Monday, March 14th, 2011, 7.30pm, £5
Green Note Cafe
106 Parkway
Nearest tube: Camden Town
Free for first 8 slammers
We are back at the Green Note and will be kicking off the night with something suitably springlike- be it rain or eggs or chickens. Hosted by Michelle Madsen and Sophia Blackwell.
We are very very excited to welcome....
...
Salena Godden, host of London's sexiest literary salon, The Book Club Boutique, will be featuring. Salena is a British poet, performer and writer living in North London. Her stories and poetry have appeared in Dazed & Confused, Salzburg Review, Le Gun, Penguin’s IC3, Canongate’s Fire People, Serpents Tail’s Croatian Nights and Hodder & Stoughton’s Oral. She's simply marvellous.
Richard Tyrone Jones’ material ranges from the downright daft, through the witheringly self-deprecating to the poignant and formal, always cut through by a strong vein of sardonic humour, bold leaps of the imagination, a strident voice and a deft touch. He runs the successful ‘Utter!’ spoken word events across London (and Edinburgh 2009: http://bit.ly/uttered1 ) with its exciting 'Ajar' Mic contest for new acts. He has hosted the legendary UK Antifolk festivals and runs his own popular (Mis)Guided literary tours of London's suburbs and is the creative genius behind the Sylvia Plath puppet show... not to be missed.
AND - VERY SPECIAL SURPRISE GUEST- UK HIP HOP STAR CHESTER P
Founding member of Task Force and member of Bury Crew, Chester is a legend of the UK Hip Hop scene. We're very lucky to have him, make the most of it.
Sanwiched happily between Salena and Richard we will of course have...
THE OPEN SLAM- CALLING ALL POETS FROM LONDON AND BEYOND! Come along and test your mettle.. slam rules apply- 3 minutes, original material, no props. We'd love to see you... first 8 on the door get to slam. Sign up early to get a place.
"Hammer & Tongue has reinvented the medium for the hip hop generation" The Guardian
"The best live poetry is to be found at the Hammer & Tongue slams" The Sunday Times
"The best gig in Europe, hands down" Buddy Wakefield (World Slam Champion)
Thursday, March 03, 2011
EDINBURGH: Inky Fingers Open Mic
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011, 8pm-11pm, FREE
Forest Café,
3 Bristo Place,
Edinburgh,
EH1 1EY
The Inky Fingers Open Mic takes place in the main room of the Forest every fourth Tuesday of the month. It’s free to come and free for anyone to perform, regardless of style, experience, or identity. We want to hear from everybody. We want your poems, your rants, your ballads, your short stories, your diaries, your experimental texts, your heart, your mind, your body. We want the essay on your summer holidays you wrote when you were four, your adolescent haiku, and extracts from your eventually-to-be-completed epic fantasy quadrilogy. We want to hear your best new work as well. And we want people to care about the way words are performed.
Our feature performers this month are Zorras, the blistering global words-music-video-megaphone combo, and Glasgow-based Nuala Watt with wryly-observed and lyrical poems.
Open Mic slots are five minutes long; e-mail contact address to sign up and be sure of a slot, and check our website at http://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com for more details.
Forest Café,
3 Bristo Place,
Edinburgh,
EH1 1EY
The Inky Fingers Open Mic takes place in the main room of the Forest every fourth Tuesday of the month. It’s free to come and free for anyone to perform, regardless of style, experience, or identity. We want to hear from everybody. We want your poems, your rants, your ballads, your short stories, your diaries, your experimental texts, your heart, your mind, your body. We want the essay on your summer holidays you wrote when you were four, your adolescent haiku, and extracts from your eventually-to-be-completed epic fantasy quadrilogy. We want to hear your best new work as well. And we want people to care about the way words are performed.
Our feature performers this month are Zorras, the blistering global words-music-video-megaphone combo, and Glasgow-based Nuala Watt with wryly-observed and lyrical poems.
Open Mic slots are five minutes long; e-mail contact address to sign up and be sure of a slot, and check our website at http://inkyfingersedinburgh.wordpress.com for more details.
BRIGHTON: Poetry & Story at the X Roads
Iambic Arts Theatre
Regent Street,
Brighton
Tel: 01273 572 101
WATERLOO PRESS & AMBIT MAGAZINE present Poetry & Story at the X Roads a night of readings featuring the launch of two Waterloo Press titles.
The Odysseus Poems
Fictions on the Odyessy of Homer
Judith Kazantzis' sequence of interwoven voices casts the many struggles with monsters, the seductions and loneliness of love, and the long wanderings of heroes into a vivid meditation for our turbulent times... Marina Warner
The Unicycle Set
Nick Burbridge
Just one click on Nick Burbridge's website reveals a man driven: if you thought his compositions as leader of ranting roots rockers McDermott's Two Hours were edgy, prepare yourself for a ride, his poetry is radical and subversive - Simon Jones, fRoots
and special guest, Editor-in-Chief of AMBIT Magazine, Martin Bax, reading from his latest short story collection, Memoirs of a Gone World (Salt, 2010).
These stories are formally adventurous, modern and post-modern, sometimes very droll, and often distinctly filthy. Isn't that enough for anyone? - Geoff Nicholson
with music from Nick Burbridge and fiddler friend
and OPEN MIC - musicians, poets & flash fictioneers welcome!
(5 spots - come early to book - one song, poem or page max)
LONDON: Camden Poetry Series
Trinity United Reform Church,
1 Buck Street,
Camden Town
2 mins. Camden Town tube
Ruth O'Callaghan presents -
Matthew Caley, a star of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
Adnan Al-Sayegh, Iraqi international poet in exile, accompanied by composer and flautist Nicky Heinen
Poets from the floor very welcome (some longer spots available). Please bring a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology which will be edited by Ruth O'Callaghan.
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
BIRMINGHAM: Rhymes Out Of Town Special
Wednesday, 16th March, 2011, 8pm, £5
South Birmingham College
(Digbeth Campus)
www.rogueplay.co.uk
From Brighton: Oliver Gozzard
An established poet whose repertoire bridges the light and amusing and the dark and profound. His first book, The Commuter's Tale, a thriller in verse inspired by the life of Lord Byron, has just been published by Desert Hearts. www.oliverspoetry.com
From Bath: Jack Dean
MC and poet, was born in Tooting, raised in the southwest UK, and likes to wonder all over the place telling stories of love, loneliness, nostalgia and midget porn. Hammer and Tongue Slam Champion, Apples and Snakes featured artist and holder of the highest Pac-Man score of anyone he knows.
www.jackdean.co.uk
From London: Superbard
Who performs Live-Lad-Lit and recently stormed the stage at Apples and Snakes night Jawdance with a bizarre yet strangely plausible film pitch. "perfectly pitched; the script is funny and inventively surreal. Don't miss it." 4*s Three Weeks www.myspace.com/superbard
From Milton Keynes: Richard Frost
A poet a bit like smoking - not big, hard or clever, offensive to some, banned from most public places and always leaves you feeling vaguely unsatisfied, he has been writing poetry on the quiet for ages, hoping to remain un-noticed in his lifetime and then have some iro
South Birmingham College
(Digbeth Campus)
www.rogueplay.co.uk
From Brighton: Oliver Gozzard
An established poet whose repertoire bridges the light and amusing and the dark and profound. His first book, The Commuter's Tale, a thriller in verse inspired by the life of Lord Byron, has just been published by Desert Hearts. www.oliverspoetry.com
From Bath: Jack Dean
MC and poet, was born in Tooting, raised in the southwest UK, and likes to wonder all over the place telling stories of love, loneliness, nostalgia and midget porn. Hammer and Tongue Slam Champion, Apples and Snakes featured artist and holder of the highest Pac-Man score of anyone he knows.
