LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT

Monday, November 11th, 2013, 7.30pm, £3/£2

The White Horse

4-6 Clarendon Avenue,

Leamington Spa,

CV32 5PZ

PUREandGOODandRIGHT is an Open Mic poetry event taking place every second Monday of every month (except December). 

This month our special guest is PGR Slam Champion Augustus Stephens

Augustus spent 25 years working in computers, but has given up his day job to be a poet / musician / performer delighting audiences with his true-life adventures in funny and heart-rending poems. He'll also throw in, at no extra charge, the occasional comic ditty accompanying himself on his small guitar. He has performed his one-man-show 'This Way Madness Lies' at the Birmingham Fest and will be taking it on the road, including Edinburgh Festivals, next year.

DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED! 

You can book an open mic slot on the night!

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 

LEICESTER: Friday Evening Poet-Tea

Friday, 25th October, 2013, 7pm-9pm, £5

Quaker Meeting House,

16 Queens Road,

Leicester

LE2 1WP

Book your tickets here via Eventbrite

Includes tea, cake, books for sale & live poetry and a fine start to the weekend.

Mario Petrucci, Claire Trévien, Matt Merritt and Alistair Noon.

An evening of poetry compered by Nine Arches Press editor, Jane Commane.

Claire Trévien is an anglo-breton poet. Her first collection, The Shipwrecked House (Penned in the Margins, 2013), was longlisted in the Guardian First Book Award. Her poetry appears in numerous magazines and anthologies including Best British Poetry 2012 and The Forward Book of Poetry 2013. She edits Sabotage Reviews, Verse Kraken, and Penning Perfumes.

Alistair Noon was born in 1970 and grew up in Aylesbury. Besides time spent in Russia and China, he has lived in Berlin since the early nineties, where he works as a translator. His poetry and translations from German and Russian have appeared in nine chapbooks from small presses. Earth Records (Nine Arches Press) is his first full-length collection.

Matt Merritt is a poet and wildlife journalist from Leicester. His third collection, The Elephant Tests, is out now from Nine Arches, and previous publications are hydrodaktulopsychic-harmonica (Nine Arches, 2010), Troy Town (Arrowhead, 2008), and Making The Most Of The Light (HappenStance, 2005). He blogs at polyolbion.blogspot.co.uk

Mario Petrucci's work is “vivid, generous and life-affirming” (Envoi). His most recent poems, inspired by Black Mountain and hailed as "modernist marvels" (Poetry Book Society), embrace contemporary issues of searing social and personal relevance via a distinctive combination of innovation and humanity. Whether exploring the tragedies of Chernobyl (Heavy Water, 2004) or immersing himself in heart-rending invention (i tulips, 2010), Petrucci aspires to "Poetry on a geological scale” (Verse). His latest collection is anima (Nine Arches Press, 2013).

LEICESTER: Friday Evening Poet-Tea

Friday, 25th October, 2013, 7pm-9pm, £5

Quaker Meeting House,

16 Queens Road,

Leicester

LE2 1WP

Book your tickets here via Eventbrite

Includes tea, cake, books for sale & live poetry and a fine start to the weekend.

Mario Petrucci, Claire Trévien, Matt Merritt and Alistair Noon.

An evening of poetry compered by Nine Arches Press editor, Jane Commane.

Claire Trévien is an anglo-breton poet. Her first collection, The Shipwrecked House (Penned in the Margins, 2013), was longlisted in the Guardian First Book Award. Her poetry appears in numerous magazines and anthologies including Best British Poetry 2012 and The Forward Book of Poetry 2013. She edits Sabotage Reviews, Verse Kraken, and Penning Perfumes.

Alistair Noon was born in 1970 and grew up in Aylesbury. Besides time spent in Russia and China, he has lived in Berlin since the early nineties, where he works as a translator. His poetry and translations from German and Russian have appeared in nine chapbooks from small presses. Earth Records (Nine Arches Press) is his first full-length collection.

