LONDON: Under Stokes Croft

Thursday and Friday, September 29th & 30th, 2011, 8pm

New Britannia Theatre

Victoria Park Road
London
E9 7BT

By Jack Dean
Illustrated by Hannah Jane Morley

Unknown to most, there is a large, clumsy, furry orange monster living in Stokes Croft, Bristol's dilapidated, graffiti-scrawled cultural quarter. By day, he watches over its people and records their stories. By night, he wanders alone and paints their dreams. Or nightmares. A live graphic novel with stop-motion animation by MC and Poet Jack Dean, Under Stokes Croft takes inspiration from Dylan Thomas’ legendary Under Milk Wood ...to document 24-and-a-bit hours in the life of Bristol’s own Bohemia, centering around the infamous night of 21st April 2011, the Tesco riots. Expect fires, fears, flights and top-notch veggie burgers..

With Guest Poets RAYMOND ANTROBUS on the 29th and PETER HAYHOE on the 30th.

GALWAY: September Over The Edge Open Reading

Thursday, September 29th, 2011, 6.30pm-8pm 

Galway City Library, 

St. Augustine Street,

Galway 

Featured Readers are Aileen Armstrong, Davnet Heery and Moyra Donaldson. The evening will also see the announcement of the winners of this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of the Year. The competition judge is Elaine Feeney.

Aileen Armstrong’s writing has appeared in the Stinging Fly, Three Times Daily, Some Blind Alleys, and Cuadrivio (in Spanish translation). In 2009, she graduated from the M.A. in Writing programme at NUIG, and in 2010, she received a literature bursary award from the Arts Council of Ireland. She lives in Co. Galway, and is currently working on a collection of short stories.

A long-time resident of Cois Fharraige, Connemara, Davnet Heery enjoys solitary walks along the shore and on the bog, day-dreaming. Recently graduated from the MA in Writing at NUIG she has had a giddy summer reading at literary festivals countrywide for the launch of the class anthology Bicycles with Umbrellas. Primarily a poet (she has been grant aided by Galway Co.Co. to work towards a collection Camellia) she also enjoys writing plays. Her short story The Little Girl in Pink was short-listed for The Francis Mc Manus award, 2011.

Moyra Donaldson was born and brought up in Co Down and has been described as one of the country’s most distinctive and accomplished writers: a poet whose voice is full of integrity and mystery. Her first full collection of poems Snakeskin Stilettos was published in 1998, followed by Beneath the Ice in 2001, both from Lagan Press. She has received four awards from the Arts Council NI, most recently, the Artist Career Enhancement Award. Moyra’s poems have featured on radio and television, including the Channel 4 production, Poems to Fall in Love With. Horse’s Nest, was published by Lagan Press in 2006 and described in Poetry Ireland Review as ‘one of the most enjoyable poetry books of the last few years.’ Her most recent collection, Miracle Fruit, was published by Lagan Press in November 2010.

There will be an open-mic when the Featured Readers have finished. This is open to anyone who has a poem or story to share. New readers are always especially welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars.

There will be an open-mic when the Featured Readers have finished. This is open to anyone who has a poem or story to share. New readers are always especially welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748 or see our website http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/

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

RICHMOND: Walking and Book Festival

Monday, 26th September, 2011, 7pm

Richmond Library,
Queen's Road,
Richmond,
North Yorkshire
DL10 4AE

 

Richmond Walking and Book Festival 2011

A poetry reading with Joy Howard, M R Peacocke and Ann Pilling.

Tickets: The Festival Box Office

Castle Hill Bookshop, Richmond, N Yorks

01748 824243

info@booksandboots.org

KINGSTON: Rhythm & Muse

Thursday, 29th September, 2011, 8.30pm, £6/£5 on the door

The Ram Jam Club,

46 Richmond Road,

Kingston

KT2 5EE

Poets Unlimited launch their first anthology with readings from

Fay Avsec, Sylvia Rowbottom, Angela Croft, Norman Staines, Fraser Southey and Jim Alderson.

Ordinary Magic brings together new and previously published work by 11 poets, each concerned

in their own way with the extraordinary events, thoughts and fantasies that illuminate our ordinary lives.

