Langoustine at the Poetry Cafe, Saturday March 7th

WHERE: Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Tube: Covent Garden
WHEN: MARCH 7th Saturday 2009 7:30
WHAT: LA LANGOUSTINE EST MORTE

We have quite a linguistic adventure lined up for March. Cristina Vita & Stephen Watts will be reading from their new book Mountain Language/Lingua di montagna is a bilingual prose poem tracing the course of a deep journey into land, language and memory. Stephen Watts's original English text, considering aspects of his family's roots in the Italian Alps, has been translated by Cristina Viti into one of the Italian languages it ultimately came from.

We also have Michael Zand who likes to cross-pollinate languages and is originally from Iran, the resplendent AnnMarie Eldon also with a new book out who likes to slice and dice the words and then sprinkle them with pizazzazzazzz, and a dash of humour for good measure with Stephanie Leal ...

Step right up!

Perdika Press read at the Poetry Cafe, March 23rd

Perdika Press@The Poetry Café
23rd March 2009

Mario Petrucci, Peter Brennan and Jacqui Rowe read from their latest collections.

Perdika Editions present original and translated works by contemporary poets. The distinctiveness of each collection is complemented by a common commitment to scrupulous innovation, a refashioning of language of and for its time.

Date: 23rd March 2009
Time: 19.30 - 21.30
Location: The Poetry Café, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BX
Tel: 020 7420 9887
Admission: £3

At the Poetry Cafe Next Week .....

22 Betterton St.
Covent Garden
London WC2H 9BX
Tel: 020 7420 9887

Evening of Tibetan Poetry Readings
15th December
7:30PM - 10:30PM

Readings will be taken from works by Tenzin Tsundue, Lhasang Tsering and Woeser.
Suggested donation on entry £3.

Poetry Unplugged
16th December, 7:30-10:30pm

London's premier open mic night. Come and sign up between 6 and 7pm to be on the line up. Hosted by Niall O'Sullivan. £4/3.

Bloomsbury Voices
18th December, 8:00PM - 10:30PM

With Stephanie Gerra and Wendy Shutler. £6/4

Mother Foucault
20th December,8:00PM - 10:30PM

Burlesque and Spoken Word. Hosted by Joelle Taylor.

Wolf Launch: Monday December 8th

THE WOLF: LAUNCH OF ISSUE 19 @ THE POETRY STUDIO, 22 BETTERTON STREET, COVENT GARDEN, WC2

MONDAY, DECEMBER 8TH
8.30PM START

FEATURING RUTH PADEL, CLARE POLLARD, MICHAEL McKIMM, -PLUS GUESTS-
HOSTED BY THE WOLF EDITOR, JAMES BYRNE
IN THESE CREDIT-CRUNCHING TIMES THIS IS A FREE EVENT, BUT SPACE IS LIMITED AND EARLY ARRIVAL IS ADVISED!

The Wolf

THE TRANSGALACTIC INTERWOMAN POETIC EXPRESSWAY

November 8th 2008
7:30pm, £5/ 4 concessions
Poetry Cafe
22 Betterton Street
Covent Garden tube

brought to you by La Langoustine Est Morte ONE TIME ONLY!!!!

HOSTS: Anthony Joseph and Sascha Aurora Akhtar

Representation from all distant and not-so-distant planets
Jamika Ajalon (U.S.A by way of London by way of France)
Olumide Poopola (Nigeria/Germany)
Valeria Melchioretto (Switzerland)
Shanta Acharya (India)
Frances Kruk (Canada)
Ziba Kirbassi (Persia)
Sophie Robinson (the most exotic of them all Old Blighty!)

London: This Week at the Poetry Cafe ....

22 Betterton St.
Covent Garden
London
WC2H 9BX
Tel: 020 7420 9887

3rd November
8:00PM - 10:15PM
£6/4

Bloomsbury Voices

In Your Element: An evening of new, seasonal poems and songs of earth, air, fire and water with poetry from Stephanie Gerra, Wendy Shutler and music by Steve Dagleish and Ivor game. plus open mic after interval.


