Thursday 19th October
Open Mic opportunity in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales
Open Mic Poetry Night
Hosted by Herbert Williams
7.30 pm
The Imperial Hotel.
For more details contact Gus Payne on 01685 725382. Supported by Academi (contact 029 2047 2266 for information on funding for events).
Thursday, October 12, 2006
New Poetry in Durham: Friday 13th October
Vane Women Book Launches: Celia McCulloch and Pippa Little
The Studio, Gala Theatre, Durham
Friday 13th October 2006
Celia McCulloch was born in Michigan and came to England in 1959. The
Laden Table is her first collection, containing poems both old and new.
Pippa Little was born in Tanzania, raised in Scotland, and now lives in
Northumberland. She was a poetry co-editor of Writing Women and its two
anthologies published by Virago: her own work has appeared in various
pamphlets, magazines and anthologies.The Spar Box is a collection of her
poems.
More? Try www.literaturenortheast.co.uk/events.
The Studio, Gala Theatre, Durham
Friday 13th October 2006
Celia McCulloch was born in Michigan and came to England in 1959. The
Laden Table is her first collection, containing poems both old and new.
Pippa Little was born in Tanzania, raised in Scotland, and now lives in
Northumberland. She was a poetry co-editor of Writing Women and its two
anthologies published by Virago: her own work has appeared in various
pamphlets, magazines and anthologies.The Spar Box is a collection of her
poems.
More? Try www.literaturenortheast.co.uk/events.
Survivors' Open Mic at the PoCaff: Tonight!
Thursday 12th October
8.00
£2/1
Survivors Poetry Open Mic
at the Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London
8.00
£2/1
Survivors Poetry Open Mic
at the Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London
Poetry 'Rising': Monday October 23rd, SE1
Rising presents
Cheryl B, Megan Hall, Salena Godden and Annie FreudMonday, October 23rd
Scooterworks Cafe, 132 Lower Marsh, SE1 -- Tel: 0207 620 1421
7.30ish
Entrance, £5 (with an aperitif)
"Cheryl B is in town from New York City for just one week only, don't miss out on this rare chance to meet one of the US's finest."
Tim Wells
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Anthony Joseph reads in Stockton-0n-Tees: Wednesday October 18th
Wednesday October 18th 2006
The Writers Cafe
at The Georgian Theatre,
Green Dragon Yard,
Stockton-on-Tees,
TS18 1AT
For £5, you can hear poet and novelist Anthony Joseph this night in Stockton, reading from his various poetry collections and his newly published novel THE AFRICAN ORIGINS OF UFOs (Salt).
More information from: www.georgiantheatre.co.u
For more on Anthony Joseph's work, and to hear podcasts, etc. try the Salt website.
The Writers Cafe
at The Georgian Theatre,
Green Dragon Yard,
Stockton-on-Tees,
TS18 1AT
For £5, you can hear poet and novelist Anthony Joseph this night in Stockton, reading from his various poetry collections and his newly published novel THE AFRICAN ORIGINS OF UFOs (Salt).More information from: www.georgiantheatre.co.u
For more on Anthony Joseph's work, and to hear podcasts, etc. try the Salt website.
Poetry to Music: Le Couteau Jaune
Le Couteau Jaune: remaining October 06’ Performances
LeCouteauJaune online
"If you should wish to experience the full wrath of a Le Couteau Jaune live show,
then please feel free to attend one or more of the following dates we have planned in our bibles for the month ahead."
Oct 11th: Tesco Disco @ 43 South Molton St, Mayfair
Oct 12th: Sancho, ‘Mystery Year,’ Album Launch @ The Spitz, Commercial St
Oct 15th: D.a.m.ned lies and allthatnoise @ The Macbeth, Hoxton
Oct 26th: Howl @ Catch 22, Kingsland Rd
“The future architects of chaos”
LeCouteauJaune online
"If you should wish to experience the full wrath of a Le Couteau Jaune live show,
then please feel free to attend one or more of the following dates we have planned in our bibles for the month ahead."
Oct 11th: Tesco Disco @ 43 South Molton St, Mayfair
Oct 12th: Sancho, ‘Mystery Year,’ Album Launch @ The Spitz, Commercial St
Oct 15th: D.a.m.ned lies and allthatnoise @ The Macbeth, Hoxton
Oct 26th: Howl @ Catch 22, Kingsland Rd
“The future architects of chaos”
YAKS ‘N’ KILTS ‘N’ ROCK ‘N’ ROLL at the Cheltenham Festival (where else?): Thursday 12th October
YAKS ‘N’ KILTS ‘N’ ROCK ‘N’ ROLL
at the 2006 Cheltenham Literature FestivalThursday 12th October at 10pm
One witty English eccentric who drinks tea, and one shouty Scottish anarchist who drinks. Performance poetry pairing Elvis McGonagall and A F Harrold provide literary laughs for all the family except children, very old people or those who never pick up a newspaper, a book or turn on the radio.
AF HARROLD says: "We’re the late cabaret turn in the Café Theatre (behind the Town Hall) and we’re free, from 10pm."
To repeat that for the hard of reading, this event is FREE ENTRY. Turn up in a kilt and they may even pay you.
www.cheltenhamfestivals.com
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Poetry in Galway: Thursday October 19th
NORTH BEACH POETRY NIGHTS:
LOUIS De PAOR as SPECIAL GUEST POET on Thursday October 19th at 9pm, BK's Winebar, Spanish Parade, Galway.Louis de Paor is one of Ireland's foremost Irish language poets. Born in Cork in 1961, he emigrated to Australia in 1987, where he lectured at the University of Sydney, returning to Ireland in 1996. Louis is the author of several acclaimed collections of poetry; the most recent - Clapping in the Cemetery - was published last year by Clo Iar-Chonnachta. He is Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway.
The Poetry Slam follows the usual format and welcomes newcomers. Please bring along two 3 minute pieces. Admission 4 Euro.
Info: John Walsh 091-5932390
NBN gratefully acknowledges the support of Galway City Council.
Monday, October 09, 2006
Clare Pollard Performs: Tuesday 10th October
Clare Pollard at The Poetry Shack
The Old Crown, 33 New Oxford Street, London. 7.30 for 8pm.
10th October 2006.
Info 020 8882 7891 / 020 7254 8220 www.thepoetryshack.com email brettvt@btinternet.com --- £5 ENTRY FEE
The publicity material for this event says: "The Poetry Shack is pleased to present another evening of the best spiky, intelligent and funny performance poetry, comedy and other stuff. We are delighted to welcome Clare Pollard."
