New Writing from Warwick: a LAUNCH reminder for TONIGHT!

BROADCAST 2 - work from Warwick University

Wednesday 31st October
7.30pm
Conference Room, Warwick Arts Centre

Broadcast 2 - Picture Thinking and other stories will be launched on Wednesday October 31st in the Conference Room at Warwick Arts Centre. The event starts at 7.30, and includes performances from the students in the anthology, plus readings by great Heaventree poets Simon Turner and Milorad Krystanovich, and an acoustic performance by tutor, writer and musician Peter Blegvad. It all looks set to be wonderful night, and I hope you will be able to make it. Please support this project and the work of new Warwick writers!

Jane Commane

Glasgow Open Mic & Headline Poetry Act: Last Mondays

Last Monday at Rio

Monday October 29th
8pm start
The Rio Cafe, 27 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11

Headline act this month is Kevin Cadwallender, author of the "Baz" poems (a lairy Newcastle lout). Kevin explores the "Baziness" in the world around him, the people he meets and - if truth be told - in himself!

We will also be treated to the raving, ranting, radical who may or may not possess a birth certificate bearing the name Gary Death.

The first hour of the evening is open mic. Robin Cairns is your compere. Anyone wishing to read, speak or perform should contact robin.cairns@btconnect.com

New Writing from Warwick: Broadcast 2 launch

BROADCAST 2 - work from Warwick University

Wednesday 31st October
7.30pm
Conference Room, Warwick Arts Centre

Broadcast 2 - Picture Thinking and other stories will be launched on Wednesday October 31st in the Conference Room at Warwick Arts Centre. The event starts at 7.30, and includes performances from the students in the anthology, plus readings by great Heaventree poets Simon Turner and Milorad Krystanovich, and an acoustic performance by tutor, writer and musician Peter Blegvad. It all looks set to be wonderful night, and I hope you will be able to make it. Please support this project and the work of new Warwick writers!

Jane Commane

Oxford Poets anthology launch in London

Launch of Oxford Poets 2007

Monday 29th October
6.30pm
Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EB

Readings from Jemma Borg, Mary Ingoldby (reading poems by Grace Ingoldby), Olivia McCannon, Saradha Soobrayen, Damien Walford Davies and John White to launch Oxford Poets 2007, the latest in the anthology series published annually by Carcanet. Please RSVP to stephenprocter@carcanet.co.uk

"The fifth OxfordPoets anthology continues the aim stated in the first of the series, 'a desire to represent the best' of the new work associated with the OxfordPoets imprint. This latest collection is as varied and thought-provoking as the earlier books. Here are poets from a diversity of backgrounds and traditions, spanning ages, experiences and purposes.

What they share is a commitment to the truth of their experience and an excitement with the possibilities of poetry. They often write at the point where the private and public worlds collide, but such serious concerns never preclude wit, imagination, an inventive flair for language. New writers, and writers who are already becoming recognised, are making compelling new poetry."

For more, visit www.carcanet.co.uk
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David Miller in Kentish Town: TONIGHT!

David Miller reads & plays!

Sunday 28 October 2007
7.30pm.
at the Torriano, 99 Torriano Avenue, Kentish Town, London NW5.
Admission £5 / £4 / £3 / £2 (according to pocket).

David Miller reads his poetry and plays the clarinet, after readings from the floor.

Sunday XPress in Birmingham: this Sunday!

SUNDAY XPRESS OPEN MIC
"Come to the Sunday Xpress! This Sunday 3-6pm ish, all open mic, all types of performers welcome (and their audiences) and hopefully free roast potatoes, I'll have to see how I feel Sunday morning.

Market Tavern, corner of Moseley St & Birchall St, Digbeth, Birmingham."

Liz Smith

Hammer & Tongue event in Oxford

Friday 26th October
8 - 11pm
East Oxford Community Centre, Oxford

East Oxford Community Centre on Friday 26th 8-11pm plays host to the
mighty Queen Sheba all the way from the US of A, a poet, activist and
revolutionary with too many slam titles under her belt to bother
boasting about. We will be blessed by the wisdom of Frank Isahak and
then blown away with a live reggae set from Oxford's finest The
Aboriginals. £5 or £4 if you haven't got £5 on the door, includes
entry to the bar for Mish Mash which is open late.

VOICES from the Sheffield Flood: Wednesday 31st October

Voices from The Sheffield Flood

31 October 2007
7:30 PM
with Rob Hindle and Shelley Roche-Jacques
Quaker Meeting House, St James Row, Sheffield

Rob Hindle’s pamphlet Some Histories of the Sheffield Flood 1864 explores the disaster through the lives and ends of some of its victims. (Winner of the 2006 Templar Poetry Pamphlet Competition).

