Friday, May 15, 2009 7pm (doors open 6.30pm), £4/£3, wine
Trinity United Reform Church,
1 Buck St,
Camden Town
(2 minutes Camden Town tube.)
Ruth O'Callaghan presents Annie Chance, Lynn Foote, Mark Jolly, Dinah Livingstone, Christopher Morgan and Martine Thompson.
Poets from the floor very welcome, some five-minute spots available. Cinnamon Press is our new Sponsor. Please bring a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
PETERSFIELD: Write Angle
Tuesday, 19th May, 2009, 7.30pm, £3
The Square Brewery,
Market Square,
Petersfield,
Hampshire
A F Harrold will be special guest at this ‘special guest and open mic night’.
The Square Brewery,
Market Square,
Petersfield,
Hampshire
A F Harrold will be special guest at this ‘special guest and open mic night’.
READING: Poets Cafe
Friday, 15th May, 2009, 8pm, £6/£4
South Street Arts Centre,
South Street,
Reading
A F Harrold will be hosting the usual open mic night – now running for more years than you can count on the fingers of both hands, even if you happen to be Anne Boleyn – and inviting the wonderful special guest Fiona Robyn to the stage for a full length reading. Very good stuff all round. Go read all about her at www.fionarobyn.com
South Street Arts Centre,
South Street,
Reading
A F Harrold will be hosting the usual open mic night – now running for more years than you can count on the fingers of both hands, even if you happen to be Anne Boleyn – and inviting the wonderful special guest Fiona Robyn to the stage for a full length reading. Very good stuff all round. Go read all about her at www.fionarobyn.com
GALWAY: Amnesty Freedom Cafe relaunch
Wednesday, May 14th, 2009, 12.30pm-9pm
Amnesty International Freedom Café
2-3 Middle Street
Galway
Launch of the new-look Amnesty Freedom Café, with poetry, talks, music and, of course, great coffee. Featuring poets Rita Ann Higgins, Mary O Malley, Kevin Higgins and Pete Mullineaux, musicians Bobo, Ivan and Anna, and Nicole Blue.
Since it opened seven years ago the Amnesty International Freedom Café has become a vital and lively part of Galway’s community. Over that time nearly one thousand people have volunteered in the café and on the various human rights campaigns we have worked on.
The café recently received a long overdue makeover and will now be open from 8am every morning. We think this calls for a celebration - we are delighted to invite the Galway public to our opening celebration.
“Our café has long been a hub for activists and campaigners in Galway and we hope the new layout and extended opening hours will help to make this an even better location for community organising,” said Sarah Clancy , Campaigns Officer with Amnesty International Ireland.
“We would like to extend an open invitation to likeminded arts and social justice organisations to make use of our café as a location for meetings, film screenings and events.”
‘Space for discussion’ is the theme of the first part of the day.
Rita Ann Higgins, Mary O’ Malley and Kevin Higgins, three of Galway’s best known poets will hold a free lunchtime poetry reading from 12.30pm until 2pm. These three poets are well known locally for dealing with issues of social justice in their work and this will be no exception.
The lunchtime poetry readings will be followed by some lively performance poetry and music by Pete Mullineaux and a reading by journalist and author Michael McCaughan from his forthcoming book about the the case of death row inmate, writer and political activist Mumia Abu Jamal. The events will continue with music from some of Galway’s favourite performers including Nicole Blue, BO- BO and Ivan & Anna all of whom are regulars at the long running Unchained Melodies sessions that take place every Thursday in the Freedom Café.
After the music Noeleen Hartigan , Programmes Director for Amnesty International, will officially open the revamped Amnesty International Freedom Café at 5 pm with a discussion of our work in Ireland.
www.amnesty.ie
Amnesty International Freedom Café
2-3 Middle Street
Galway
Launch of the new-look Amnesty Freedom Café, with poetry, talks, music and, of course, great coffee. Featuring poets Rita Ann Higgins, Mary O Malley, Kevin Higgins and Pete Mullineaux, musicians Bobo, Ivan and Anna, and Nicole Blue.
Since it opened seven years ago the Amnesty International Freedom Café has become a vital and lively part of Galway’s community. Over that time nearly one thousand people have volunteered in the café and on the various human rights campaigns we have worked on.
The café recently received a long overdue makeover and will now be open from 8am every morning. We think this calls for a celebration - we are delighted to invite the Galway public to our opening celebration.
“Our café has long been a hub for activists and campaigners in Galway and we hope the new layout and extended opening hours will help to make this an even better location for community organising,” said Sarah Clancy , Campaigns Officer with Amnesty International Ireland.
“We would like to extend an open invitation to likeminded arts and social justice organisations to make use of our café as a location for meetings, film screenings and events.”
‘Space for discussion’ is the theme of the first part of the day.
Rita Ann Higgins, Mary O’ Malley and Kevin Higgins, three of Galway’s best known poets will hold a free lunchtime poetry reading from 12.30pm until 2pm. These three poets are well known locally for dealing with issues of social justice in their work and this will be no exception.