PRAISE FOR CLARE POLLARD:
"Raw, sexy, exotic and compelling - ... wonderful reckless revelling in the language..." Mslexia
" a seasoned observer and a master technician ... like early Sylvia Plath re-interpreted for the Trainspotting generation" Daily Mail
"Pollard is a poet of the 21st century, a witness of the present and a shaper of its voice" John Sears Popmatters
The Old Crown, 33 New Oxford Street, London. 7.30 for 8pm.
10th October 2006.
Info 020 8882 7891 / 020 7254 8220 www.thepoetryshack.com email brettvt@btinternet.com --- £5 ENTRY FEE
The publicity material for this event says: "The Poetry Shack is pleased to present another evening of the best spiky, intelligent and funny performance poetry, comedy and other stuff. We are delighted to welcome Clare Pollard."
PRAISE FOR CLARE POLLARD:
"Raw, sexy, exotic and compelling - ... wonderful reckless revelling in the language..." Mslexia
" a seasoned observer and a master technician ... like early Sylvia Plath re-interpreted for the Trainspotting generation" Daily Mail
"Pollard is a poet of the 21st century, a witness of the present and a shaper of its voice" John Sears Popmatters
Manchester Slam! Tuesday 10th October
Seconds Out! Slam
Contact Theatre, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6JA; 7.30pm; Apples & Snakes presents Seconds Out! Slams; 10 October 2006Special guests:
The Heavyweight Lyricist - shortMAN
In Ya Face Flava from JOEY
180 secs to rock or shock the mic!
Winners picked by audience response
Featuring All Star Special Guests
Slammers must book in advance!
£4/£2.50 concs. Box office: 0161 274 0600
TONIGHT, Monday 9th October: Two Performance Events at the Poetry Society, London
On Monday October 9th from 7pm, this month's Poets' Letter, hosted by Munayem Mayenin, takes place at the Poetry Cafe, downstairs at 22 Betterton Street, London. Nearest tube Covent Garden.
Guest poets & open mic slots available as usual. £6/4 entry.
Munayem Mayenin -- Editor: Poet's Letter Magazine
www.poetsletter.com
Poet's Letter Limited
75 Cannon Street
London EC4N 5BN
Tel: +44 (0)20 7556 7052
Email: Editor@poetsletter.com
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ALSO at the Poetry Society on Monday night, but upstairs (in studio), London-based journal THE WOLF will be launching its new issue with live readings by writers such as Anne Rouse, Niall McDevitt, Ahren Warner, Linda Black, Robert Stein and Fiona Curran.
8pm start. FREE ENTRY.
www.wolfmagazine.co.uk
Guest poets & open mic slots available as usual. £6/4 entry.
Munayem Mayenin -- Editor: Poet's Letter Magazine
www.poetsletter.com
Poet's Letter Limited
75 Cannon Street
London EC4N 5BN
Tel: +44 (0)20 7556 7052
Email: Editor@poetsletter.com
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ALSO at the Poetry Society on Monday night, but upstairs (in studio), London-based journal THE WOLF will be launching its new issue with live readings by writers such as Anne Rouse, Niall McDevitt, Ahren Warner, Linda Black, Robert Stein and Fiona Curran.
8pm start. FREE ENTRY.
www.wolfmagazine.co.uk
Mark Gwynne Jones and the Psychicbread on National Tour: from Saturday 14th October
The hugely talented and off-the-wall Mark Gwynne Jones and the Psychicbread will be launching their new album of voice, rhythm, music and vivid poetry at The Derby Dance Centre on Saturday 14th October (tickets £8/£6 :tel 01332 370911 / info@derbydance.co.uk).
You can also catch them at Sheffield City Hall on Sunday 29th October (tickets £7/£5 :tel 0114 2734716 /www.offtheshelf.org.uk)
Further UK tour dates will include:
Brighton, The Komedia - Monday 6th November (01865 200550 / www.hammerandtongue.org)
Oxford, The Zodiac - Tuesday 7th November (01865 200550 / www.hammerandtongue.org)
Matlock Bath, The Fishpond - Friday 10th November (01629 581000 / www.fishpond.co.uk)
London, Express Excess (opposite Chalk Farm Tube) - Wednesday 22nd November (0207 4852659 / www.expressexcess.co.uk)
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For movies, free mp3's and more visit www.psychicbread.org
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To read a brand-new review of Mark Gwynne-Jones and the Psychicbread, visit the Leicester Literature site by clicking here.
You can also catch them at Sheffield City Hall on Sunday 29th October (tickets £7/£5 :tel 0114 2734716 /www.offtheshelf.org.uk)
Further UK tour dates will include:
Brighton, The Komedia - Monday 6th November (01865 200550 / www.hammerandtongue.org)
Oxford, The Zodiac - Tuesday 7th November (01865 200550 / www.hammerandtongue.org)
Matlock Bath, The Fishpond - Friday 10th November (01629 581000 / www.fishpond.co.uk)
London, Express Excess (opposite Chalk Farm Tube) - Wednesday 22nd November (0207 4852659 / www.expressexcess.co.uk)
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For movies, free mp3's and more visit www.psychicbread.org
*
To read a brand-new review of Mark Gwynne-Jones and the Psychicbread, visit the Leicester Literature site by clicking here.
Sunday, October 08, 2006
An evening with Simon Armitage and Paul Batchelor: Monday 9th October
Venue: Durham Town Hall
Organiser: Durham LitFest
Start time: 19:30 Monday 9th October 2006
Website: www.literaturefestival.co.uk
Two poets for the price of one: Simon Armitage and Paul Batchelor will be appearing at Durham Town Hall as part of the Durham LitFest this Monday evening.
Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire, where he still lives. Until 1994 he worked as probation officer in Greater Manchester. His first collection of poems, Zoom!, was published in 1989 by Bloodaxe Books. He has received numerous awards for his poetry including the Sunday Times Young Author of the Year, one of the first Forward Prizes and a Lannan Award. He writes for radio, television and film, and is the author of four stage plays, including Mister Heracles, a version of the Euripides play The Madness of Heracles.
Simon has written for over a dozen television films, including Drinking for England and Song Birds (screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006). He received an Ivor Novello Award for his lyrics in the BAFTA-winning Channel 4 film Feltham Sings. His first novel, Little Green Man, was published in 2001. His second, The White Stuff, appeared in 2004. His new translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be published in 2007.
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Northumberland poet Paul Batchelor received an Eric Gregory award in 2003 from the Society of Authors and in 2004 he was given the Andrew Waterhouse Award by New Writing North. He is currently writing a PhD at Newcastle University on the poetry of Barry MacSweeney and edits a website, Acknowledged Land, for writers in Northumberland.
