LONDON: Grey Hen Press reading

Thursday, 21st February, 2013, 7pm-8.30pm, FREE

Queen's Park Books

87 Salusbury Road

London

NW6 6NH

A reading from the Grey Hen Press anthology The Price of Gold, with Maggie Butt, Katherine Gallagher, Joy Howard, Marianne Burton and Christine Webb.

LONDON: Paper Tiger Poetry

Friday, February 15th, 2013, £5

Tea House Theatre

139 Vauxhall Walk

Vauxhall

London SE11 5HL (round the corner from Vauxhall tube on Victoria line)

Maplink: http://binged.it/sePcHW

It's Valentine's Day at Paper Tiger Poetry. We have Edward Unique, Ant Smith and magnificent Joshua Idehen featuring, along with the usual open-mic slots. Hosted by Alain English.

GALWAY: 2013 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase

Friday, February 15th, 2013, 8pm, FREE

The Kitchen @ The Museum

Spanish Arch,

Galway



The 2013 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase, featuring Mary O’Rourke, Sarah Clancy, Máire Holmes, Kevin O’Shea, The Tuesday Knights poets, James Lawless, The Abandoned Darlings writers, Elaine Feeney, Micheál Ó’Coinn, Away With Words writers, Michael Faherty, Merlin Park Hospital Writers and Amit Mediratta.



In this annual retrospective of the year just past, Galway-based poets who published a new collection of poems during 2012 are invited to read three poems from the collection in question. There will also be short readings from the anthologies Abandoned Darlings (NUI Galway MA in Writing class of 2012), Wayword Tuesdays (The Tuesday Knights poetry group), Jessica Casey & Other Works (Away With Words writers, published by Salmon), This Never Happened (Merlin Park Hospital Writers) and Infusions (Java Writers). There will also be a reading of poems from Elaine Feeney and Sarah Clancy’s poetry CD Cinderella Backwards. 



For further details phone 087-643 1748.



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

LEEDS: Poetry By Heart

Wednesday, 27th February, 2013, 7.30pm, FREE

Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART) Ltd,

Bennett Road,

Leeds

LS6 3HN

A reading featuring three Ward Wood poets - Keith Armstrong, David Cooke and Joy Howard.

EDINBURGH: Inky Fingers Open Mic

Tuesday, 26th February
, 2013, 
8pm-11pm, FREE

The Forest Café,

141 Lauriston Place,

Edinburgh


This month we’re bringing you a feature from Ghostboy, the Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde of Australian poetry. Ghostboy won the Performance Poetry World Cup (2005) establishing him as one of Australia’s most innovative "spoken weird" artists. He has been Queensland's  “slammaster” since 2005 coordinating two of the nations biggest slam events in the Australian Poetry Slam (Queensland) and the WordFood slam at the Woodford Folk Festival. Ghostboy also fronts punk kabaret act Ghostboy with Golden Virtues and has performed his work on ABC & Triple J radio. Festivals featured at include the Brisbane Writers Festival, Byron Bay Writers Festival, Tasmanian Poetry Festival, and ‘NightWords’ at the Sydney Opera House. His new collection of poetry And the Ringmaster Said… was released by Small Change Press in 2008. http://www.ghostboy.net

The Inky Fingers Open Mic takes place every fourth Tuesday of the month, from 8-11pm. It’s free to come and free for anyone to perform, regardless of style, experience, or identity.

We want to hear from everybody. We want your poems, your rants, your ballads, your short stories, your diaries, your experimental texts, your heart, your mind, your body. We want the essay on your summer holidays you wrote when you were four, your adolescent haiku, and extracts from your eventually-to-be-completed epic fantasy quadrilogy. We want to hear your best new work as well. And we want people to care about the way words are performed.

Open Mic slots are five minutes long; e-mail inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com to sign up and be sure of a slot, and check our website at http://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com for more details.

LONDON: Velvet Tongue - Erotic Soiree

Monday, February 25th, 2013, 7.30pm-10.30pm, £5 on door, £3 concessions, FREE to perform

Bar Kick

127 Shoreditch High Street,
Hackney,
London

E1 6JE

Ticket link: http://www.cafekick.co.uk/bar-kick/contact.html

A literary soiree dedicated to erotic writing and performance! You have to see it to believe it. Hosted by award-winning poet Ernesto Sarezale.

Our featured authors and performers for February 2013 are Coffee+Sponge
, Steven Pottle
, René L'Amour
 and Roz Kaveney



Plus... the usual open mic slots and other surprises still to be confirmed. To get one of the OPEN MIC slots (5 mins): email Ernesto ernesto@sarezale.com or send him a facebook message.

