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MARCH 2010
Melbourne 10th Mar How do you make your poem sound great? Whether you want to be a slam poet, or want to find the confidence and the tools to speak in front of an audience, this workshop will guide you in the
right direction. Bring a piece of work to share.


With Emily Zoe Baker

Wednesday 10 March 2010 from 5-7pm at Signal, Melbourne city. Directions provided upon booking.

Emily Zoe Baker (EZB) is an award winning poet and spoken word artist. After her tour in North America in 2009 she was involved in 'Elemental' poetry at the Planetarium for the 2009 Melbourne
International Arts Festival.


 This is a free event for 13-20 year olds!

Bookings on 9097 7890 or on artisticdirector (@) expressmedia (dot) org (dot) au

London

12th Mar

A reading from the new Grey Hen Press anthology Cracking On :Poems on Ageing by older women.

Kate Foley, Joy Howard, Angela Kirby, Dinah Livingstone, Alwyn Marriage, Ruth O'Callaghan and Diane Tang

 

Wisewords Bookfest

The Women's Library,

Old Castle St

London E! 7NT

12th March 2-3pm

Oxford 12th Mar
A Celebration of Lesbian Poetry
The Jam Factory, Oxford.  12th March 6.30-8 pm
RV Bailey, Christine Webb, Joy Howard, Pat Winslow and Kate Foley
All welcome
Halesworth 15-19 Mar

Advanced Poetry Seminar, 15 – 19 March 2010

The Poetry Trust invites expressions of interest for the fourth Advanced Poetry Seminar which will take place at the stunning Bruisyard Hall in Suffolk from 15 – 19 March 2010. Co-tutored for a fourth successive year by Michael Laskey and Peter Sansom, this intensive residential retreat is designed to offer accelerated professional and creative development to a small group of carefully selected poets early in their publishing careers. Previous attenders – and subsequent prize-winning and first book ‘successes’ – include Allison McVety, Helen Mort, Katrina Naomi, Ed Reiss, Philip Rush, Kathryn Simmonds and Saradha Soobrayen.

 

Successful applicants will either be at or genuinely close to their first collection stage. We will also consider applicants who are in the transitional period between first and second books. For further details see: www.thepoetrytrust.org To register your interest please contact: admin@thepoetrytrust.org or call 01986 835950.

Tyneside

15th March

Cinema Slam At the Tyneside Cinema Hosted by Jeff Price

The Slam Winners Slam

Doors 7.30 Starts 8.00 Monday 15th March Tickets £4.00 from the Tyneside Cinema Box Office

Slammers. Jay Arnott, Jim Bennett, Alfie Crow, Kate Fox, Nikki Hawkins, Jess Johnson , James Oates, Sophia, Karl Thompson, Scott Tyrrell and Steve Urwin. 

Slam Poetry is the newest addition to the eclectic line-up of events in the Tyneside Bar. Beginning in Chicago in 1984, Poetry Slams are a high-energy, fast and furious competition between performance poets.

For our first slam, we have gathered together the elite of the Northern Slam Poets, every one of them already a winner. Each slammer will have three minutes to wow the audience with their words and performance, and then the judges vote, scoring on content, style and audience reaction. Over the night we whittle down the poets until only one is left standing. Slam Poetry, echoing out from the clubs of Chicago, across the North and into the fabulous Tyneside Bar… it’s poetry, but not as you know it.

London

15th March

Ken Champion & Juli Jana’s

MORE POETRY under the bridge at  MUG HOUSE

No.1 Tooley Street.

A five minute walk from London Bridge Station -  Duke Street Hill exit, turn left for 60 yards; opposite is Evans cycle shop,

down the steps at the side, then left…you’re there.

Monday 15 March -  7.30 for 8.00 Admission £1  Free sandwiches!

Ken Head + Open mic and Melinda Walker & Dave ‘guitar’ Pelling

Contact: www.kenchampion.org.uk    tel: 02082202669

or: julijswallow@hotmail.co.uk

tel: 07946882614   www.myspace.com/morepoetry

London 20th March Spoken word/live poetry.
It takes place on Saturday 20th March 2010
The Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, Islington, London
12-2pm
Featuring spoken word from Laura Dockrill and Liz Bentley, music from The Langley Sisters and comedy from Danielle Ward.
Free entry, donation goes to a homeless charity.   myspace.com/sundownmultimedia   
Oxford 25th March
Back Room Poets present at Oxfringe 2010 
25 March, 7:30 p.m. 
Aspects of Being: Life in the Verse Lane 
Presented by Jenyth Worsley and Tina Sederholm
With a cabaret interlude from Lucy Matheson
Vaults & Garden Cafe 
Radcliffe Square, Oxford
Entry £7 (£5 concessions)  Refreshments served from 7 p.m.
April 2010
Milton Keynes 9 April

Poetry Kapow! 9 (The Slam of Sins...)

