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Dead Good Poets – 21st Birthday Party

Published on March 12, 2010 in Dead Good Poets and Events. Closed Tags: .

This month, Dead Good Poets Society celebrates its 21st Anniversary.

That’s 21 years – 21 years! – of open floors, guest nights, poetry reading groups, slams, workshops, and other poetic happenings.

On Wednesday 17th March 2010, DGPS will be 21 years and 8 days old – please come help us celebrate!

There will be an Open Floor for… poets old & new, a chance to catch up with poets you may not have seen for a while, special sets from DGPS original members, competitions and prizes.

Will there be cake? YES!
Will there be jelly? NO! POETS & JELLY – NOT A GOOD COMBINATION …
Will there be prizes for those in the best ’80s costumes? YES!
Will there be more poets than you could shake a stick at? TOO RIGHT!
Will it be a night that shall still be spoken of in hushed tones 100 years from now? WE BLIMMIN’ WELL HOPE SO!

Our Open Floor comes of age. Expect the usual moving, funny, weird, inspiring, anarchic, clever poetics – but WITH CAKE.

Come early to book a performance slot with our comperes.

New poets and first time performers always welcome. You will be well-looked after and your courage rewarded with loud applause and much appreciation.

Old poets loved and welcomed, as ever.

Audience members (old and new) simply adored!

Wednesday 17th March @8pm
The 3rd Room
Everyman Bistro
Hope Street
Liverpool

Dead Good Poets – Darwinian Night

Published on July 14, 2009 in Dead Good Poets. Closed Tags: .

This Wednesday we celebrate all things Darwinian!

With the first public appearance of the Liverpool Evolving Words poetry group at the Dead Good Poets Society guest night. A selection of the group will be showcasing new poetry written during a Darwin-inspired residency at Liverpool World Museum. The group has been mentored by Dinesh Allirajah, jazz poet & short-story writer extraordinaire. We expect great things from them and know this will be an exciting performance.

Plus Open Floor with prizes for any poems with an Darwinian theme – and you can define Darwinian as poetically as you wish!

Wednesday 15th July 2009
8pm
The 3rd Room Everyman Bistro
£3 / £2 / £1

Plus – if we’re lucky and she’s recovered from her jet-lag – there may be an appearance from the North West’s most travelled poet, Clare Kirwan! (Almost rhymes with Darwin).

Dead Good Poets – June 2009 Diary

Published on May 31, 2009 in Dead Good Poets. Closed Tags: .

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 early to book a performance slot. £2/£1 pay on the door.

Wedneday 3rd @ 7.30pm: Wirral Grand Slam. Three poetry groups on the Wirral are combining to promote the “Wirral Grand Slam” to be held at 8pm prompt (doors 7.30pm), 3rd June at Tullula’s Late Lounge, Marine Parade (above Wilkie’s Amusements), New Brighton, Wirral CH45 2JX.

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Dead Good Poets – March 2009 Diary

Published on March 3, 2009 in Dead Good Poets. Closed Tags: , .

Wednesday 4th @ 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 early to book a performance slot. Compered by Peter Crompton £3 / £2

Friday 6th @ 7.30pm – SLAMbassadors poetry slam semi final. Stop, look and listen to the sound of young Great Britain! In a time when perceptions of young people are distorted by relentless bulletins of gun and knife crime, in a climate where young people are questioned about their respect for society and for themselves, SLAMbassadors UK, Britain’s only online slam, gives young people in London and Liverpool the opportunity to have their say – and say it their way. You can see the cream of Liverpool’s young lyrical talent battle it out to reach the London Final and perform alongside spoken word artists Curtis Watt, Nikki Blaze and internationally acclaimed Dub Poet Levi Tafari, who is also judging the contest. The Blackie, Great Georges Community Cultural Project), Great George Street, Liverpool, L1 5EW. Places are FREE but LIMITED so please book a ticket in advance. Call Jess at Writing on the Wall on 0151 703 0020

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Dead Good Poets Society – December 2008 Diary

Published on December 16, 2008 in Dead Good Poets. Closed Tags: , .