Shelley Roche-Jacques’ dramatic monologues draw on the everyday details in the 11 volumes of Flood Compensation Claims held at Sheffield Archives.

Part of the Off the Shelf Festival
£4/£3 (cons) from SIS - Tel 0114 273 4761 or 273 4712

Rhythm & Muse, Teddington: Thursday October 25th

Rhythm & Muse

Thursday October 25th
8.30-10.30pm
£4.00/£2.00

Poetry and music in The Lion, Wick Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11. Guest poets this month are Rik Wilkinson and Joanna Ezekiel and music from singer guitarist Susan Wheeler. Also open mic - poetry and music (book in advance).

Contact Alison Hill for further info
Tel: 020 8977 4610 or email:
alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk

Cambridge Open Mic: Tuesday 23rd October

CB1 Poetry Night

Our next event is this coming Tuesday, 23rd October, at CB1 Cafe on Mill Road, Cambridge. Patrick Widdess will be giving readings as our featured local poet, and there will be plenty of opportunity for open mike readers, with a vote and prize for the most popular poem.

Entry is £3/£2 concessions; please arrive in good time for readings to start at 8pm sharp -- sign up is at 7:45 for open mike slots.

All CB1 Cafe events are on the fourth Tuesday of the month, hence on the 23rd this month. Our next event after that is on the 13th of November with Michael Laskey at the Michaelhouse.

Patrick Widdess did his first reading at CB1 in 2001 shortly after graduating from Liverpool John Moores with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing. Following this he spent many years living abroad, teaching English as a foreign language; resurfacing from time to time in Cambridge and at CB1.

Glasgow monthly Open Mic & Headline Poetry Act: Last Mondays

Last Monday at Rio

Monday October 29th
8pm start
The Rio Cafe, 27 Hyndland Street, Glasgow G11

Headline act this month is Kevin Cadwallender, author of the "Baz" poems (a lairy Newcastle lout). Kevin explores the "Baziness" in the world around him, the people he meets and - if truth be told - in himself!

We will also be treated to the raving, ranting, radical who may or may not possess a birth certificate bearing the name Gary Death.

The first hour of the evening is open mic. Robin Cairns is your compere. Anyone wishing to read, speak or perform should contact robin.cairns@btconnect.com

Galway Slam & Rita Ann Higgins

A rare opportunity to hear Galway poet Rita Ann Higgins read as guest poet at North Beach Poetry Nights in BK's Winebar, Spanish Parade. Ever since the publication of Goddess on the Mervue Bus and Witch in the Bushes in the early 1980's, Rita Ann has become one of the foremost poetic voices in Ireland. She has read in most countries and at most of the famous universities in the world. Gerry Ryan and Pat Kenny have also had the pleasure of her "on-air" company.

Rita Ann's poetry is straight-talking and hard-hitting.
Her poetry readings are always memorable.

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The North Beach Poetry Nights' 2 - Round Slam

Poets wishing to enter the Slam are requested to bring along 2 poems, max. 3 minutes each. The winner of the Slam receives a bottle of red wine courtesy of BK's Winebar and automatically goes forward to the North Beach Poetry Nights' Grand Slam on December 22nd.

The prize for the winner of the Grand Slam is the publication of a collection of the winner's poetry.

Thursday 25 October 9 pm
BK's Winebar
Spanish Parade, Galway

Info: john walsh at 091-593290
overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com

Derwent Poetry Festival coming soon!

Inaugural Derwent Poetry Festival

27th-28th October 2007
Masson Mills, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire



This brand-new Poetry Festival opens with the Awards Event (free) for the 2007 Templar Poetry Pamphlet & Collection Competition, presented by this year's judge, Jean Sprackland - with readings by the 2007 Anthology Poets and followed by readings from the pamphlet winners, Pat Borthwick, Linda Cash and Pat Winslow and further readings from Jean Sprackland, Jane Weir, Mike Barlow, Derek Adams, Angela Cleland, Jim Caruth, Rob Hindle, Judy Brown and Simon Armitage.

For full programme and tickets visit www.templarpoetry.co.uk or phone the Box Office on 01629 582500.

The festival is held in the best preserved of Richard Arkwright's former Mills in the spectacular limestone gorge, part of the Derwent Valley World Heritage site. It can be reached from London by train to Derby and branch Derwent Valley line to Matlock Bath.

