This month we have an
exciting reading tour featuring Sunflowers in Your Eyes. Two of the
four talented young Zimbabwean poets featured in the anthology, edited by
Menna Elfyn, will be visiting to read their work and talk about writing
poetry in Zimbabwe. You can catch up with Ethel Irene Kabwato and Blessing
Musariri at a range of venues around Wales, including the Hay Festival,
and in London, so please join us if you can. We also have launches for new
titles from Sheila Hillier (A Quechua Confession Manual), Arlene
Ang (Seeing Birds in Church is a Kind of Adieu) and Mark Fitzgerald
(By Way of Dust and Rain) – Arlene and Mark will be travelling from
Italy and the United States respectively to read with Claudia Jessop
(This is the woman who) in London at the end of June; an event not
to be missed. We’re also delighted to be launching Harrison Solow’s genre
defying and already highly acclaimed, Felicity and Barbara Pym this
month.
If you are attending
the Hay Festival Cinnamon Press novelists, Holly Howitt (The
Schoolboy), Stephen May (TAG – winner of the Wales Book of the
Year Readers’ Award) and Elaine Walker (The Horses) will be in the
Welsh Literature tent discussing writing innovative coming of age stories
and using teenage protagonists in adult literature. For those who can’t
make it to Hay we have a special ‘buy 3’ offer on these novels (all 3 for
only £15). We’ll also be at Hay cheering on Philip Gross at the next round
of the Wales Book of the Year Award – hoping that I Spy Pinhole
Eye, a fantastic response of poetry to the arresting pinhole camera
images of Simon Denison, makes it into the final
three.
Moving into July we
are delighted to be publishing Gill McEvoy’s collection, The Plucking
Shed – we hope to see some of our readers in Chester for the
launch.
On top of all that,
we’re continuing to celebrate our 5th birthday with gifts and a
5th anniversary competition that features fantastic prizes for
literature lovers and writers, so we hope to see you or your work over the
next month or two.
In this
edition:
1.
Cinnamon birthday gifts and prizes
2.
New titles for June, launch invitations &
events
3.
Cinnamon Press Writing Awards
4.
Cinnamon Writing Courses: a special offer from
Gardoussel retreat
5.
Other writing opportunities and events
1. Cinnamon birthday gifts and
prizes
Do you love poetry?
If so, an Envoi subscription will introduce you to
a wealth of new and established poets as well as poetry articles and great
reviews that help you choose the books that will appeal to you – we’re
offering a reduced price subscription to Envoi all our newsletter readers
- £12 instead of £15 – and on top of that we’ll send you a free
Cinnamon press poetry collection with your first issue – that’s £22
worth of poetry for £12 and no p+p to pay. Just quote ‘cpb Envoi offer’
and send us your details and subscription of £12 to Cinnamon Press – or
use the PayPal button on the ‘cinnamon press birthday’ page
at www.cinnamonpress.com
Do you adore books that combine words and
images?
Then I Spy Pinhole Eye will thrill you –
Peter Finch, Academi CEO writes in his blog: “Top of the pile is Philip
Gross’s set of cracklingly brilliant retakes of Simon Denison’s pinhole
camera photographs. Rush for your copy now.” One of only ten books
long-listed for Wales book of the Year, this exquisite full-colour book is
on offer for only £9 and, if you buy I Spy Pinhole Eye between now
and September, we’ll add a free poetry book to your
order.
A writing course for only
£12?
The Cinnamon Press birthday competition gives you
the chance to win a
free place on the writing course in North Wales this autumn
(October 30th to November 5th). For a £12 entry fee
you could win a week in a single occupancy room with a group of committed
writers with daily workshops, one to one mentoring and time to write and
relax. To enter, send a short story of under 2,000 words or five poems or
five microfictions plus a cheque for £12 to ‘cinnamon press’ together with
your details on a separate sheet to ‘Cinnamon Press Birthday competition’
by the closing date of July 31st. The winning entrant will be
published in our spring 2011 anthology as well as winning a place on the
autumn writing course. Two runners up will be sent 10 Cinnamon Press
books each.