The lunchtime poetry readings will be followed by some lively performance poetry and music by Pete Mullineaux and a reading by journalist and author Michael McCaughan from his forthcoming book about the the case of death row inmate, writer and political activist Mumia Abu Jamal. The events will continue with music from some of Galway’s favourite performers including Nicole Blue, BO- BO and Ivan & Anna all of whom are regulars at the long running Unchained Melodies sessions that take place every Thursday in the Freedom Café.
After the music Noeleen Hartigan , Programmes Director for Amnesty International, will officially open the revamped Amnesty International Freedom Café at 5 pm with a discussion of our work in Ireland.
www.amnesty.ie
Monday, May 11, 2009
LONDON: Lumen Poetry Series
Tuesday, 12th May, 2009, doors open 6.30pm for 7pm, £4/£3, wine
88 Tavistock Place
London
WC1
Tubes: Russell Square , Kings Cross, St Pancras.
Ruth O'Callaghan presents Shoestring Poets Barry Cole, John Gohorry and Hugh Underhill.
Poets from the floor very welcome. Please bring a copy of your poem if you wish to be considered for the anthology sponsored by the thought-provoking Cinnamon Press.
Proceeds to the Cold Weather Shelter
88 Tavistock Place
London
WC1
Tubes: Russell Square , Kings Cross, St Pancras.
Ruth O'Callaghan presents Shoestring Poets Barry Cole, John Gohorry and Hugh Underhill.
Poets from the floor very welcome. Please bring a copy of your poem if you wish to be considered for the anthology sponsored by the thought-provoking Cinnamon Press.
Proceeds to the Cold Weather Shelter
Sunday, May 10, 2009
GALWAY: The North Beach Poetry Nights' May 2009 Slam
Monday, May 11th, 2009, 9pm
The Crane Bar,
Sea Road,
Galway
North Beach Poetry Nights presents The North Beach Poetry Nights' May 2009 Slam, with guest poet from the London performance scene, Salena Godden.
Salena's work has been published in various magazines including Drawbridge, Rising, The Illustrated Ape, Nude Magazine, Salzburg Review, Trespass, The Gay Times, Le Gun, Litro, The Guardian, The Camden New Journal and Plectrum. Her fiction and poetry has also been in many anthologies. This spring, 2009, her writing will appear in two new anthologies, Punk Fiction (Picador) and Dwang.
She is the lyricist and lead singer of underground eclectic ska jazz band SaltPeter. SaltPeter’s latest albumHunger’s The Best Sauce was released in October 2007. It featured in The Critical List in The Independent On Sunday as one of the most outstanding albums of 2007. Salena has also collaborated and performed with the likes of Alabama 3, Coldcut and Simple Kid. HarperCollins / HarperPress won the auction for her debut childhood memoir Springfield Road to be published in hardback in 2010. She has performed on BBC Radio's Women's Hour, The Verb and Bespoken Word plus she hosted and programmed her own radio show on Resonance FM and BBC LDN, The SaltPeter Radio Show.
Poets wishing to take part in the two-round slam should please bring along two three-minute poems, preferrably memorized. The winner of each month's Slam goes forward to the 2009 North Beach Poetry Nights' Grand Slam in December 2009. The prize for the Grand Slam winner is publication of a collection of her/his work.
info: john walsh @ 091-593290
The Crane Bar,
Sea Road,
Galway
North Beach Poetry Nights presents The North Beach Poetry Nights' May 2009 Slam, with guest poet from the London performance scene, Salena Godden.
Salena's work has been published in various magazines including Drawbridge, Rising, The Illustrated Ape, Nude Magazine, Salzburg Review, Trespass, The Gay Times, Le Gun, Litro, The Guardian, The Camden New Journal and Plectrum. Her fiction and poetry has also been in many anthologies. This spring, 2009, her writing will appear in two new anthologies, Punk Fiction (Picador) and Dwang.
She is the lyricist and lead singer of underground eclectic ska jazz band SaltPeter. SaltPeter’s latest albumHunger’s The Best Sauce was released in October 2007. It featured in The Critical List in The Independent On Sunday as one of the most outstanding albums of 2007. Salena has also collaborated and performed with the likes of Alabama 3, Coldcut and Simple Kid. HarperCollins / HarperPress won the auction for her debut childhood memoir Springfield Road to be published in hardback in 2010. She has performed on BBC Radio's Women's Hour, The Verb and Bespoken Word plus she hosted and programmed her own radio show on Resonance FM and BBC LDN, The SaltPeter Radio Show.
Poets wishing to take part in the two-round slam should please bring along two three-minute poems, preferrably memorized. The winner of each month's Slam goes forward to the 2009 North Beach Poetry Nights' Grand Slam in December 2009. The prize for the Grand Slam winner is publication of a collection of her/his work.
info: john walsh @ 091-593290
Saturday, May 09, 2009
BRIGHTON: Mark Gwynne Jones
Sunday, May 10th, 2009, doors 3.15pm, show 3.30pm, £6/£5
Komedia,
Brighton
The Spoken World of Mark Gwynne Jones
From the joys of driving a Sherman Tank at rush hour... to the flocks of sheep calling his name, Mark brings his mind-altering show to the Brighton Festival Fringe.
