Poetry in the City of Liverpool, UK
Date: Thursday, 23 July 2009 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Performance Space
Ticket Prices: Free. Ticket required.
Hear readings from the best UK poets and developing writers at our regular monthly poetry night (fourth Thursday of the month).
Please book your free ticket in advance to avoid disappointment.
For full details of this month’s reading, contact Alex Scott-Samuel, alexss@liverpool.ac.uk
or Pauline Rowe, paulinerowe@btopenworld.com
the Bluecoat – Liverpool Poetry Cafe.
Date: Thursday, 23 April 2009 | 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: Performance Space
Ticket Prices: Free but ticket required
Hear readings from the best UK poets and developing writers at our regular poetry night which takes place on the fourth Thursday of the month. Please book your free ticket in advance.
To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, this month’s Liverpool Poetry Cafe will hold an open mic sonnet evening. You can read up to two sonnets of your choice, which may be sonnets you have written, or published works by Shakespeare or anyone else for that matter.
If you wish to read, please notify Alex Scott-Samuel at alexss@liv.ac.uk – and if possible let Alex know whether you’ll be reading one or two sonnets.
Liverpool Poetry Cafe at the Bluecoat
From January 2009 Liverpool Poetry Café continues to bring poets of note to Liverpool audiences with events being held at the Bluecoat. All readings are free. Please contact the Bluecoat direct to reserve tickets on 0151 702 5324 or call at the Box Office in person.
On Thursday 26th February @ 7pm Jo Shapcott is our lead guest poet.
Jo Shapcott – biography
Jo Shapcott is one of Britain’s leading poets and is President of the Poetry Society. She’s also a frequent BBC radio broadcaster and presenter. She teaches on the MA in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and is a Visiting Professor of Poetry at the University of Newcastle and at the University of the Arts, London. In 2006 she received a Cholmondeley award from the Society of Authors.
Liverpool Poetry Café has now moved from Costa in Bold Street to The Hub in the Bluecoat, School Lane. On the fourth Thursday of each month from 7.00-9.00pm, Liverpool Poetry Café will feature established and up-and-coming poets. Drinks and food available from the Upstairs at the Bluecoat restaurant. Come to our launch event on Thursday 22nd January. Tickets to all events free from the Bluecoat box office (0151 702 5324).Poets featured in the first quarter of 2009 include:
January 22 Deryn Rees-Jones, Michael Murphy, John Redmond – following Liverpool Poetry Café @ The Bluecoat launch, by Catherine Marcangeli (Adrian Henri’s partner)
February 26 Jo Shapcott, William Park, Cynthia Kitchen
March 26 Carol Ann Duffy, Janette Stowell
Liverpool Poetry Café programme can be found here.