A Poem and a Pint
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An evening of poetry and music. The evening’s poet is the charismatic Kei Miller, who won the 2014 Forward Poetry Prize last year with his collection The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion. The judges relished Miller’s ability to ‘defy expectations’ and ‘set up oppositions only to undermine them’. The collection features a mapmaker who speaks the Queen’s English but sucks his teeth like a Jamaican, and a “Rasta-man” with a PhD who believes ‘the mapmaker’s work is to make visible/ all them things that shoulda never exist in the first place/ like the conquest of pirates, like borders/ like the viral spread of governments’. ‘Kei is doing something you don’t come across often. Many poets refer to multiple realities, different ways of observing the world. Kei doesn’t just refer, he articulates them,’ said chair of the judges, Jeremy Paxman. ‘This collection struck us all with its boldness and wit.’
Rod Demick, our musician, is well known locally as a soloist and for his appearances in groups such as The Demix, Ta-Da! and The Bluegrass Project, and internationally as one of the UK’s top sidemen, appearing with the David Essex Band, The Strawbs, Screaming Lord Sutch and dire Straits. For the last 10 years he has toured extensively, songwriting and playing bass with Paul Lamb & The Kingsnakes in the UK and throughout Europe. We are delighted to be able to welcome them both back to A Poem and a Pint.
Supporting poetry by the P&P committee.
Price: £6.00 / £4.00
Time: 7.30pm (doors open 7)
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