www.jackdean.co.uk
From London: Superbard
Who performs Live-Lad-Lit and recently stormed the stage at Apples and Snakes night Jawdance with a bizarre yet strangely plausible film pitch. "perfectly pitched; the script is funny and inventively surreal. Don't miss it." 4*s Three Weeks www.myspace.com/superbard
From Milton Keynes: Richard Frost
A poet a bit like smoking - not big, hard or clever, offensive to some, banned from most public places and always leaves you feeling vaguely unsatisfied, he has been writing poetry on the quiet for ages, hoping to remain un-noticed in his lifetime and then have some iro
LONDON: Lumen Poetry Series
Tuesday, 15th March, 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 Poets Anne Caldwell, Sally Douglas and Andrea Siviero.
Poets from the floor very welcome.
LUMEN,
88 Tavistock Place
WC1
Tubes: Russell Square , Kings Cross, St Pancras.
Ruth O'Callaghan presents Cinnamon Poets Anne Caldwell, Sally Douglas and Andrea Siviero.
Poets from the floor very welcome.
LONDON: wordPLAY
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011, 7pm-11pm, £3
The Good Ship
Kilburn
wordPLAY returns in aid of Cancer Research UK
Matt Thorne + Carol Oheema + Jack Kelly + Leslie Tetteh + Liz Adams + Sophie Buchan + Sam Buchan Watts
wordPLAY is very pleased to announce that we are returning to the Good Ship in Kilburn for a one-off charity special on Tuesday 15th March in aid of Cancer Research UK. Booker nominee Matt Thorne will be headlining alongside dynamic poetry sensation Carol Oheema, cult Clinic founder Sam Buchan Watts presenting his lyrical take on modern life, as well as a peppering of new and established writers as guest stars ready for a riotous evening of explosive, inspiring and wonderful words.
wordPLAY has been North London’s foremost spoken word event since its beginnings in 2009, and has played host to a wide array of writers such as Laura Dockrill, Kate Tempest, Bernadine Evaristo, Edinburgh award-winning comedian Tim Key, TS Eliot-winning Poet George Szirtes, author of 'Return to The Hundred-Acre Wood' (the Winnie the Pooh sequel) David Benedictus, and an eclectic array of guest stars who are generally less established/unpublished yet generally wonderful writers, varying from traditional poets to MCs, beatboxers and freestylers to prose writers and storytellers.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183936374977029
The Good Ship
Kilburn
wordPLAY returns in aid of Cancer Research UK
Matt Thorne + Carol Oheema + Jack Kelly + Leslie Tetteh + Liz Adams + Sophie Buchan + Sam Buchan Watts
wordPLAY is very pleased to announce that we are returning to the Good Ship in Kilburn for a one-off charity special on Tuesday 15th March in aid of Cancer Research UK. Booker nominee Matt Thorne will be headlining alongside dynamic poetry sensation Carol Oheema, cult Clinic founder Sam Buchan Watts presenting his lyrical take on modern life, as well as a peppering of new and established writers as guest stars ready for a riotous evening of explosive, inspiring and wonderful words.
wordPLAY has been North London’s foremost spoken word event since its beginnings in 2009, and has played host to a wide array of writers such as Laura Dockrill, Kate Tempest, Bernadine Evaristo, Edinburgh award-winning comedian Tim Key, TS Eliot-winning Poet George Szirtes, author of 'Return to The Hundred-Acre Wood' (the Winnie the Pooh sequel) David Benedictus, and an eclectic array of guest stars who are generally less established/unpublished yet generally wonderful writers, varying from traditional poets to MCs, beatboxers and freestylers to prose writers and storytellers.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=183936374977029
BRISTOL: Brizzlemania 8
Tuesday, 15th March, 2011, 8pm, £3
Arts House,
108a Stokes Croft,
Bristol
BRIZZLEMANIA 8: MARCH MENTALISM
OPEN POETRY SLAM featuring:
Summery Soliloquies from THE SUNSHINE KID
Brizzle's own poetry hero JULIAN RAMSEY-WADE
From Seoul to the Southwest, lyrical bluesman JEREMY TOOMBS
Arts House,
108a Stokes Croft,
Bristol
BRIZZLEMANIA 8: MARCH MENTALISM
OPEN POETRY SLAM featuring:
Summery Soliloquies from THE SUNSHINE KID
Brizzle's own poetry hero JULIAN RAMSEY-WADE
From Seoul to the Southwest, lyrical bluesman JEREMY TOOMBS
LONDON: Runnymede Festival in London
Wednesday, March 9th, 2011, 6pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration,
16 Acton Street,
London
WC1X 9NG
As part of its annual literary festival Royal Holloway, University of London presents a series of free events in London (‘Runnymede Festival in London’) in addition to events at Royal Holloway.
The first of these will be a poetry reading featuring short readings from students of Creative Writing at RHUL and feature sets from Tim Cresswell, Professor of Cultural Geography at RHUL and Adam O'Riordan, winner of an Eric Gregory Award and author of 'In the Flesh' (Chatto & Windus, 2010).
All the details are available here:
http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/events/readings/?id=6193
And the facebook event is here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=203145629696366
The Centre for Creative Collaboration,
16 Acton Street,
London
WC1X 9NG
As part of its annual literary festival Royal Holloway, University of London presents a series of free events in London (‘Runnymede Festival in London’) in addition to events at Royal Holloway.
The first of these will be a poetry reading featuring short readings from students of Creative Writing at RHUL and feature sets from Tim Cresswell, Professor of Cultural Geography at RHUL and Adam O'Riordan, winner of an Eric Gregory Award and author of 'In the Flesh' (Chatto & Windus, 2010).
All the details are available here:
http://www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/events/readings/?id=6193
And the facebook event is here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=203145629696366
LONDON: BEAT
Monday, March 7th, 2011, 8pm-11.30pm
Charlie Wright's
45 Pitfield Street,
N1 6DA
BEAT - a quality night of live music and poetry. First Monday Every Month.
And it's free! March Acts:
- Dudley Sutton - BEAT is very proud to once again welcome back to our stage comic genius and legendary screen actor Mr Sutton.
..."- I love playing with words. I think all my life what I'm unconsciously doing is struggling against respectability. That is my bete noire, my raison d'etre or whatever the f*** you call it."