"Inspired... one of the most accomplished performance poets in the land... drawing the audience into a world where things are not quite what they seem" The Guardian
Box Office: 0845 293 8480 http://komediabrighton.ticketsolve.com/shows/keyword/mark%20gwynne%20jones
Komedia,
Brighton
The Spoken World of Mark Gwynne Jones
From the joys of driving a Sherman Tank at rush hour... to the flocks of sheep calling his name, Mark brings his mind-altering show to the Brighton Festival Fringe.
"Inspired... one of the most accomplished performance poets in the land... drawing the audience into a world where things are not quite what they seem" The Guardian
Box Office: 0845 293 8480 http://komediabrighton.ticketsolve.com/shows/keyword/mark%20gwynne%20jones
Friday, May 08, 2009
LONDON: Shearsman Reading Series
Monday, 11th May, 2009, 7.30 pm, FREE
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
Featuring Claire Crowther and Siriol Troup
Details of the new collections that will be launched on the evening:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/crowtherCWG.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/troup.html
Biographical details may be found here:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/crowtherA.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/troupA.html
The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 minutes' walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 minutes), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 minutes). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, underneath Bloomsbury Square.
Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
Featuring Claire Crowther and Siriol Troup
Details of the new collections that will be launched on the evening:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/crowtherCWG.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/troup.html
Biographical details may be found here:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/crowtherA.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/authors/troupA.html
The entrance is around the corner on Barter Street. Closest Tube Stations: Holborn (Central & Piccadilly Lines : 4 minutes' walk), Tottenham Court Road (Central & Northern Lines: 6 minutes), Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line: 10 minutes). Several buses stop a few yards from the Hall. There is an underground carpark close by, underneath Bloomsbury Square.
Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.
LONDON: Sundays at the Oto
Sunday, May 17th, 2009, 3pm-5pm, £4
Café Oto,
18-22 Ashwin Street,
Dalston,
London
E8 3DL
Bleeding Heart Narrative + Andrea Brady + Carol Watts
Two poets and a musician: pictures out of fragments, explorations of limits of meaning & melody: out of this world, and in this world at the same time. Music & poetry get deconstructed, cleaned off, and put together again, differently. Defamiliarisation never sounded this good as you chill out with Sunday afternoon cakes and ale.
For further information go to:
* http://www.myspace.com/sundaysattheoto
* Facebook Group: Sundays at the Oto
Café Oto,
18-22 Ashwin Street,
Dalston,
London
E8 3DL
Bleeding Heart Narrative + Andrea Brady + Carol Watts
Two poets and a musician: pictures out of fragments, explorations of limits of meaning & melody: out of this world, and in this world at the same time. Music & poetry get deconstructed, cleaned off, and put together again, differently. Defamiliarisation never sounded this good as you chill out with Sunday afternoon cakes and ale.
For further information go to:
* http://www.myspace.com/sundaysattheoto
* Facebook Group: Sundays at the Oto
GALWAY: Amnesty Freedom Cafe relaunch
Wednesday, May 14th, 2009, 12.30pm-9pm
Amnesty International Freedom Café
2-3 Middle Street
Galway
Launch of the new-look Amnesty Freedom Café, with poetry, talks, music and, of course, great coffee. Featuring poets Rita Ann Higgins, Mary O Malley, Kevin Higgins and Pete Mullineaux, musicians Bobo, Ivan and Anna, and Nicole Blue.
Since it opened seven years ago the Amnesty International Freedom Café has become a vital and lively part of Galway’s community. Over that time nearly one thousand people have volunteered in the café and on the various human rights campaigns we have worked on.
The café recently received a long overdue makeover and will now be open from 8am every morning. We think this calls for a celebration - we are delighted to invite the Galway public to our opening celebration.
“Our café has long been a hub for activists and campaigners in Galway and we hope the new layout and extended opening hours will help to make this an even better location for community organising,” said Sarah Clancy , Campaigns Officer with Amnesty International Ireland.
“We would like to extend an open invitation to likeminded arts and social justice organisations to make use of our café as a location for meetings, film screenings and events.”
‘Space for discussion’ is the theme of the first part of the day.
Rita Ann Higgins, Mary O’ Malley and Kevin Higgins, three of Galway’s best known poets will hold a free lunchtime poetry reading from 12.30pm until 2pm. These three poets are well known locally for dealing with issues of social justice in their work and this will be no exception.
The lunchtime poetry readings will be followed by some lively performance poetry and music by Pete Mullineaux and a reading by journalist and author Michael McCaughan from his forthcoming book about the the case of death row inmate, writer and political activist Mumia Abu Jamal. The events will continue with music from some of Galway’s favourite performers including Nicole Blue, BO- BO and Ivan & Anna all of whom are regulars at the long running Unchained Melodies sessions that take place every Thursday in the Freedom Café.
After the music Noeleen Hartigan , Programmes Director for Amnesty International, will officially open the revamped Amnesty International Freedom Café at 5 pm with a discussion of our work in Ireland.
www.amnesty.ie
Amnesty International Freedom Café
2-3 Middle Street
Galway
Launch of the new-look Amnesty Freedom Café, with poetry, talks, music and, of course, great coffee. Featuring poets Rita Ann Higgins, Mary O Malley, Kevin Higgins and Pete Mullineaux, musicians Bobo, Ivan and Anna, and Nicole Blue.
