Sunday 30th April
12 – 4pm Orbis Poetry Market
Central Library
Come buy, come listen – come and find out everything you ever wanted to know, probably, about poetry, getting published etc.
Open mic, readings, discussions groups
Likely participants include Index; NW publishers and editors, eg: Orbis, Headland, Neon Highway, Smoke.
Welsh publishers and editors, eg Planet, Skald, Cinnamon Press, Leaf books
Welsh publishers and magazines: Planet; Poetry Wales; New Welsh Review; Seren; Parthian; honno; Gomer press (tbc)
FREE
8.00pm Fiction residents event
Fiction presents a night of Brand New Quality Poetics, music and visuals
Fiction @ 3 Belvidere Road, Princes Park, L8
featuring resident poets Nathan Jones, Ross Sutherland, Nicolas Holloway, Dave Bamford and Olly Gruner
plus brand new guests TBC,
and music from Tom Brookes (The Cuckolds), Laura Dickinson (Blue Lantern) and Peter and The Wolf.
7:30 till 11:00
contact: nafefiction@hotmail.com
Monday 1st May
11am – 4pm Poetry Games In The Street
Join writers from The Windows Project in Williamson Square to play our writing games and create your own poem. For all abilities, adults and children.
Just drop by.
8pm Open Mic Poetry and Music
@ The Egg Café, Newington street
Tuesday 2nd May
7.00pm Modern Transmissions: Mark Ford
From Liverpool University’s Modern Transmissions series of poetry readings.
Mark Ford has published two collections of poetry, Landlocked (Chatto & Windus, 1992, 1998) and Soft Sift (Faber & Faber, 2001/Harcourt Brace, 2003); He is also a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books.
@ The Box, FACT, Wood Street. £3/ £2 conc.
Wednesday 3rd May
8.30pm Dead Good Poets Society Open Floor
One of the north-west’s most popular Open Floor poetry nights.
Come and hear poets from Wirral, Chester, Bolton, Preston, Manchester, and, of course, Liverpool.
Find out about other Open Floors in the region….. Five minutes per poet x 24 slots
Everyman Bistro, Third Room £1
Thursday 4th May
2.30-4.30pm Write Poems Inspired by Paintings
The Walker Art Gallery.
Workshop suitable for all, with Gladys Mary Coles Contact: 0151 625 9128
Interested parties are welcome to attend both of Gladys-Mary’s workshops.
*From April 8th—May 21st there is a poetry and art exhibition, ‘Dare to Dream’ at The Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock
contact: liverpoolfh@merseymail.com
Friday 5th May
8.30pm Back to the Machine Gun
St Brides Church, Catharine Street
Another atmospheric night of poetry and music featuring Machine Gun regulars plus: Mark Jones (ex Hat Band) and Chiba Sprawl
FREE
Saturday 6th May
2 – 4 pm DGPS Reading Group @ Central Library
with special guest Colin Watts
Colin’s recent collection is Human Geography (Driftwood Press, 2005)
Four poems will be discussed, two written by Colin and two by other poets that he finds inspiring.
Facilitated by Sarah Maclennan.
For copies of the poems in advance please ring Cath on 0151 709 5221, leave your name and address and specify which group you would like to attend.
FREE
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