Known for his eccentricity, he became a cult figure after playing a gay biker in The Leather Boys (1964). He has appeared in many films during his career, including Rotten to the Core (1965), Crossplot (1969), The Devils (1971), Madame Sin (1972), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Fellini's Casanova (1976), Edward II (1991), and The Football Factory (2004) and TV series such at Skins(2010) and Wallander(2010)
http://www.dudleysutton.com/
- Siofra McSherry - Irish Oxbridge poet/lecturer with a voice with ancient depth spiced with the fresh breath of youth
- Tomas Adejumo - when he's not busy solving the riddles of cancer, scientist/poet Adejumo is busy seducing the the ladies of london with his soulful love poetry and a voice that could put Barry White out of business
- Dougie Hastings - Another début act this month is Dougie Hastings who has been writing poetry for over a decade and has emerged as an award-winning performance poet. Dougie graduated from drama school and is perhaps best known as a comedian, performing at The Comedy Store and The Comedy Cafe. He was a semi finalist in the recent New Act of the Year, and won the Utter! poetry competition.
http://www.myspace.com/dougiehastingspoet
- Live Music from: Harriet Darling and the Good Honeys. BEAT favourite HarrietReardon returns on public demand - now, new and improved - as promised with band, or rather in the compqany of equally talented Imogen Andrews, two beautiful voices + ukulele
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&tid=1401882346282#!/event.php?eid=100228443392164
+ DJ Richard Muirhead(Jam Jah) keeping the BEAT in check before after and during
+ More to be announced
+ Notorious Debauched Raconteur and BEAT producer/MC - Andreas Grant
A night - soar to be missed! x
Charlie Wright's
45 Pitfield Street,
N1 6DA
BEAT - a quality night of live music and poetry. First Monday Every Month.
And it's free! March Acts:
- Dudley Sutton - BEAT is very proud to once again welcome back to our stage comic genius and legendary screen actor Mr Sutton.
..."- I love playing with words. I think all my life what I'm unconsciously doing is struggling against respectability. That is my bete noire, my raison d'etre or whatever the f*** you call it."
Known for his eccentricity, he became a cult figure after playing a gay biker in The Leather Boys (1964). He has appeared in many films during his career, including Rotten to the Core (1965), Crossplot (1969), The Devils (1971), Madame Sin (1972), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Fellini's Casanova (1976), Edward II (1991), and The Football Factory (2004) and TV series such at Skins(2010) and Wallander(2010)
http://www.dudleysutton.com/
- Siofra McSherry - Irish Oxbridge poet/lecturer with a voice with ancient depth spiced with the fresh breath of youth
- Tomas Adejumo - when he's not busy solving the riddles of cancer, scientist/poet Adejumo is busy seducing the the ladies of london with his soulful love poetry and a voice that could put Barry White out of business
- Dougie Hastings - Another début act this month is Dougie Hastings who has been writing poetry for over a decade and has emerged as an award-winning performance poet. Dougie graduated from drama school and is perhaps best known as a comedian, performing at The Comedy Store and The Comedy Cafe. He was a semi finalist in the recent New Act of the Year, and won the Utter! poetry competition.
http://www.myspace.com/dougiehastingspoet
- Live Music from: Harriet Darling and the Good Honeys. BEAT favourite HarrietReardon returns on public demand - now, new and improved - as promised with band, or rather in the compqany of equally talented Imogen Andrews, two beautiful voices + ukulele
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages&tid=1401882346282#!/event.php?eid=100228443392164
+ DJ Richard Muirhead(Jam Jah) keeping the BEAT in check before after and during
+ More to be announced
+ Notorious Debauched Raconteur and BEAT producer/MC - Andreas Grant
A night - soar to be missed! x
SHEFFIELD: Slam Jam 5
Wednesday 16th March, 2011, 7.30pm
Bank Street Arts,
Sheffield
S1 2DS
Join us for a Free Open Mic Poetry night. Cheap drinks and friends.
All forms of poetry and spoken word welcome, (SLAM/POETRY (any type)/PERFORMANCE/PRESENTATION/YOUR-THING)
To sign up email cake.artgallery@gmail.com or alternatively, just turn up on the night, be inspired and have a go.
Bank Street Arts,
Sheffield
S1 2DS
Join us for a Free Open Mic Poetry night. Cheap drinks and friends.
All forms of poetry and spoken word welcome, (SLAM/POETRY (any type)/PERFORMANCE/PRESENTATION/YOUR-THING)
To sign up email cake.artgallery@gmail.com or alternatively, just turn up on the night, be inspired and have a go.
LEAMINGTON SPA: PUREandGOODandRIGHT
Monday, March 14th, 2011, 7.30pm, £3 (£2 Student/OAP)
The Sozzled Sausage,
Leamington Spa
CV32 4NX.
This month we are delighted to have the inspiring Craig Lambert. Craig Lambert is a perspiring poet. Or at least he will be on the 14th March, having never attempted to fill the guest spot at any poetry event before! He refers to PGR as his 'spritual home' because it was here that he turned up in 2008 with two poems about depression and embarrassed himself and the audience by proceeding to enter 'meltdown' before their very eyes! However, thanks to the extremely supportive ethos surrounding PGR, he managed to get through to the end and has returned regularly to the 'open mic', generally in a better state of mind and with some less miserable material to hand.
Craig's poetry has been accurately described (by him) as a hotchpotch of the serious, the surreal and the self-deprecating. Sometimes combining elements of all three, such that the audience doesn't know whether to laugh or cry!
DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED!
With open mic support from…….yes……YOU!
Come and share your poems - seasoned poets & first time performers most welcome!
If you're planning to come along, or would like to know more about the night, please email pgrpoetry@gmail.com
rd to seeing you there!
Remember to check out our blog at http://pgrpoetry.blogspot.com !!!
The Sozzled Sausage,
Leamington Spa
CV32 4NX.
This month we are delighted to have the inspiring Craig Lambert. Craig Lambert is a perspiring poet. Or at least he will be on the 14th March, having never attempted to fill the guest spot at any poetry event before! He refers to PGR as his 'spritual home' because it was here that he turned up in 2008 with two poems about depression and embarrassed himself and the audience by proceeding to enter 'meltdown' before their very eyes! However, thanks to the extremely supportive ethos surrounding PGR, he managed to get through to the end and has returned regularly to the 'open mic', generally in a better state of mind and with some less miserable material to hand.
Craig's poetry has been accurately described (by him) as a hotchpotch of the serious, the surreal and the self-deprecating. Sometimes combining elements of all three, such that the audience doesn't know whether to laugh or cry!
DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED!
With open mic support from…….yes……YOU!
Come and share your poems - seasoned poets & first time performers most welcome!
If you're planning to come along, or would like to know more about the night, please email pgrpoetry@gmail.com
rd to seeing you there!
Remember to check out our blog at http://pgrpoetry.blogspot.com !!!
Monday, February 28, 2011
CAMBRIDGE: Hammer and Tongues
Wednesday 9th March, 2011, 7.30pm (event starts 8pm), £5/ £3.50 concessions/ £2 for slammers
The Emperor,
21, Hills Road,
Cambridge
CB2 1NW
Cambridge Hammer & Tongue will be playing host to our usual slam competition plus the anarchic glamour of Salena Godden and the hearty anecdotage of Richard Tyrone Jones.
You can find more details in the attached Word document and Calendar file, or at the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149673901760172.
The Emperor,
21, Hills Road,
Cambridge
CB2 1NW
Cambridge Hammer & Tongue will be playing host to our usual slam competition plus the anarchic glamour of Salena Godden and the hearty anecdotage of Richard Tyrone Jones.
You can find more details in the attached Word document and Calendar file, or at the Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149673901760172.
