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The 2nd January.

Our next event is not until the 16th of January (3rd week in January).

Happy Christmas everyone!

Best of

Chris

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ThePoetry Spoke Christmas Party/Glenys' leaving do!

This Thursday - 5th December - 8 till 12pm! (late bar)

@ Gallaghers Pub & Barbers
20 Chester Street,
Birkenhead  
Wirral
CH41 5DQ

At 8pm upstairs we're putting on a free spread of Christmas food for everyone.  The typical fare (veggies also catered for).  Thx to Dave Bradley and his hotplate, tasty warm mince pies!  Food and a chance to socialise.

At 8:30 - 10pm upstairs we will have ...

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ThePoetry Spoke & Guest Alun Parry

The much in demand Socialist Folk Singer Alun Parry plays ThePoetry Spoke at Gallaghers As Guest Musician - this coming Thursday -  21st November - from 8pm!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsoc6AJC-yA

Of Alun's debut album "Corridors of Stone", Lianne Steinberg, a music writer in the Big Issue said of the album: "The Liverpudlian singer-songwriter packs more weight in the punch of his folk songs th...

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ThePoetry Spoke Open Mic & Guest

This Thursday

8 - 11 with late Bar

check us out!

 

www.wirralpoetry.com

 

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Toilet

https://soundcloud.com/chris-coey-poetry/toilet

 

 

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Poetry Competition - £120 - £60 - £25 etc

Wirral Ode Show - Poet of the Year

 

More details can be found below

 

http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=38886

 

@ Gallaghers Pub and Barbers

20 Chester Street

Birkenhead

Wirral

CH41 5DQ

 

4 minutes to read/perform your poetry

Independent judges - All Poets Welcome

 

One of the longest running poetry competit...

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ThePoetry Spoke on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=477750028998516&id=422557617851091

 

Don’t sit in with the idiots lantern!

To read your poetry, to hear music in words and words in music. 

 

Join us!

 

The antithesis of TV culture is near, we’re ThePoetry Spoke!

and we're here;

 

www.wirralpoetry.com

 

 

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ThePoetry Spoke September 19th - Poetry Night & Guest

ThePoetry Spoke returns -

Thursday the 19th of September - 8pm!  

This time around it’s Open Mic

&  Guest Singer-Songwriter - Carl Allan!

 

Gallagher Pub & Barbers

20 Chester Street

Birkenhead

Wirral

CH41 5DQ

 

Of our Guest -

Carl Allan "The Huyton Minstrel"

Carl Allan is one of Liverpool's finest songwriters; a singer songwriter's, singer son...

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ThePoetry Spoke September - Poetry Night & Guests

ThePoetry Spoke returns -

Thursday the 5th of September - 8pm!  

This time around it’s Open Mic

&  Guest Poet - Pete Slater!

 

Gallagher Pub & Barbers

20 Chester Street

Birkenhead

Wirral

CH41 5DQ

 

Of our Guest -

 

Pete Slater’s poetry does not drive buses, it is not accidental.

It can be mental, temperamental and eventful.  It has been kn...

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ThePoetry Spoke August 15th - Open Mic & John Darwin

ThePoetry Spoke returns -

Thursday the 15th of August - 8pm!  

This time around it’s Open Mic

&  Guest Poet - John Darwin!

 

Gallagher Pub & Barbers

20 Chester Street

Birkenhead

Wirral

CH41 5DQ

 

Of our Guest -

Laconic or terse - pick your own adjective, John seems to weigh the value of each word while delivering poetry in shifting rhythms, at one...

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Manufactured CONsent

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ThePoetry Spoke 18th July - Open Mic & Paul Richie

ThePoetry Spoke returns -

Thursday the 18th of July - 8pm!  

This time around it’s Open Mic

& Guest Poet - Paul Richie!

 

Gallagher Pub & Barbers

20 Chester Street

Birkenhead

Wirral

CH41 5DQ

 

Of our Guest -

 

Paul combines recognisable page quality with a clear impassioned delivery.  

He’s a poet sharing his convictions and asking questi...

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10,000 hits on YouTube for poetry videos

Myself and my partner Natalie started filming poetry a couple of years ago, first at our own events and then also adding in additional events in and around Merseyside.  The project has involved filming night after night and then the time intensive editing and processing of the films.  I would hazard a guess that we've probably put in somewhere near the 700 hour mark - just doing this.  So what'...

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ThePoetry Spoke - Open Mic & Guest Jim Pearson

While the 4th of July commemorates some minor incident in the Americas, ThePoetry Spoke, Open Mic poetry and Guest Musician Jim Pearson spin wildly into the bigger theater of Birkenhead!


Actually only part of that is true ;) 

Jim Pearson will be whimsical, bitter, sombre, wide-eyed and hopeful – thematically speaking. He will also be lyrically tasteful, low-key, uniquely English, sa...

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ThePoetry Spoke June 20th - Open mic & Guest

8 - 11 with late Bar

 

check us out!

 

www.wirralpoetry.com

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ThePoetry Spoke June - Open Floor & Guests - this Thusday!

