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