MADCAP, Wolverton, Creed Street, Milton Keynes MK12 5LY

Fri 09/04/2010 7:30 PM

Entry: £5/ £4 performers and other concessions; slam competition, open mic, live acoustic music, written competitions, and featured artists

Much Wenlock

9-11 April

The first Wenlock Poetry Festival will be held under the patronage of Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy in Much Wenlock, Shrophshire 9 - 11 April 2010. www.wenlockpoetryfestival.org for more information.

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Wenlock Poetry Festival

Wenlock Books

12 High Street

Much Wenlock

Shropshire

TF13 6AA

01952 727877

email: info@wenlockpoetryfestival.org

www.wenlockpoetryfestival.org

 

London

10th April

Wave If You're Really There

St Leonards Church, London E1 6JN

Nearest Station: Liverpool St

Tel: 02071932665

Time: 7pm  Price: £10 advance  Tickets & Info: www.mercyonline.co.uk

Lineup: Poetry from Ross Sutherland, Nathan Jones, Salena Godden, David J. (Plus Music from Eugene McGuinness, The Wave Machines, Sarah Nicholls, Gary Davis). 

Info: Liverpool arts collective Mercy bring their sixth, site-specific masterpiece of poetry, music, art and spectacle to the capital. The dramatic collision of music and poetry in collaboration not only revamps the church atmosphere, but redefines the notion of literary entertainment in an exhilarating and innovative way.

Brighton 16th-17th April
The Centre for Modernist Studies at Sussex is pleased to announce that the First Annual Brighton Poetry Festival will take place on Friday April 16th and Saturday April 17th 2010.  The alternate title of said event is, tentatively, "The Inaugural Last Annual Brighton Poetry Festival."

Venues include the Nightingale Theatre (downtown Brighton) and the
University of Sussex (Falmer).  All are entirely welcome to attend.Specific and abundant information about costs, times, venues, and line-up will be sent out shortly. In the meantime, festival contacts include Keston Sutherland (k.sutherland@sussex.ac.uk), Daniel Kane (djk5474@gmail.com), and/or Sara Crangle (s.crangle@sussex.ac.uk).

May 2010
     
June 2010

Dartmoor

13th June

The Dartmoor Summer Haiku Almanac workshop and walk Sunday 13 June from 10am to 4pm Workshop leaders Alan Summers and Karen Hoy.  The aim of the day is to produce Dartmoor Haiku for the creation of a Devon Haiku Almanac. This follows in the tradition of haiku poets in Japan, who traditionally produce seasonal almanacs ? Haiku Saijiki.

Bring both old and new Devon/Dartmoor colloquial terms, nicknames, sayings, and street slang to help create a Haiku Saijiki for Devon.

You?ll also need to bring pens and paper, and a packed lunch if coming for a full day. Tea and coffee is available. If appropriate, please bring outdoor wear (even sunscreen!) suitable for the weather and month on Dartmoor.

The day includes an introduction and workshop, with free Haiku Journal notebook, followed by the writing walk including a second free notebook for fieldnotes.

Workshop fees are by donation, with a suggested £10 to £25 for all day. Workshops must be booked in advance as numbers are often limited.

To reserve your place call or email Jennie Osborne on 01803 840541 or jenniedancing@googlemail.com.

Swansea

25 June

FROM AMERICA

NOVELIST AND DRAMATIST   PAUL M. LEVITT

POET   IFEANYI MENKITI

plus

 Julie-Anne Grey (actress) and Steve Grey (actor)

Plus

SONGS FROM SINGER-SONGWRITER

TERRY CLARKE 

introduced by Peter Thabit Jones

at The Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea, on FRIDAY,  25th June, 2010

7 P.M.  FREE ENTRY

A collaboration between THE SEVENTH QUARRY

CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS, NEW YORK