publications include Text, Vertigo, 50 Heads, Reykjavik and The Irony of Flatness. His next book Space: The Soldier Who Died For Perspective will be published by Veer in November 2009. He has exhibited site-specific text installations in various galleries from Reykjavik to Melbourne.
GALWAY: Gary King book launch
Saturday, 31st October, 2009, noon
Galway City Museum
North Beach Publications and Doire Press are pleased to announce the launch of 2008 North Beach Poetry Nights Grand Slam winner Gary King's debut collection Pluto's Noon Sky, which includes his winning poem, After Disco Lights.
Susan DuMars, poet, fiction writer and co-organizer of Over the Edge, will launch Gary's collection. All are welcome.
Gary King won the 2008 North Beach Poetry Nights Grand Slam. He was also the runner-up in the 2007 Cuirt Festival Poetry Grand Slam. He has read his poems at the White House reading series in Limerick, the Over The Edge series in Galway and O’Bhéal in Cork. He was short-listed for the 2006 Cuirt Festival/Over The Edge showcase reading. Gary’s poems have been published widely in magazines such as Poetry Nottingham, Criterion, West 47 and The Burning Bush. A chapbook of his poems, Ambiguous Lights, was published by Over The Edge in 2004.
Galway City Museum
North Beach Publications and Doire Press are pleased to announce the launch of 2008 North Beach Poetry Nights Grand Slam winner Gary King's debut collection Pluto's Noon Sky, which includes his winning poem, After Disco Lights.
Susan DuMars, poet, fiction writer and co-organizer of Over the Edge, will launch Gary's collection. All are welcome.
Gary King won the 2008 North Beach Poetry Nights Grand Slam. He was also the runner-up in the 2007 Cuirt Festival Poetry Grand Slam. He has read his poems at the White House reading series in Limerick, the Over The Edge series in Galway and O’Bhéal in Cork. He was short-listed for the 2006 Cuirt Festival/Over The Edge showcase reading. Gary’s poems have been published widely in magazines such as Poetry Nottingham, Criterion, West 47 and The Burning Bush. A chapbook of his poems, Ambiguous Lights, was published by Over The Edge in 2004.
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