Poetry at the Troubadour
This event on 17th January 2011 at 20:00 has past.
Contact: www.coffeehousepoetry.org
'epiphanies': with david briggs, ruth fainlight, anne-marie fyfe, allison mcvety, katherine kilalea, ellen cranitch, anna-may laugher, diana pooley and henry fajemirokun
Our perennial post-Christmas feast of epiphanies, bringing together new poets (some at first-collection stage) with new collections from better-known poets.
Price: £7.00 / £6.00
Time: 8:00pm
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Reviews for Poetry at the Troubadour
To the famous and packed cellar at the Troubadour in west London - 1960s haunt of Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Jimi Hendrix – for the launch of Magma poetry magazine no 52.
Magma is – how can one put this without offending other magazines? – a bit different. It has enviable production values, including generous layout of poems and biogs, and can even be found in a few independent bookshops. This doesn’t preclude the odd typo or two, but its quality threshold is very high, evidenced by those published in the latest issue and invited to read a little of their work at the launch on Monday night. This was all page poetry, if purists want to make that distinction. But page poetry of such strength, and read almost without exception with such confidence that it was definitely performance, too.
Each Magma issue has a theme. No 52’s was Putting On The Mask. We heard poems that were painfully poignant, like Roy Marshall’s Fitting The Mask, and ones for prickly occasions, such as Sarah James’s Wear A Cactus Ball Gown; the filmic That Buster Keaton Moment (Rowena Sommerville) and a young wildlife hoodlum acting out future moves, Andrew George’s Shark (Juvenile).
Showcase poet Gill Andrews’s Apple was irresistible. Guest poet Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch’s Curtain Call - the Scott Antarctic expedition attempting to cope with minus 70 temperatures – was stark and compelling; fellow guest Greta Stoddart’s Deep Sea Diver was similarly bracing, plunging into frigid waters and submarine canyons.
The Troubadour, regular home of Coffee-House Poetry, is an excellent venue, its almost-communal loos part of the ambience. I was there with David Cooke, who read his excellent Cities from Magma 52, and David Andrew, Write Out Loud’s Gig Guide administrator, and also a previously published Magma poet.
The current Magma issue also includes prizewinning poems from the magazine's first poetry competition. Magma 53 (published in June this year, and already closed for submissions) has the theme Music: The Universal Language. Magma 54’s theme is visible/invisible. For submission guidelines, see the website, http://magmapoetry.com/contributions
Review is about Poetry at the Troubadour on 5 Mar 2012 (event)
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Julian (Admin)
Wed 7th Mar 2012 18:23
Wow, I'm jealous. A grand write-up, Greg.
Review is about Poetry at the Troubadour on 5 Mar 2012 (event)