Paul's poems, translations and reviews have appeared in various magazines including Modern Poetry in Translation, The North, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Shearsman, Stride and Tower Poetry. A pamphlet, Fighting in the Captain's Tower, written with JP Nosbaum, was published by Hawthorn in 2002. Paul's new pamphlet, To Photograph a Snow Crystal, is published by Smith Doorstop.
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This event is part of the Durham LitFest and is hosted by veteran of the northern poetry scene Mark Robinson, poet and executive director of Arts Council England, North East.
Admission: £8 (£6 concessions)
Durham Town Hall
Market Place
Durham
DH1 3NW
Box office: 0191 332 4041(Monday-Saturday 10am-8.30pm, Sunday 12pm-8.30pm)
Further information is available on literary events in the north-east at WWW.LITERATURENORTHEAST.CO.UK
Organiser: Durham LitFest
Start time: 19:30 Monday 9th October 2006
Website: www.literaturefestival.co.uk
Two poets for the price of one: Simon Armitage and Paul Batchelor will be appearing at Durham Town Hall as part of the Durham LitFest this Monday evening.
Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire, where he still lives. Until 1994 he worked as probation officer in Greater Manchester. His first collection of poems, Zoom!, was published in 1989 by Bloodaxe Books. He has received numerous awards for his poetry including the Sunday Times Young Author of the Year, one of the first Forward Prizes and a Lannan Award. He writes for radio, television and film, and is the author of four stage plays, including Mister Heracles, a version of the Euripides play The Madness of Heracles.
Simon has written for over a dozen television films, including Drinking for England and Song Birds (screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006). He received an Ivor Novello Award for his lyrics in the BAFTA-winning Channel 4 film Feltham Sings. His first novel, Little Green Man, was published in 2001. His second, The White Stuff, appeared in 2004. His new translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be published in 2007.
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Northumberland poet Paul Batchelor received an Eric Gregory award in 2003 from the Society of Authors and in 2004 he was given the Andrew Waterhouse Award by New Writing North. He is currently writing a PhD at Newcastle University on the poetry of Barry MacSweeney and edits a website, Acknowledged Land, for writers in Northumberland.
Paul's poems, translations and reviews have appeared in various magazines including Modern Poetry in Translation, The North, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Shearsman, Stride and Tower Poetry. A pamphlet, Fighting in the Captain's Tower, written with JP Nosbaum, was published by Hawthorn in 2002. Paul's new pamphlet, To Photograph a Snow Crystal, is published by Smith Doorstop.
*
This event is part of the Durham LitFest and is hosted by veteran of the northern poetry scene Mark Robinson, poet and executive director of Arts Council England, North East.
Admission: £8 (£6 concessions)
Durham Town Hall
Market Place
Durham
DH1 3NW
Box office: 0191 332 4041(Monday-Saturday 10am-8.30pm, Sunday 12pm-8.30pm)
Further information is available on literary events in the north-east at WWW.LITERATURENORTHEAST.CO.UK
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Midlands Poetry News
Warwick Festival Slam Results
In Friday night's Warwick Words Festival Slam, organised and compered by the retiring Poet Laureate for Birmingham, Dreadlockalien (aka Richard Grant), equally stunning performances from poets Danni Carberry and Emma Purshouse meant they shared first prize of £50 each.
The magnificently talented Emma Purshouse, in full flow
Roz Goddard on Dismantling Hotel Rooms
For those in the Warwick area still hungry for poems, Roz Goddard will be reading from her latest collection How to Dismantle a Hotel Room tomorrow (Sunday 8th October) at 4pm, Bridge House Theatre. Tickets £5.
See www.warwickwords.co.uk for information on other events still available for booking this weekend.
Poetrailing in Warwick
Eager to spout a few poems yourself? Then try this free poetry event on Sunday 8th October: a Poetry Pub Trail (not Crawl, I notice, this must be the politically correct version where poets stick to mango juice all evening) which takes place around Warwick town centre. This will be one of the last events of this year's literary Festival, so don't miss it. I couldn't make it to this cracking event last year because of other commitments, but will probably work myself into the mix somewhere during the night ...
Martin Green, Midlands poet, doing his thang at the mic
Join Sean Kelly of Pureandgoodandright for this night of declaiming, versifying and rhyming in Warwick’s pubs – 'an evening of pure imbibition'.
Bring your own poems or someone else’s to share. Maybe see you there?
7.45-8.30 Warwick Arms Hotel
8.45-9.30 The Zetland
9.45-10.30 The Roebuck
Electric Poetry?
-- Come to the end of the Birmingham Laureateship Party 2006
For real devotees of the spoken word, next Friday October 13th - hopefully not unlucky for poets - you can hear and see some of the finest performers in the Midlands at the Electric Cinema in Birmingham as one of the closing events of the Birmingham Book Festival.
Also celebrating the end of Richard Grant's busy and productive stint as Birmingham Poet Laureate for 2006, this is definitely an event for night owls, beginning at around 11pm and going on into the wee small hours, so go prepared for a late night but also to be entertained in Birmingham-style with talented poets versifying all over the place and the best six going through for a finale towards the end of the event. All performance slots have already been filled, alas, but audience members are definitely required.
Farewell, Richard! And thanks for a fantastic job pushing live and performance poetry in the region ... and far beyond!
Those details again: 11pm onwards, Electric Cinema, Birmingham, Friday 13th October. Tickets £5 approx.
New Birmingham Poet Laureate for 2006 - 07
Finally, the new Poet Laureate for Birmingham has been named as endearing local poet Giovanni 'Spoz' Esposito, with his long track record of poetry workshopping and hands-on involvement in the Midlands performance scene. Spoz will be known to most poet/performers in the area, and will be a popular choice for Laureate, I'm sure.
The new Birmingham Poet Laureate, Spoz, on stage at the Birmingham Library Theatre earlier this year
I'm also told Spoz has a new play on at the Artrix, Bromsgrove, towards the end of October. His play is called Make Poetry History and features the infamous World Slam Poetry Champion Elvis Mcgonagal, who is coincidentally performing "Yaks 'n Kilts 'n Rock 'n Roll" at the Reading Comedy Festival tonight, with AF Harrold, pictured here in pensive mode at the Oxford Live Literature Arena this April when I crept up on him with a camera. No doubt he was working out his moves for the act.
If you missed this bizarre double act - yaks in kilts?! - don't despair, for you can catch it again this coming Thursday, 12th October, at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.)
Workshop with the New Poet Laureate
If you'd like to learn more from Spoz about the art of performing your poetry, you could try this workshop, also at the Artrix, Bromsgrove:
SLAM THE ARTRIX A DAY POETRY WORKSHOP WITH GIOVANNI 'SPOZ' ESPOSITO
29 October 2005, 10.30 am - 5 pm - evening performance 7 pm
£25 (£20)
Spend the day with performance poet and slam artist Spoz who will give you the opportunity to have a look at a different side of poetry. His guidance and workshop programme will help you perform with gusto and attitude, write a piece of work you never thought you had in you and perform it to a live audience in the evening.
