KINGSTON: Rhythm & Muse - Celebrating Seamus Heaney

Thursday 24th October, 2013, 8.30pm, £6/£5 on the door

Ram Jam Club,

Richmond Road,

Kingston upon Thames

October’s Rhythm & Muse is hosted by Racker Donnelly and is a themed open mic evening to help celebrate the life and work of Seamus Heaney. Bring your favourite Heaney poems to share, or any related songs, stories or anecdotes.

Paul Brennan and Michael O’Connell are the featured musicians – they played to great applause at R&M earlier this year. See http://www.carrigmusic.org.uk/

Book open mic spots in advance via alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk

For more details see www.rhythmandmuse.org

LEWES: Bonfire Poetry

LEWES: Lewes Poetry

Thursday, 18th April, 2013, 8.15pm

upstairs at the Lewes Arms,

Lewes

It will be "Read Your Favourite Poem Night". It can be your own favourite poem or poems or the favourite poem or poems written by someone else. 

LEWES: Lewes Poetry

Thursday, 18th April, 2013, 8.15pm

upstairs at the Lewes Arms,

Lewes

It will be "Read Your Favourite Poem Night". It can be your own favourite poem or poems or the favourite poem or poems written by someone else. 

LEWES: Lewes Poetry 5th Birthday Party

LEWES: Lewes Poetry 5th Birthday Party

KINGSTON: Rhythm & Muse Festival

Tuesday, 20th November, 2012, to Thursday, 29th November, 2012.

Rhythm & Muse and Kingston Writing School present a week of readings,

music, workshops and events:

AF Harrold – Schools event at the Rose Theatre, Tuesday 20 November,

10.30 – 11.30 am, in association with Kingston Libraries and RBK

Poetry Meets Art – Judith Watts leads a workshop at the new-look

Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, Thursday 22 November, 3 –

5pm

(places free, but book in advance via Alison Hill –

alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk)

Poetry in Performance – interactive workshop led by performance poet

Martin Daws, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Room JG0001, Saturday

24 November, 11am – 1pm (places free, but book in advance via Laura

Bottomley - L.Bottomley@kingston.ac.uk)

Wendy Cope & Laurence Owen – Lyrical Laughter at Kingston University,

Penrhyn Road, Room JG003, Wednesday 28 November, 6-8pm, free event

LiTTLe MACHiNe and Slam at the Ram, hosted by Nick Poole – Thursday 29

November, Ram Jam Club, Kingston, 8.30pm onwards, £6/£5 on the door.

Email Alison Hill for more details or to sign up for a slam spot –

alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk

www.rhythmandmuse.org

www.kingstonwritingschool.com

LIMPSFIELD: Grey Hen Press reading

Friday, October 19th, 2012, 6.30pm for 7pm, FREE
The Limpsfield Bookshop
High Street,
Limpsfield,
Surrey
RH8 0DS.

Rosemary McLeish, Ruth Smith and Anne Stewart will read from a selection of Grey Hen Press anthologies.

WORTHING: National Poetry Day

Thursday October 4th 2012, Competition free in advance, Poetry Wall free all day, 7.30pm-10pm performance topped by Patience Agbabi £10.

Lime Café (St Paul’s) 

Chapel Road,

Worthing,

BN11 1EE - 
info@poetryinworthing.com

01903 529084

Competition - free entry  for all age groups. Shortlist published in Worthing Herald and winners performed live (for you or by you) on the night.  Prizes from Kim’s Bookshop.

Poetry Wall  - all day, texts will be displayed on our Poetry Wall.  You can come in and browse, add your own favourite or one of your own works. Entry is free and the café is open all day.  Read, contribute, eat, drink and enjoy.

Peformance by Patience Agbabi preceded by Voices Various,  performing well known texts and some new discoveries, including local competition winners.

Entry details for the competition (free) and tickets for the event (£10 or less) plus more at  www.poetryinworthing.com or 01903 529084

WORTHING: National Poetry Day

Thursday October 4th 2012, Competition free in advance, Poetry Wall free all day, 7.30pm-10pm performance topped by Patience Agbabi £10.

Lime Café (St Paul’s) 

Chapel Road,

Worthing,

BN11 1EE - 
info@poetryinworthing.com

01903 529084

Competition - free entry  for all age groups. Shortlist published in Worthing Herald and winners performed live (for you or by you) on the night.  Prizes from Kim’s Bookshop.

Poetry Wall  - all day, texts will be displayed on our Poetry Wall.  You can come in and browse, add your own favourite or one of your own works. Entry is free and the café is open all day.  Read, contribute, eat, drink and enjoy.

Peformance by Patience Agbabi preceded by Voices Various,  performing well known texts and some new discoveries, including local competition winners.

