The Bloomsbury Bards Poetry Evening at Map Cafe
This event on 17th December 2010 at 19:30 has past.
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Bob Goody and Andrew Cuthbert, actors turned poets. Present their own work with humour, banter and profound insights into life, love, death and all that stuff.
They met while attending a writers’ workshop at Holborn working mens’ club. Their involvement with the Bloomsbury group began when they rescued Vanessa Bell’s cat from a tree while conkering in Tavistock square.
Feeling disillusioned and slightly soiled, they turned reluctantly to poetry. Two slim volumes: ‘Thoughts while cottaging in Gordon Square’ and ‘Shafted in Sissinghurst’ were fairly well-received.
Their attempt at reviving the Elizabethan sonnet, however, wasn’t a complete success, ‘Shall we compare thee to a moist summer pudding?’ being the obvious exception.
Their subsequent embracing of cryptic modernism was equally inauspicious, ‘The Waste Bin’ selling barely a dozen copies.
They didn’t really hit their creative stride until they focused on their main area of interest and expertise: pubs, inns, taverns, boozers, shebeens, hostelries, bars and watering-holes.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Price: £7.00
Time: 7:30pm
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