Since it opened seven years ago the Amnesty International Freedom Café has become a vital and lively part of Galway’s community. Over that time nearly one thousand people have volunteered in the café and on the various human rights campaigns we have worked on.
The café recently received a long overdue makeover and will now be open from 8am every morning. We think this calls for a celebration - we are delighted to invite the Galway public to our opening celebration.
“Our café has long been a hub for activists and campaigners in Galway and we hope the new layout and extended opening hours will help to make this an even better location for community organising,” said Sarah Clancy , Campaigns Officer with Amnesty International Ireland.
“We would like to extend an open invitation to likeminded arts and social justice organisations to make use of our café as a location for meetings, film screenings and events.”
‘Space for discussion’ is the theme of the first part of the day.
Rita Ann Higgins, Mary O’ Malley and Kevin Higgins, three of Galway’s best known poets will hold a free lunchtime poetry reading from 12.30pm until 2pm. These three poets are well known locally for dealing with issues of social justice in their work and this will be no exception.
The lunchtime poetry readings will be followed by some lively performance poetry and music by Pete Mullineaux and a reading by journalist and author Michael McCaughan from his forthcoming book about the the case of death row inmate, writer and political activist Mumia Abu Jamal. The events will continue with music from some of Galway’s favourite performers including Nicole Blue, BO- BO and Ivan & Anna all of whom are regulars at the long running Unchained Melodies sessions that take place every Thursday in the Freedom Café.
After the music Noeleen Hartigan , Programmes Director for Amnesty International, will officially open the revamped Amnesty International Freedom Café at 5 pm with a discussion of our work in Ireland.
www.amnesty.ie
LEAMINGTON SPA: PureandGoodandRight
Sunday, May 10, 2009, 7.45pm
Music & Poetry - Matt Black, at The Fox, Clarendon Ave, Leamington Spa
Music & Poetry - Matt Black, at The Fox, Clarendon Ave, Leamington Spa
Thursday, May 07, 2009
LONDON: Camden Poetry
Friday, May 15, 2009 7pm (doors open 6.30pm), £4/£3, wine
Trinity United Reform Church,
1 Buck St,
Camden Town
(2 minutes Camden Town tube.)
Ruth O'Callaghan presents Annie Chance, Lynn Foote, Mark Jolly, Dinah Livingstone, Christopher Morgan and Martine Thompson.
Poets from the floor very welcome, some five-minute spots available. Cinnamon Press is our new Sponsor. Please bring a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.
Trinity United Reform Church,
1 Buck St,
Camden Town
(2 minutes Camden Town tube.)
Ruth O'Callaghan presents Annie Chance, Lynn Foote, Mark Jolly, Dinah Livingstone, Christopher Morgan and Martine Thompson.
Poets from the floor very welcome, some five-minute spots available. Cinnamon Press is our new Sponsor. Please bring a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.
GALWAY: May Over The Edge Open Reading
Thursday, May 21st, 2009, 6.30pm-8pm,
Galway City Library
Over The Edge, in association with Poetry Ireland, presents the final Over The Edge: Open Reading before the summer break. The featured readers are Cristina Galvin, Eamonn Bonner and Enda Wyley.
Cristina Galvin is currently completing the MA in Writing at NUIG and teaches yoga in Galway and surrounding areas. She loves books written from a child’s point of view and playing with this perspective in her own fiction and non-fiction. She was long-listed in the 2008 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition. Cristina also writes poetry and her work features in the anthology Ink For Air.
Eamonn Bonner is from the fishing village of Burtonport in West Donegal. He works in retail in Galway City centre. He started writing stories and poems for his own children but as they grew older Eamonn drifted away from writing until he attended the poetry workshops facilitated by Kevin Higgins at Galway Arts Centre. He now writes poetry and fiction for both adults and children. Eamonn recently won a prize for his poetry at the McGill literary Festival.
Enda Wyley has published four collections of poetry with Dedalus Press - Eating Baby Jesus (1994), Socrates in the Garden (1998), Poems for Breakfast (2004) and To Wake to This (May 2009). She was the recipient of The Vincent Buckley Memorial Prize and visited Melbourne University as Writer in Residence. Her work has been awarded several Arts Council Bursaries for Literature, most recently in 2008. Her poetry has been widely anthologized and broadcast on radio and television. Enda lives in Dublin where she works as a writer and a teacher.
As usual there will be an open-mic after the featured readers have finished. New readers are always most welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-643 1748.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The Arts Council.
http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com
Galway City Library
Over The Edge, in association with Poetry Ireland, presents the final Over The Edge: Open Reading before the summer break. The featured readers are Cristina Galvin, Eamonn Bonner and Enda Wyley.
Cristina Galvin is currently completing the MA in Writing at NUIG and teaches yoga in Galway and surrounding areas. She loves books written from a child’s point of view and playing with this perspective in her own fiction and non-fiction. She was long-listed in the 2008 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year competition. Cristina also writes poetry and her work features in the anthology Ink For Air.
Eamonn Bonner is from the fishing village of Burtonport in West Donegal. He works in retail in Galway City centre. He started writing stories and poems for his own children but as they grew older Eamonn drifted away from writing until he attended the poetry workshops facilitated by Kevin Higgins at Galway Arts Centre. He now writes poetry and fiction for both adults and children. Eamonn recently won a prize for his poetry at the McGill literary Festival.