Dead Good Poets Society Newsletter – December 2008

Wednesday 3rd @ 8pm – DEAD GOOD POETS SOCIETY Open Floor. 24 spaces of five minutes for you to perform your own poetry. A warm welcome from a friendly and supportive audience. Come early to book a performance slot with your compere extraordinaire, Chris Clarke. The 3rd Room, Everyman Bistro, Hope St, Liverpool. £2 / £1.

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The Poetry Glam Slam! – 16 August 2008

Published on August 15, 2008 in Dead Good Poets and Events. 0 Comments Tags: .

Dead Good Poets Society presents: The Poetry Glam Slam!

A poetry slam with a difference. 18 poets compete for the title (and the right to wear the crown and satin sash) declaring them Liverpool’s Most Glamorous Poet.
Camp it up and vamp it up! Glitter, sparkle, shine!
It’s the Summer’s sequinned sequel to the Liverpool Poetry Slam.
Fluff up your feather boas, dust off your diamante, and polish your Prada.

There will be prizes for the most glamorous audience members, and poets will be marked on “Glam Factor” as well as poetic performance.

NB. Glam may be defined in the loosest and louche-est sense… Poetry AND dressing up – what’s not to like???

Compered by the extremely glamorous Gerry Potter.

Date: Saturday 16th August 2008
Venue: The Hub, Ground Floor, Bluecoat Arts Centre, School Lane, Liverpool.
Time: 7.30pm
Pay on the door: £4 /£2

Poetry School Workshops in Liverpool, October 2008

Published on August 14, 2008 in Events. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Poetry School Workshops in Liverpool

In association with the Dead Good Poets Society

A series of workshops for poets looking for new skills and ideas. The Poetry School runs specialist courses and workshops all round the UK, and is delighted to be working with the Bluecoat and the DGPS in Liverpool for the first time this year. Visit www.poetryschool.com for more details.

Breaking the Habit: brush up your technique

Tutor: Helen Farish

Venue: The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX

Date: Thursday 9 October

Time: 11am-4.30pm

Fee: £45 (£35 concs)

Whether you have been writing poetry for a long time or are relatively inexperienced, this workshop will help you focus on technique. Looking at the close relationship between writing and reading, exciting examples of contemporary American and British poems will be used as tools to reveal our own (perhaps habitual) techniques and methods. Once revealed, we will reflect on which are working for us and which need to be questioned.

How to book: please send a cheque to the Poetry School, 81 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX

Narrative and Memory: Inspiration for your writing

Tutor: Vona Groarke

Venue: The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX

Date: Friday 10 October

Time: 10.30am-4.30pm

Fee: £45 (£35 concs)

Without the traditional devices of character development and extended plot, and with only limited resources of dialogue and point of view, are poems really capable of telling stories? Bring along a poem that wants to tell some sort of story. Using these and other achieved examples, the workshop will look at how poems can cut to the quick of things and what they do when they get there.

How to book: please send a cheque to the Poetry School, 81 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX

The Element of Surprise

Tutor: Jean Sprackland

Venue: The Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX

Date: Saturday 24 January

Time: 10.30am-4.30pm

Fee: £45 (£35 concs)

‘No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader’ (Robert Frost). Poems may be accurate and deeply felt, but unless they contain an element of surprise they may fail to lift off the page and live. Through exercises and experiments, you’ll catch yourselves by surprise to reveal truths you didn’t know knew. Jean’s own work is grounded in ordinary emotions and settings, shot through with an extraordinary imagination.