Launch event near Exeter: Sunday October 21st

Tony Lopez launches 'Covers'

Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World

Sunday, October 21, 2007
12:30pm - 2:30pm
Haldon Forest Park, Exeter, United Kingdom
Contact 01392832277
Email: info@ccanw.co.uk

A reading by Tony Lopez with music. Free event

Take the A38 Exeter Plymouth road and turn off for Exeter racetrack,
follow signs for forest walks to CCANW

Essex Festival 2007: this Saturday 20th October

Essex Poetry Festival

Cramphorn Theatre, Fairfield Road, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 1JG
Starts 1pm
Featuring Daljit Nagra, Catherine Smith, A F Harrold, Essex Poets Jane Holland and Tim Cunningham, a mass workshop with Michael Laskey, open mic and competition winners reading with adjudicator Anne-Marie Fyfe.

£12 / £10 conc.



Please click to enlarge. Also, see the Essex Poetry Festival website.

Box office: 01245 606 505

Poetry & Poppadums: London, Monday 22nd October

Poetry and Poppadums

Monday 22nd October 2007, doors at 6pm, show at 8.15pm
La Kera Restaurant, 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, London N22
£5 / £3 conc.

"The UK's only spoken word gig in an Indian restaurant" returns with readings from Logan Murray, Jasmine Cooray, Radical and Aoife Mannix. Hosted by Paul Lyalls.

The publicity material for this event says:

"The UK's only spoken word gig in an Indian restaurant returns, tastier than ever with great food and stunning sets from the brilliantly funny LOGAN MURRAY, feisty rising JASMINE COORAY, the powerful voice of RADICAL & the searing wit of AOIFE MANNIX. Host for the night is PAUL LYALLS and yes, there will be Poppadums for all.

For info and ticket reservations call 020 8829 8962
or email info@karamel.co.uk

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This sounds fantastic! I want to have a P&P night like this up here in the Midlands. But could I really be bothered to read poems with a belly full of Rogan Josh?! Ed.

London Lip: celebration of London, including poet-performers

Cult urban writers convene for London Lip!

Penned in the Margins presents London Lip! – a celebration of the paperback publication of London: City of Disappearances featuring readings, conversation and performances refereed by celebrated London writer Iain Sinclair. Witness a rare urban excursion by legendary Northampton magus of the graphic novel Alan Moore and the Texas-exiled creator of the multiverse and author of Mother London Michael Moorcock. Plus interventions by poets/performance artists Brian Catling and Kirsten Norrie.

This unique event takes place in the atmospheric surroundings of The Bishopsgate Institute's Great Hall, conveniently located opposite Liverpool Street Station.

Friday 26 October 6.30pm
The Bishopsgate Institute 230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH
Tickets £10 from Ticket Office

£12 on the door

Glasgow Slam! this Sunday, October 21st

Glasgow Slam!

Sunday October 21st
Blackfriars, Bell Street, Merchant City, Glasgow.
Starts 8pm.
£3 contestants/concessions.
£5 audience.

Robin Cairns is your compere for The Glasgow Slam, October 2007. Poets have two minutes in the first round, two minutes in the semi-finals and three minutes in the final (should the panel of 3 judges smile on them.) Prize money is £70 for the winner, £20 for second and £10 for third place. All three finalists will be invited to take part in the Scottish Slam Championships in March 08 (run by the Atye Write festival).

There are still places available so "Bring your guff and strut your stuff!" Register by contacting robin.cairns@btconnect.com

Torbay Poetry Festival: 18th - 22nd October

This takes place this weekend at various venues across Torbay; a weekend of poetry events including readings, talks workshops and social gatherings. 18 October - 22 October 2007.

Visit www.poetrypf.co.uk/images/torbayfestival07.pdf for full listings of events.

Shearsman Poetry: Wednesday 17th October

Shearsman Reading Series

Wednesday 17th October
7.30pm

The seventh in the Shearsman Reading Series takes place on Wednesday, 17 October at 7:30 pm, featuring ERIN MOURE, Canadian poet and translator, whose translation of Chus Pato's Charenton will be launched at the event. Erín will also read from her latest Canadian collection O Cadoiro (House of Anansi, Toronto, 2007). We will also be launching the new issue of Shearsman magazine, no. 73/74, on the night, and three of the poets from the issue will give short readings: Claire Crowther, Carrie Etter and Rachel Lehrman.

The venue is
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH

Admission free, but we will pass the metaphorical hat for contributions. 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/pages/editorial/readings.html