GALWAY: 2nd Annual North Beach Poetry Nights' Grand Slam

Monday, December 15th, 2008, 9pm, €5
The Crane Bar,
Sea Road,
Galway

North Beach Poetry Nights PROUDLY presents The 2nd Annual North Beach Poetry Nights' Grand Slam, with 15 Poets/Performers!

Special Guest appearances from
Lucy English (Bristol)
Miceál Kearney (2007 Grand Slam Winner)
Little John Nee
The prize for the North Beach Poetry Nights' Grand Slam winner is publication of a collection of her/his work.

The Judges for the 2008 Grand Slam are: Lucy English, Jarlath Fahy and Moya Roddy.

BELFAST: Kei Miller and Daljit Nagra

Thursday 6th November, 2008, 7pm
Lecture Theatre G9,
Queens University
Lanyon North,
Belfast QUB

The young Jamaican poet and novelist Kei Miller will be reading at Queens University Belfast next Thursday with Daljit Nagra, author of the acclaimed collection Look We Have Coming to Dover!.

Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978. His poetry collection There Is An Anger That Moves was published in 2007 by Carcanet; his first novel, The Same Earth, appeared from Weidenfeld & Nicolson earlier this year.

Dream Tour concludes in Belfast

Dream Tour concludes on National Poetry Day

The Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN
7.30pm
Thursday 4th October (National Poetry Day)

The conclusion of the tour on which Gywneth Lewis, Patience Agbabi, Gearóid MacLachlainn and Robert Crawford - respectively representing Wales, England, Northern Ireland and Scotland - performed in each of the UK's capital cities in the first week of October, building up to this final show on National Poetry Day itself. 04 October 2007.

Tickets £8 / £5.
To book call 028 9097 1070

National Dream Tour kicks off today in LONDON

National Dream Tour

National Poetry Day brings you the Dream Tour – an opportunity to see four of our finest living poets performing from their work on stage.

Representing Wales, England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, the voices of Gywneth Lewis, Patience Agbabi, Gearóid MacLachlainn and Robert Crawford will bring contemporary poetry vividly alive in the UK’s capital cities during the first week of October, culminating on National Poetry Day itself.

This tour is made possible by our partners at Academi, the Poetry Society, the Scottish Poetry Library and the Seamus Heaney Centre.

London:
Monday October 1st, 7.30pm
The Arts Theatre, Great Newport Street, WC2H 7JB
Tickets £10 (£8 conc). To book call Ticketmaster on 0870 154 4040

Cardiff: Tuesday October 2nd, 7.30pm
Millennium Centre, Mount Stuart Square, CF10 5DP
Tickets £5 (£4). To book call 02920 472266 or post@academi.org

Edinburgh:
Wednesday October 3rd, 7.30pm
Scottish Storytelling Centre, 45 High Street, EH1 1SR
Tickets £8 (£5). To book call 0131 556 9579

Belfast:
Thursday October 4th, 7.30pm
The Great Hall, Queen's University Belfast, BT7 1NN
Tickets £8 (£5). To book call 028 9097 1070