Plus music from The Flying Blueberries - Dudley Tyrrell and Stephanie Sara.

www.grey-horse.co.uk

Full details at www.rhythmandmuse.org

SCARBOROUGH: The Valley Press Reading 2011

Thursday, 22nd September 2011, 6pm-7.30pm, £3 on the door, refreshments provided

Scarborough Library,
Vernon Road,
Scarborough,
North Yorkshire,
YO11 2NN

The Valley Press Reading 2011

A chance to meet (and listen to) the authors published by Scarborough's Valley Press so far in 2011.  Featuring no less than six of the finest poets in Yorkshire - Helen Burke, Jo Reed, James McLoughlin, Deirdre McGarry - plus, the first chance to get hold of Miles Cain's debut collection The Border, officially released in early October. For further info on VP consult www.valleypressuk.com

PLYMOUTH: Forked

Thursday, 22nd September, 2011, 8.30pm, £5 in advance, £7 on door, £4 NUS
B-Bar,
Barbican Theatre,
Castle Street,
Plymouth
PL1 2NJ

Everyone’s favourite jazz floozy Mama Tokus hosts the evening, as we travel with her into mad-cap musical poetry, heart surgery, feminism, comedy and Facebook updates! Check it out:
Featuring: Superbard, Richard Tyrone Jones, Keli Anne B and OneNess Sankara.

For more information on the night or the featured artists visit www.applesandsnakes.org

STOCKTON-ON-TEES: Articulate - Funny Ha Ha, Funny Peculiar

Thursday, 22nd September, 2011, 7.30pm, £5
ARC,
Dovecot Street,
Stockton-on-Tees
TS18 1LL

Apples and Snakes return to guest curate this night of outstanding spoken word, headlined by Bristol’s own ‘sink estate dandy’, the superbly surreal Byron Vincent.
 
Byron Vincent's oratory fuses comedy, poetry and doe eyed bewilderment to create a unique and entertaining spoken word experience. One of BBC poetry season's New Talent Choices, Byron is a regular at the nation's most prestigious literary and music festivals, and he has performed several times on television and national radio.

Also featuring: King Ink, and your genteel hostess Marjorie Pickering.

Info: kirsten@applesandsnakes.org  / www.arconline.co.uk

BIRMINGHAM: Hit The Ode

Thursday, 22nd September, 2011, 7.30pm, £5

The Victoria,

48 John Bright Street,

Birmingham

B1 1BN

This is Hit the Ode, bringing the best poets from the region, the country, and the world to Birmingham. A spoken word poetry night full of poems which you can wear on your skin like tattoos or wrap around your neck like ties; poems which go well with your favourite shirt, you know, the one which makes your eyes pop; poems you can use as earrings, nose rings, engagement rings; poems which will make passers-by do double-takes as you drive them home after the show. Good poems. Featuring Zack Homeless, Evoke, Rachel Rose Reid and Derrick Brown.

Open Mic slots available on  the door

Info: bohdan@applesandsnakes.org / www.applesandsnakes.org

ABERDEEN: The Blue Remembered Hills

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011, 6.30pm, FREE

Books and Beans,

Aberdeen

The Blue Remembered Hills

The past recalled in memoir and poetry to musical accompaniment – Brian Farrington will entertain with readings from his recently published memoir, A Rich Soup with Additional Material. Supporting poets will perform poems evoking their own remembrance of times past. And the music will play on. 

Part of the New Words 2011 Festival.

LONDON: Jawdance

Wednesday, 21st September, 2011, 7.30pm, FREE

Rich Mix,

35–47 Bethnal Green Road,

London,

E1 6LA
www.richmix.org.uk / 020 7613 7498 / boxoffice@richmix.org.uk
Open Mic: russell@applesandsnakes.org

What do you need to unlock the door to brilliant performance poetry?
A skeleton key!
That’s because Jawdance is your portal to some incredible spoken word. So come on in – we’ve already opened the door for you as entry is FREE!
We have feature acts from the poetry hall of fame and a lively host as your gatekeeper of verse. There are poetry-films to watch and an easily-approachable bar, so do cross the threshold into our poetical sitting room.
Get down there early if you want to sign up for open mic and if you’ve made a poetry-film, please drop us a line!
Every third Wednesday of the month at Rich Mix! Jawdance – they’re all talking about it, and it’s all about talking.

BIRMINGHAM: Rhymes

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011, 8pm, £5

The Station Pub,

Kings Heat

Birmingham

 

This month’s poets are James Bunting, James Barnett, Naomi Paul, David Calcutt and special guests The Decadent Poetry Divas!

JAMES BUNTING has been performing for around a year, though writing much longer. In that time he has won several slams, including representing his university in two team slams, performed in cities around the country and was lucky enough to perform at Latitude festival this summer.

 

JAMES BARNETT is a cataloguing librarian from the University of Birmingham who awkwardly stumbled into the spoken word arena in February, performing his first ever open-mic slot at ‘Hit the Ode’. As befitting a librarian, his metaphors are dusty and his line-breaks suitably wary of disorder.

 

NAOMI PAUL is a comedian and actress as well as an engaging and versatile poetess. Whether riding a hippy bus out of downtown Oakland, or protesting about books thrown out of libraries, Naomi gives a hilarious quirky unique viewpoint, beautifully delivered.