For more details, visit the Artrix, Bromsgrove.
* Any other live poetry news, email the details to jane @ poetrycornwall.demon.co.uk
In Friday night's Warwick Words Festival Slam, organised and compered by the retiring Poet Laureate for Birmingham, Dreadlockalien (aka Richard Grant), equally stunning performances from poets Danni Carberry and Emma Purshouse meant they shared first prize of £50 each.
The magnificently talented Emma Purshouse, in full flow
Roz Goddard on Dismantling Hotel Rooms
For those in the Warwick area still hungry for poems, Roz Goddard will be reading from her latest collection How to Dismantle a Hotel Room tomorrow (Sunday 8th October) at 4pm, Bridge House Theatre. Tickets £5.
See www.warwickwords.co.uk for information on other events still available for booking this weekend.
Poetrailing in Warwick
Eager to spout a few poems yourself? Then try this free poetry event on Sunday 8th October: a Poetry Pub Trail (not Crawl, I notice, this must be the politically correct version where poets stick to mango juice all evening) which takes place around Warwick town centre. This will be one of the last events of this year's literary Festival, so don't miss it. I couldn't make it to this cracking event last year because of other commitments, but will probably work myself into the mix somewhere during the night ...
Martin Green, Midlands poet, doing his thang at the mic
Join Sean Kelly of Pureandgoodandright for this night of declaiming, versifying and rhyming in Warwick’s pubs – 'an evening of pure imbibition'.
Bring your own poems or someone else’s to share. Maybe see you there?
7.45-8.30 Warwick Arms Hotel
8.45-9.30 The Zetland
9.45-10.30 The Roebuck
Electric Poetry?
-- Come to the end of the Birmingham Laureateship Party 2006
For real devotees of the spoken word, next Friday October 13th - hopefully not unlucky for poets - you can hear and see some of the finest performers in the Midlands at the Electric Cinema in Birmingham as one of the closing events of the Birmingham Book Festival.
Also celebrating the end of Richard Grant's busy and productive stint as Birmingham Poet Laureate for 2006, this is definitely an event for night owls, beginning at around 11pm and going on into the wee small hours, so go prepared for a late night but also to be entertained in Birmingham-style with talented poets versifying all over the place and the best six going through for a finale towards the end of the event. All performance slots have already been filled, alas, but audience members are definitely required.
Farewell, Richard! And thanks for a fantastic job pushing live and performance poetry in the region ... and far beyond!
Those details again: 11pm onwards, Electric Cinema, Birmingham, Friday 13th October. Tickets £5 approx.
New Birmingham Poet Laureate for 2006 - 07
Finally, the new Poet Laureate for Birmingham has been named as endearing local poet Giovanni 'Spoz' Esposito, with his long track record of poetry workshopping and hands-on involvement in the Midlands performance scene. Spoz will be known to most poet/performers in the area, and will be a popular choice for Laureate, I'm sure.
The new Birmingham Poet Laureate, Spoz, on stage at the Birmingham Library Theatre earlier this year
I'm also told Spoz has a new play on at the Artrix, Bromsgrove, towards the end of October. His play is called Make Poetry History and features the infamous World Slam Poetry Champion Elvis Mcgonagal, who is coincidentally performing "Yaks 'n Kilts 'n Rock 'n Roll" at the Reading Comedy Festival tonight, with AF Harrold, pictured here in pensive mode at the Oxford Live Literature Arena this April when I crept up on him with a camera. No doubt he was working out his moves for the act.
If you missed this bizarre double act - yaks in kilts?! - don't despair, for you can catch it again this coming Thursday, 12th October, at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.)
Workshop with the New Poet Laureate
If you'd like to learn more from Spoz about the art of performing your poetry, you could try this workshop, also at the Artrix, Bromsgrove:
SLAM THE ARTRIX A DAY POETRY WORKSHOP WITH GIOVANNI 'SPOZ' ESPOSITO
29 October 2005, 10.30 am - 5 pm - evening performance 7 pm
£25 (£20)
Spend the day with performance poet and slam artist Spoz who will give you the opportunity to have a look at a different side of poetry. His guidance and workshop programme will help you perform with gusto and attitude, write a piece of work you never thought you had in you and perform it to a live audience in the evening.
For more details, visit the Artrix, Bromsgrove.
* Any other live poetry news, email the details to jane @ poetrycornwall.demon.co.uk
Friday, October 06, 2006
WARWICK FESTIVAL SLAM: TONIGHT!
FRIDAY 6 OCTOBER - 9.30pm WARWICK WORDS FESTIVAL SLAM, Unitarian Chapel, High St, Warwick, £5.00
Richard Grant aka dreadlockalien hosts a poetry contest where audience reaction helps decide the winner. If you've never been to a poetry slam, this is a great opportunity to see some cracking performance poets do battle for a £100 cash prize!
Richard Grant aka dreadlockalien hosts a poetry contest where audience reaction helps decide the winner. If you've never been to a poetry slam, this is a great opportunity to see some cracking performance poets do battle for a £100 cash prize!
Anthony Joseph reads in Durham TONIGHT
Venue: The Studio, Gala Theatre
Organiser: Colpitts Poetry/Durham LitFest
Start time: 19:30 Fri 6 Oct 2006
Website: www.literaturefestival.co.uk
Trinidad-born writer and musician Anthony Joseph is one of the UK's most exciting voices. His dazzling performance art combines a post-modern sensibility with calypso rhythms, hip-hop and jazz and influences as diverse as science-fiction, surrealism and linguistics. He has two poetry collections to his name, Desafinado (1994) and Teragaton (1997), as well as the spoken-word CDs Liquid Textology and The Spasm Band, and he'll also be reading from his hot new debut novel The African Origins of UFOs (Salt), an experimental work of metafiction, myth and science fiction - an `afropsychadelicnoir'.
This evening will sing!
For more information about Anthony Joseph, see www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk
Admission: £8 (£6 concessions)
Gala Theatre
Millennium Place
Durham
DH1 1WA
Box office: 0191 332 4041(Monday - Saturday 10am-8.30pm, Sunday 12pm-8.30pm)
www.galadurham.co.uk
Organiser: Colpitts Poetry/Durham LitFest
Start time: 19:30 Fri 6 Oct 2006
Website: www.literaturefestival.co.uk
Trinidad-born writer and musician Anthony Joseph is one of the UK's most exciting voices. His dazzling performance art combines a post-modern sensibility with calypso rhythms, hip-hop and jazz and influences as diverse as science-fiction, surrealism and linguistics. He has two poetry collections to his name, Desafinado (1994) and Teragaton (1997), as well as the spoken-word CDs Liquid Textology and The Spasm Band, and he'll also be reading from his hot new debut novel The African Origins of UFOs (Salt), an experimental work of metafiction, myth and science fiction - an `afropsychadelicnoir'. This evening will sing!