Matt Merritt is a poet and wildlife journalist from Leicester. His third collection, The Elephant Tests, is out now from Nine Arches, and previous publications are hydrodaktulopsychic-harmonica (Nine Arches, 2010), Troy Town (Arrowhead, 2008), and Making The Most Of The Light (HappenStance, 2005). He blogs at polyolbion.blogspot.co.uk

Mario Petrucci's work is “vivid, generous and life-affirming” (Envoi). His most recent poems, inspired by Black Mountain and hailed as "modernist marvels" (Poetry Book Society), embrace contemporary issues of searing social and personal relevance via a distinctive combination of innovation and humanity. Whether exploring the tragedies of Chernobyl (Heavy Water, 2004) or immersing himself in heart-rending invention (i tulips, 2010), Petrucci aspires to "Poetry on a geological scale” (Verse). His latest collection is anima (Nine Arches Press, 2013).

LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT

Monday, October 14th, 2013, 7.30pm, £3/£2

The Warwick Arms (formerly known as The Sozzled Sausage) 

141 Regent Street,

Leamington Spa,

CV32 4NX

Every second Monday of the month (except December) 

Words & music from The Very Grimm Brothers - the only thing that cheers them up is you. Recent appearances alongside the Peatbog Faeries, Attila, John Hegley & Roger McGough.

DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED! 

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 

LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT

Monday, October 14th, 2013, 7.30pm, £3/£2

The Warwick Arms (formerly known as The Sozzled Sausage) 

141 Regent Street,

Leamington Spa,

CV32 4NX

Every second Monday of the month (except December) 

Words & music from The Very Grimm Brothers - the only thing that cheers them up is you. Recent appearances alongside the Peatbog Faeries, Attila, John Hegley & Roger McGough.

DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED! 

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 

LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT

Monday, 9th September, 2013, 7.30pm, £3 (£2 student/OAP)

The Warwick Arms (formerly known as The Sozzled Sausage) 

141 Regent Street,

Leamington Spa,

CV32 4NX

This month we are excited to welcome back the one and only Sean Kelly. Since founding PGR in 2006 and running away to the North East in 2008, Sean has continued to assume an air of maturity in the real world, whilst releasing his pent-up inner child on the poetry stage. He recently won a Love vs Lust Slam in Newcastle, despite turning up with a fistful of poems he thought were about Love, and being asked to switch to the topic of Lust at the last minute.

Sean has promised to bring one serious poem, though he hasn't promised to read it…

DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED! 

You can book an Open mic slot on the night!

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 

LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT

Monday, 9th September, 2013, 7.30pm, £3 (£2 student/OAP)

The Warwick Arms (formerly known as The Sozzled Sausage) 

141 Regent Street,

Leamington Spa,

CV32 4NX

This month we are excited to welcome back the one and only Sean Kelly. Since founding PGR in 2006 and running away to the North East in 2008, Sean has continued to assume an air of maturity in the real world, whilst releasing his pent-up inner child on the poetry stage. He recently won a Love vs Lust Slam in Newcastle, despite turning up with a fistful of poems he thought were about Love, and being asked to switch to the topic of Lust at the last minute.

Sean has promised to bring one serious poem, though he hasn't promised to read it…

DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED! 

You can book an Open mic slot on the night!

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 

LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT

Monday, 12th August, 2013, 7.30pm, £3, £2 student/OAP

The Sozzled Sausage,

Leamington Spa

CV32 4NX

This month it's time for our Summer Slam!

Thanks to the devoted and supportive atmosphere of the PGR crowd, this is one of the most enjoyable slams you'll ever encounter! There will of course be the usual open mic slots...but the fact that there will be actual prize money and the chance to win a feature slot at a future PGR event is surely enough to tempt even performance newbies to come and join the fun.

The guidelines are as follows:

●   The slam will take place over 3 rounds.The first round will be on the theme of SPORT; the following 2 rounds will be free choice.

●    Each poem should be no longer than 3minutes.

●    Each poet will be appreciated according to their content, delivery and audience response.

●   The top 4 scoring poets from the first round will go through to the semi finals.

●   The victor and the runner up will share the door takings in some fitting proportion.

●   The winner will also be offered the chance to feature at a future PGR event, assuming that they have not featured numerous times before!

If you have any further questions or wish to register, contact pgrpoetry@gmail.com

DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED!

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

Come and share your poems or enjoy the talent of others- seasoned poets & first time performers most welcome!

If you're planning to come along, or would like to know more about the night, please email

pgrpoetry@gmail.com

  

Look forward to seeing you there!