Enda Wyley has published four collections of poetry with Dedalus Press - Eating Baby Jesus (1994), Socrates in the Garden (1998), Poems for Breakfast (2004) and To Wake to This (May 2009). She was the recipient of The Vincent Buckley Memorial Prize and visited Melbourne University as Writer in Residence. Her work has been awarded several Arts Council Bursaries for Literature, most recently in 2008. Her poetry has been widely anthologized and broadcast on radio and television. Enda lives in Dublin where she works as a writer and a teacher.
As usual there will be an open-mic after the featured readers have finished. New readers are always most welcome. The MC for the evening will be Susan Millar DuMars. For further details phone 087-643 1748.
Over The Edge acknowledges the ongoing generous financial support of Galway City Council, Poetry Ireland & The Arts Council.
http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com
GALWAY: Olaf Tyaransen, Edward Lee and the poets of this year’s MA in Writing at NUI Galway
Friday, May 8th, 2009, 8pm, FREE
Sheridan’s Wine Bar,
14-16 Church Yard Street,
Galway
Over The Edge presents a poetry reading by Olaf Tyaransen, Edward Lee and the poets of this year’s MA in Writing at NUI Galway.
Olaf Tyaransen was born in Dublin in 1971, but spent his formative years in the west of Ireland. His poetry collection, The Consequences of Slaughtering Butterflies, was published by Salmon in 1992. He has since written an autobiography, The Story of O (2000) and two bestselling collections of journalism, Sex Lines (2002) and Palace of Wisdom (2004). He lives on the outskirts of Galway city with his partner, Leigh, and their two young children, Jack and Layla.
Edward Lee is originally from Dublin, but now lives in Galway. His poems, short stories and photography have been published in a wide variety of prestigious magazines in Ireland, England, America and Canada. He is also a visual artist and has had several exhibitions in various venues in Dublin and Galway. He has just finished his first novel and looking for a publisher for it. This reading will mark the launch of Edward’s first poetry collection Playing PoohSticks On Ha'Penny Bridge.
The poets of this year’s MA in Writing at NUI Galway, Jonathan Farrar, Erin Buttner, Michael Halloran, Nicki Griffin, Cristina Galvin and Tristan Burke, will be reading from their recently published anthology, Ink For Air.
Over The Edge is in support of Love Poetry Hate Racism 2009.
All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748.
Sheridan’s Wine Bar,
14-16 Church Yard Street,
Galway
Over The Edge presents a poetry reading by Olaf Tyaransen, Edward Lee and the poets of this year’s MA in Writing at NUI Galway.
Olaf Tyaransen was born in Dublin in 1971, but spent his formative years in the west of Ireland. His poetry collection, The Consequences of Slaughtering Butterflies, was published by Salmon in 1992. He has since written an autobiography, The Story of O (2000) and two bestselling collections of journalism, Sex Lines (2002) and Palace of Wisdom (2004). He lives on the outskirts of Galway city with his partner, Leigh, and their two young children, Jack and Layla.
Edward Lee is originally from Dublin, but now lives in Galway. His poems, short stories and photography have been published in a wide variety of prestigious magazines in Ireland, England, America and Canada. He is also a visual artist and has had several exhibitions in various venues in Dublin and Galway. He has just finished his first novel and looking for a publisher for it. This reading will mark the launch of Edward’s first poetry collection Playing PoohSticks On Ha'Penny Bridge.
The poets of this year’s MA in Writing at NUI Galway, Jonathan Farrar, Erin Buttner, Michael Halloran, Nicki Griffin, Cristina Galvin and Tristan Burke, will be reading from their recently published anthology, Ink For Air.
Over The Edge is in support of Love Poetry Hate Racism 2009.
All welcome. For further information contact 087-6431748.
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
NOTTINGHAM: Michael McKimm
Thursday, May 7, 2009, 7.30pm, FREE
Angear Visitors Centre,
University of Nottingham
The Nottingham Poetry Series, a new series of readings, craft talks, and workshops to be held at the University of Nottingham, with the support of the Arts Graduate Centre and the Literature Network, will hold its inaugural reading.
The reading, which features Michael McKimm (Still This Need, Heaventree Press 2009) along with two local poets, will last approximately 40 minutes and will be followed by a drinks-and-dessert reception.
Angear Visitors Centre,
University of Nottingham
The Nottingham Poetry Series, a new series of readings, craft talks, and workshops to be held at the University of Nottingham, with the support of the Arts Graduate Centre and the Literature Network, will hold its inaugural reading.
The reading, which features Michael McKimm (Still This Need, Heaventree Press 2009) along with two local poets, will last approximately 40 minutes and will be followed by a drinks-and-dessert reception.
LEAMINGTON SPA / WARWICK / Milton Keynes: PureandGoodandRight
Thursday, May 7, 2009, 7.30pm
Poetry - Spoken Spring for Warwick Words at Kozi Bar, Market Place, Warwick
Poetry - Spoken Spring for Warwick Words at Kozi Bar, Market Place, Warwick
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
LONDON: Lumen Poetry Series
Tuesday, 12th May, 2009, doors open 6.30pm for 7pm, £4/£3, wine
88 Tavistock Place
London
WC1
Tubes: Russell Square , Kings Cross, St Pancras.