Friday, February 25, 2011
LONDON: Jazz Verse Jukebox
Sunday, March 13th, 2011, 6.30pm, show from 8pm, £7 (on the door only)
Upstairs @ Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club (Aka Ronnie's Bar),
47 Frith Street,
London
W1D 4HT
Tube: Tottenham Court Road
Web :www.jumokefashola.com
Email: JazzVerseJukebox@me.com
JAZZ VERSE JUKEBOX
Join us to celebrate the beginning of spring, featuring spoken word from HKB FINN; Mark Gwynne Jones; Paul Lyalls; Raymond Antrobus with music from Claudia Parisi, plus open mic for poets/singers.
featuring
HKB FiNN is a spoken word artist with a difference. His work explores the connections between cultures and his music combines elements of Jazz, Hip Hop & Reggae into a unique blend. With Poetry and occasional Raps that covers a wide range of topics from Love to Spirituality, he creates incredible soundscapes that examines our collective roots.
In the late '90's he was inspired to create a form of urban music that embraces folk traditions as well as charting urban realities. He calls this sound: Organica. FiNN describes Organica as: “A fission of Jazz, Hip Hop & Reggae with West African over tones”. His solo recordings have been themed around particular aspects of Organica and have gained him worldwide popularity as an innovator of ‘underground music’. An engaging performer, FiNN has also collaborated with a number of musical luminaries including: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Nojazz, Soweto Kinch, Orphy Robinson, Viva Sinfonia, Nitin Sahwney, Kasse Mady Diabate, Tunde Jegede, The Orb, Shur-I-Kan, The Royal Opera House, Robert Mitchell’s Panacea and many more. Over the years, FiNN and his ensemble have performed in over 25 countries worldwide and describes this work as: “Making music based on sharing truth, spreading love and delivering exceedingly good grooves.”
www.hkbfinn.com
Four times fringe-award winner, Mark Gwynne Jones is well known for mind altering poetry with an almost music-hall edge. He mixes humour and poignancy with great skill and through collaborations with film-makers and musicians he is pushing poetry in new and exciting directions. Mark’s work is contagious, gritty and sometimes startlingly sensitive.
Appearing solo and with The Psychicbread, a show combining poetry and music Mark has toured with Kate Rusby and performed alongside The Levellers, Alan Bates, Mark Radcliffe and John Peel favourites Half Man Half Biscuit. He has sold poetry to the CIA; written poetry with disenfranchised kids in some of the most deprived areas of Britain and held various writing residencies in galleries, prisons and cinema. Mark regularly performs at music and literature festivals throughout the UK and abroad. In 2008 Loughborough University commissioned Mark to write a series of poems for a performance walk and following the event’s success, Gunpowder Parks commissioned him to write in and around four of London’s central parks exploring what is meant by ‘common ground’ in 21st century Britain. Mark has won The National Trust Poetry Competition and the Buxton Festival Fringe. With filmmaker Andy Lawrence, Mark produced a unique series of 6 film-poems. It’s Only Water was broadcast by ITV and The Message, a screenplay mixing poetry and drama, ran for seven nights on SKY television.
www.psychicbread.org
Paul Lyalls' work is funny, fast-moving, hip, accessible, rhythmic, clever and real. He has run hundreds of workshops in secondary and primary schools, youth projects and prisons. As a performance poet, Paul has gigged 10 Edinburgh Festivals and many prestigious venues in cities as diverse as New York to Belfast. In 2008 Paul was Poet for the London Borough of Brent, becoming the first poet to perform at the New Wembley stadium. Paul presented and starred alongside former World Poetry Slam Champion Kat Francois in the BBC/CBBC television programme 'The Big Slam Poetry House. He has 2 poems published in the new 'Michael Rosen's A-Z of poetry' (Penguin/puffin). In 2005 Paul was invited to take part in the Cheltenham Literature Festival's 'All star poetry slam show', returning in 2009 performing to as support to Michael Rosen. He has performed with Will Self, John Hegley, Jean ‘Binta' Breeze, Roger McGough, John Cooper Clarke, Andrea Leavy and George Best. More unusual gigs have included opening for 'The Libertines' and appearing on the national news, as a result of a scheme to bring poetry to the masses in which Paul performed on a regular working No73 bus as it wound it way through central London to Oxford St. His first full collection is entitled, 'Catching the cascade' - (Flipped Eye)
http://www.paul-lyalls.com
Raymond Antrobus is a spoken word artist, photographer and writer, born and bred in Hackney. Described by Michael Horovitz as a "unique and talented young poet" Raymond has been performing spoken word poetry since 2007 and is the International Farrago slam champion 2008. His writing is often perceived to be provocative, delicate and thoughtful. He has performed at London's South Bank Centre as part of the Literacy Festival, at universities across London, Birmingham, Manchester and Coventry, as well as in venues overseas - Berlin, Venice and the NYrican Poets Cafe in New York. He has performed at festivals such as Latitude, Vibe Festival and Secret Garden Party. He is one half of 'Speed Camera Shy', a music project that combines Spoken Word/Rap with Dub Step echoes. Raymond Antrobus is also a member of one of the world’s leading collectives of spoken-word artists known as, ‘A Poem in-between People’, (or PiP) who have been described as “London’s hottest spoken word talent” by The Times and are comprised of ten members. www.raymondantrobus.blogspot.com
A Jazz singer with Italian origins, Claudia Parisi lives in Paris. She spent years on the roads performing in rock bands, giving piano bar performances and even some “bal musette”. Settling down in Paris about 10 years ago, she studied at the Conservatoire de St Denis and then subsequently embraced the jazz idiom after a two year course at the Bill Evans Music Academy. She is both an original singer/songwriter and a superb interpreter of classic standards. Her unique style combines the passion of traditional Italian songs with colourful jazz improvisation.
http://claudiaparisi.free.fr
PLUS Jukebox Open Mic:
Come & sing with our amazing house band or perform some poetry.
Upstairs @ Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club (Aka Ronnie's Bar),
47 Frith Street,
London
W1D 4HT
Tube: Tottenham Court Road
Web :www.jumokefashola.com
Email: JazzVerseJukebox@me.com
JAZZ VERSE JUKEBOX
Join us to celebrate the beginning of spring, featuring spoken word from HKB FINN; Mark Gwynne Jones; Paul Lyalls; Raymond Antrobus with music from Claudia Parisi, plus open mic for poets/singers.
featuring
HKB FiNN is a spoken word artist with a difference. His work explores the connections between cultures and his music combines elements of Jazz, Hip Hop & Reggae into a unique blend. With Poetry and occasional Raps that covers a wide range of topics from Love to Spirituality, he creates incredible soundscapes that examines our collective roots.
In the late '90's he was inspired to create a form of urban music that embraces folk traditions as well as charting urban realities. He calls this sound: Organica. FiNN describes Organica as: “A fission of Jazz, Hip Hop & Reggae with West African over tones”. His solo recordings have been themed around particular aspects of Organica and have gained him worldwide popularity as an innovator of ‘underground music’. An engaging performer, FiNN has also collaborated with a number of musical luminaries including: The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Nojazz, Soweto Kinch, Orphy Robinson, Viva Sinfonia, Nitin Sahwney, Kasse Mady Diabate, Tunde Jegede, The Orb, Shur-I-Kan, The Royal Opera House, Robert Mitchell’s Panacea and many more. Over the years, FiNN and his ensemble have performed in over 25 countries worldwide and describes this work as: “Making music based on sharing truth, spreading love and delivering exceedingly good grooves.”
www.hkbfinn.com
Four times fringe-award winner, Mark Gwynne Jones is well known for mind altering poetry with an almost music-hall edge. He mixes humour and poignancy with great skill and through collaborations with film-makers and musicians he is pushing poetry in new and exciting directions. Mark’s work is contagious, gritty and sometimes startlingly sensitive.