4th November
7:30PM - 10:30pm
£4/3

Poetry Unplugged

London's premier open mic night. Come and sign up between 6 and 7pm to be on the line up. Hosted by Niall O'sullivan.


6th November
8:00PM - 10:30PM
£4/2

Night journey/Book launch

Come and join us to listen to Josephine Dickinson 's new collection. Bar open all night.

The Shuffle at the Poetry Cafe

30th August
7.30pm
Poetry Cafe
Betterton Street
Covent Garden.

Join us this Saturday night for an ace evening with feature sets from the wonderful...

Simon Barraclough
Judy Kendall
Helen Mort

And shorter sets from the fabulous...

Jon Stone
Peter Ebsworth
Vicci Bentley

The Poetry Cafe: Shangwe

31st July
7:30PM - 11:00PM
Poetry Cafe
22 Betterton St.
Covent Garden
London WC2H 9BX
Tel: 020 7420 9887

Shangwe showcases and promotes fresh emerging artists in a supportive atmosphere. Hosted by Nicole Moore, a published poet and creative writing tutor. Plus open mic.

The Rebel Cell at the Poetry Cafe

Wed 16th July
9pm (following John Hegley), £3 (or free to John Hegley ticket holders)
Poetry Cafe
22 Betterton St.
Covent Garden
London WC2
Tel: 020 7420 9887

The Poetry Cafe are hosting a one-off preview of 'The Rebel Cell' before the show goes up to the Edinburgh Festival. Award winning rap poets Baba Brinkman (Rap Canterbury Tales) and Dizraeli (BBC Radio 4 Slam Champion) go head to head in a fictional, lyrical, comical battle of wits and world-views. Can words and music change the world? "8-Mile meets 1984" following John Hegley - his own festival preview '70 minutes at 7'.

The Poetry Cafe

22 Betterton St.
Covent Garden
London
WC2H 9BX
Tel: 020 7420 9887

The next seven days at the at the Poetry Cafe looks like this:

Poetry Unplugged
8th July, £4/3
7:30PM - 11:00PM

Open mic night hosted by Niall O'Sullivan. Sign on to read between 6-7pm.


Loose Muse
9th July, £5
7:30PM - 11:00PM/3

Hosted by Agnes Meadow.


Survivors Poetry
10th July, £2/1

8:00PM - 10:00PM

Poetry reading with resilience as main theme.


Journey Central Comedy Night
11th July, £6/5
8:00PM - 11:00PM

Comedy show hosted by Lainey Mclean. Different line ups every show. Event details


Literature Lounge Master Class
12th July

11:00AM - 4:00PM

Creative writing workshop with Anjan Saha

Entertainment Club
14th July

8:00PM - 11:00PM

close up magic and music with Matthew Duggan.

POETRY CAFE: The Rebel Cell

The Poetry Cafe are hosting a one-off preview of 'The Rebel Cell' before the show goes up to the Edinburgh Festival.

Award winning rap poets Baba Brinkman (Rap Canterbury Tales) and Dizraeli (BBC Radio 4 Slam Champion)go head to head in a fictional, lyrical, comical battle of wits and world-views. Can words and music change the world? "8-Mile meets 1984."

Wed 16th July
9pm following John Hegley - his own festival preview '70 minutes at 7'
Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton St., Covent Garden, London WC2, Tel: 020 7420 9887
£3 or free to John Hegley ticket holders

Link to the Edinburgh show
http://www.pleasancepages.co.uk/the_rebel_cell/

The Shuffle in the Poetry Society Studio

28th June
7:30PM - 9:30PM, £5/3
Poetry Society Studio
Poetry Cafe
Betterton Street
London

with poetry from Camelia Stafford, Martina Thomson, Rachel Curzon, Hannah Murgatroyd, Michael Mc Kimm , Beatrice Garland and Kate Potts.

