Saturday 5 June : ‘Poetry Showcase’
‘Poetry Showcase’, Emma Purshouse will be performing in person at the Welshpool Poetry Festival alongside Jonathan Edwards. Hear the results of the Open Competition and enjoy two contrasting poets, each outstanding with their own unique delivery and writing style. One thing these poets share is a talent for honing in on what it is to be vulnerable and human, on the everyday miracles and madness of life in their particular special parts of the world.
Tickets £8 (+ booking fee), includes a free drink. Church House, Welshpool, SY21 7DP. 6.30-8pm.
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Tuesday 8 June : ‘Virtual Voices’
‘Virtual Voices’, 7.30-9pm, with Fraser Scott, Jackie Evans, Sandra Robinson, Chris Kinsey & Steve Pottinger. This is a free event but contributions may be made via the Paypal button on the ‘shop’ page.
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Saturday 26 June : ‘International Voices’
‘International Voices’ with David Bingham from Ironbridge, Shropshire, and Vera Constantineau, the poet laureate of Greater Sudbury, from Copper Cliff, Ontario, Canada, 4pm BST.
Both poets are widely published and have a passion for Japanese forms of poetry.
Free event.
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Saturday 26 June : ‘Verbalise’
‘Verbalise’ – Emma Purshouse will be the guest at this online spoken word event. Come and hear Emma’s poems, and maybe an extract from Dogged!
Please email annthepoet@gmail.com to book your open mic spot of up to 4 mins including introductions. Please include your poems/stories typed in a Word document so this can be screen shared during your performance. Start time 7.30pm.
Pay what you decide. Please donate to the Verbalise Paypal pool.
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Other News
Michael W. Thomas was Highly Commended for his poem, ‘Centra’, in the Charles Causley International Poetry Competition (judge: Lemn Sissay). The link is below and the winning and highly commended poems can be accessed by clicking on their titles.
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Tuesday May 11 : ‘Virtual Voices’
‘Virtual Voices’, 7.30-9pm, with Veronica Shepherd, Tom Allsopp, Kerry Hadley, John Woodall & Emma Purshouse who will be reading from her novel Dogged.
This is a free event but contributions may be made via the Paypal button on the ‘shop’ page.
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Friday May 14 : Dear Dylan
Jeff Phelps and John Sewell have poems in Dear Dylan, an anthology after Dylan Thomas published by Indigo Dreams. The online launch is 2-4pm.
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Friday May 14 : Ros Woolner reading at Guernsey Literary Festival
Ros Woolner won first and third prize in the Guernsey International Poetry Competition (‘Poems on the Move’) and will be reading her poems in a video for the winners’ reading event at the Guernsey Literary Festival 5.30-6.15pm.
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Monday May 31 : Deadline for In the Sticks Anthology
Offa’s Press is looking for poetry that addresses the complexity of rural lives, people and nature, in the West Midlands today.
Poems should be focussed on the realities of living in the country and can be about any aspect of country life from wildlife and nature to farming and the environment, to village life, isolation, travel issues, markets, fairs and rural dating.