Appearing solo and with The Psychicbread, a show combining poetry and music Mark has toured with Kate Rusby and performed alongside The Levellers, Alan Bates, Mark Radcliffe and John Peel favourites Half Man Half Biscuit. He has sold poetry to the CIA; written poetry with disenfranchised kids in some of the most deprived areas of Britain and held various writing residencies in galleries, prisons and cinema. Mark regularly performs at music and literature festivals throughout the UK and abroad. In 2008 Loughborough University commissioned Mark to write a series of poems for a performance walk and following the event’s success, Gunpowder Parks commissioned him to write in and around four of London’s central parks exploring what is meant by ‘common ground’ in 21st century Britain. Mark has won The National Trust Poetry Competition and the Buxton Festival Fringe. With filmmaker Andy Lawrence, Mark produced a unique series of 6 film-poems. It’s Only Water was broadcast by ITV and The Message, a screenplay mixing poetry and drama, ran for seven nights on SKY television.
www.psychicbread.org
Paul Lyalls' work is funny, fast-moving, hip, accessible, rhythmic, clever and real. He has run hundreds of workshops in secondary and primary schools, youth projects and prisons. As a performance poet, Paul has gigged 10 Edinburgh Festivals and many prestigious venues in cities as diverse as New York to Belfast. In 2008 Paul was Poet for the London Borough of Brent, becoming the first poet to perform at the New Wembley stadium. Paul presented and starred alongside former World Poetry Slam Champion Kat Francois in the BBC/CBBC television programme 'The Big Slam Poetry House. He has 2 poems published in the new 'Michael Rosen's A-Z of poetry' (Penguin/puffin). In 2005 Paul was invited to take part in the Cheltenham Literature Festival's 'All star poetry slam show', returning in 2009 performing to as support to Michael Rosen. He has performed with Will Self, John Hegley, Jean ‘Binta' Breeze, Roger McGough, John Cooper Clarke, Andrea Leavy and George Best. More unusual gigs have included opening for 'The Libertines' and appearing on the national news, as a result of a scheme to bring poetry to the masses in which Paul performed on a regular working No73 bus as it wound it way through central London to Oxford St. His first full collection is entitled, 'Catching the cascade' - (Flipped Eye)
http://www.paul-lyalls.com
Raymond Antrobus is a spoken word artist, photographer and writer, born and bred in Hackney. Described by Michael Horovitz as a "unique and talented young poet" Raymond has been performing spoken word poetry since 2007 and is the International Farrago slam champion 2008. His writing is often perceived to be provocative, delicate and thoughtful. He has performed at London's South Bank Centre as part of the Literacy Festival, at universities across London, Birmingham, Manchester and Coventry, as well as in venues overseas - Berlin, Venice and the NYrican Poets Cafe in New York. He has performed at festivals such as Latitude, Vibe Festival and Secret Garden Party. He is one half of 'Speed Camera Shy', a music project that combines Spoken Word/Rap with Dub Step echoes. Raymond Antrobus is also a member of one of the world’s leading collectives of spoken-word artists known as, ‘A Poem in-between People’, (or PiP) who have been described as “London’s hottest spoken word talent” by The Times and are comprised of ten members. www.raymondantrobus.blogspot.com
A Jazz singer with Italian origins, Claudia Parisi lives in Paris. She spent years on the roads performing in rock bands, giving piano bar performances and even some “bal musette”. Settling down in Paris about 10 years ago, she studied at the Conservatoire de St Denis and then subsequently embraced the jazz idiom after a two year course at the Bill Evans Music Academy. She is both an original singer/songwriter and a superb interpreter of classic standards. Her unique style combines the passion of traditional Italian songs with colourful jazz improvisation.
http://claudiaparisi.free.fr
PLUS Jukebox Open Mic:
Come & sing with our amazing house band or perform some poetry.
PLYMOUTH: Hannah Silva
Friday, 11th March, 2011, 7.30pm, £5
The Barbican Theatre,
Castle Street,
Plymouth,
PL1 2NJ
Booking: http://www.barbicantheatre.co.uk/booking.php
01752 267131
In her new solo show Opposition, vocal gymnast and award-winning poet Hannah Silva cuts up, juggles and reconfigures the languages of politics past and present to reveal the meaning and the music beneath the rhetoric of today’s (big?) society.
David Cameron’s Big Society speech, the Weather, the News, slang, Twitter and song – they all get transformed and recomposed using a loop pedal and her extra-ordinary vocal techniques.
South West based writer and performer Hannah Silva performs internationally, recently toured the country with Apples & Snakes Public Address and was featured on Radio 3’s The Verb. Past works include Boat on the water, a poetry/dance/theatre piece on board a small boat (2009). Hannah has a background in music, choreography and theatre, and influences spanning Luciano Berio, Tim Crouch and David J. She has been described by The Times Online as ‘one of the most ambitious and entertaining poets in the country’ (Top Ten Literary Stars of 2008).
Opposition is funded by the Arts Council England, produced by The Barbican Theatre, Plymouth and supported by Apples & Snakes.
“Hannah Silva is one of the most exciting, original artists on the UK poetry scene. Her unique word play has a piercing intelligence and genuine warmth that never fails to charm audiences”
Sarah Ellis –Head of Creative Programmes, The Albany.
http://www.hannahsilva.co.uk
Opposition is funded by the Arts Council England, supported by Apples & Snakes and The Barbican Theatre through the Flourish Programme.
The Barbican Theatre,
Castle Street,
Plymouth,
PL1 2NJ
Booking: http://www.barbicantheatre.co.uk/booking.php
01752 267131
In her new solo show Opposition, vocal gymnast and award-winning poet Hannah Silva cuts up, juggles and reconfigures the languages of politics past and present to reveal the meaning and the music beneath the rhetoric of today’s (big?) society.
David Cameron’s Big Society speech, the Weather, the News, slang, Twitter and song – they all get transformed and recomposed using a loop pedal and her extra-ordinary vocal techniques.
South West based writer and performer Hannah Silva performs internationally, recently toured the country with Apples & Snakes Public Address and was featured on Radio 3’s The Verb. Past works include Boat on the water, a poetry/dance/theatre piece on board a small boat (2009). Hannah has a background in music, choreography and theatre, and influences spanning Luciano Berio, Tim Crouch and David J. She has been described by The Times Online as ‘one of the most ambitious and entertaining poets in the country’ (Top Ten Literary Stars of 2008).
Opposition is funded by the Arts Council England, produced by The Barbican Theatre, Plymouth and supported by Apples & Snakes.
“Hannah Silva is one of the most exciting, original artists on the UK poetry scene. Her unique word play has a piercing intelligence and genuine warmth that never fails to charm audiences”
Sarah Ellis –Head of Creative Programmes, The Albany.
http://www.hannahsilva.co.uk
Opposition is funded by the Arts Council England, supported by Apples & Snakes and The Barbican Theatre through the Flourish Programme.
GALWAY: Over The Edge March Writers’ Gathering
Friday, March 11th, 2011, 8pm
at The Café @ The Museum
Spanish Arch
Galway
The Over The Edge March Writers’ Gathering presents readings by poets and fiction writers from Ireland, The Netherlands and the United States. Nick Hayes, Alex Hijmans, Lorna Shaughnessy, Anna Snyder, John W. Sexton and Alan Jude Moore will read.
