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	<title>Poetry In The City</title>
	<link>http://www.poetryinthecity.co.uk</link>
	<description>Poetry in the City of Liverpool, UK</description>
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		<title>BBC Radio 4 National Poetry  Slam - North West Final</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reminder that this prestigious event is this evening Thursday 2nd  July 2009. Doors open at 7.30pm for an 8pm start at the Greenroom, Whitworth  Street Manchester  (there&#8217;s a map on the gig guide at www.writeoutloud.net)
BBC Radio 4 will be broadcasting a second series of Poetry Slam  programmes in 2009 and, after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetryinthecity.co.uk/2009/07/bbc-radio-4-national-poetry-slam-north-west-final/</link>
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		<title>Words and Images Readers Day at the Brindley</title>
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Words and Images Readers Day at the Brindley &#124; Liverpool Art and Culture Blog.
There’s lots going on at the Brindley Arts Centre in Runcorn with the Halton Literature Festival ‘Talkwrite’ running from 8 -13 June 2009. This event at the end of the week looks particularly interesting.
The Reader Organisation presents
‘Words and Images’ Readers Day
in partnership [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetryinthecity.co.uk/2009/06/words-and-images-readers-day-at-the-brindley/</link>
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		<title>Dead Good Poets - June 2009 Diary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday 3rd @ 8pm – DEAD GOOD POETS SOCIETY OPEN FLOOR. 24 spaces of  five minutes for you to perform your own poetry. New poets always  welcome as are new audience members! Old poets and audience also  welcome! In fact, EVERYONE’s welcome. The 3rd Room, Everyman Bistro,  Hope Street, Liverpool. Arrive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetryinthecity.co.uk/2009/05/dead-good-poets-june-2009-diary/</link>
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		<title>Wirral Words Open Floor Poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a reminder that it is Wirral Words Open Floor Poetry Evening on Tuesday 26 May at The Scouse House. Please try to come along and keep our fun and varied evening up to the high standard we all enjoy.
Many of you will be aware that Radio 4 is running a slam competition. To enter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetryinthecity.co.uk/2009/05/wirral-words-open-floor-poetry/</link>
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		<title>Tom George Poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom George bank holiday poetry dates
sunday 24th may 2009
upstairs at zanzibar (&#8217;cosmo&#8217;s factory&#8217; with the heyze/the kashmirs and many others)
£3
poetry and music - 2 sets - 7.15 and 8.45
Monday 25th may
at mello mello
(&#8217;uperitive&#8217; - electronic and acoustic event also feat. igor hax etc.)
£3 - includes italian buffet
set time 6pm approx
i will also have copies of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetryinthecity.co.uk/2009/05/tom-george-poetry/</link>
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		<title>Poetry Slam 09 and Whats On This Week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And the winner of the Liverpool Poetry Slam 2009 was&#8230;

Anthony Hett from Chester! 
Anthony will now be entitled to register for the North West Poetry Slam  Final Heat held in Manchester on 2nd July 2009. This will decide which  poets will represent the North West in the BBC Radio 4 National Poetry  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetryinthecity.co.uk/2009/05/poetry-slam-09-and-whats-on-this-week/</link>
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		<title>The Mersey Sound Poetry Workshop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[at University of Liverpool Victoria Gallery
The Mersey Sound Poetry Workshop
Thursday 21st May 2009, 10.30am – 12.30pm
The Mersey Poets paved the way for a future flourishing of performance and pop-based work by poets. This workshop will introduce you to the work of the poets and how their poetry differed from poetry written for books. Using writing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetryinthecity.co.uk/2009/05/the-mersey-sound-poetry-workshop/</link>
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		<title>VG&amp;M - The Mersey Sound, Poets Archive Exhibition</title>
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VG&#38;M - The Mersey Sound.
The Mersey Sound
8 May - 12 September 2009 
The exhibition, called Mersey Sound, will chart the development and sources of inspiration of Liverpool poets, Roger McGough, Brian Patten and the late Adrian Henri - writers who were central to the citys literary, music and visual arts scene of the 1960s.
The University [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetryinthecity.co.uk/2009/05/vgm-the-mersey-sound-poets-archive-exhibition/</link>
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		<title>New Poet Laureate appointed - Carol Ann Duffy</title>
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New Poet Laureate appointed &#124; Number10.gov.uk.
The Queen has been pleased to approve that Professor Carol Ann Duffy CBE be appointed Poet Laureate in Ordinary to Her Majesty in succession to Professor Andrew Motion for a term of ten years.
Biographical notes 
Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1955. Her family moved to England when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetryinthecity.co.uk/2009/05/new-poet-laureate-appointed-carol-ann-duffy/</link>
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		<title>Writing on the Wall Launches Tonight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Peña – Festival Launch Featuring Omar Puente and Cubania
Únanse para el Peña del forastero or join us for the Peña of the outsider – an informal Chilean style gathering where all can express themselves through song, rhyme, prose, comedy or dance. In the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, WoW celebrates all things South [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetryinthecity.co.uk/2009/05/writing-on-the-wall-launches-tonight/</link>
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