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Liverpool Poetry Cafe at the Bluecoat

Published on January 14, 2009 in Costa Poetry Cafe and Events. Closed Tags: .

Liverpool Poetry Café has now moved from Costa in Bold Street to The Hub in the Bluecoat, School Lane. On the fourth Thursday of each month from 7.00-9.00pm, Liverpool Poetry Café will feature established and up-and-coming poets. Drinks and food available from the Upstairs at the Bluecoat restaurant. Come to our launch event on Thursday 22nd January. Tickets to all events free from the Bluecoat box office (0151 702 5324).Poets featured in the first quarter of 2009 include:

January 22 Deryn Rees-Jones, Michael Murphy, John Redmond - following Liverpool Poetry Café @ The Bluecoat launch, by Catherine Marcangeli (Adrian Henri’s partner)

February 26 Jo Shapcott, William Park, Cynthia Kitchen

March 26 Carol Ann Duffy, Janette Stowell

Liverpool Poetry Café programme can be found here.

Liverpool Poetry Cafe’s last event of 2008 - Liverpool Night!

Published on November 18, 2008 in Costa Poetry Cafe. Closed

Liverpool Poetry Cafe’s last event of 2008 - Liverpool Night!

Monday 8th December, 7.30 - 9.30pm

Bring and read your own work or a published poem about Liverpool.

Contact Alex with advance notice of your intention to read: alexss@liv.ac.uk

George & Gosia McCane at Poetry Cafe

Published on October 16, 2008 in Costa Poetry Cafe. 0 Comments

You are invited to The Liverpool Poetry Cafe in Costa, 13 Bold Street on Thursday evening 23rd October from 7.30pm - to 9.30pm for an evening of local and European poetry with George and Gosia and young people from Liverpool’s International renowned Yellow House - an evening of love, passion, humor and honesty - guaranteed.

This is an evening for Lovers, Artists and Poets - that’s you - so come along - how can you resist - coffee and listening and seeing George and Gosia and friends from Yellow House - if that’s not enough George’s best friend Brian Wake will be his guest.

I promise you an evening you will never forget - George.

“George is a fantastic performer, a great storyteller, a magician, a shaman. He has travelled throughout the world performing and everyone loves him - he is wonderful, full of stories, passion and poetry and he’s lovely” - George’s Mum

“I remember working with George in Paris all those years ago - he’s a case - he’s off his cake - I love him” - Charles Baudelaire

“I would love sitting in The Café Tambourine listening to George - his words go in one ear and stay there. To know life is to know George” - Vincent Van Gogh

Nominated by the British Council for European Youth Award

Yellow House - Radio City Local Heroes - Community Project of the Year Award Winner 2007 - 8

George and Gosia Mc Kane - Cultural Champions 2008 - Kensington Community Regeneration Award

Nationwide Community &Heritage Awards - NW Regional Winner - Community Groups

Yellow House

Developing young people through the arts
and the arts through young people.

George and Gosia Mc Kane

8 Marmaduke Street
Liverpool L7 1PB
England

00 44 (0)151 260 2996

theyellowhouse@btinternet.com
www.yellowhouse.info

The Costa Liverpool Poetry Cafe, 14 July, Alice Lenkiewicz

Published on July 8, 2008 in Costa Poetry Cafe. 0 Comments Tags: .
Alice Lenkiewicz will be reading her poems
Monday, July 14, 2008
The Costa Cafe. Liverpool, Bold Street.

The Costa Liverpool Poetry Cafe. hosted by Alex Scott-Samuel. 13 Bold Street, Liverpool, England, 7:30 p.m onwards which will include two events.
Alice starting at 7.45 until 8.45 and then proceeded by Jeff Cottrill until later in the evening. This event is free.

Alice lives in Toxteth Liverpool. She is an artist and poet and edits the experimental Poetry/Art Magazine, ‘Neon Highway’ which she set up 2002.
www.geocities.com/poetshideout/Neon.html

She also curates the Toxteth Art gallery:
http://toxtethartgallery.wordpress.com

In the past Alice has curated poetry readings in Liverpool for various guest poets, including Allen Fisher, Bill Griffiths, Geraldine Monk, Lawrence Upton, Dave Ward and Robert Sheppard. Events have taken place at the Walker Art Gallery, The Planetarium, Central Library, 33-45 Club.
After completing her MA in ‘Writing Studies’, her novella, ‘Maxine’, containing, prose, poems and illustrations was published by Bluechrome Publishing in 2005.
Since then she has experimented with sound poetry, and has recently completed her first full collection of poems that have evolved from pamphlets such as ‘Men Hate Blondes’ and ‘Clubbing’. Her most recent poems are a reflection upon and include drawings and thoughts based around the myths and ghosts of Liverpool.

Neon Highway. Issue 13 is now printed.

Subsription details:

Neon Highway, the magazine for experimental and innovative poetry.

Submissions of innovative poetry and artwork to be sent to editors:Alice Lenkiewicz, Dee Mcmahon, Matt Fallaize.

Neon Highway is available bi-annually, with 2 issues costing £5.50, or a single
Issue available at £3.00. Order your next issue by contacting Alice Lenkiewicz on poetshideout@yahoo.com

The Costa Liverpool Poetry Cafe - Feb-Apr 2008

Published on February 18, 2008 in Costa Poetry Cafe and Events. 0 Comments Tags: .

Liverpool Poetry Cafe

Costa Liverpool Poetry Café
Costa Coffee
13 Bold Street
Liverpool
L1 4DN

All 19.30 - 21.30
Thursday February 28
Gladys-Mary Coles
Aileen la Tourette

Monday March 10
John Redmond
Deryn Rees-Jones

Thursday March 27
Jo Bell
Cheshire Poet Laureate 2007

Monday April 14
Open mic night

Thursday April 24
Jean Sprackland
Costa Poetry Award winner 2007
Headland Press poets