News, Events and Readings
Whitstable Women Writers host Canterbury Tells
The next Canterbury Tells event is on 8 Aug at the Jolly Sailor, Northgate, Canterbury, 6.30 p.m. The Whitstable Women Writers are hosting the event, with guest Caroline Gilfillan and an open mic for poets.
Canterbury is the place to be for writers at present, with several events running as part of the Canterbury Laureate scheme. The next event is a poetry masterclass, part of the Whitstable Oyster Festival, with Canterbury laureate, Patience Agbabi. This will be held on 26 July, 3-5 p.m. at Deco 5 in Whitstable.The link also has details of a chance to dine with the laureate and her 'laureate squad' on the same evening.
posted 30 July 2010
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Federico Federici at Canterbury Tells and Faversham Library
The latest Canterbury Tells event is this coming Sunday, 18 July, featuring poet Federico Federici and an open mic session.
The same poet will also be visiting Faversham Library 19 July, and there will be a workshop and open mic for poets following his reading.
posted 13 July 2010
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Poems needed
Poems on the theme of childhood are requested for an anthology in aid of Children in Need. Poems can be up to 40 lines, and may be published or unpublished. Send to submissions@wordaid.org.uk by 17 July. (This date has been extended from the previous deadline of 10 July.) Please add your name and address at the bottom of each poem.
posted 13 July 2010
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Artists in the Woods
The second Artists in the Woods event will take place on Sunday 4 July at Oare Gunpowder Works near Faversham, 10.00 - 4.00. Last year's event was highly successful, featuring visual artists, sculptors, musicians and wandering poets (including me!)
posted 2 June 2010
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Cinnamon Press have a spring sale, with a mystery fiction or poetry book at just £2.99 each, or 5 books for £10. Cinnamon run a number of competitions and events throughout the year, including writing schools.
Canterbury Festival Poet of the Year is open to entries up until 15 May, entry £5 per poem.
Canterbury Tells is meeting this Sunday, 25 April, at the Jolly Sailor, Northgate, Canterbury, 6.30 pm. This is a new venue for Canterbury Tells and the Canterbury Poets monthly reading and open mic. Canterbury Tells is part of the Canterbury Laureate Scheme.
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Best Words (and Music)
The Best Words (and Music) event is on 24 April at Teynham Library, 11.00 am. It features poets from the Best Words, Best Order poetry class: Kate Fox, Maria McCarthy, Alison McNaught, Gillian Moyes and Valerie Tyler; plus music from Rachel Bradley, Bob Carling and Stephen Morris. There is an open mic session for poets.
posted 12 April 2010
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If you want to go further afield, the Trevor/Bowen Summer School is on from April 30th to May 2nd in Mitchelstown, Co Cork. I have an interest, as William Trevor was born in Mitchelstown, as was my father, and in the same year. The legacy of Elizabeth Bowen is also preserved: an Anglo-Irish writer, she lived at Bowen's Court, Kilderorry, a few miles out of Mitchelstown, and was buried at Farahy cemetery. I have another engagement that weekend, but wish I could be there too.
posted 12 April 2010
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morphrog
morphrog, the online journal of The Frogmore Press, will launch in July. It will be edited by Jeremy Page and Peter Stewart.
Issues will be accessible for a strict three-month period (in this case 1 July - 30 September. morphrog will publish poems that operate at the extremes of experiment and tradition, and welcomes submission of both very long and very short poems. Copyright in every case will remain with the poet.
The deadline for submissions to issue one is 31 May. Poets are asked to send no more than four poems as a single Word attachment or in the body of the email to: morphrog@gmail.com
posted 25 March 2010
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Conversation Poetry Quarterly - new edition out now
CPQ10 is now available to read online (or to download in basic pdf) at:
http://conversationpoetry.co.uk/downloads
The
first issue of the new decade sees poetry from Ali Abdolrezaei, Colin
Campbell Robinson, Jenna Cardinale, Tiziano Fratus, Nicky Gould,
Mohammed Hashas, Rona Laycock, Maria McCarthy, Michael Mirolla, Kate
Robinson, Jacob Russell, Karin Slater and Ian Stephen.
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Submissions
are now welcome for both a special African edition of the magazine
(CPQ11) and the next open editions (CPQ12 & 13).
Enjoy!
David Nettleingham (co-editor)
posted 31 January 2010
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Previous Events
Transitions, an evening of original readings, music, revelation and transformation, held at Gillingham Library, 25 October 2007
Reading at the Angel Centre, Tonbridge, March 2008 (top photo by John Trelawny)
John Trelawny and Maria