Ruth O'Callaghan presents Shoestring Poets Barry Cole, John Gohorry and Hugh Underhill.
Poets from the floor very welcome. Please bring a copy of your poem if you wish to be considered for the anthology sponsored by the thought-provoking Cinnamon Press.
Proceeds to the Cold Weather Shelter
88 Tavistock Place
London
WC1
Tubes: Russell Square , Kings Cross, St Pancras.
Ruth O'Callaghan presents Shoestring Poets Barry Cole, John Gohorry and Hugh Underhill.
Poets from the floor very welcome. Please bring a copy of your poem if you wish to be considered for the anthology sponsored by the thought-provoking Cinnamon Press.
Proceeds to the Cold Weather Shelter
GALWAY: The North Beach Poetry Nights' May 2009 Slam
Monday, May 11th, 2009, 9pm
The Crane Bar,
Sea Road,
Galway
North Beach Poetry Nights presents The North Beach Poetry Nights' May 2009 Slam, with guest poet from the London performance scene, Salena Godden.
Salena's work has been published in various magazines including Drawbridge, Rising, The Illustrated Ape, Nude Magazine, Salzburg Review, Trespass, The Gay Times, Le Gun, Litro, The Guardian, The Camden New Journal and Plectrum. Her fiction and poetry has also been in many anthologies. This spring, 2009, her writing will appear in two new anthologies, Punk Fiction (Picador) and Dwang.
She is the lyricist and lead singer of underground eclectic ska jazz band SaltPeter. SaltPeter’s latest albumHunger’s The Best Sauce was released in October 2007. It featured in The Critical List in The Independent On Sunday as one of the most outstanding albums of 2007. Salena has also collaborated and performed with the likes of Alabama 3, Coldcut and Simple Kid. HarperCollins / HarperPress won the auction for her debut childhood memoir Springfield Road to be published in hardback in 2010. She has performed on BBC Radio's Women's Hour, The Verb and Bespoken Word plus she hosted and programmed her own radio show on Resonance FM and BBC LDN, The SaltPeter Radio Show.
Poets wishing to take part in the two-round slam should please bring along two three-minute poems, preferrably memorized. The winner of each month's Slam goes forward to the 2009 North Beach Poetry Nights' Grand Slam in December 2009. The prize for the Grand Slam winner is publication of a collection of her/his work.
info: john walsh @ 091-593290
The Crane Bar,
Sea Road,
Galway
North Beach Poetry Nights presents The North Beach Poetry Nights' May 2009 Slam, with guest poet from the London performance scene, Salena Godden.
Salena's work has been published in various magazines including Drawbridge, Rising, The Illustrated Ape, Nude Magazine, Salzburg Review, Trespass, The Gay Times, Le Gun, Litro, The Guardian, The Camden New Journal and Plectrum. Her fiction and poetry has also been in many anthologies. This spring, 2009, her writing will appear in two new anthologies, Punk Fiction (Picador) and Dwang.
She is the lyricist and lead singer of underground eclectic ska jazz band SaltPeter. SaltPeter’s latest albumHunger’s The Best Sauce was released in October 2007. It featured in The Critical List in The Independent On Sunday as one of the most outstanding albums of 2007. Salena has also collaborated and performed with the likes of Alabama 3, Coldcut and Simple Kid. HarperCollins / HarperPress won the auction for her debut childhood memoir Springfield Road to be published in hardback in 2010. She has performed on BBC Radio's Women's Hour, The Verb and Bespoken Word plus she hosted and programmed her own radio show on Resonance FM and BBC LDN, The SaltPeter Radio Show.
Poets wishing to take part in the two-round slam should please bring along two three-minute poems, preferrably memorized. The winner of each month's Slam goes forward to the 2009 North Beach Poetry Nights' Grand Slam in December 2009. The prize for the Grand Slam winner is publication of a collection of her/his work.
info: john walsh @ 091-593290
LONDON: Zena Edwards' Security
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009, 7.30pm, £10/£6
The Albany,
Douglas Way,
London
SE8 4AG
Booking: 0208 692 4446
Info: www.applesandsnakes.org
This comical and moving tale of unexpected friendship confronts the issue of security and identity through a fusion of performance poetry, theatre, movement and song. Set within the beating heart of London, the chaotic stories of five characters in crisis are exposed through the eye of a camera. What happens when one generation collides with another and cultural expectations clash? Does the flash of a blade in broad daylight mean the end or the beginning of Security? Find out when age and youth battle as Palestine meets Peckham. Zena Edwards takes storytelling into the 21st century.
“Edwards is a superb performer, equally at ease as an elderly Caribbean man, as a would-be teenage MC, Ayleen, or as a lonely, 47-year-old Palestinian photographer, Mahmoud.”