For more information about Anthony Joseph, see www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk
Admission: £8 (£6 concessions)
Gala Theatre
Millennium Place
Durham
DH1 1WA
Box office: 0191 332 4041(Monday - Saturday 10am-8.30pm, Sunday 12pm-8.30pm)
www.galadurham.co.uk
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Poetry by the Camful: a weekend of women's experimental poetry in Cambridge
CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL POETRY FESTIVAL
Friday 6th - Sunday 8th October 2006 in the University English Faculty on
West Road. Workshops on Thursday 5th and Monday 9th in Gonville and Caius College. Everyone is warmly invited - men and women equally.
Tickets available on the door:
£5 per session (£3 concessions / students), £25 or £20 weekend.
The book stall will be selling works by all those featured and associated
publishers including Barque, rem, Arehouse, Bad, Salt, Equipage, and many
more. We would still welcome more helpers. If anyone would be willing to
volunteer as a helper (staffing the door or selling drinks or books), then
they attend the corresponding session for free. Please contact Emily
(ec308) or Catherine (cb214) with offers of help. (See below.) Thanks.
THE FESTIVAL
This year's festival is dedicated to showcasing and developing the
experimental poetry of contemporary women from across the English-speaking
world. It features past and present local talent, as well as poets from
across Great Britain, Europe, New Zealand, and the United States. It
includes readings, performances, visual pieces /installations, films, and
responses to their work.
This year is the tenth anniversary of the groundbreaking book, Out of
Everywhere, produced by Wendy Mulford, Ken Edwards and Maggie O' Sullivan.
It was the first anthology, and one of the last, to recognise the
achievements of the female avant-garde.
THE POETS
Poets who have agreed to read their poetry include: Maggie O'Sullivan
(Yorkshire), Wendy Mulford (Suffolk), Ken Edwards (Sussex), Dell Olsen
(London), Tom Raworth (Cambridge), Kathleen Fraser (San Francisco),
Marianne Morris (Canada /London), Andrea Brady (US / London), Africa Wayne
(New York), Jennifer Moxley (US), Geraldine Monk (Sheffield), Carol
Mirakove (US), Susana Gardner (US), Susan Schultz (Hawaii), Cathy Wagner
(Ohio), Leslie Scalapino (San Francisco), Kai Fierle-Hedrick (Canada
/London), Lisa Samuels (US /NZ), Kaia Sand (Oregon), Marjorie Welish (New
York), Caroline Bergvall (London), Tim Atkins (London) and Bernadette Mayer
(New York).
The following will give talks about women's poetry: Ken Edwards, Carol
Mirakove (US), Peter Middleton (Southampton), Rod Mengham (Cambridge),
Susan Schultz (Hawaii), Peter Manson (Glasgow), Kristin Kreider (London)
and Lucy Sheerman (Cambridge).
THE PROGRAM:
Thursday 5th 2 - 4.30pm
Open workshop by Leslie Scalapino
(Gonville & Caius College)
Friday 6th
7.30-10.30
Andrea Brady - poetry
Lisa Samuels - paper
Kathleen Fraser - poetry + visual projections
Saturday 7th
11.00-1.30
Africa Wayne - poetry
Susan Schultz - poetry + paper
Rod Mengham - paper
Susana Gardner - poetry
3.00-5.30
Geraldine Monk - poetry
Peter Middleton - paper
Redell Olsen - poetry
Carol Mirakove - poetry + paper
7.30-10.30
Keith Tuma / Justin Katko - film
Marianne Morris - poetry + art installations
Tom Raworth - poetry
Catherine Wagner - poetry
Sunday 8th
11.00-1.30
Justin Katko & Camille PB - poetry
Kai Fierle-Hedrick - poetry + art installations
Kristen Kreider - paper + art installations
Tim Atkins - poetry
3.00-5.30
Ken Edwards - talk on Out of Everywhere
Wendy Mulford - poetry
Peter Manson - paper
Maggie O'Sullivan - poetry
6.30-9.15
Lucy Sheerman - paper
Caroline Bergvall - poetry
Kaia Sand - poetry
Leslie Scalapino - poetry
Concluding remarks. Dinner & good times..
Monday 9th 2-5pm
Open workshop by Kathleen Fraser
(Gonville & Caius College)
Contact Emily: ec308@cam.ac.uk or Catherine cb214@cam.ac.uk for further details.
Friday 6th - Sunday 8th October 2006 in the University English Faculty on
West Road. Workshops on Thursday 5th and Monday 9th in Gonville and Caius College. Everyone is warmly invited - men and women equally.
Tickets available on the door:
£5 per session (£3 concessions / students), £25 or £20 weekend.
The book stall will be selling works by all those featured and associated
publishers including Barque, rem, Arehouse, Bad, Salt, Equipage, and many
more. We would still welcome more helpers. If anyone would be willing to
volunteer as a helper (staffing the door or selling drinks or books), then
they attend the corresponding session for free. Please contact Emily
(ec308) or Catherine (cb214) with offers of help. (See below.) Thanks.
THE FESTIVAL
This year's festival is dedicated to showcasing and developing the
experimental poetry of contemporary women from across the English-speaking
world. It features past and present local talent, as well as poets from
across Great Britain, Europe, New Zealand, and the United States. It
includes readings, performances, visual pieces /installations, films, and
responses to their work.
This year is the tenth anniversary of the groundbreaking book, Out of
Everywhere, produced by Wendy Mulford, Ken Edwards and Maggie O' Sullivan.
It was the first anthology, and one of the last, to recognise the
achievements of the female avant-garde.
THE POETS
Poets who have agreed to read their poetry include: Maggie O'Sullivan
(Yorkshire), Wendy Mulford (Suffolk), Ken Edwards (Sussex), Dell Olsen
(London), Tom Raworth (Cambridge), Kathleen Fraser (San Francisco),
Marianne Morris (Canada /London), Andrea Brady (US / London), Africa Wayne
(New York), Jennifer Moxley (US), Geraldine Monk (Sheffield), Carol
Mirakove (US), Susana Gardner (US), Susan Schultz (Hawaii), Cathy Wagner
(Ohio), Leslie Scalapino (San Francisco), Kai Fierle-Hedrick (Canada
/London), Lisa Samuels (US /NZ), Kaia Sand (Oregon), Marjorie Welish (New
York), Caroline Bergvall (London), Tim Atkins (London) and Bernadette Mayer
(New York).