2. New
titles for June, launch invitation &
events
We have some excellent new titles for June: a
superb debut poetry collection launch of Sheila Hillier’s A Quechua
Confession, while international writers Arlene Ang and Mark Fitzgerald
team up to launch their collections in London in June, supported by local
poet, Claudia Jessop. The superb magical realist novel, The Horses,
from Welsh writer, Elaine Walker, whose novel has been book of the month
on the Welsh Books Council site Gwales for May, will be teaming up with
two other Cinnamon novelists at the Hay Festival: Stephen May (TAG)
and Holly Howitt (The Schoolboy).
Continuing the festival theme, you can catch Steve
Griffiths reading from An Elusive State: entering Al Chwm at
Beaumaris festival and we will be launching Sunflowers in Your Eyes
with a ten day tour around Wales and London, including an appearance at
Hay Festival. This important anthology edited by Menna Elfyn features four
young women writers from Zimbabwe and we hope that many of you will have
the chance to hear their raw, energetic and powerful poetry at one of the
events. June also sees the launch of the genre-defying Felicity and
Barbara Pym from Pushcart prize-winner, Harrison
Solow.
To boost your summer reading we are also continuing
the introductory offer on Adnan Mahmutović’s award winning novel,
Thinner than a Hair, at only £6 including a free copy of
Adnan’s short story collection, Refuge[e].
Join Steve
Griffiths
reading from
An Elusive State: entering Al
Chwm
Wednesday
2nd June,
Steve
Griffiths gives an Anglesey
Retrospective,
celebrating the
island that gave him his core imaginative
landscape.
Beaumaris Leisure
Centre, Anglesey, 11a.m.
Sunflowers in Your
Eyes
Four Zimbabwean
poets
Join Ethel
Irene Kabwato & Blessing Musarari
on tour from
Zimbabwe
June 3rd 7.30 p.m. Bar One, Wales
Millennium Centre, free event with bar.
June 4th 7.00 p.m. Dylan Thomas
Centre, Swansea, £4.00/£2.80
June
6th 2.30 p.m. Hay Festival, Hay on Wye
June 7th 7.30 p.m. Trinity Ffrinj
Festival, Trinity University College, Carmarthen
£4/£3
June 8th 7.00 p.m. Bookshop,
Aberystwyth Arts Centre, free event with refreshments.
June 9th 7.30 p.m. Blue Sky Cafe,
Bangor, free event with bar.
June 10th 5.30-7.30 p.m. Lloyd
George Museum, Llanystumdwy, nr Cricieth, free event with
refreshments.
June 11th 7.30 p.m. St John’s
Church, Hoxton, N1, free event with
refreshments.
“powerful reading and an opportunity to engage with
Zimbabwe in a cultural and hopeful manner”
Sara
Maitland
Cinnamon Press is grateful to all those who have
made these events possible with generous sponsorship: Academi, The British
Council in Wales and in Zimbabwe, The Dylan Thomas Centre, Hay Festival,
Trinity University College, Ty Newydd, Gwynedd Council and St John’s
Parish, Hoxton
An extract from Sunflowers in Your
Eyes
Mitu’s Spice Tour
It’s raining, wet and muddy. Stop one—Hamida’s on
the phone.
Jackfruit tastes like pineapple mixed with
banana,
dorian is a fruit that tastes like heaven but
smells like hell;
not allowed in many places.
Use henna leaves to make the
dye.
Stop two—Celia’s lost a shoe in squelching
mud.
Soursop, also known as elephant
apple
gives hair gel if you soak the
seeds.
The coconut plantation is owned by the
government;
there are three types of palm.
The crooked one was struck by
lightning.
Stop three—a lady is bitten by something on
wings.
To make red dye take annatto
seeds,
related to the litchi, makes natural
lipstick.
Cardamom and vanilla need the
shade.
Papaya wine makes you blind for a
while,
with seventy-one percent alcohol—very bad
hangover.
Stop four—in single file we are baking in the
sun.
Cloves cure diarrhoea and
stomach-ache,
the neem is very bitter but better than malaria
parasite.
Boil bark or leaves and drink tea for seven
days.
Cures up to forty ailments.
Last stop—don’t feel so good.
Walked too much, drank too little, didn’t have a
hat;
but, thank you ladies and gentlemen, for your kind
attention,
lunch is served shortly on the
bus.