Entry details for the competition (free) and tickets for the event (£10 or less) plus more at  www.poetryinworthing.com or 01903 529084

KINGSTON: Rhythm & Muse

Thursday, 28th June, 2012, 8.30pm, £6/£5 on the door

Ram Jam Club,

46 Richmond Road,

Kingston

KT2 5EE




This month's Rhythm & Muse sees the welcome return of RackerJacq

following their impressive debut at the Rose Theatre last year

supporting John Cooper Clarke:




“RackerJacq, premiering the collaboration of flautist Jacquelyn Hynes

and former UK Grand Slam champion Racker Donnelly… A grand

juxtaposition of transfixing playing set against the sparkling jacket

and wit of Racker, whose poems are roaringly funny … left the audience

crying with laughter.”

Lucy Furlong, Kingston Guardian




Jacquelyn Hynes plays silver and wooden flutes, sax, piano and

Uilleann pipes. She has supported Ireland’s leading musicians

including Martin Hayes, Michael McGoldrick, Mary Coughlan and Lunasa,

performed with Donal Lunny and for President Mary Macaleese.

“Inventive flautist” Time Out (Critic’s Choice)

www.jacquelynhynes.co.uk




Former UK Slam Champion Poet, Irish Times Speaker of the Year & Grand

Marshal of the Dublin Riviera, Racker Donnelly has performed at many

clubs and arts festivals, with the Chieftains in Bray & with Dara O

Briain at Bloomsbury Theatre. He regularly features at Liverpool Irish

Festival & Whitby Folk Week.

www.rackerdonnelly.com




Plus open mic - email alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk to book a spot.




www.rhythmandmuse.org

KINGSTON: Rhythm & Muse

Thursday, 28th June, 2012, 8.30pm, £6/£5 on the door

Ram Jam Club,

46 Richmond Road,

Kingston

KT2 5EE




This month's Rhythm & Muse sees the welcome return of RackerJacq

following their impressive debut at the Rose Theatre last year

supporting John Cooper Clarke:




“RackerJacq, premiering the collaboration of flautist Jacquelyn Hynes

and former UK Grand Slam champion Racker Donnelly… A grand

juxtaposition of transfixing playing set against the sparkling jacket

and wit of Racker, whose poems are roaringly funny … left the audience

crying with laughter.”

Lucy Furlong, Kingston Guardian




Jacquelyn Hynes plays silver and wooden flutes, sax, piano and

Uilleann pipes. She has supported Ireland’s leading musicians

including Martin Hayes, Michael McGoldrick, Mary Coughlan and Lunasa,

performed with Donal Lunny and for President Mary Macaleese.

“Inventive flautist” Time Out (Critic’s Choice)

www.jacquelynhynes.co.uk




Former UK Slam Champion Poet, Irish Times Speaker of the Year & Grand

Marshal of the Dublin Riviera, Racker Donnelly has performed at many

clubs and arts festivals, with the Chieftains in Bray & with Dara O

Briain at Bloomsbury Theatre. He regularly features at Liverpool Irish

Festival & Whitby Folk Week.

www.rackerdonnelly.com




Plus open mic - email alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk to book a spot.




www.rhythmandmuse.org

LEWES: Lewes Poetry Night

Thursday, May 17th, 2012, 8.30pm

The Lewes Arms,

Lewes

The next Lewes Poetry night stars very imaginative poet and storyteller Simon Welsh plus open mic and the legendary limerick contest. You are invited to bring your favourite poem (by another poet or by yourself) to read. To get on the list to read, email: oliverspoetry@hotmail.co.uk

LEWES: Lewes Poetry Night

Thursday, May 17th, 2012, 8.30pm

The Lewes Arms,

Lewes

The next Lewes Poetry night stars very imaginative poet and storyteller Simon Welsh plus open mic and the legendary limerick contest. You are invited to bring your favourite poem (by another poet or by yourself) to read. To get on the list to read, email: oliverspoetry@hotmail.co.uk

KINGSTON: Rhythm & Muse

Thursday, 26 April, 2012, 8.30pm 

Ram Jam Club

Kingston

Featuring guest poet Allison McVety

Winner of The Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition 2006, Allison’s collection, The Night Trotsky Came to Stay (Smith/Doorstop), was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Review, The Guardian, The Times and PN Review, have been broadcast on BBC radio and appear in the Forward anthologies 2007 and 2008 and in the Forward Poems of the Decade 2002-2011. Her second collection, Miming Happiness (Smith/Doorstop), was published in 2010 and her poem, To the Lighthouse, won the 2011 National Poetry Competition.

With music from singer-songwriter and accordionist Hannah Rose Tristram.

