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LIVERPOOL 2007

Liverpool Poetry Festival 2007

Poetry in the City - Timetable

Will be posted if details become available

The International Poetry Festival 2008 will be August - September 2008 at the Albert Dock

Liverpool Poetry Festival 2006

Poetry in the City - Timetable

April 24th - May 13th

Liverpool Poetry Festival 2006
Poetry competition sponsored by Poetry Kit

Free to enter on-line poetry competition. Send your poem (only 1 per entrant) A short list of selected poems will be published on our Festival pages. Poems can be submitted up to midnight on Sunday 7th May. A winner will be announced, at the afternoon open floor event on Friday 12th May and will appear on this page shortly after the official announcement.

The winner of the Liverpool Poetry Festival Poetry Competition announced ..(more)

Date and time	Location	Event	Price	Audience
Saturday 15^th 2.45 (performance 10 mins only)	St Georges Hall	Hillsborough Memorial Reading - Reading of poems - Wave to the World	Free	Everyone
Thursday 20th April 8.30 - 10.30	Stork Hotel, Wallasey	Wirral Ode Show, open floor	Free	Everyone
Thursday 20th April 8.30	Head of Steam	JAW-JAM at the Head of Steam With an Open Floor.Open to		Everyone. Accessible venue.
START - POETRY IN THE CITY
Mon, 24th - 12.45pm (performance 10 mins only)	Outside University of Liverpool at 126 Mount Pleasent	A Wave To The World with Jim Bennett and friends. performance beamed on the internet via Liverpool web cams.	Free	Everyone
Tues, 25th 1-3pm	Central Library	Tuesday 25th Writers of Colour group	Free	For Black and Minority Ethnic community writers. Accessible venue.
Tues, 25th, 7.30 pm.	Unity Theatre	Levi Tafari:at the Unity Theatre with Common Ground dancers and Bisakha Sarker offering dance interpretations of his poetry. Plus Somali/ English poetry translations. . Box office: 0151 709 4988 Starts 7.30pm	£5/ £3 conc	Everyone
Tues, 25th 10am-12noon	Liverpool Library	Jim Bennett workshop "the shape of poems"	not applicable	Invited schools
Wed, 26th 9pm - 1am	Albert Dock	Poetry at the Dock	£5	Invited
Thurs 27^th 10 - 12 noon	DGPS office, above 96 Bold Street.	Thursday 27th LEVI TAFARI WORKSHOP DGPS office, above 96 Bold Street. Book with Cath on 0151 709 5221 Slightly accessible: has lift, but it is narrow.	Cost £3/ £2 concesssions	Open to everyone - but places limited.
Thurs 27^th 6.30 – 9pm	Hope University Everton Site, Shaw Street	A meeting to discuss cultural diversity and inclusion of grassroots organizations in the regeneration of Liverpool	free	Invited
Fri 28^th 10.30 – 3.30	Crown Street Day Centre	Writers Workshop with Jim Bennett		By invitation
Sat 29th April 12 -2 pm	`Planetarium` `World Museum Liverpool`	Steve Sneyd - Sci-Fi poet and publisher reading	free	Everyone
Sat 29th April 8.30 - 11pm	3rd Room Everyman Bistro	Launch of Orbis 136, Welsh Special Issue; Guest Editor, Peter Finch - more	free	Everyone
Sunday 30th April noon - 4 pm	Central Library, William Brown Street, Liverpool	Orbis Poetry Market Sunday, April 30, noon til 4pm - more	free	Everyone
Sunday 30th April - 7pm	3 Belvidere Road, Princes Park, Liverpool, L8 3TF	F I C T I O N @ "T H E M A N O R" - more	free	Adult
2^nd May 7.30- 10.30	Philharmonic Hall	John Martyn Concert - Jim Bennett reads in "Liverpool Is" as part of the Wave to the World	£27.50 for the concert	Those attending concert
Wed 3rd May10.30 – 3.30	Crown Street Day Centre	Writers Workshop with Jim Bennett	Free	By invitation
Wed 3rd May10.30 – 3.30	Crown Street Day Centre	Wave to the World - Webcam Poetry reading	Free	By invitation
Wed 3rd May10.30 – 3.30	3rd Room, Everyman Bistro	Dead Good Poets, open floor	£1	Everyone
Thurs 4th May 12noon -1pm	University of Liverpool Senate House	Poems and pictures	free	Adults
Fri 5th May 10.30 – 3.30	Crown Street Day Centre	Writers Workshop with Jim Bennett	Free	By invitation
Fri 5th May 8.30 -12pm	St Bride’s Church, Catharine Street Liverpool 8	Back to the Machine Gun event, at on Friday 5th May. more	Free	Adults
Mon 8th May 8pm	Egg Cafe, Newington Street	Come Strut Your Stuff Open floor poetry and acoustic music. more	Free	Adults
Tuesday 9th May 7pm -10.03pm	Albert Dock	Poetry circus, a preview of a 2008 highlight. Sponsored by Liverpool Poetry Cafe.	Free	By invitation.
Wednesday 10th May 7pm	The Originals Cafe, 7a The Quadrant, Hoylake.	The Originals Poetry Group Guest reader and open floor	Free	Everyone
Fri 12th May 1.00pm – 2.30	WEA, Hanover Street	Open floor poetry for all the family with Jim Bennett.	Free	Everyone
Saturday 13th May 2.30 - 4.30pm	Walker Art Gallery,	Performance poets, philip Davenport, Tony Trehy and Ben Gwilliam	Free	Everyone