How to book: please send a cheque to the Poetry School, 81 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX

Dead Good Poets Society – August & September 2008 Diary

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DEAD GOOD POETS SOCIETY – August/September 2008 NEWSLETTER

We have a lot of big events coming up in this final half of the European Capital of Culture year, so I thought you’d appreciate advance warning for your diaries.
And in the interest of fairness, Other Poetry Events are available (and are also listed in this newsletter!)
Hope you’re enjoying your Summer! Best wishes, Sarah Maclennan

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Dead Good Poets Society – guest night reminder. 16 July 08

Published on July 13, 2008 in Dead Good Poets and Events. 0 Comments Tags: .

Wednesday 16th July @ 8pm

* MARTIN DAWS * is a performance poet who truly embraces the sounds of the words as a complex music of meaning. He uses spoken word to connect with the world on a deeper level and has developed a style of poetry that is essentially a “music of speaking”. Martin lives in Gwynedd & works as a professional workshop facilitator in music and writing. He uses ‘intense rhythmic patterns and compacted rhyme sequences, drawn from hip hop and jazz influences, counter pointed to fluid lyrical passages of poetry written in more literate forms.’ Last month he came second in the Poetry Slam at Glastonbury – so please welcome him back to Liverpool!

* CATHY ROBERTS *, a former winner of the Nothing Rhymes With Poets competition, uses humour to create poetic dramatic monologues. She has recently restored a boat and sailed it from the East coast, around the top of Scotland and is currently docked in Liverpool, so expect some salty words!

Hope that you can come to be part of this event. We are sure you will find it inspiring!

The Third Room, Everyman Bistro, Hope Street, Liverpool

£3 /£2 pay on the door.

Dead Good Poets Society – July 2008 Diary

Published on July 2, 2008 in Dead Good Poets. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Camp it up and vamp it up! Glitter, sparkle, shine! Dead Good Poets Society presents The Poetry Glam Slam, the Summer’s sequinned sequel to the Liverpool Poetry Slam. We’re giving you good notice of this event on Saturday 16th August at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, so there’s time to fluff up your feather boas, dust off your diamante, and polish your Prada. There will be prizes for the most glamorous audience members, and poets will be marked on Glam Factor as well as poetic performance and content.

NB. You may define Glam in the loosest and louche-est sense.
If you would like to compete in the Glam Slam, please contact DGPS as soon as possible.

Best wishes, Sarah Maclennan

New addition to the newsletter: Members’ News. If you would like to publicise a reading, a new book, if you’ve won a poetry prize/competition, or anything else of poetic interest to share, please forward details to me and I’ll include it in our listings. We like to celebrate your success!

***MEMBERS’ NEWS***

* Tony Walsh* Fresh from a performance for the British Council in Poland, Manchester poet Tony has announced two dates in July – one at either end of the lovely M6! On Sunday July 13th Tony will compere and perform for Apples and Snakes at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal. The excellent line up will feature former World Slam Champion Kat Francois, Generation Text poet Emma McGordon and local hero James Knight. Limited open mic slots are available and the evening event follows an afternoon compering masterclass led by Kat and annthepoet.
On Wednesday 16th July Tony will perform two sets at the wonderful Pure and Good and Right night at the Fox in Leamington Spa – Royal Leamington Spa to you! Open mic slots available. Further details and news of other gigs at the Electric Picnic Festival in Ireland and at Cheltenham and Manchester Literature Festivals can be found online at http://www.myspace.com/tonywalshpoet

*Juke James* second poetic anthology, ‘BERET, ME’, illustrationed by John O’Neill is on sale (RRP £3.00) from 25th. June in Liverpool’s premier independent bookshop News From Nowhere, and will be on sale elsewhere over the coming weeks both here in Liverpool and throughout the North West.

***JULY’S DIARY***

***Wednesday 2nd@ 8pm – Dead Good Poets Society Open Floor. 24 performance slots of 5 minutes for you to perform your own poetry. Come early to book a slot. Compered by Nick Payne. The 3rd Room, Everyman Bistro, Hope Street, Liverpool 1. £2 /£1.

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