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Poetry Gym
Entry: £2
Open Mic Event
Contact: Lisa Geddes: Lisa@AllSpunUp.com
Poetry workshop: members assist each other to improve work
Suggested topic each month but all work welcome
Note change of venue to 'Red Lion'
This month: the word is PARTY and Gail is “IT”.
Venue Details:
at The Red Lion - 8pm
Address: 47 Kirkgate, Otley, Leeds, LS21 3HN, GB
WRITE ANGLE POETRY & MUSIC CABARET
Entry: £4
Open Mic Event
Contact: Leah, 0783 431 6040 or www.petersfieldwriteangle.co.uk
Write Angle Poetry & Music Cabaret has Guest Performers plus OPEN MIC, the third Tuesday of every month.
Guests include John Hegley, Attila the Stockbroker, Rachel Pantechnicon, Speech Painter, Peter Wyton, Peter Dixon, Stella Mandella, The Disparate Housewives, Audi Maserati (their Poet in Residence), AF Harrold, Sean Kelly, Hannah Tristram, Mike Knee, Jonny Fluffypunk, Jude Simpson, Liz Bentley, Johnny Jet, Project Adorno...and more
PLUS OPEN MIC Every Month
This month: The Fabulous Brickwork Poets - known near and far for their fabulous talents
Venue Details:
at The Square Brewery - 7.30pm
Address: 7, The Square, Petersfield, GU32 3HJ, GB
'Igniting the spark' Creative writing
Entry: £5 (£3.50 consc)
Contact: gaiaholmes@hotmail.co.uk
To be held in Room D258, D Mill.
'Igniting the spark': weekly creative writing workshops with Gaia Holmes. The workshops will discuss craft and technique and include lots of stimulating and inspiring writing exercises to generate poetry or prose.
Booking recommended
Venue Details:
at D Mill - 5.30-7.00
Address: Dean Clough, Halifax, HX3 5WA, GB
Blue Bus
Entry: £5/3
Fanny Howe & Hank Lazer
Fanny Howe’s most recent publications are What Did I Do Wrong? (Flood Editions), The Winter Sun (Graywolf) and most recently Come and See, a collection of new poems. She has won a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Ruth Lilly Award for Poetry in 2009. She is currently teaching at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University.
Hank Lazer has published 16 books of poetry, including Portions (Lavender Ink, 2009), The New Spirit (Singing Horse, 2005), Elegies & Vacations (Salt, 2004), and Days (Lavender Ink, 2002). He edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press. In 2008, Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays, 1996-2008 was published by Omnidawn.
Venue Details:
at The Lamb - 7:30pm
Address: 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, London, WC1N 3LZ, GB
Open Mic at the Iguana Bar
Entry: Free
Open Mic Event
Contact: steph@northmanchesterfm.org
An open mic night for musicians, poets and story-tellers; and it is recorded for radio. A friendly night in a cosy bar, featuring a variety of great performances?
In December 2010, open mic host Charlie Allen and local radio station Manchester 106.6 FM launched a new initiative recording the open mic night and broadcasting selected highlights and artist interviews. The open mic segment of the show goes out between 11pm and midnight every Friday. You can tune in on 106.6m, or listen online all over the world at www.northmanchesterfm.org
The open mic is hosted by singer/songwriter/composer Charlie Allen and attracts an audience of music lovers, artists and performers who will give you a very friendly reception and, who knows, you could end up on the radio!
So, for a warm welcome and a chance to take your act to the world, come along and join us, every Tuesday. Admission FREE.
But get there early (before 8.30) to be sure of getting a slot!
Venue Details:
at Iguana Bar - 20.00 (finish 00.30)
Address: 115-117 Manchester Road, Manchester, M21 9PG, GB
Summer Wordfest
Entry: £3/£2 concs
Open Mic Event
Contact: toniabevins@btinternet.com
Come and spend the evening in a pleasant Cheshire pub in the company of Guest Poets Martin Daws, Rebecca Goss, Joan Poulson & Colin Watts. There will also be fiction from Dinesh Allirajah. Short open mic slots available (poetry or prose) so arrive in good time to book yours with our compere Sarah Maclennan. Charity Raffle in aid of GOES and Book Table. The event is hosted by Vale Royal Writers Group and Dead Good Poets Society.
Venue Details:
at The Blue Cap - 8.00pm
Address: Sandiway, Northwich, CW8 2DN, GB
Poetry Reading Group
Entry: £2
Contact: rogert5595@yahoo.co.uk
The subject for this month is Irish Poets. Please bring 3 or 4 poems either by Irish Poets or about Ireland. Please bring several copies so that we can read the poems as well as hear them. Each poem will be followed by a short group discussion.
This is not a single event but a monthly one, on the secothird Tuesday of the month. The subject varies.
Venue Details:
at Parmoor House - 7 pm
Address: 13 Lypiatt Terrace , Cheltenham, GL50 2SX, GB
Salt Plus
Entry: Free
This month's Salt Plus event sees readings from new collections from Tamar Yoseloff, Simon Barraclough and Isobel Dixon, Claire Trévien reading from her new pamphlet, and Abi Curtis reading from her second Salt collection which is in preparation. Plus one other reader TBC.
Venue Details:
at The Betsy Trotwood - 7:00pm
Address: 56 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3BL, GB
Kent and Sussex Poetry Society
Entry: Admission to non-members :£3 (students £2)
Contact: http://www.kentandsussexpoetrysociety.org/
For details about this month's guest see:
http://www.kentandsussexpoetrysociety.org/
Venue Details:
at The Camden Centre - 8pm
Address: Market Square, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 2SW, GB
needleandthread open mic
Entry: free
Open Mic Event
Contact: len hovis 07708245035
Free entry open mic, every tuesday.. sign-ups from 7, doors 8pm-midnight..
We have a large, and beautiful sounding p.a., professional engineers, and half price pizza! all music welcome, from spoken word, to solo musicians, and acoustic singer/songwriters.. relaxed atmosphere, receptive audiences.. bring down your lyric books, your instruments, and yourselves!
Venue Details:
at The Half Moon - 8pm
Address: 10 Half Moon Lane, Herne Hill, London, SE24 9HU, GB
The Story Forge
Entry: free
Open Mic Event
Contact: cooper.christine@gmail.com
New monthly storytelling night. Bring a story (prose or verse) to share!
Venue Details:
at The Fat Cat - 8.00 pm
Address: 23 Alma Street, Sheffield, S3 8SA, GB
Poetry Unplugged
Entry: £4/3
Open Mic Event
Contact: 0207 420 9887 email poetrycafe@poetrysociety.org.uk
London's premier open mic night. Come and sign up between 6 and 7pm to be in the line up. Hosted by Niall O'Sullivan
Venue Details:
at Poetry Cafe - 7.30pm
Address: 22 Betterton Street, London, WC2H 9BX, GB
Catweazle
Entry: £4/3 (performers free)
Performers Free (sign up 8pm)
Venue Details:
at The Speakeasy, above Oddfellows - 8:00pm
Address: 60 New North Road, Exeter, EX4 4EP, GB