Liverpool Poetry in The City, April 25 to May 13
Launch of Orbis 136,
Welsh Special Issue; Guest Editor, Peter Finch
Saturday, April 29, 8.30 to 11pm
3rd Room, Everyman Bistro, Hope Street, Liverpool
Featuring: Ifor Thomas, with Ian Davidson and Clare Potter
Plus Gladys Mary Coles, Headland Publishing
and Carole Baldock, Editor of Orbis; mc: Nathan Jones

FREE

Orbis Poetry Market
Sunday, April 30, noon til 4pm
Central Library, William Brown Street, Liverpool
Come buy, come listen –
come and find out everything you ever wanted to know, probably,
about poetry, getting published etc
Open mic, readings, discussions groups
Index: NW publishers and editors,
eg Orbis, Headland, Neon Highway, Smoke
Welsh publishers and editors,
eg Skald, Cinnamon Press, Leaf books

Sarah Maclennan, whose poem, Heart of the City, will be featured
on posters throughout the city during the PIC festival,
with artwork by Janine Pinion

Other likely participants include

Welsh publishers and magazines: Planet; Poetry Wales;
New Welsh Review; Seren; Parthian; honno; Gomer press

FREE

Don't miss it!
TWO EXCITING EVENTS!

Poetry in the City
Neon Highway Guest Poets

All welcome

Free Admission

Steve Sneyd

Sci-Fi poet and publisher
http://booksmusicfilmstv.com/HilltopPress.htm

Steve will be reading from a selection of his poems at:
The Planetarium World Museum Liverpool

Saturday 29th April
12-2pm

(Free Admission)

www.neonhighway.co.uk
For further information please contact World Museum Liverpool

Planetarium on: 0151 478 4393

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Performance Poets

Philip Davenport with Tony Trehy and Ben

Gwilliam:

performances and versions A poetry event at the

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Saturday 13th May 2.30pm - 4.30pm Free admission All welcome (limited places)

Beginning in the Medieval Room

Philip Davenport makes poems out of shopping lists,
fashion magazines, porn. His first collection Imaginary
Missing People was published by seminal experimental press
Writers Forum. Davenport's Vogue Divine series *
modelled by transvestite artist Phil Sayers *
was billposted throughout Manchester in 2002.
In 2004 Davenport's Heart Shape Pornography series was
handwritten onto hundreds of apples and exhibited at
the Walker, Liverpool as part of the Biennial. In 2005,
he helped curate the groundbreaking Bury Text Festival
of poetry and text art. During this time he made a series
of soundpieces from overheard conversations.
Davenport's performance on Sat 13th May at the Walker
will include readings from a selection of his work and
incorporate guest performances by sound artist Ben Gwilliam and poet Tony Trehy.
This event is hosted and supported by Neon Highway
www.neonhighway.co.uk
For further information please contact
the Walker Art Gallery 0151 478 4178

F I C T I O N @ "T H E M A N O R"
Fiction Residents in Residence!

Sunday 30th April @ 3 Belvidere Road, Princes Park, Liverpool, L8 3TF

Featuring extended sets from:

Nathan Jones, Ross Sutherland, David Bamford, Nickolas Holloway, Olly Gruner

Plus, live music from:

Peter and the Wolf, Tom Brookes (The Cuckolds)
and Laura Dickinson (Blue Lantern)

The yellow door opens at 7:00, I'm not being cryptic.
It's FREE. Bring BOOZE.

If you get lost, call Ross on 0771 944 6025

Come Strut Your Stuff

Open floor poetry and acoustic music. Original material preferred, but all performers and listeners are welcome.
1st Monday of every month (except Bank Holidays - email/phone to check). Starts 8.00pm prompt, so arrive early to claim a seat and a performance spot.
Hosts: Graham Holland and Nick Payne. Featuring: Stan the Harper
Further information from Graham Holland on 0151 280 5453 zaba@enterprise.net
The Egg Café, Newington (the road that runs between Bold Street and Renshaw St) - situated on the second floor, above the Newington Hair Company.
The venue is a vegetarian bistro, but with no drinks licence. You can drink your own wine only if you have bought a main meal.

NO DISABLED ACCESS - UP STAIRS

You are invited to the 2nd Back to the Machine Gun event, at St Bride’s

Church, Catharine Street Liverpool 8 on Friday 5th May.

Back to the Machine Gun is a poetry, art, and prose magazine currently up to its 5th volume, containing the best new work of urban, grizzled, apocalyptic, joy-drunk, despairing local writers.

A kali-yuga journal, its contributors try to make the best out of these

end-times. Join Back to the Machine Gun for charming event of new music,

poems, images, in dark candlelit church environment.

There will also be music from mark Jones (ex Hat Band) and Chiba Sprawl

8.30 – 12 midnight Free entry & cheap bar

call Ade on 07762 010 529 for more info.

Hillsborough Memorial Reading 2007
Date and time	Location	Event	Price	Audience
Saturday 15^th 2.45 (performance 15 mins only)	St Georges Hall	Hillsborough Memorial Reading - Reading of poems - Jim Bennett	Free	Everyone