Singer, dancer and musician, Hannah Rose has been touring internationally with world music choirs Village Harmony and Northern Harmony from the age of ten. She is a talented mult-instrumentalist, working and playing as an accordionist, flautist, singer and poet. 

She has led regular groups including The Breath of Life Singers in West Sussex, the World Music Chorus and The Wilful Choir in London. Hannah also runs Kripalu Yoga workshops and is available for one-to-one yoga tuition. 

http://www.naturalvoice.net/pages/hannah-rose.html 

Plus open mic and the chance to submit poems and lyrics to the forthcoming R&M anthology

Email alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk to book a floorspot or for more information.

www.rhythmandmuse.org

LONDON: Velvet Tongue

Monday, 30th April, 2012, 7pm-10.30pm, £3 (free for participants)

Bar Kick,

127 Shoreditch High Street,
London

E1 6JE  (Old St/Liverpool St tubes)

Ernesto Sarezale rededicates himself to his erotic literary soirée this spring. VELVET TONGUE will blossom again at the BAR KICK with a fresh selection of talent (and some returnees) on Monday 30th April 2012.

Featured poets:
* DZIFA BENSON (http://www.itzcaribbean.com/dzifabenson )
* DOMINIC BERRY (http://dominicberry.net/ )

Special appearances by: Sarah Berry, Becky Fury, Katie Sarra...  and plenty of open mic slots!

On facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/334413446601020/

OPEN MIC SLOTS: Bring along your sexy words and share them with us. Have you got an erotic poem, a sexy short story, a salacious monologue, a sexually explicit section of your novel, a provocative comic strip, a risqué stand up routine? Would you like to share a piece of erotica from an author you admire? Come and read it in front of an appreciative audience. FREE entrance to open mic performers.

To sign up for the 5min open mic slots, email  Ernesto:
ernesto(at)sarezale.com (or give your name on the night in case  there are any slots left)

Contact phone number: 07733263823 (Ernesto)
Email:ernesto@sarezale.com
Web: http://velvettongueuk.blogspot.com/

http://www.sarezale.com
http://www.vimeo.com/ernesto

KINGSTON: Rhythm & Muse

Thursday, 26 April, 2012, 8.30pm 

Ram Jam Club

Kingston

Featuring guest poet Allison McVety

Winner of The Poetry Business Book and Pamphlet Competition 2006, Allison’s collection, The Night Trotsky Came to Stay (Smith/Doorstop), was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Review, The Guardian, The Times and PN Review, have been broadcast on BBC radio and appear in the Forward anthologies 2007 and 2008 and in the Forward Poems of the Decade 2002-2011. Her second collection, Miming Happiness (Smith/Doorstop), was published in 2010 and her poem, To the Lighthouse, won the 2011 National Poetry Competition.

With music from singer-songwriter and accordionist Hannah Rose Tristram.

Singer, dancer and musician, Hannah Rose has been touring internationally with world music choirs Village Harmony and Northern Harmony from the age of ten. She is a talented mult-instrumentalist, working and playing as an accordionist, flautist, singer and poet. 

She has led regular groups including The Breath of Life Singers in West Sussex, the World Music Chorus and The Wilful Choir in London. Hannah also runs Kripalu Yoga workshops and is available for one-to-one yoga tuition. 

http://www.naturalvoice.net/pages/hannah-rose.html 

Plus open mic and the chance to submit poems and lyrics to the forthcoming R&M anthology

Email alison-hill@blueyonder.co.uk to book a floorspot or for more information.

www.rhythmandmuse.org

SOUTHAMPTON: 451

Monday, 16th April, 2012, 7pm, £5/£3 open mic
Nuffield Studio,
University Road,
Southampton
SO17 1TR
www.applesandsnakes.org / www.nuffieldtheatre.co.uk

Apples and Snakes presents 451
A bi-monthly showcase of local, national and international spoken word. Expect articulate artistry, expressive eloquence and verbal thrills’n’spills. Also open mic slots are available on the door.

SOUTHAMPTON: 451

Monday, 16th April, 2012, 7pm, £5/£3 open mic
Nuffield Studio,
University Road,
Southampton
SO17 1TR
www.applesandsnakes.org / www.nuffieldtheatre.co.uk



Apples and Snakes presents 451
A bi-monthly showcase of local, national and international spoken word. Expect articulate artistry, expressive eloquence and verbal thrills’n’spills. Also open mic slots are available on the door.

LEWES: Lewes Poetry

Thursday, March 15th, 2012, 8.15pm

The Lewes Arms,

Mount Place,

Lewes,

Sussex

Lewes Poetry is on this Thursday upstairs at the Lewes Arms with the usual great selection of poets, and the legendary prize limerick contest.