The following will give talks about women's poetry: Ken Edwards, Carol
Mirakove (US), Peter Middleton (Southampton), Rod Mengham (Cambridge),
Susan Schultz (Hawaii), Peter Manson (Glasgow), Kristin Kreider (London)
and Lucy Sheerman (Cambridge).
THE PROGRAM:
Thursday 5th 2 - 4.30pm
Open workshop by Leslie Scalapino
(Gonville & Caius College)
Friday 6th
7.30-10.30
Andrea Brady - poetry
Lisa Samuels - paper
Kathleen Fraser - poetry + visual projections
Saturday 7th
11.00-1.30
Africa Wayne - poetry
Susan Schultz - poetry + paper
Rod Mengham - paper
Susana Gardner - poetry
3.00-5.30
Geraldine Monk - poetry
Peter Middleton - paper
Redell Olsen - poetry
Carol Mirakove - poetry + paper
7.30-10.30
Keith Tuma / Justin Katko - film
Marianne Morris - poetry + art installations
Tom Raworth - poetry
Catherine Wagner - poetry
Sunday 8th
11.00-1.30
Justin Katko & Camille PB - poetry
Kai Fierle-Hedrick - poetry + art installations
Kristen Kreider - paper + art installations
Tim Atkins - poetry
3.00-5.30
Ken Edwards - talk on Out of Everywhere
Wendy Mulford - poetry
Peter Manson - paper
Maggie O'Sullivan - poetry
6.30-9.15
Lucy Sheerman - paper
Caroline Bergvall - poetry
Kaia Sand - poetry
Leslie Scalapino - poetry
Concluding remarks. Dinner & good times..
Monday 9th 2-5pm
Open workshop by Kathleen Fraser
(Gonville & Caius College)
Contact Emily: ec308@cam.ac.uk or Catherine cb214@cam.ac.uk for further details.
EXPOSED Apples & Snakes Tour: Tonight and Saturday
EXPOSED
venue: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1
date: 05/10/2006
time: 19:00
website: www.whitechapel.org
tickets: FREE
guest acts: Luke Wright and Byron Vincent
in collaboration with: Into Words
venue: The Vaults, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, OX1 4AH
date: 07/10/2006
time: 20:00
website: www.hammerandtongue.org
box office: On door
tickets: £6 / £4
guest acts: Steve Larkin and Lizzie Mac
in collaboration with: Hammer & Tongue
Performance poetry by David J, Stickman, Polarbear, Yusra Warsama and Claire Williamson.
Apples & Snakes has commissioned five artists from five regional areas to each compose a twelve minute piece on the theme of ‘exposed’. They explore issues of political, personal and environmental exposure through performance styles from hip hop through free verse to the luxuriantly lyrical.
‘Exposed’ is the company’s most ambitious collaborative project to date with twenty performances, sixteen partner organisations and five touring artists. This makes it the biggest national poetry tour ever programmed.
venue: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1
date: 05/10/2006
time: 19:00
website: www.whitechapel.org
tickets: FREE
guest acts: Luke Wright and Byron Vincent
in collaboration with: Into Words
venue: The Vaults, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford, OX1 4AH
date: 07/10/2006
time: 20:00
website: www.hammerandtongue.org
box office: On door
tickets: £6 / £4
guest acts: Steve Larkin and Lizzie Mac
in collaboration with: Hammer & Tongue
Performance poetry by David J, Stickman, Polarbear, Yusra Warsama and Claire Williamson.
Apples & Snakes has commissioned five artists from five regional areas to each compose a twelve minute piece on the theme of ‘exposed’. They explore issues of political, personal and environmental exposure through performance styles from hip hop through free verse to the luxuriantly lyrical.
‘Exposed’ is the company’s most ambitious collaborative project to date with twenty performances, sixteen partner organisations and five touring artists. This makes it the biggest national poetry tour ever programmed.
Celebrating NATIONAL POETRY DAY 2006: this year's theme is IDENTITY
This is my first NATIONAL POETRY DAY on Poets On Fire, so an extra-special occasion for me this year! Events are taking place all over the country today to celebrate poetry, far too numerous to mention, from pub open mics to the major poetry day schedule of workshops & readings getting underway in a few hours at the Poetry Society headquarters in London (22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, if you're in the area).
Running a Poetry Event?
If you know of or run a live poetry event, at any time of year, that you'd like to see posted up here on POETS ON FIRE, please email me (see sidebar for details) about 4 or 5 days before the event. Any earlier and I tend to forget. One day beforehand is usually a little late for my tastes, and on the day itself is a no-no. But otherwise, I'd be happy to hear from you.
Remember to include ALL pertinent details, such as time, venue, names of poets performing if you know them, entrance fee, any special rules or things people need to bring, and it would also be helpful if you could include at least a contact email or website for queries.
*
So have a great NATIONAL POETRY DAY, and if you can't get out to a performance, stay in and curl up with a poetry anthology or favourite collection or audio tape/CD. Whatever you're doing, think poem!
As for me, I'll be in the Great Hall tonight at Warwick Castle, where I'll be reading at the launch of this year's WARWICK WORDS FESTIVAL.
Maybe see you there!
And to finish up today's special posting, here's a poem of my own on the theme of this year's NATIONAL POETRY DAY: 'Identity', to be published this month in 'Boudicca & Co' from Salt Publishing
Hot Days in the Eighties
On hot days in the eighties,
you stopped for ices at Taunton Services.
Little did you know then, twenty-something
in the white Ford Escort Estate —
radio on full, heater too, blasting out
to keep the engine cool — the traffic jams
from Portishead to Liverpool.
That was the decade of the motorway.
You chopped your locks in the back
of the car one day, dyke-short.
Kept dental dams in the glove box,
grew the hair under your arms
to a mousey fuzz. Purchased
a map of the highways, went native.
You wore a suede jacket and a crucifix
in the ‘V’ of your chest, strode
like a man (and the rest). Drove
a Lancia Delta into the dirt. Years later
it was a Mercedes camper van,
seven berth, and beads, hippy skirts,
needing to get close to the earth.
These days you don’t get out much,
stuck in with a husband and kids.
But the road’s strong, it hauls on you
like a blackbird on the worm,
and you find excuses — friends ill,
time alone — for the grip
of the wheel, a licence to roam.
Jane Holland
Running a Poetry Event?
If you know of or run a live poetry event, at any time of year, that you'd like to see posted up here on POETS ON FIRE, please email me (see sidebar for details) about 4 or 5 days before the event. Any earlier and I tend to forget. One day beforehand is usually a little late for my tastes, and on the day itself is a no-no. But otherwise, I'd be happy to hear from you.