 

DAVID CALCUTT is a poet, novelist and playwright. He has written plays for theatre and the BBC. His latest novel, The Map of Marvels, is published by Oxford University Press. He is currently working alongside fellow poets Jacqui Rowe and Deb Alma writing poems with people with Dementia in care homes in Herefordshire.

Also, to wrap up Rhymes as we know it with a special treat, we have the Decadent Poetry Divas, fresh from this year's Artfest. Four fantastic local female poets will be performing new work based around their experiences of being 'women of a certain age'.  Lorna Meehan will be covering that awkward/liberating post-teenage stage of turning twenty, budding poet Laura Yates will be focusing on being all 'grown up and responsible' in her thirties, Charlie Jordan will be examining the trails and tribulations of life in your forties, finishing with Maggie Doyle's take on the joys of your fifties. Cautionary tales, heart warming nostalgia and the occasional eyebrow raising confession, delivered with impeccable style.

LONDON: Under Stokes Croft

Thursday and Friday, September 29th & 30th, 2011, 8pm

New Britannia Theatre

Victoria Park Road
London
E9 7BT

By Jack Dean
Illustrated by Hannah Jane Morley

Unknown to most, there is a large, clumsy, furry orange monster living in Stokes Croft, Bristol's dilapidated, graffiti-scrawled cultural quarter. By day, he watches over its people and records their stories. By night, he wanders alone and paints their dreams. Or nightmares. A live graphic novel with stop-motion animation by MC and Poet Jack Dean, Under Stokes Croft takes inspiration from Dylan Thomas’ legendary Under Milk Wood ...to document 24-and-a-bit hours in the life of Bristol’s own Bohemia, centering around the infamous night of 21st April 2011, the Tesco riots. Expect fires, fears, flights and top-notch veggie burgers..

With Guest Poets RAYMOND ANTROBUS on the 29th and PETER HAYHOE on the 30th.

LONDON: Lumen Poetry Series

Tuesday, 20th September, 2011, doors open 6.30pm for 7pm, £5/£4, WINE

LUMEN

88 Tavistock Place

WC1

Tubes: Russell Square , Kings Cross, St Pancras.

Ruth O'Callaghan presents Cinnamon Press poets Chris Considine, Steve Griffiths and Christine Webb. Poets from the floor very welcome.

NOTTINGHAM: Shindig!

Sunday, 18th September, 2011, 7.30pm, FREE

The Jam Café,
Heathcote Street,
Nottingham

Nine Arches Press & LeftLion present Nottingham Shindig!

WITH SPECIAL GUEST WRITERS: Angela France, Tom Warner and Joel Lane

Angela France has had poems published in many of the leading journals, in the UK and abroad, and has been anthologised a number of times. She has an MA in ‘Creative and Critical Writing’ from the University of Gloucestershire and is studying for a PhD. Her second collection, Occupation is available from Ragged Raven Press. Angela is features editor of Iota and an editor of ezine The Shit Creek Review. She also runs a monthly poetry café in Cheltenham, ‘Buzzwords’ 

Tom Warner was born in Mansfield in 1979. In 2001 he won an Eric Gregory Award and graduated from the University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing MA with a Distinction. His poetry has appeared in a number of publications and magazines, including The Rialto and Stand, and in 2009-10 he was Poet in Residence for Newark-on-Trent. He currently lives in Norwich where he teaches creative writing.

Joel Lane lives in Birmingham and works as a journalist. He is the author of two novels, three collections of short stories, a novella, a chapbook, and three collections of poetry, the most recent of which is The Autumn Myth (Arc). Joel has co-edited (with Steve Bishop) the crime and suspense fiction anthology Birmingham Noir. His latest publication is Do Not Pass Go – a collection of crime stories as part of the Hotwire short-story pamphlet series (Nine Arches Press).

Sign up for the Open Mic on the door.

HAWORTH: Grey Hen Press reading

Sunday, 18th September, 2pm-4pm, FREE

The Bronte Parsonage Museum,
Haworth

As part of the Festival of Women’s Writing, there will be readings from all the Grey Hen anthologies with Carole Bromley, Helen Burke, Julia Deakin, Cathy Grindrod, Jo Haslam, Joy Howard, Pauine Kirk, Hilary J Murray, Alison Orlowska, Gina Shaw and Josie Walsh.

