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“Hey. Thank you so much for shipping forecast last night. I felt v giddy afterwards and still feel light and skippy today. It was brilliantly silly! I appreciate the efforts you put in and love your nonsense way of thinking! The headline poets were v cool too!”

Hello and happy new year forecasters

New year and a new line up for the Shipping forecast at it's new venue the Riverside pub, 1 mowbray street, oooh.

and it's exciting times ahead as we continue to deliver the best in spoken word across the country and locally in the only nautical themed comedy cabaret night in the UK right here in landlocked Sheffield.
This year looks to be the best yet for the forecast as we have programmed a real bobby dazzler of a line up over the next 6 months with the likes of Byron Vincent, Luke Wright, Ross Sutherland and many more plus the usual blend of games, features, message in a bottle with Sting, Liam Gallager's book review, celebrity poetry corner and George the shark and of course the naff raffle all hosted by Stan Skinny. Open mic slots are also available email for a slot.

Starting with

February the 20th

Byron Vincent

One of BBC poetry season’s New Talent Choices, Byron Vincent is a regular at the nation’s most prestigious literary and music festivals. He has performed several times on television and national radio, including Channel 4’s Random Acts, Radio 4’s Bespoken Word and BBC 3’s The Verb. He was poet in residence for the South West of England for Apples and Snake’s ground breaking poetry project My Place or Yours. His first collection Barking Doggerel was released May 2010 by Nasty Little Press. He was co-founder, compere, producer and programmer for one of The UK’s most highly regarded Spoken Word nights at The Bristol Old Vic. Byron has worked as a writer and performer on several theatre projects including The RSC’s Midsummer Night’s dreaming. He is also co-creator of bespoke story telling project Made Up, which in its first year won commissions from both MAYK’s Mayfest in Bristol and Escalator East in Norwich. He is currently devizing his debut solo theatre show Talk About Something You like.

"He's a geeeeenius" John Cooper Clarke
"The most precocious talent on show" The Times

www.byronvincent.com

Plus Genevieve Carver

Genevieve Carver is a locally renowned poet based in Sheffield, and has performed at festivals and events from the Edinburgh Fringe to the Off the Shelf Festival of Words. She writes about the realities of the everyday in a rhymical, lively and thoughtful way, sometimes playing her own piano compositions aong with her work. Genevieve’s poems have appeared in Now Then magazine and a recent anthology of Sheffield Poets, and she was recently longlisted for the Poetry Society National Competition and shortlisted for the York Literature Festival Poetry Competition.


and open mic

tickets £5 £3 for concessions

7.45pm

March the 20th

Ross Sutherland
Ross Sutherland is a Time Out award winner with poetry collective Aisle16 and former Times Literary Star of the Year. His work has been featured on BBC Newsnight Review, Sky’s Book Show and BBC Radio 1,3 and 4. He has four collections of poetry published by Penned in the Margins, including 2012’s Emergency Window. He is currently touring his new one-man show, Stand-By For Tape Back-Up. www.rosssutherland.co.uk



plus Steve Scott

Stephen Scott is a writer who lives in Sheffield. His first book Researching Oblivion [spout] was published in 1998, His most recent work is a poem celebrating the centenary of stainless steel He has had stories published in THE TEXT Transmission, Now Then and Beat the Dust and has delighted/disappointed audiences with readings in Yorkshire, Leeds, Germany and Poland. He is currently working on a film script and other stories and songs which may or may not, see the light of day. He likes denim underwear and white socks. Researching Oblivion; The working class voices here are jagged and often dark with despair but there is more real feeling here than in many of the grittier than grit novels and more talent as well. The Guardian.


and open mic

tickets £5 £3 for concessions

7.45pm

April the 11th

Luke Wright

“Performance poetry’s key revivalist.” Metro
Luke Wright writes bawdy bar room ballads about small town tragedies and Westminster rogues. His fast paced, witty poems are crammed full of yummy mummies, debauched Tory grandees, maudlin commuters and leering tabloid paps. His live shows are enjoyed by thousands of people across the world every year, where he mixes the wistful with the downright comic to take audiences on an incredible emotional journey.
“His lexical acrobatics are astounding, often motor-mouthed and breathtakingly honest…Go for the wordsmithery, stay for the painful poignancy.” The List
Since 2006 he has written and performed seven one man shows, touring them to top literary and arts festivals from Australia to Scotland via Hong Kong and Bruges. His current show Essex Lion tours throughout 2014.
www.lukewright.co.uk

Rachel Horne



plus open mic

tickets £5 £3 for concessions

7.45pm


Things people have said about the forecast

It was a lovely, unexpected night full of ramshackley goodness, I think Tim and I both enjoyed it even more than we expected, and, for my part, that’s down to the effort you and your colleague put into the thing – you pour energy and charm in and the results show – I hope the night runs for a another four venues and many years…

“Hey. Thank you so much for shipping forecast last night. I felt v giddy afterwards and still feel light and skippy today. It was brilliantly silly! I appreciate the efforts you put in and love your nonsense way of thinking! The headline poets were v cool too!”

Price: £5.00

Time: 7:45pm