8 - 11 with late Bar

check us out!

www.wirralpoetry.com

 

 

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The Spectacle

I rarely do preamble but feel the need here.  

Our poetry night moved venue a month back, and in so doing we moved to a function room that the pub owners had named and decorated as 'the spectacle'.  

So what I hear you ask?

I wanted to write something with that title in mind.  In so doing I came up wth the idea of a poet in the audience - as yet unheard, becoming the greatest perfor...

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ThePoetry Spoke - Open mic - £40 cash prize & Guests!

 

 'ThePoetry Spoke'

Great poetry and acoustic music

Thursday 16th May - 8pm start time!  

(note half an hour earlier than prior events)

 

Gallaghers Pub & Barbers

20 Chester Street

Birkenhead - The Wirral

CH41 5DQ 

Upstairs function room - dedicated to our poetry.

3 mins from Hamilton Square train station - easy connections to Liverpool, Chester etc...

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ThePoetry Spoke is back Fantastic NEW Venue -

 

 

Info via link.

 

https://soundcloud.com/chris-coey-poetry/thepoetry-spoke

 

Full advert to follow nearer the 16th May - opening night.

 

Guest Poet - Guest Musician - Open Mic Poetry 

 

Every 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month.

 

Gallaghers Pub 

20 Chester Street

Birkenhead 

Wirral

CH41 5DQ

 

 

 

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ThePoetry Spoke April - Open floor poetry & Guests

 

  'ThePoetry Spoke'

Great poetry and acoustic music

Tuesday -  23rd April- doors open 8pm

 

La Gondola

22a Liscard Crescent

Wallasey- The Wirral

CH44 1AE (a stones throw over the Mersey from Liverpool)

Check us out in the gig guide...

 

Our Guest Poet

DGPS Poet - Mike Richardson

Born north of the boarder Mike travelled extensively as a servi...

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Nothing Left

 

The unions are dead,
carcasses of a once great
movement - now mute.

Great bones of industry fractured,
the post war dream was
butchered.  Left hanging
by the lady not for turning.

Time - time turned iron to rust
the common man’s
dreams like coal to dust.

Things can only get better!
So ‘New labour’ said.

But her bruise remains,

and all their blood has bled to blue
and i...

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ThePoetry Spoke March - Open floor & Guests

 

  'ThePoetry Spoke'

Great poetry and acoustic music

Tuesday - Tomorrow!  26th March- doors open 8pm

 

La Gondola

22a Liscard Crescent

Wallasey- The Wirral

CH44 1AE (a stones throw over the Mersey from Liverpool)

Check us out in the gig guide...

 

Our Guest Poet

Write Out Loud's - Dave Morgan

Dave's poetry leaps through kitchen sink dramas, c...

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Think TANK!

 

Think TANK!

 

Our progressive think tank recommends
a back to work welfare solution.  Disability offends
us all with it’s idea of reliance, so what we need now
is a soft pastel re-focus on aspiration. 

You should appreciate our reclassification,
the monetary cut-back to your benefit
shows how well you actually are.

You simply wore the wrong tag;
were impoveris...

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Some Politicians

Some politicians reach only for the limits of their own ambitions.

They occupy an office, reduce ideals, condence possibility

into a form of grubbiness.

 

An infested feeding upon vision, 

all knowing -  and contemptible.

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ThePoetry Spoke February - Poetry Night & Guests

  'ThePoetry Spoke'

Great poetry and acoustic music

This Tuesday - 26th February- doors open 8pm

 

La Gondola

22a Liscard Crescent

Wallasey- The Wirral

CH44 1AE (a stones throw over the Mersey from Liverpool)

Check us out in the gig guide...

 

Our Guest Poet

Ged Thompson

Ged's poetry questions life. Poetically it does this via the telling of tales...

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Wirral Ode Show - Open floor Night - February

 


This Thursday Night - 21st February

'Wirral Ode Show'

poetry open mic night

8pm for an 8:30 Start

 

The 'Egremont Ferry Hotel'

Tobin Street

Wallasey

CH44 8DF

We welcome ALL poets from near and far to a warm, friendly and inclusive open mic poetry night at a wonderfully picturesque real ale pub that overlooks the river Mersey.

...

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All things considered

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Life

 

 

Life

In deed and indecision
with words or their omission,
by strategy or compulsion
In inertia or revolution.

To reach the moon, to sail the seas
to conquer lands, plant hopeful seeds.

In baking bread in breaking bread,
in building up with worn out tools
the loaded language of imperialist fools,

for all you are, and all you’re not
with cross to bare
o...

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Wirral Ode Show - Open floor Night - January

 

This Thursday Night - 17th January

'Wirral Ode Show'

poetry open mic night

8pm for an 8:30 Start

 

The 'Egremont Ferry Hotel'

Tobin Street

Wallasey

CH44 8DF

We welcome ALL poets from near and far to a warm, friendly and inclusive open mic poetry night at a wonderfully picturesque real ale pub that overlooks the river Mersey.

 

No closed set list...

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