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Poetry in the City 2008 – Week 2

Published on April 20, 2008 in Events and PIC Festival 2008. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Monday April 21

Liverpool Poetry Slam – The Casa, Hope Street 8pm

18 poets engage in verbal jousting, battling their way to cash prizes and the coveted Slam Champion shield. Winners will also be paid to represent Liverpool in the Bristol Poetry Slam at The Arnolfini in September. Audience voting, judges, oohing-and-ahhing – an exciting night for competitors and audience!Slam entrants must register for a place before the event. Please email sarah@deadgoodpoetssociety.co.uk or telephone 0151 709 5221/07903 563 327

£3 / £2 / £1 on the Door

Wednesday April 23 Walker Art Gallery 2-4.30pmGet creative and learn to write poems inspired by paintings in the gallery.

Guided by Gladys Mary Coles

Gladys Mary runs the literary press Headland Publications. She is the author of several volumes of poetry and her work has featured variously on television and radio. In addition, she lectures on imaginative writing at both Liverpool universities.

Her most recent collection is The Butcher Bird (Flambard 2007)

Walker Art Gallery

William Brown Street
Liverpool, L3

0151 478 4199

Thursday April 24 Costa Café, 13 Bold Street 7.30pm

Jean Sprackland

Costa Poetry Award winner 2007

Jean Sprackland is the author of three books of poetry and a collection of short stories.

Tattoos for Mothers Day (Spike, 1997) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Hard Water (Cape, 2003) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and was shortlisted for both the T S Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Award for Poetry. Her third collection, Tilt has won the 2007 Costa Poetry Award.

Plus Headland Publications poets, includingJanette Stowell, Ade Jackson and Sarah Maclennan

Poetry in the City Festival 2008 – Starts Monday April 14

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pic logo The 2008 Poetry in the City Festival runs from Monday April 14 to Saturday April 26 at various venues around the city.

See full details here

Poetry in the City 2008 – Details Updated

Published on April 2, 2008 in PIC Festival 2008. 0 Comments Tags: .

I have just posted a more up-to-date version of the PiC programme, replacing the original.

A few details have changed.

http://www.poetryinthecity.co.uk/archives/30

Heart Beats Rhyme and Roll Poetry Night

Published on March 31, 2008 in Events and PIC Festival 2008. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Heart Beats

Heart Beats event for Poetry In the City

Tuesday 15th April, 7.30pm, the Bluecoat, School Lane
£3/£2 concessions

Heart Beats Rhyme and Roll Poetry Night in collaboration with Poetry in the City presents an evening of Salt Poets.

Forward Prize nominee Eleanor Rees presents her 2007 collection, Andraste’s Hair: poems of myth, memory, folksong and murder ballad.

Jo Colley’s new collection, Weeping for the Lovely Phantoms, has received widespread critical acclaim with its “distorted landscapes infested with the manifold ghosts of the unresolved and unrequited”. Jo and Elly will be joined by Melanie Challenger whose first collection Galatea offers startling poems whose voice – resolute, compassionate, original – both celebrates and mourns the tensions of human nature.

Plus live music from one of Heart Beats’ favourite bands; swampy blues rockers Jewel Thief.

For tickets please visit www.thebluecoat.org.uk – or you can get them on the door

www.myspace.com/heartbeatspoetry

Poetry in the City 2008 – Details

Published on March 19, 2008 in PIC Festival 2008. 0 Comments Tags: .

Poetry in the City 2008 April 14-26 (Updated April 2nd)
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Monday April 14
Twentieth Century Blues by Robert Sheppard

Robert Sheppard has been described as being “at the forefront of the movement sometimes called ‘linguistically innovative poetry’”. He has also published works of criticism, including The Poetry of Saying (2005) and Iain Sinclair (2007). He is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at EdgeHill University in Lancashire.

“Twentieth Century Blues offers an entirely new way of thinking through the nightmare intersection of history, ethics and desire…. What emerges is nothing short of a re-education of the reader’s desire, constantly turning from the said to the saying. Courageous and unstinting, Sheppard writes with terrifying authority.” ─ Scott Thurston

Bluecoat Chambers

Tuesday April 15 Continue reading ‘Poetry in the City 2008 – Details’

2008 Festival Dates to be Confirmed

Published on February 17, 2008 in PIC Festival 2008. 0 Comments Tags: .

1/4/2008 – 1/5/2008

Poetry in the City (PiC) is a collaboration between several poetry organisations, promoters and performance nights working collectively to raise the profile of poetry in Liverpool.

Through commissions for newwork, translations, and interaction across other art forms and new media, PiC offers many opportunities to get involved in the city’s lively poetry scene.

The festival will feature a diverse programme of performances and events: slam poetry, open mics, workshops, games and installations.

Indoors and outdoors, the ‘08 festival will include nationally acclaimed award-winners and innovative experimentalists such as Liverpool’s Levi Tafari (left),Mohammad Khalil and Eleanor Rees.

DATE TO BE CONFIRMED.

PiC is organised by Dead Good Poets Society, Modern Transmissions (Universityof Liverpool), Back to the Machine Gun, Orbis International Library Journal, The Windows Project and Liverpool John Moores University.