Nick Hayes is a frequent guest on radio and television in the United States; he also publishes widely in newspapers, magazines, and journals. He has been the recepient of awards from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Program. He won an Emmy in 1991 for his work on the documentary "Television and Democracy in Russia." Nick is a professor of history and holds the university chair in critical thinking at Saint John’s University in Minnesota. His memoir And One Fine Morning Memoires of My Father (Nodin Press) was published in 2010.
Alex Hijmans was born in The Netherlands. He moved to Galway in 1995, learned Irish, worked as a journalist and ran a coffeehouse, Café Bananaphoblacht. In 2007 he moved to Brazil, where he works as an international correspondent. Aiséirí is his first novel. A book of his non-fiction, ‘Favela’, was published, also by Cois Life, in 2009. Alex’ short stories have appeared in Comhar, Crannóg Magazine and Irish Pages. His website is www.alexhijmans.com
Lorna Shaughnessy was born in Belfast and lives in County Galway. She lectures in the Department of Spanish, NUI Galway. She has published two translations of contemporary Mexican poetry, Mother Tongue: Selected Poems by Pura López Colomé and If We Have Lost our Oldest Tales by MarÃa Baranda, both with Arlen House (2006). Her first collection of poetry, Torching the Brown River, was published by Salmon in 2008. Her second collection, Witness Trees, will be published later this year also by Salmon.
Anna Snyder is a student in the Masters of Writing program at NUI Galway, and though she sees herself as primarily a prose-writer, she has undergone a poetic renaissance while living in Galway. Her greatest loves are writing, travelling, and playing the guitar badly. Once her Masters is completed, she hopes to somehow find a job in Dublin so she can stay in Ireland for as long as she wants.
John W. Sexton was born in 1958 is the author of three poetry collections: The Prince’s Brief Career (Cairn Mountain Press, 1995), Shadows Bloom / Scáthanna Faoi Bhláth, a book of haiku with translations into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock, and Vortex (Doghouse, 2005). Under the ironic pseudonym of Sex W. Johnston he has recorded an album with legendary Stranglers frontman, Hugh Cornwell, entitled Sons of Shiva, which has been released on Track Records. In 2007 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry. His fourth collection, Petit Mal, was published recently by Revival Press.
Alan Jude Moore is the author of three collections of poetry, Black State Cars (Salmon Poetry, 2004), Lost Republics (Salmon Poetry, 2008) and Strasbourg (Salmon Poetry, 2010). He is widely published, in Ireland and abroad, and his fiction has been twice short-listed for the Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Writing. Translations of his work have been published in Italy, Russia and Turkey. He lives in Dublin.
There is no entrance fee. The Café @ The Museum has a wine licence. All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748.
at The Café @ The Museum
Spanish Arch
Galway
The Over The Edge March Writers’ Gathering presents readings by poets and fiction writers from Ireland, The Netherlands and the United States. Nick Hayes, Alex Hijmans, Lorna Shaughnessy, Anna Snyder, John W. Sexton and Alan Jude Moore will read.
Nick Hayes is a frequent guest on radio and television in the United States; he also publishes widely in newspapers, magazines, and journals. He has been the recepient of awards from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Program. He won an Emmy in 1991 for his work on the documentary "Television and Democracy in Russia." Nick is a professor of history and holds the university chair in critical thinking at Saint John’s University in Minnesota. His memoir And One Fine Morning Memoires of My Father (Nodin Press) was published in 2010.
Alex Hijmans was born in The Netherlands. He moved to Galway in 1995, learned Irish, worked as a journalist and ran a coffeehouse, Café Bananaphoblacht. In 2007 he moved to Brazil, where he works as an international correspondent. Aiséirí is his first novel. A book of his non-fiction, ‘Favela’, was published, also by Cois Life, in 2009. Alex’ short stories have appeared in Comhar, Crannóg Magazine and Irish Pages. His website is www.alexhijmans.com
Lorna Shaughnessy was born in Belfast and lives in County Galway. She lectures in the Department of Spanish, NUI Galway. She has published two translations of contemporary Mexican poetry, Mother Tongue: Selected Poems by Pura López Colomé and If We Have Lost our Oldest Tales by MarÃa Baranda, both with Arlen House (2006). Her first collection of poetry, Torching the Brown River, was published by Salmon in 2008. Her second collection, Witness Trees, will be published later this year also by Salmon.
Anna Snyder is a student in the Masters of Writing program at NUI Galway, and though she sees herself as primarily a prose-writer, she has undergone a poetic renaissance while living in Galway. Her greatest loves are writing, travelling, and playing the guitar badly. Once her Masters is completed, she hopes to somehow find a job in Dublin so she can stay in Ireland for as long as she wants.
John W. Sexton was born in 1958 is the author of three poetry collections: The Prince’s Brief Career (Cairn Mountain Press, 1995), Shadows Bloom / Scáthanna Faoi Bhláth, a book of haiku with translations into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock, and Vortex (Doghouse, 2005). Under the ironic pseudonym of Sex W. Johnston he has recorded an album with legendary Stranglers frontman, Hugh Cornwell, entitled Sons of Shiva, which has been released on Track Records. In 2007 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry. His fourth collection, Petit Mal, was published recently by Revival Press.
Alan Jude Moore is the author of three collections of poetry, Black State Cars (Salmon Poetry, 2004), Lost Republics (Salmon Poetry, 2008) and Strasbourg (Salmon Poetry, 2010). He is widely published, in Ireland and abroad, and his fiction has been twice short-listed for the Hennessy Literary Award for New Irish Writing. Translations of his work have been published in Italy, Russia and Turkey. He lives in Dublin.
There is no entrance fee. The Café @ The Museum has a wine licence. All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748.
DUBLIN: From Inspiration to Publication, Publishing Seminar
Saturday, March 12th, 2011: 10.30am-4.30pm
Irish Writers' Centre
19 Parnell Square
Dublin 1
t: +353 (0)1 872 1302
e: info@writerscentre.ie
w: www.writerscentre.ie
Novelist Emer Martin will join the Irish Writers’ Centre in hosting an information day on publishing that will include literary agent Yvonne Kinsella and book editor Deirdre O'Neill. The day will feature talks from industry experts and will offer the opportunity to pose questions to the speakers.
The day will commence with a talk on 'The Editorial Process' by Deirdre O'Neill, former managing editor at New Island Books (2008-2010). This will be followed by 'The Author-Agent Relationship’ by Yvonne Kinsella, Literary Agent for Prizeman & Kinsella Literary Agency. The next talk, ‘Publicising a Book from Manuscript to Paperback’, will be given by Helen Gleed O'Connor, Literary Publicist for Gill Hess Ltd (clients include Random House, Transworld, Simon & Schuster and Faber & Faber). After lunch, Fiction Buyer for Eason's Stephen Boylan will discuss 'Book Trends and the Marketplace'. The final talk will be 'Sustaining a Writer's Life' from Emer Martin.
Registration is from 10.30am; tickets are €60 for non-members, €50 for members and must be booked in advance by paying online or calling the Centre.
The Irish Writers’ Centre is a non-profit organisation run by volunteers, which promotes contemporary Irish literature. Since its foundation in 1991, the Centre has welcomed many award-winning writers through its doors, including Nobel, Costa, Man Booker, IMPAC, and Pulitzer Prize winners. It has also served as an important platform for breakthrough talent, with many young writers giving their first public readings here.