Lyn Gardner - The Guardian
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY ZENA EDWARDS
DIRECTED BY ANTHONY SHRUBSALL
The Albany,
Douglas Way,
London
SE8 4AG
Booking: 0208 692 4446
Info: www.applesandsnakes.org
This comical and moving tale of unexpected friendship confronts the issue of security and identity through a fusion of performance poetry, theatre, movement and song. Set within the beating heart of London, the chaotic stories of five characters in crisis are exposed through the eye of a camera. What happens when one generation collides with another and cultural expectations clash? Does the flash of a blade in broad daylight mean the end or the beginning of Security? Find out when age and youth battle as Palestine meets Peckham. Zena Edwards takes storytelling into the 21st century.
“Edwards is a superb performer, equally at ease as an elderly Caribbean man, as a would-be teenage MC, Ayleen, or as a lonely, 47-year-old Palestinian photographer, Mahmoud.”
Lyn Gardner - The Guardian
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY ZENA EDWARDS
DIRECTED BY ANTHONY SHRUBSALL
Sunday, May 03, 2009
LONDON: Hammer & Tongue 2009 Slam Final
Monday, May 4th, 2009, 7.30pm-11pm, £5/£4
Green Note Cafe,
Parkway,
London,
NW1 7AN
020 7485 9899
For more details call Michelle on 07809 236133
www.hammerandtongue.co.uk
2009 Slam Final, plus special guest, Tim Clare.
Three rounds, 9 finalists, one winner...
Charlie Dupre, Charlie Wright, MC Angel, Richard Tyrone-Jones, Andre Mangeot, Catherine Brogan, Charlie Creed-Miles, Wayne Alexander, Joshua Niecho.
For Hammer and Tongue's last competitive slam of the season the very best of London's slamming fraternity (winners of H&T slams over the past year) will be gathering at Camden's Green Note Cafe to supplicate you, the judging audience, to their will through the power of
the spoken word. Winner goes on to compete in the H&T national final at the Brighton festival next month.
We are also delighted to feature the eclectic, story-spinning genius that is Tim Clare. Author, poet and musician, Clare is a doyen of Glastonbury, Latitude and has aired his witty drivel on Radios 1 and 2. Described by the Sunday Times as a ‘highlight of the spoken word scene’, Clare describes himself as ‘‘Bob Hoskins going mental in a dustbin'.
http://www.myspace.com/timclarepoet
It’s going to be a busy one so come along early to grab a seat and don’t forget to watch out for Hammer and Tongue on TV! The H&T slam, featuring Excentral Tempest, Scroobius Pip, Micheal Horowitz, Tuggstar, Rob Gee, and Marcus Dellar will form part of Griff Rhys
Jones’ Why Poetry Matters series which will be screened in the week of May 17.
Green Note Cafe,
Parkway,
London,
NW1 7AN
020 7485 9899
For more details call Michelle on 07809 236133
www.hammerandtongue.co.uk
2009 Slam Final, plus special guest, Tim Clare.
Three rounds, 9 finalists, one winner...
Charlie Dupre, Charlie Wright, MC Angel, Richard Tyrone-Jones, Andre Mangeot, Catherine Brogan, Charlie Creed-Miles, Wayne Alexander, Joshua Niecho.
For Hammer and Tongue's last competitive slam of the season the very best of London's slamming fraternity (winners of H&T slams over the past year) will be gathering at Camden's Green Note Cafe to supplicate you, the judging audience, to their will through the power of
the spoken word. Winner goes on to compete in the H&T national final at the Brighton festival next month.
We are also delighted to feature the eclectic, story-spinning genius that is Tim Clare. Author, poet and musician, Clare is a doyen of Glastonbury, Latitude and has aired his witty drivel on Radios 1 and 2. Described by the Sunday Times as a ‘highlight of the spoken word scene’, Clare describes himself as ‘‘Bob Hoskins going mental in a dustbin'.
http://www.myspace.com/timclarepoet
It’s going to be a busy one so come along early to grab a seat and don’t forget to watch out for Hammer and Tongue on TV! The H&T slam, featuring Excentral Tempest, Scroobius Pip, Micheal Horowitz, Tuggstar, Rob Gee, and Marcus Dellar will form part of Griff Rhys
Jones’ Why Poetry Matters series which will be screened in the week of May 17.
Saturday, May 02, 2009
CHELTENHAM: Buzzwords Poetry Night
Buzzwords: Sunday, 3rd May
upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road , Cheltenham
Guest Poet - Dave Ashbee
7pm Workshop led by Sharon Larkin
8pm - open mic and Guest poet reading
Entrance: minimum £3, £5 if you are able
upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road , Cheltenham
Guest Poet - Dave Ashbee
7pm Workshop led by Sharon Larkin
8pm - open mic and Guest poet reading
Entrance: minimum £3, £5 if you are able
BOLLINGTON: Four Cinnamon Poets
Saturday, May 16th, 2009, 3.30pm, £5/£3
Bollington Arts Centre,
near Macclesfield,
Cheshire
Directions at: www.bollingtonartscentre.org.uk
Four Cinnamon poets - Gail Ashton (Ghost Songs), Jan Fortune-Wood (Stale Bread and Miracles), Bill Greenwell (Impossible Objects) and Judy Kendall (The Drier, The Brighter) - will be reading and chatting with the audience as part of the Bollington Festival.
To book, call 01625 877 804 or pay on door.