Summer line-up for The Shuffle reading series, at the is taking shape:

Confirmed for Saturday 25 July 7.30-9.30pm: Richard O'Brien

Confirmed for Saturday 30 August 7.30-9.30pm: Simon Barraclough

September Shuffle all-stars event: Saturday 27 September with launch of the shuffle anthology.

La Langoustine est Morte

Saturday 7 June 2008
Poetry Café
22 Betterton Street
London
WC2H 9BX
7.30pm
www.myspace.com/langoustine

The 'La Langoustine est morte' series continues to showcase the cutting edges of experimental poetics, fiction and text-based performance. This month we are again joined by 4 innovative writers and performers. Michael Mellor, Keston Sutherland, Alyson Torns and James Harvey. As always the emphasis is on reversing polarities with experimentation in verse, prose and performance. Space is limited so arrive early for a seat.

Hosted by Anthony Joseph & Ronnie McGrath.

LONDON, POETRY CAFE: Flipped Eye free readings

June 4th 2008

Poetry Cafe
22 Betterton Street
London, United Kingdom

To mark our 7th anniversary we are putting on a marathon 11 hours of FREE readings, discussions and book signings at the Poetry Cafe. For 7 hours from 12 noon to 7pm, we will have the sofa sessions - small intimate readings in the basement of the Poetry Cafe, where the authors will sit in sofas reading to a small circle of listeners -- then from 7pm we will have a series of full-fledged traditional, energetic flipped eye style readings with loud whoops and a full house. Please join us! The general outline is as below:

12.00-12.40: NEW FICTION
Aoife Mannix reads from her forthcoming novel, Heritage of Secrets, and fiction editor, Nii Ayikwei Parkes, reads from Ainsley Burrows' forthcoming novel, Land of our Birth.

13.00-13.40: REDIRECTION
Roger Robinson, Nick Makoha and Inua Ellams read from their forthcoming work and talk about the differences in the processes of drafting, compiling, editing as compared to their phenomenally successful first collections.

14.00-14.40: WRITING OBSESSIONS
Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Aoife Mannix and Malika Booker talk about what their current writing obsessions are embracing a gamut of objects, other books, poetic forms, prose arcs, new approaches to metaphor, and weird sleeping habits - all sorts of things that somehow relate to their writing.

15.00-15.40: QUESTION THE EDITORS
Niall O'Sullivan and Nii Ayikwei Parkes will talk about the experience of editing and in-house editing experiences, mainly by taking questions from the audience.

16.00 - BOOK SIGNING: Authors in attendance will include Roger Robinson, Inua Ellams, Malika Booker and Niall O'Sullivan

17.30-18.25: FORTHCOMING POETRY
Jacob Sam-La Rose, Charlotte Ansell and Nick Makoha read exclusively from their forthcoming poetry books

19.00-19.50: NEW POETRY
Niall O'Sullivan, Malika Booker and Denise Saul read from their recently released collections - Ventriloquism for Monkeys, Breadfruit and White Narcissi respectively

20.00 - BOOK SIGNING: Authors in attendance will include Jacob Sam-La Rose, Charlotte Ansell, Nick Makoha, Denise Saul and Niki Aguirre

20.30-21.10: GENERATIONS
Our writers include characters with millions of airmiles and freedom passes in their pockets as well as fledglings with pocket change and airy dreams of flying: This session puts Agnes Meadows side-by-side with Inua Ellams to showcase the poetry of generations that span post-WW2 to post-II (Iraq Invasion) 2.

21.20-22.50: FICTION UNLEASHED
Aoife Mannix, Niki Aguirre, Roger Robinson and W. E. Essilfie - two published and two with forthcoming publications - read from their work. Roger's Adventures in 3D is widely hailed as a classic, Niki's 29 Ways to Drown has just been longlisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Prize - come and hear the classics and see what's new and upcoming...

