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Week 1: – April 25th – April 29th 2006

Published on April 20, 2006 in PIC Festival 2006. Closed Tags: , .

Tuesday 25th April1 – 3 pm Writers of Colour Group

Writers Of Colour (for Black and minority ethnic community writers) welcomes writers at all levels of experience to a safe space in the Central Library. Facilitated by Martin Huiskens and Tina Tamsho-Thomas For further details contact Martin on 0151 728 7050 FREE

7.30pm Levi Tafari

Launch of his collection From the Page to the Stage (Headland, 2006) Levi is one of Liverpool’s foremost poets, with an international reputation.

Tonight’s event includes dance interpretations of his poetry by Bisakha Sarker (South Asian dancer) and Common Ground (Deaf sign dancers).

Adding to this inspiring evening of words and expression, to mark the launch of the Poetry in the City festival Somalian poet Abdillahi Awad Egeh will read new work, joined by Michael Murphy

The Unity Theatre, Hope Place, Liverpool 7.30pm. Tickets £5/ £3 Box office: tel. 709 4988 With BSL interpretation

Thursday 27th April

10 am – 12 Noon Masterclass with Levi Tafari

Poetry workshop for writers with some experience.
From the Dead Good Poets Society DGPS office, above 96 Bold Street. Tel. 0151 709 5221 £3/ £2 conc.
Please book in advance, places are limited.

2.30 – 4.30pm Write Poems Inspired by Paintings

Workshop suitable for all, with Liverpool poet and creative writing tutor Gladys Mary Coles (editor of Headland Press) at the Walker Art Gallery. Contact: 0151 625 9128

Saturday 29th April

12.00 – 2.00 pm Science Fiction Poetry

@ Liverpool Planetarium, World Museum
Premier sci-fi poet Steve Sneyd with Alice Lenkiewicz, poet and editor of Neon Highway. Steve Sneyd’s work has appeared in numerous magazines, anthologies worldwide, and he has read at the SF event of National Yea r of Literature (UK). His collections include Bad News From the Stars and Ahaseurus on Mars (Atlantean Publishing)
Alice Lenkiewicz will also be reading from her first novella, Maxine (Bluechrome,www.bluechrome.co.uk)
For further information please contact World Museum, Liverpool Planetarium on: 0151 478 4393
FREE

8.30pm Orbis International Poetry Event

3rd Room @ The Everyman Bistro
Launch of Orbis 136 Featuring: Ifor Thomas, with support: Ian Davidson, Clare Potter Plus Gladys Mary Coles (Headland) and Carole Baldock (Editor of Orbis),
mc: Nathan Jones
Orbis 136, Spring 2006 is a Welsh Special Issue (poems in English) Guest Editor Peter Finch
FREE

Week 2: – April 30th – May 6th 2006

Published on April 19, 2006 in PIC Festival 2006. Closed Tags: , .

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

Week 3: – May 7th – May 13th 2006

Published on April 18, 2006 in PIC Festival 2006. Closed Tags: , .

Thursday 11th May

8.30pm Reading @ The Left Bank brasserie, Formby

Matt Simpson reads from his new book ‘IN DEEP’ With live music and an open floor.
FREE

Saturday 13th May

11 am – 1 pm DGPS Wirral Poetry Reading Group

Bebington Library
Four poems will be discussed, linked by the common theme of ‘furniture’.
Facilitated by Janine Pinion and Colin Watts.
FREE

2.30-4.30pm Phil Davenport @ The Walker

Philip Davenport makes poems out of shopping lists, fashion magazines and porn.
His first collection Imaginary Missing People was published by seminal avant garde press Writers Forum.
Davenport’s Vogue Divine series was billposted throughout Manchester in 2002.
In 2004 his Heart Shape Pornography series was handwritten onto hundreds of apples and exhibited at the Walker, Liverpool as part of the Biennial.
The performance will include readings from a selection of his work and will incorporate a performance by sound artist Ben Gwillian.
Hosted by Neon Highway.
Contact: Walker Art Gallery 0151 478 4178
FREE

Collaborations and Residencies

Published on April 16, 2006 in PIC Festival 2006. Closed Tags: .

Poetry in the City is both a celebration of Liverpool’s lively yearround poetry scene, and a catalyst for the creation of new work by the city’s poets.

During the festival, commissioned poets will start to create unusual and varied poetry in response to the streets, languages, buildings, music, and history of Liverpool.

Each project offers an opportunity for the poet to experiment, collaborate, and explore, be that working with a musician or translating a poem into English, the aim is to challenge and excite an audience. There are four commissions:

Translation Project: A poet working in English will translate a newly commissioned poem about Liverpool from a poet from one of Liverpool’s refugee communities.

Billboard Commission: A poet and an artist will produce text and artwork to be displayed on hoardings around the city.

Poetry Residency: A multimedia response to an inner-city environment

Poetry and Music: A performance-based project in which one or two poets will work with a musician or ensemble to create new work.

For further details as these projects develop email PIC via the Contact Page

In the space between two heart…

Copper birds shake off their chains
A radio tower slumps, rubber-spined
Stone lions slip from plinths
Cathedrals lumber closer
Superlambanana bleats
Bronze statues query pigeons
remind me again, who am I?
Anfield & Goodison wrestle
Three flirtatious Graces sing
make us a mirror, River
Theatres belch trapped laughter
Parks play Chinese Whispers
Avenues of trees pass it on, pass it on
Docks stroke the flanks of ships
One-way systems unravel
City bones of wood, iron, glass, stone

….beats

and life pulses through the city
breath in its lungs
blood in its veins
and – at its heart – you.

Heart of the City, Sarah Maclennan