Velvet Tongue is dedicated to erotic writing and performance, with poetry, fiction, spoken word, plays, stand-up, comic strips, cabaret, monologues,… Velvet Tongue celebrates the hot, the sweet, the viscous, the carnal, the sexy, the racy, the provocative, the lustful, the voluptuous, the libidinous, the playful, the flirtatious, the teasing, the suggestive, the explicit, the cheeky, the bold, the brash, the brassy, the flashy, the risque, the pervy, the licentious, the queer, the depraved and the downright kinky. 


LONDON: Hammer and Tongue Camden Open Poetry Slam

Monday, February 11th, 2013, 7.30pm-11pm, £5/£3

Green Note Café

106 Parkway

NW1 7AN

Camden

Nearest tube: Camden Town

Hammer and Tongue Camden Open Poetry Slam featuring Hollie McNish and Bridget Minamore.

Top London spoken word night featuring open poetry slam, hosted by Michelle Madsen and Poetcurious.

"The best in spoken word," The Guardian


Contact: 07514 296242


www.hammerandtongue.co.uk


http://twitter.com/hammerandtongue
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www.myspace.com/hammerandtonguelondon

LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT

Monday, February 11th, 2013, 7.30pm, £3 (£2 student/OAP)

The Sozzled Sausage,

Leamington Spa

CV32 4NX.

This month's guest poet is the wonderful Kate Walton.

Kate Walton is a performance poet and lyrical storyteller, who was winner of the Warwick Words Poetry Slam 2012. With rhymes that chime, she tells her tales from the real to the ridiculous, mixing light with shade to create her own heartfelt, humorous and macabre take on life, through unique observations, experiences and imagination!

DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED! 

With open mic support from…….yes……YOU!

From time to time we are located upstairs, so please let us know if you require disabled access before the event. 

If you would like to know more about the night email: pgrpoetry@gmail.com 

LONDON: Jazz Verse Jukebox

Sunday, 10th February, 2013, doors 6.30pm, show from 7.30pm, £8 (on the door only)

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club (Upstairs),

47 Frith Street,

London

W1D 4HT

Tube: Tottenham Court Road or Leicester Square

Web:www.jumokefashola.com

Email: JazzVerseJukebox@me.com

JAZZ VERSE JUKEBOX

It's a love thing as the Jazz Verse Jukebox get all loved up ahead of Valentines Day. Featuring BBC Radio 4’s Mr Gee, ‘Hip Hop Doctor’ Chima Anya, ‘copyslut’ Amy Acre; ‘Generating rhymes’ G.R.E.E.Ds & the USA Def Jam poet Kristiana Colón plus music from ‘raw-voiced soulstress’  Lizzie Deane & from Jumoké Fashola. Join us for what promises to be a thrilling night of diverse spoken word & jazz from some of the freshest exponents on the scene.

Since its inception in 2009, the Jazz Verse Jukebox, (the brainchild of broadcaster & Vocalist Jumoké Fashola), has welcomed established poets & musicians such as Lemn Sissay, Soweto Kinch, Michael Horovitz, David Grant, Anthony Joseph, Colin Salmon, Jacob Sam-La Rose & Katrina Naomi. Join us for what promises to be a thrilling night of diverse spoken word & jazz from some of the freshest exponents on the scene. Plus live jazz trio & open mic. With cushions to lounge on, cocktails to imbibe & surprises, this is one night not to miss!


PLUS Jukebox Open Mic:

Come & sing with our amazing house band (Simon Wallace -Piano / Neville Malcolm - Bass/ Winston Clifford-Drums) or perform some poetry.

Special Guests

Mr Gee / G.R.E.E.Ds / Chima Anya / Amy Acre / Kristiana Colón plus music from Lizzie Deane

Compered by & with music from Jumoké Fashola

(www.jumokefashola.com)

LONDON: Grey Hen Press reading

Thursday, 21st February, 2013, 7pm-8.30pm, FREE

Queen's Park Books

87 Salusbury Road

London

NW6 6NH

A reading from the Grey Hen Press anthology The Price of Gold, with Maggie Butt, Katherine Gallagher, Joy Howard, Marianne Burton and Christine Webb.

LEWES: Lewes Poetry 5th Birthday Party

LONDON: Life In Transit

Friday, 8th February, 2013, 8pm-11pm, £5

Poetry Cafe

22 Betterton Street

London WC2H 9BX

Nearest tube: Covent Garden

Life in Transit - A night of interactive poetry at the Poetry Cafe

Sam Berkson has created an interactive poetry show based on his recent collection Life in Transit (Influx Press 2012). Expect audience participation, poetry, performance, laughs and sharp insights. Life in Transit explores the meaning of public transport and our relationship with the complex dichotomy of privately owned, publicly used networks

Featuring Sam Berkson, Raymond Antrobus and Michelle Madsen.

"Sam Berkson's own stories of life spent on London's public transport system, including lust on bendy buses and the cramped tyranny of the tube carriage at rush hour, brought political meanings to the tawdry and humdrum experience of the everyday commuter." - The Independent