Irish Writers' Centre
19 Parnell Square
Dublin 1
t: +353 (0)1 872 1302
e: info@writerscentre.ie
w: www.writerscentre.ie
Novelist Emer Martin will join the Irish Writers’ Centre in hosting an information day on publishing that will include literary agent Yvonne Kinsella and book editor Deirdre O'Neill. The day will feature talks from industry experts and will offer the opportunity to pose questions to the speakers.
The day will commence with a talk on 'The Editorial Process' by Deirdre O'Neill, former managing editor at New Island Books (2008-2010). This will be followed by 'The Author-Agent Relationship’ by Yvonne Kinsella, Literary Agent for Prizeman & Kinsella Literary Agency. The next talk, ‘Publicising a Book from Manuscript to Paperback’, will be given by Helen Gleed O'Connor, Literary Publicist for Gill Hess Ltd (clients include Random House, Transworld, Simon & Schuster and Faber & Faber). After lunch, Fiction Buyer for Eason's Stephen Boylan will discuss 'Book Trends and the Marketplace'. The final talk will be 'Sustaining a Writer's Life' from Emer Martin.
Registration is from 10.30am; tickets are €60 for non-members, €50 for members and must be booked in advance by paying online or calling the Centre.
The Irish Writers’ Centre is a non-profit organisation run by volunteers, which promotes contemporary Irish literature. Since its foundation in 1991, the Centre has welcomed many award-winning writers through its doors, including Nobel, Costa, Man Booker, IMPAC, and Pulitzer Prize winners. It has also served as an important platform for breakthrough talent, with many young writers giving their first public readings here.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
LONDON: Wisewords Poetry - Women's Open Mic
Thursday, 10th March, 2011, 7.30pm, £3 (£2 open mic)
The Vibe Bar,
Old Truman Brewery,
91 Brick Lane,
London
E1 6QL
Possessed by the spirit of poetry and itching to unveil your oeuvre to a like-minded crowd? Then come on down – take the mic and flex your stanzas in the happening heart of Brick Lane, alongside host Jo Overfield and special guests Catherine Brogan and Belinda Zhawi. In addition, Leicester poet Lydia Towsey will be performing an excerpt from her new show The Venus Papers. Audience required too, so bring your mates to provide cheers and whoops. Celebrating Women's History Month 2011, we have a women's open mic, but guys do come along and enjoy the show.
Info: 020 7247 3479 / www.vibe-bar.co.uk / info@alternativearts.co.uk / www.applesandsnakes.org
The Vibe Bar,
Old Truman Brewery,
91 Brick Lane,
London
E1 6QL
Possessed by the spirit of poetry and itching to unveil your oeuvre to a like-minded crowd? Then come on down – take the mic and flex your stanzas in the happening heart of Brick Lane, alongside host Jo Overfield and special guests Catherine Brogan and Belinda Zhawi. In addition, Leicester poet Lydia Towsey will be performing an excerpt from her new show The Venus Papers. Audience required too, so bring your mates to provide cheers and whoops. Celebrating Women's History Month 2011, we have a women's open mic, but guys do come along and enjoy the show.
Info: 020 7247 3479 / www.vibe-bar.co.uk / info@alternativearts.co.uk / www.applesandsnakes.org
LONDON: Apples & Snakes In Soho Featuring Polarbear
Wednesday, 9th March, 2011, 8pm, £8 / £6 conc / £6 under 26
Soho Theatre,
21 Dean Street,
London
W1D 3NE
Polarbear is one of the genuine phenomena of the spoken word scene. In a few short years, he’s skyrocketed from humble West Midlands lad to international lyrical, cinematically-minded storyteller. Join the Bear tonight for a paw-picked selection of his best. With support from fast-rising, provocative poet Indigo Williams, pith-helmeted ‘chap-hop’ prodigy Professor Elemental and – as recently featured on Woman’s Hour – feisty verse-valkyrie Mia Jerome.
The Apples & Snakes in Soho series is an opportunity for audiences to see top-flight poets and writers alongside newer pioneers from the spoken-word scene. Soho Theatre offers the perfect central location for this eclectic entertainment.
Booking: 020 7478 0100 / www.sohotheatre.com
Info: www.applesandsnakes.org
Soho Theatre,
21 Dean Street,
London
W1D 3NE
Polarbear is one of the genuine phenomena of the spoken word scene. In a few short years, he’s skyrocketed from humble West Midlands lad to international lyrical, cinematically-minded storyteller. Join the Bear tonight for a paw-picked selection of his best. With support from fast-rising, provocative poet Indigo Williams, pith-helmeted ‘chap-hop’ prodigy Professor Elemental and – as recently featured on Woman’s Hour – feisty verse-valkyrie Mia Jerome.
The Apples & Snakes in Soho series is an opportunity for audiences to see top-flight poets and writers alongside newer pioneers from the spoken-word scene. Soho Theatre offers the perfect central location for this eclectic entertainment.
Booking: 020 7478 0100 / www.sohotheatre.com
Info: www.applesandsnakes.org
LONDON: Wordamouth Presents FreeStyles
Tuesday, 8th March, 2011, 8pm-1am
Favela Chic
91-93 Great Eastern Street
London
EC2A 3HX
Hosted by curious & Angry Sam
Wordamouth brings the freshest poets to the hottest spot in town. Come and eat, drink, think and be merry (or at least enlightened).
Featuring:
Johnny 'Fluffypunk' Seagrave
Dean Atta
Paul Cree
DJs: Anarkali Elektra & curious
Favela Chic
91-93 Great Eastern Street
London
EC2A 3HX
Hosted by curious & Angry Sam
Wordamouth brings the freshest poets to the hottest spot in town. Come and eat, drink, think and be merry (or at least enlightened).
Featuring:
Johnny 'Fluffypunk' Seagrave
Dean Atta
Paul Cree
DJs: Anarkali Elektra & curious
GALWAY: February Over The Edge Open Reading
Galway City Library,
St. Augustine Street,
Galway
The February Over The Edge: Open Reading features Claire Kilroy, Susan Kelly and Bríd Buckley.
Bríd Buckley is a blow-in poetry and fiction writer from Cork who doesn't really know what to say about herself. She writes pretty much whatever comes into her head. She moved to Galway in 2009 to do the MA in writing in NUIG. Before this she studied English and Psychology and subsequently Film. She has read at and mceed the Ó Bhéal poetry nights in The Long Valley in Cork and has also read her work at the Tuam Arts Festival and the Whitehouse Bar Limerick.
Susan Kelly is from Westport, Co Mayo where she writes about what she knows and makes up the rest. She started writing poetry just over three years ago and since then her work has appeared in Cyphers, Crannóg, Revival, Abridged, and on wordlegs.com and is currently short listed for the Writing Spirit Award. She is a member of Westport Writer’s Group and has co-edited its annual publication, The Broadsheet.
Claire Kilroy is the author of three novels which loosely form a trilogy about the obsessions and exhilarations of art. Her debut, All Summer, a literary thriller about a stolen painting, was awarded the 2004 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Her second novel, Tenderwire, a love story between a violinist and a masterpiece violin, was published to great acclaim in 2006, and was shortlisted for the 2007 Irish Novel of the Year as well as the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Her latest novel, All Names Have Been Changed, set in 1980s Dublin and centring around a great Irish writer and his Trinity writing class, was published this May. Educated at Trinity College, she lives in Dublin.
