PLEASE NOTE: The Dead Good Poets Society Open Floor this month is on Wednesday 16th January @ 8pm.Monday 7th @ 8pm: Come Strut your Stuff – Poetry & acoustic music night hosted by Graham & Nick, with Stan the Harper. The Egg Café, Newington, between Bold St & Renshaw Street, Liverpool. Come early to book a slot. Free.
Wednesday 16th @ 8pm: Dead Good Poets Society Open Floor. Twenty-four 5 minutes slots for you to perform your own poetry. Doors open 7.30pm. Come early to book a reading slot. The 3rd Room, The Everyman Bistro, Hope Street, Liverpool 1. £1.
Saturday 12th 2-4pm: Dead Good Poets Society Poetry Reading Group @ The Hornby Room, Liverpool Central Library. A chance to look at and discuss 4 poems. No right or wrong answers, just good-natured debate ( and a few tangents!). If you would like to receive copies of the poems in advance, please contact Sarah on 0151 709 5221. Sherry & mince pies provided to feed the festive spirit! Free.
Saturday 19th: 11am – 1pm Dead Good Poets Society Poetry Reading Group @ Bebington Library, Bebington, Wirral. For advance copies of the poems, please contact Sarah on 0151 709 5221. Free. Refreshments provided. All welcome.
Thursday 17th: 9-11pm Wirral Ode Show Poets – open mic at the Stork Hotel, Price St, Birkenhead. Free Entry. Contact jasonrichardson69@hotmail.com for more details. Sunday 20th @ 8pm:Write Out Loud Read Around – popular, friendly Open Mic. All are welcome, beginners especially so. Howcroft Inn, Pool St, Bolton. Entry: £1 donation requested. Check www.writeoutloud.net for directions.
Friday 25th @ 7.30pm Bunch of Fives Tour. Five Cheshire Poet Laureates verse in style. Preston Brook Village Hall. Telephone 01928 717223 for more details.
Opportunities
Poet Laureate Of The Peak CompetitionOrganised by Arts in the Peak and supported by the Peak District National Park Authority, the competition aims to find a local writer who inspires a deeper appreciation of the landscape, its moods, influence and heritage.
The closing date is January 18th 2008.
The post will be for two years. Entrants must be 18 or over on the closing date, and they must have lived in, worked in, or regularly visited the Peak District over the past three years. Their entries must be of three poems, written in the last two years, at least two of which should be inspired by the Peak District. Poems may be handwritten, typed or on tape, but name, address, phone number and eligibility details must be on a separate sheet. Leaflets giving full details should be available from local libraries or tourist information centres.
The address for entries is Poet Laureate of the Peak Competition, Arts in the Peak, The Flat, Town Hall, Bath Street, Bakewell, Derbyshire, DE45 1BX. Further information is available on the Arts in the Peak website – www.artsinthepeak.co.uk
Poetic Legacy seeks submissions: Deadline 31st January 2008. Poetic Legacy is an online poetry e-zine edited by Michael Lee Johnson, author of The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom. They are looking for poetry, free verse and metric (but not contrived form); very small flash fiction, and small non-fiction articles that reflect a sincere cause or issue. E-mail the address below or visit www.poetriclegacy.mysite.com
Competitions
Wigtown Poetry Competition Closing Date: 25-Jan-08 For poems of up to 40 lines. Judge: Robert Crawford. Gaelic judge: Anne Frater. First prize: £2500, second prize: £1000, third prize: £5000. Gaelic prize: £1000 £5 or three poems for £10 Contact: The Wigtown Poetry Competition, Wigtown Festival Office, County Buildings, Wigtown DG8 9JH Website: www.wigtownbookfestival.com/poetrycomp
Email: poetrycomp@wigtownbookfestival.com
Kent and Sussex Open Poetry Competition Closing Date: 31-Jan-08 For poems of up to 40 lines. Adjudicator: Ruth Padel. £1,350 in prizes. Fee: £4 per poem Contact: The Competition Organiser, Aspen House, Beech Hill, Wadhurst, East Sussex TN5 6JT
www.kentandsussexpoetrysociety.org
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