WHILE THE EVENT IS FREE, WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO DONATE TOWARDS THE DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS IN BURMA THROUGH DEC (http://www.dec.org.uk/) OR CHINA THROUGH THE RED CROSS (http://www.redcross.org.uk/donatesection.asp?id=77029)

New Blood @ The Poetry Cafe, 21st May

Ladies' Night at the Poetry Cafe with Charlotte Runcie, Excentral Tempest and Aoife Mannix. Kickoff 7.30, floorspots available on the night, £5 entry (£3 concessions).

Should be a great night with a really wide range of styles, and it features a  POF staff member, so why not go along? See you there :)

LONDON: Tonight & Tomorrow at The Poetry Cafe

Monday, 12th May: Exiled Writer Ink
8:00pm - 11:00pm
Monthly gathering of writers exiled from their homeland with featured performances.

Tuesday, 13th May: Poetry Unplugged
7:30pm - 11:00pm £4/3
Open mic night hosted by Niall O'Sullivan. Sign on to read between 6-7pm.

The Poetry Cafe,
22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX
tel +44 (0)20 7420 9880 fax +44 (0)20 7240 4818
info AT poetrysociety.org.uk

The Poetry Cafe

Upcoming events at the The Poetry Cafe,
22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX
tel +44 (0)20 7420 9880 fax +44 (0)20 7240 4818
info AT poetrysociety.org.uk

6th May: Poetry Unplugged
7:30pm - 11:00pm £4/3

Open mic night hosted by Niall O'Sullivan. Sign on to read between 6-7pm.

7th May: Ash Dickinson @ the Poetry Cafe
7:30pm - 11:00pm £4/3

Looks like Banksy is not the only great export from Bristol after all. Not to miss!

8th May: Survivors Poetry
8:00pm - 11:00pm £2/1

Poetry reading with resilience as main theme.

11th May: The Cellar
8:00pm - 11:00pm

Another one from Niall O'Sullivan.

12th May: Exiled Writer Ink
8:00pm - 11:00pm

Monthly gathering of writers exiled from their homeland with featured performances.

13th May: Poetry Unplugged
7:30pm - 11:00pm £4/3


Open mic night hosted by Niall O'Sullivan. Sign on to read between 6-7pm.

14th May: Loose Muse
8:00pm - 11:00pm £5/3

Hosted by Agnes Meadow.

15th May: African Writers Evening
8:00pm - 11:00pm

Hosted by Nii Parkes.

16th May: London Literature Lounge
8:00pm - 11:00pm £5,/£4

with the usual line up of eclectic poets and open mics. Hosted by Anjan Saha.

The Shuffle at the Poetry Cafe, London: Saturday 26th April

The Shuffle

Poetry Cafe
22 Betterton Street
Covent Garden

Saturday 26th April 2008
7.30 - 9.30
Entry: £5/3

Jacqueline Saphra says: "We've got a great line-up this week - Stella Mandella, Ash Dickinson, Patrick Brandon, Linda Black, Heather Phillipson, Cath Drake, and Roddy Lumsden."

New Blood at the Poetry Cafe: this Tuesday, 15th April

Please click to enlarge. (I wonder if that works with people, too?)

La Langoustine est morte: Saturday 5th April

La Langoustine est morte

Saturday 5th April 2008
The Poetry Café
22 Betterton Street
London
WC2H 9BX

7.30pm -10.00pm
£5/4 conc.

With Chris McCabe, Siddhartha Bose, Jack Underwood, Tom Chivers & Georgina Banfield.
Hosted by Anthony Joseph.

The acclaimed Langoustine est morte reading series continues this April with another night of eclectic literature from 5 innovative poets. This month’s readers are Chris McCabe, author of The Hutton Enquiry (Salt), poet and academic Siddhartha Bose, Jack Underwood, recipient of the Eric Gregory Award in 2007, poet/poetry activist Tom Chivers and the emerging voice of Georgina Banfield.

La Langoustine est Morte was established in July 2006 by poets Anthony Joseph & Sascha Akhtar as a series of evenings celebrating experimentation and innovation in poetics and fiction. For further info and to possibly be part of La Langoustine contact:

lalangoustine@gmail.com
www.myspace.com/langoustine