Remember to include ALL pertinent details, such as time, venue, names of poets performing if you know them, entrance fee, any special rules or things people need to bring, and it would also be helpful if you could include at least a contact email or website for queries.
*
So have a great NATIONAL POETRY DAY, and if you can't get out to a performance, stay in and curl up with a poetry anthology or favourite collection or audio tape/CD. Whatever you're doing, think poem!
As for me, I'll be in the Great Hall tonight at Warwick Castle, where I'll be reading at the launch of this year's WARWICK WORDS FESTIVAL.
Maybe see you there!
And to finish up today's special posting, here's a poem of my own on the theme of this year's NATIONAL POETRY DAY: 'Identity', to be published this month in 'Boudicca & Co' from Salt Publishing
Hot Days in the Eighties
On hot days in the eighties,
you stopped for ices at Taunton Services.
Little did you know then, twenty-something
in the white Ford Escort Estate —
radio on full, heater too, blasting out
to keep the engine cool — the traffic jams
from Portishead to Liverpool.
That was the decade of the motorway.
You chopped your locks in the back
of the car one day, dyke-short.
Kept dental dams in the glove box,
grew the hair under your arms
to a mousey fuzz. Purchased
a map of the highways, went native.
You wore a suede jacket and a crucifix
in the ‘V’ of your chest, strode
like a man (and the rest). Drove
a Lancia Delta into the dirt. Years later
it was a Mercedes camper van,
seven berth, and beads, hippy skirts,
needing to get close to the earth.
These days you don’t get out much,
stuck in with a husband and kids.
But the road’s strong, it hauls on you
like a blackbird on the worm,
and you find excuses — friends ill,
time alone — for the grip
of the wheel, a licence to roam.
Jane Holland
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Yaks in Reading: Saturday 7th October
COMING TO YOU VIA THE POET & COMPERE AF HARROLD:
This week Saturday 7th October sees the triumphal arrival in Reading of Yaks ‘n’ Kilts ‘n’ Rock ‘n’ Roll, the highly praised two-man festival show written and performed by Elvis McGonagall and myself. We’ve a support act coming up from London to make an evening of it and it should be a great night. Especially if you have a pint or two beforehand.
Doors open at 8pm, tickets cost £7.50 for normal people and £5 for OAPs, students, the disabled, the unemployed and holders of those lovely Passports To Leisure (and since you won’t be able to use it for WOMAD next year (WOMAD having sadly left Reading), you might as well come and use it on us to get all the value you can out of it). All this happens at South Street Arts Centre, in Reading on Saturday.
click here for the official story!
This week Saturday 7th October sees the triumphal arrival in Reading of Yaks ‘n’ Kilts ‘n’ Rock ‘n’ Roll, the highly praised two-man festival show written and performed by Elvis McGonagall and myself. We’ve a support act coming up from London to make an evening of it and it should be a great night. Especially if you have a pint or two beforehand.
Doors open at 8pm, tickets cost £7.50 for normal people and £5 for OAPs, students, the disabled, the unemployed and holders of those lovely Passports To Leisure (and since you won’t be able to use it for WOMAD next year (WOMAD having sadly left Reading), you might as well come and use it on us to get all the value you can out of it). All this happens at South Street Arts Centre, in Reading on Saturday.
click here for the official story!
Birmingham Laureates Celebration: Thursday 5th October
Ten Years of Laureates with Guest Poet Chris Tutton
Dreadlockalien
Thursday 5 October
7.30 – 8.45pm
The Library Theatre, Birmingham Central Library, Chamberlain Square: Thursday 5th October, which is National Poetry Day
A Celebration of Birmingham Poet Laureates 1996 – 2006 – with guest poet Chris Tutton plus the first public reading by Birmingham’s new Poet Laureate 2006/2007.
Hosted by Richard Grant, aka Dreadlockalien, Birmingham Poet Laureate 2005/2006
Birmingham honoured its first city Poet Laureate in 1996 with the irrepressible Brian Lewis. Since then nine other poets have taken up the pen to write for the city, along the way encouraging countless others to enjoy poetry. This event features ten years worth of Birmingham Poet Laureates, along with a special performance from guest poet Chris Tutton (the popular wordsmith with a unique blend of ravishing linguistic dexterity). We will also be presenting the first reading by Birmingham’s new Poet Laureate for 2006/2007.
Tickets: This event is free but please reserve a place with the Box Office, see the website Birmingham book Festival.
Dreadlockalien
Thursday 5 October
7.30 – 8.45pm
The Library Theatre, Birmingham Central Library, Chamberlain Square: Thursday 5th October, which is National Poetry Day
A Celebration of Birmingham Poet Laureates 1996 – 2006 – with guest poet Chris Tutton plus the first public reading by Birmingham’s new Poet Laureate 2006/2007.
Hosted by Richard Grant, aka Dreadlockalien, Birmingham Poet Laureate 2005/2006
Birmingham honoured its first city Poet Laureate in 1996 with the irrepressible Brian Lewis. Since then nine other poets have taken up the pen to write for the city, along the way encouraging countless others to enjoy poetry. This event features ten years worth of Birmingham Poet Laureates, along with a special performance from guest poet Chris Tutton (the popular wordsmith with a unique blend of ravishing linguistic dexterity). We will also be presenting the first reading by Birmingham’s new Poet Laureate for 2006/2007.
Tickets: This event is free but please reserve a place with the Box Office, see the website Birmingham book Festival.
WRITE OUT LOUD in Bolton, Thursday 5th October
Write Out Loud
on Thursday October 5th 2006 at 7.30pm
in Bolton
at The Phoenix Youth Theatre, Bark Street
Entry: £3/£2
Write out Loud Presents its National Poetry Day Showcase featuring
Cath Nichols (“honest and sensitive…robust and elegiac”) and Abi Idowu (“spellbinding storytelling and earthy poems of love and life”)
Supported by a wealth of local poetic talent
Compere : Tony Walsh ("Our audience loved him and you will too".)
Twelve open mic slots available on the evening. Licensed bar. No Smoking.
For further information contact Dave Morgan on telephone number below.
on Thursday October 5th 2006 at 7.30pm
in Bolton
at The Phoenix Youth Theatre, Bark Street
Entry: £3/£2
Write out Loud Presents its National Poetry Day Showcase featuring
Cath Nichols (“honest and sensitive…robust and elegiac”) and Abi Idowu (“spellbinding storytelling and earthy poems of love and life”)
Supported by a wealth of local poetic talent
Compere : Tony Walsh ("Our audience loved him and you will too".)
Twelve open mic slots available on the evening. Licensed bar. No Smoking.