LONDON: Monsters of Poetry

Sunday, September 18th, 2011, 7pm, £3

BAC Cafe,

Lavender Hill,

Battersea,

London

SW11 5TN

Clapham Junction and Apples and Snakes present MONSTERS OF POETRY
When you grow up, it's not the monsters under the bed that keep you awake at night, it's the thought that one day you may have to attend a poetry cabaret. Well, we say feel the fear and do it anyway! Tonight's line-up features some of the true giants and jabberwocks of the spoken-word scene: Yemisi Blake, Comfort, Richard Marsh and Aoife Mannix, all in the deceptively unfiendish setting of the BAC cafe. You'll find that well-honed wordplay is nothing to be scared of. They're not really monsters, you see, they've just got big personalities. Part of SW11 Literary Festival.

Info: www.clapham-junction.com / www.applesandsnakes.org

ABERDEEN: 9/11-Ten

Thursday, 29th September, 2011, 6.30pm, FREE

Books and Beans,

Aberdeen

9/11-TEN

Ten poems by ten local writers on the tenth year since the atrocity

Poems by Keith Murray, Sheena Blackhall, Bernard Briggs, Andrew Milne, Roger Barnett, Olivia McMahon, Sheena M. Leith, Gerard Rochford, Jim Murphy and Eddie Gibbons.

Commemorative chapbook published by Malfranteaux Concepts

  

See www.poetryaberdeen.co.uk for details, and see www.newwords.co.uk for the full festival programme

SCARBOROUGH: The Valley Press Reading 2011

Thursday, 22nd September 2011, 6pm-7.30pm, £3 on the door, refreshments provided
Scarborough Library,
Vernon Road,
Scarborough,
North Yorkshire,
YO11 2NN

The Valley Press Reading 2011

A chance to meet (and listen to) the authors published by Scarborough's Valley Press so far in 2011.  Featuring no less than six of the finest poets in Yorkshire - Helen Burke, Jo Reed, James McLoughlin, Deirdre McGarry - plus, the first chance to get hold of Miles Cain's debut collection The Border, officially released in early October. For further info on VP consult www.valleypressuk.com

LEWES: Clare Best launch reading

Friday, September 16th, 2011, 7pm for 7.45pm, FREE

Needlemakers Cafe,

West Street,

Lewes

Waterloo Press and Needlewriters present the launch of Excisions, by Clare Best.

An unusually clear and direct debut collection. The poems speak of one life, but resound with universal themes of love and passion, inheritance and physicality, loss and adaptation. Includes the acclaimed sequence Self-portrait without Breasts, inspired by the poet's own journey through preventative double mastectomy.   

  

An outstanding first collection. Clare Best treads a sure path through intensity, complication and danger, and the resulting poems question the very nature of change or loss.
- Susan Wicks

GALWAY: September Over The Edge Open Reading

Thursday, September 29th, 2011, 6.30pm-8pm

Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway 

Featured Readers are Aileen Armstrong, Davnet Heery and Moyra Donaldson. The evening will also see the announcement of the winners of this year’s Over The Edge New Writer of the Year. The competition judge is Elaine Feeney.

Aileen Armstrong’s writing has appeared in the Stinging Fly, Three Times Daily, Some Blind Alleys, and Cuadrivio (in Spanish translation). In 2009, she graduated from the M.A. in Writing programme at NUIG, and in 2010, she received a literature bursary award from the Arts Council of Ireland. She lives in Co. Galway, and is currently working on a collection of short stories.

A long-time resident of Cois Fharraige, Connemara, Davnet Heery enjoys solitary walks along the shore and on the bog, day-dreaming. Recently graduated from the MA in Writing at NUIG she has had a giddy summer reading at literary festivals countrywide for the launch of the class anthology Bicycles with Umbrellas. Primarily a poet (she has been grant aided by Galway Co.Co. to work towards a collection Camellia) she also enjoys writing plays. Her short story The Little Girl in Pink was short-listed for The Francis Mc Manus award, 2011.

Moyra Donaldson was born and brought up in Co Down and has been described as one of the country’s most distinctive and accomplished writers: a poet whose voice is full of integrity and mystery. Her first full collection of poems Snakeskin Stilettos was published in 1998, followed by Beneath the Ice in 2001, both from Lagan Press. She has received four awards from the Arts Council NI, most recently, the Artist Career Enhancement Award. Moyra’s poems have featured on radio and television, including the Channel 4 production, Poems to Fall in Love With. Horse’s Nest, was published by Lagan Press in 2006 and described in Poetry Ireland Review as ‘one of the most enjoyable poetry books of the last few years.’ Her most recent collection, Miracle Fruit, was published by Lagan Press in November 2010.

There will be an open-mic when the Featured Readers have finished. This is open to anyone who has a poem or story to share. New readers are always especially welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars.

There will be an open-mic when the Featured Readers have finished. This is open to anyone who has a poem or story to share. New readers are always especially welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-6431748 or see our website http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/

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