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.
Monday, February 21, 2011
NEWCASTLE: Cassoulette
Tuesday, 8th March, 2011, FREE
Newcastle City Library,
Bewick Hall
You are invited to a day celebrating women’s experiences through poetry and performance...
‘Undergrowth’ by Cassoulette - International Women’s Day,
Join Cassoulette, a team of three performance poets, in a series of creative workshops culminating in a public performance built from shared words and stories. Come to all three workshops, or just one, or join us for the final performance – it’s all free.
9.30am - 11.00am ‘Start to write and feel better’ is led Pj Buchanan.
This workshop aims to encourage women to write and looks at ways that can stimulate that writing, which in turn improves well-being. No previous experience in writing is required. The emphasis of this workshop is on the individual and unlocking stories and poetry that lie within. At the end of the workshop each participant will have poem or prose piece that can be read in the evening.
11.30am – 1.00pm ‘Story Quilting’ is led by Ah’freee.
This is a dynamic group workshop where participants are encouraged to tell a joint story based on African tradition where storytelling is synonymous with song, chant, music, or epic poetry in the bardic or ‘griot’ traditions. At the end of the session the group will have ‘quilted’ their stories together to form one whole, which can be performed as a group in the evening.
2.00pm – 3.30pm ‘Giving Voice’ is led by Sky Hawkins.
Sky is passionate about finding ways to improve women’s confidence, especially those women who have been marginalised. The focus of the workshop is on self-expression and Sky will be drawing on her background in drama to encourage participants to make their voices heard. This energetic workshop will involve the use of video, make-up, hats and masks. At the end of this session participants will be ready to take to the stage during the evening if they choose
4.00 – 4.30pm ‘Undergrowth’ - performance of the work created during the day
The performance is open to all
Cassoulette is a collaborative project - each of the poets brings her own life experience to the project; Sky Hawkins is a single mum living on a Newcastle council estate, Poetry Jack (Pj Buchanan) is lesbian and an older woman, and Radikal Queen (Ah’freee Being) is a black woman with African roots. In their own distinctive ways all three poets assert the power of womanhood and invite other women to speak up. Cassoulette means ‘scent of a woman’. www.cassoulette.co.uk
Newcastle City Library,
Bewick Hall
You are invited to a day celebrating women’s experiences through poetry and performance...
‘Undergrowth’ by Cassoulette - International Women’s Day,
Join Cassoulette, a team of three performance poets, in a series of creative workshops culminating in a public performance built from shared words and stories. Come to all three workshops, or just one, or join us for the final performance – it’s all free.
9.30am - 11.00am ‘Start to write and feel better’ is led Pj Buchanan.
This workshop aims to encourage women to write and looks at ways that can stimulate that writing, which in turn improves well-being. No previous experience in writing is required. The emphasis of this workshop is on the individual and unlocking stories and poetry that lie within. At the end of the workshop each participant will have poem or prose piece that can be read in the evening.
11.30am – 1.00pm ‘Story Quilting’ is led by Ah’freee.
This is a dynamic group workshop where participants are encouraged to tell a joint story based on African tradition where storytelling is synonymous with song, chant, music, or epic poetry in the bardic or ‘griot’ traditions. At the end of the session the group will have ‘quilted’ their stories together to form one whole, which can be performed as a group in the evening.
2.00pm – 3.30pm ‘Giving Voice’ is led by Sky Hawkins.
Sky is passionate about finding ways to improve women’s confidence, especially those women who have been marginalised. The focus of the workshop is on self-expression and Sky will be drawing on her background in drama to encourage participants to make their voices heard. This energetic workshop will involve the use of video, make-up, hats and masks. At the end of this session participants will be ready to take to the stage during the evening if they choose
4.00 – 4.30pm ‘Undergrowth’ - performance of the work created during the day
The performance is open to all
Cassoulette is a collaborative project - each of the poets brings her own life experience to the project; Sky Hawkins is a single mum living on a Newcastle council estate, Poetry Jack (Pj Buchanan) is lesbian and an older woman, and Radikal Queen (Ah’freee Being) is a black woman with African roots. In their own distinctive ways all three poets assert the power of womanhood and invite other women to speak up. Cassoulette means ‘scent of a woman’. www.cassoulette.co.uk
Sunday, February 20, 2011
GALWAY: The North Beach Poetry Nights' Slam
The Crane Bar
Galway
With guest poets - the 2010 Grand Slam winners, Mikey Groty, Sarah Clancy and Mark James.
Poets wishing to enter the February Slam should have a maximum of two three-minute poems.
The poem for the 2nd round must be performed without a script, so time to get memorizing now!
Info: John@ 091-593290
Friday, February 18, 2011
BRIGHTON: Poetry & Story at the X Roads
Friday, March 4th, 2011, 7.30pm for 8pm start, £5/£4 concs.
Iambic Arts Theatre
Regent Street,
Brighton
Tel: 01273 572 101
WATERLOO PRESS & AMBIT MAGAZINE present Poetry & Story at the X Roads a night of readings featuring the launch of two Waterloo Press titles.
The Odysseus Poems
Fictions on the Odyessy of Homer
Judith Kazantzis' sequence of interwoven voices casts the many struggles with monsters, the seductions and loneliness of love, and the long wanderings of heroes into a vivid meditation for our turbulent times... Marina Warner
The Unicycle Set
Nick Burbridge
Just one click on Nick Burbridge's website reveals a man driven: if you thought his compositions as leader of ranting roots rockers McDermott's Two Hours were edgy, prepare yourself for a ride, his poetry is radical and subversive - Simon Jones, fRoots
and special guest, Editor-in-Chief of AMBIT Magazine, Martin Bax, reading from his latest short story collection, Memoirs of a Gone World (Salt, 2010).
These stories are formally adventurous, modern and post-modern, sometimes very droll, and often distinctly filthy. Isn't that enough for anyone? - Geoff Nicholson
with music from Nick Burbridge and fiddler friend
and OPEN MIC - musicians, poets & flash fictioneers welcome!
(5 spots - come early to book - one song, poem or page max)
Iambic Arts Theatre
Regent Street,
Brighton
Tel: 01273 572 101
WATERLOO PRESS & AMBIT MAGAZINE present Poetry & Story at the X Roads a night of readings featuring the launch of two Waterloo Press titles.
The Odysseus Poems
Fictions on the Odyessy of Homer
Judith Kazantzis' sequence of interwoven voices casts the many struggles with monsters, the seductions and loneliness of love, and the long wanderings of heroes into a vivid meditation for our turbulent times... Marina Warner
The Unicycle Set
Nick Burbridge
Just one click on Nick Burbridge's website reveals a man driven: if you thought his compositions as leader of ranting roots rockers McDermott's Two Hours were edgy, prepare yourself for a ride, his poetry is radical and subversive - Simon Jones, fRoots
and special guest, Editor-in-Chief of AMBIT Magazine, Martin Bax, reading from his latest short story collection, Memoirs of a Gone World (Salt, 2010).
These stories are formally adventurous, modern and post-modern, sometimes very droll, and often distinctly filthy. Isn't that enough for anyone? - Geoff Nicholson
with music from Nick Burbridge and fiddler friend
and OPEN MIC - musicians, poets & flash fictioneers welcome!
(5 spots - come early to book - one song, poem or page max)
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