For further information contact Dave Morgan on telephone number below.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
UK ALL STARS POETRY SLAM! in Cheltenham, Friday 6th October
Friday 6th October
The UK All Stars Poetry Slam! Qualifier
Town Hall • 8.30-9.30pm • Free
Fancy a starring role in the UK ’s slam extravaganza, the All Stars Poetry Slam tomorrow night? Then take a stanza on stage and see if your poetry and performance has what it takes to rival the best of the rest. Or come and join the applaudience – there’s all to cheer for! Fifteen poets only, first come first served, contact Elizabeth Robertson on 01242 263494 or email Elizabeth.Robertson@cheltenham.gov.uk
(All the competitor places have been taken, but come along to cheer them on!)
In connection with the Cheltenham Literature Festival (6 - 15 October)
The UK All Stars Poetry Slam! Qualifier
Town Hall • 8.30-9.30pm • Free
Fancy a starring role in the UK ’s slam extravaganza, the All Stars Poetry Slam tomorrow night? Then take a stanza on stage and see if your poetry and performance has what it takes to rival the best of the rest. Or come and join the applaudience – there’s all to cheer for! Fifteen poets only, first come first served, contact Elizabeth Robertson on 01242 263494 or email Elizabeth.Robertson@cheltenham.gov.uk
(All the competitor places have been taken, but come along to cheer them on!)
In connection with the Cheltenham Literature Festival (6 - 15 October)
Monday, October 02, 2006
Penned in the Margins: National Poetry Day, Kilburn
Phrased & Confused and Penned in the Margins presents
Emma Pollock (ex-Delgados), Chris T-T, Brendan Cleary, Sore Throat5th October 2006 @ The Luminaire, 311 Kilburn High Road, London
Doors 7.30pm
Phrased & Confused brings together two of the UK’s most acclaimed singer-songwriters, Chris T-T and Emma Pollock, with poet Brendan Cleary and electro-spokenword duo Sore Throat for a unique and unmissable evening of words, music, lyrics and beats. The Luminaire, Kilburn was voted Time Out’s Venue of the Year and we concur! It’s a lovely space and perfect for Phrased & Confused, presented exclusively by penned in the margins, London’s top promoter of poetry and spoken word. BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT!
Tickets £8: www.wegottickets.com/event/12423 -
Concessions £6: www.wegottickets.com/event/12424
Sunday, October 01, 2006
TONIGHT: Poetry in Newcastle, 8pm
Venue: Bridge Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne
Organiser: The Blue Room
Start time: 20:00 Sun 1 Oct 2006
Website: www.blueroom.org.uk
The Blue Room is back, presenting exciting, new work from Ellen Phethean, Carol McGuigan, Alison Gangel and Christie Ducker, with music from Bex Mather.
Christy Ducker is an editor, reviewer and poet. She has also taught creative writing since 1999. Publications include Acknowledged Land, Diamond Twig, Mslexia, Orbis, The Reader, Smoke and The Wolf. She is currently working towards a first collection. She lives and works in Northumberland.
Ellen Phethean is a sound artist, poet, playwright and editor. Her poetry is in Sauce (Bloodaxe Books) and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She co-founded Diamond Twig press with Julia Darling and has written plays for radio, Northumbria University, Live Theatre's Youth Group and for schools. In 2003/4 she was writer in residence with Seven Stories and wrote Wall, a teen novel in poems, to be published by Smokestack Books and is currently working on the next novel in similar style. She teaches writing for children at The Centre for Lifelong Learning in Newcastle.
Carol McGuigan has had seven plays broadcast on BBC radio and five produced on stage. In the last three years, she's been developing as a prose writer. She has short stories in Tyneside Tales, an Endpapers anthology and in the second Phantoms at the Phil anthology published by Side Real Press this year. Her novel in progress, How the Eye Works, won her a New Writing North Northern Promise Award in April. She will read a short extract tonight.
Award-winning Alison Gangel is originally from Glasgow. She is the single parent of a ten-year-old and teaches English in a secondary school in Newcastle. She is writing a `powerful and distinctive' autobiographical novel entitled Give That Girl a Spotlight.
Bex Mather is a singer songwriter based in the North East. Over the last year, Bex has been writing new material, performed with Nitin Sawhney and the Aftershock project and been part of a PRS project working with five UK singer-songwriters and five Danish singer-songwriters to create new work and performance. Bex has been recording her second collaborative album, Lowland, and has support to create an EP and compilation album on a new label this autumn.
Tickets: £3 (£2 concessions) on the door.
The Bridge Hotel
Castle Garth
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 1RQ
Organiser: The Blue Room
Start time: 20:00 Sun 1 Oct 2006
Website: www.blueroom.org.uk
The Blue Room is back, presenting exciting, new work from Ellen Phethean, Carol McGuigan, Alison Gangel and Christie Ducker, with music from Bex Mather.
Christy Ducker is an editor, reviewer and poet. She has also taught creative writing since 1999. Publications include Acknowledged Land, Diamond Twig, Mslexia, Orbis, The Reader, Smoke and The Wolf. She is currently working towards a first collection. She lives and works in Northumberland.
Ellen Phethean is a sound artist, poet, playwright and editor. Her poetry is in Sauce (Bloodaxe Books) and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She co-founded Diamond Twig press with Julia Darling and has written plays for radio, Northumbria University, Live Theatre's Youth Group and for schools. In 2003/4 she was writer in residence with Seven Stories and wrote Wall, a teen novel in poems, to be published by Smokestack Books and is currently working on the next novel in similar style. She teaches writing for children at The Centre for Lifelong Learning in Newcastle.
Carol McGuigan has had seven plays broadcast on BBC radio and five produced on stage. In the last three years, she's been developing as a prose writer. She has short stories in Tyneside Tales, an Endpapers anthology and in the second Phantoms at the Phil anthology published by Side Real Press this year. Her novel in progress, How the Eye Works, won her a New Writing North Northern Promise Award in April. She will read a short extract tonight.
Award-winning Alison Gangel is originally from Glasgow. She is the single parent of a ten-year-old and teaches English in a secondary school in Newcastle. She is writing a `powerful and distinctive' autobiographical novel entitled Give That Girl a Spotlight.
Bex Mather is a singer songwriter based in the North East. Over the last year, Bex has been writing new material, performed with Nitin Sawhney and the Aftershock project and been part of a PRS project working with five UK singer-songwriters and five Danish singer-songwriters to create new work and performance. Bex has been recording her second collaborative album, Lowland, and has support to create an EP and compilation album on a new label this autumn.
Tickets: £3 (£2 concessions) on the door.
The Bridge Hotel
Castle Garth
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 1RQ
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