EDINBURGH: Grey Hen anthology reading

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013, 6pm-7.30pm, FREE

Blackwell’s,

53 -62 South Bridge,

Edinburgh

EH1 1YS

A reading from the Grey Hen anthology Cracking On: poems about ageing, with A C Clarke, Joy Howard, Lyn Moir and Margaret Wood. This event is part of Age Scotland’s Luminate Festival.

LONDON: I'm Sorry I Haven't Haiku

Tuesday, October 29th, November 12th, November 26th, 2013, 7.30-11pm, £6/£5

Colonel Fawcett

1 Randolph Street, 

London 

NW1 0SS

Nearest tube Camden Town/Camden Road

London

Contact:madsen.michelle@gmail.com, 

07514 296242

Abbreviated arguments in terse verse

Two teams, 6 poets, 17 syllables.

It’s short, very short.

The show is being podcast and filmed for a TV pilot and we'll run another series of shows in the new year. 

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

SHEFFIELD: We Talk Of Pride And Prejudice

Friday, October 18th, 2013, 7.30pm, £5/£4

Sheffield Students’ Union,

Western Bank,

Sheffield

S10 2TG

http://www.arenaticketshop.co.uk/whats-on/we-talk-of-pride-and-prejudice–the-foundry/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/338019106333217/

At the event a talented group of local writers aged 15-21 share a stage with leading poets Jean ’Binta’ Breeze MBE, Mark Gwynne Jones and Sureshot and all offer their own personal take on the theme of Pride and Prejudice. This show offers playful, witty, soulful and provocative responses to the Jane Austen novel and the book’s central themes in its bicentenary year.

It is part of a new intergenerational project for local elders groups and young writers to engage them in literature and sharing stories.

Developed by Renaissance One in partnership with Writing Yorkshire, in collaboration with University of Sheffield Students’ Union.

LEWES: Bonfire Poetry

LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT

Monday, October 14th, 2013, 7.30pm, £3/£2

The Warwick Arms (formerly known as The Sozzled Sausage) 

141 Regent Street,

Leamington Spa,

CV32 4NX

Every second Monday of the month (except December) 

Words & music from The Very Grimm Brothers - the only thing that cheers them up is you. Recent appearances alongside the Peatbog Faeries, Attila, John Hegley & Roger McGough.

DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED! 

From time to time we are located upstairs, so please let us know if you require disabled access before the event.
If you would like to know more about the night email: pgrpoetry@gmail.com 

LONDON: Jazz Verse Jukebox

Sunday, 13th October, 2013, doors 6.30pm, show 7.30pm, £8 (tickets on door only)

Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club (Upstairs),

47 Frith Street,

London

W1D 4HT

]Tube: Tottenham Court Road or Leicester Square

Web:www.jumokefashola.com
Email: JazzVerseJukebox@me.com

Join us for the JAZZ VERSE JUKEBOX (Upstairs @ Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club) on Sunday 13th October for a smorgasbord of special guests including: enigmatic spoken word artist HKB FiNN, political poet Grim Chip; performance poet collective Burn After Reading, vocalist CeCelia Wickham Anderson and Cuban Singer/Songwriter Domingo Candelario.

Since its inception in 2009, the Jazz Verse Jukebox, (the brainchild of broadcaster & Vocalist Jumoké Fashola), has welcomed established poets & musicians such as Lemn Sissay, Soweto Kinch, Michael Horovitz, David Grant, Anthony Joseph & Jacob Sam-La Rose.  Join us for what promises to be a thrilling night of diverse spoken word & jazz from some of the freshest exponents on the scene. Plus live jazz trio & Open Mic.  With cushions to lounge on, cocktails to imbibe & surprises, this diverse night is one night not to miss!

PLUS Jukebox Open Mic:
Come & sing with our amazing house band or perform some poetry.

Special Guests
HKB FiNN / Grim Chip / Burn After Reading Collective / Domingo Candelario /  CeCelia Wickham Anderson
 

Compered by & with music from Jumoké Fashola
www.jumokefashola.com

LONDON: One Hundred Years of the Don’ts

Tuesday, 22nd October, 2013, 7pm, £6 / £5 Poetry Society members

The Nightingale Room,

Keats House,

10 Keats Grove,

London

NW3 2RR

Box office 020 7420 9886 or email marketing@poetrysociety.org.uk

Ezra Pound’s ‘A Few Don’ts’ shaped modernist poetry and provided a handy toolkit for generations of poets. Don Share, the new editor of Poetry (Chicago) – where Pound’s injunctions first appeared in 1913 – joins the editor of Poetry Review, Maurice Riordan, to discuss whether poets need a new set of guiding principles.