Bollington Arts Centre,
near Macclesfield,
Cheshire
Directions at: www.bollingtonartscentre.org.uk
Four Cinnamon poets - Gail Ashton (Ghost Songs), Jan Fortune-Wood (Stale Bread and Miracles), Bill Greenwell (Impossible Objects) and Judy Kendall (The Drier, The Brighter) - will be reading and chatting with the audience as part of the Bollington Festival.
To book, call 01625 877 804 or pay on door.
Friday, May 01, 2009
LONDON: Isobel Dixon, Roddy Lumsden, Simon Barraclough
Saturday, May 2nd, 2009, 4.30pm – 5.30pm, FREE
Wilberforce Theatre,
Museum in Docklands
Hosted by Christopher Horton. What better way to spend a late Saturday afternoon than listening to the scintillating verse of three of the most gifted poets living in the UK today?
On the doorstep of Canary Wharf, The Museum in Docklands is in close proximity to a range of bars and cafés for you to enjoy before and after this new and dynamic poetry event. So come along, tune in!
Isobel Dixon grew up in South Africa, where her prize-winning debut Weather Eye was published. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Financial Times, The Guardian and The Manhattan Review. She has been commissioned to write poems for the British Film Institute, and her work is included in several anthologies and pamphlets. Her latest collection A Fold in the Map is published by Salt.
Simon Barraclough is originally from Yorkshire but has lived in London for 12 years. He won the poetry section of the London Writers' Prize in 2000 and his 2008 debut Los Alamos Mon Amour was shortlisted for Best First Collection in the Forward Prizes. His work has been published in Poetry Review, The Guardian, The FT and Magma and he is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3 and 4.
Roddy Lumsden's new collection is Third Wish Wasted from Bloodaxe, who also published his New & Selected Poems. His major anthology Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets will appear in early 2010. He teaches for The Poetry School and edits the Pilot series for young poets for Tall-Lighthouse.
Wilberforce Theatre,
Museum in Docklands
Hosted by Christopher Horton. What better way to spend a late Saturday afternoon than listening to the scintillating verse of three of the most gifted poets living in the UK today?
On the doorstep of Canary Wharf, The Museum in Docklands is in close proximity to a range of bars and cafés for you to enjoy before and after this new and dynamic poetry event. So come along, tune in!
Isobel Dixon grew up in South Africa, where her prize-winning debut Weather Eye was published. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Financial Times, The Guardian and The Manhattan Review. She has been commissioned to write poems for the British Film Institute, and her work is included in several anthologies and pamphlets. Her latest collection A Fold in the Map is published by Salt.
Simon Barraclough is originally from Yorkshire but has lived in London for 12 years. He won the poetry section of the London Writers' Prize in 2000 and his 2008 debut Los Alamos Mon Amour was shortlisted for Best First Collection in the Forward Prizes. His work has been published in Poetry Review, The Guardian, The FT and Magma and he is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3 and 4.
Roddy Lumsden's new collection is Third Wish Wasted from Bloodaxe, who also published his New & Selected Poems. His major anthology Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets will appear in early 2010. He teaches for The Poetry School and edits the Pilot series for young poets for Tall-Lighthouse.
LONDON: Holding Our Ground
Friday, 15th May, 2009, 8pm, £8/£5 (limited free tickets available for under-26s)
Albany Theatre,
Deptford
London
Holding our Ground
Poetry and place. In an age when we can sit and stare at a screen and be anywhere - or not care where we are so long as our sat-nav's working - it's getting more and more important to know our place. Poet Jay Bernard unveils new work from her residency on a London allotment and Mark Gwynne Jones plays with ideas of 'common space' following his residency in four of London's central parks. Roots supplied by special guest, the singer-songwriter Foy Vance.
Box Office: 020 8692 4446
Albany Theatre,
Deptford
London
Holding our Ground
Poetry and place. In an age when we can sit and stare at a screen and be anywhere - or not care where we are so long as our sat-nav's working - it's getting more and more important to know our place. Poet Jay Bernard unveils new work from her residency on a London allotment and Mark Gwynne Jones plays with ideas of 'common space' following his residency in four of London's central parks. Roots supplied by special guest, the singer-songwriter Foy Vance.
Box Office: 020 8692 4446
LONDON: Tim Allen, Anne Blonstein & Wendy Saloman
Tuesday, 5th May, 2009, 7.30pm, FREE
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
The fifth in Shearsman's 2009 Reading Series features Tim Allen, Anne Blonstein and Wendy Saloman.
Details of Wendy Saloman's new collection, Chrysalis In The Desert, to be launched on the evening, are at:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/saloman.html
Shearsman titles by the other readers:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2008/allen.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2008/blonstein.html
Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.
Swedenborg Hall
Swedenborg House
20/21 Bloomsbury Way
London WC1A 2TH
The fifth in Shearsman's 2009 Reading Series features Tim Allen, Anne Blonstein and Wendy Saloman.
Details of Wendy Saloman's new collection, Chrysalis In The Desert, to be launched on the evening, are at:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2009/saloman.html
Shearsman titles by the other readers:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2008/allen.html
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2008/blonstein.html
Disabled access is available, but please let us know in advance if it is required.
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