Join three
Cinnamon Press authors at the Hay on Wye
Festival
Sunday June
6th 11.00 a.m.
Welsh Literature
Tent
in conversation with editor Jan
Fortune-Wood
talking about writing teenage protagonists who
expose the fragility and hypocrisy of an adult world and raise important
questions about how life is lived.
A free Cinnamon Press Book for everyone attending
this event to celebrate five years of Cinnamon
Press.
TAG by Stephen
May
Mistyann is fifteen, unpredictable, and violent.
She’s also gifted. And now she’s on her way to Wales for a special
residential course for talented youth. An American psychologist wants to
unlock her potential. God help Wales. God help us all. Jonathan Diamond is
forty-one and he’s going to Wales too. A failed musician and recovering
alcoholic he’s now an Advanced Skills Teacher and he’ll be in loco
parentis for the week. Together the two of them develop an unlikely and
dangerous alliance as they are forced to confront difficult truths about
themselves.
Long listed for Wales Book of the Year 2009 and winner of the Readers’ Award TAG is part bleakly comic confession, part twisted romance, at heart an elegy for dreams that refuse to die, Full of wit, drama and an eye for the absurdities of the way we live now.
The Schoolboy by Holly
Howitt
A Clockwork Orange meets American Psycho and The
Catcher in the Rye, The Schoolboy is all this and more—controversial, dark
and funny; an astonishing psychological study of a disturbed adolescent
mind and a commentary on morality and society. This gripping read follows
Nick in his last year at school. Plagued by secrets, self doubt, guilt and
fury, the flaws in his character inevitably lead him into the hands of the
damaged, unscrupulous and malevolent. With his options rapidly closing
Nick, as insecure as he is angry, has to make decisions
fast
The Horses by Elaine
Walker
Stranded while on holiday at a remote Scottish
croft after a strange ecological disaster, Jo and his family face personal
as well as global tragedy, when the arrival of a mysterious herd of horses
heralds the chance for a future they could ever have imagined. This
powerful first person narrative uses magical realism to stunning effect;
the disruption of the boundaries of the physical and the psychological and
a constant sense of strangeness add to a powerful story that is as
compelling as it is important, taking Jo from a teenager to a young man in
a world that must be remade.
Felicity and Barbara
Pym
Harrison
Solow
Out this month this genre-defying book from award
winning author, Harrison Solow is set to become one of our
best-sellers:
Original, controversial, academic, readable,
serious, light-hearted, sensible, charming – there is no end to the words
that could be applied to Felicity and Barbara Pym. ...The
underlying premise of this splendid book is the importance of the
appreciation of literature... Students and tutors and, indeed,
everyone who has ever found enjoyment in reading, will be grateful for
this delightful book.”
Hazel Holt
“A fascinating, intriguing presentation which
demands a sequel.”
Dr
Christopher Terry, Cambridge University
“Although we read only one side of the
correspondence, we see both minds at work – the student’s untrained
assumptions ...refined by the professor’s cool, witty (and occasionally
snobbish) demands for clear-eyed analysis, precise thought and
appreciative intelligence. ...Lucky for us that Cinnamon Press has made it
into a book for the common reader.”
Mayo Simon, author of The Audience &
The Playwright
“...a dazzling performance, and it fills me with
the most exquisite professional envy!
Thomas Vinciguerra, deputy editor, The
Week
"...seamlessly weaves form and content...
masterfully done."
Heather Hughes, Harvard University
Press
An extract from Felicity and Barbara
Pym
Why should you read
literature?
Perhaps you should
not.
However, I suspect you feel you
would like to, and that is the basis of your irritation with silly men,
mousy women, tea, religion, and quotations. Is this worthy of the august
company of Dante, Proust, Dostoyevsky? It may interest you to know that
Barbara Pym felt as you do, when she was about your age ― reading Aldous
Huxley, and imagining herself in a more glittering, a more significant,
world. And so to protect herself from an unbearable exclusion from that
world, she wrote a novel, Young Men in Fancy Dress, in hope, her
biographer says, of becoming part of it.
Her irritation with silly men
was no different from yours, or mine, or anyone’s really, you see. The
only difference is what each of us regards as ‘silly.’ Literature,
or at least, books (I will not presume to add Pym to the Masters, as
you call them ― although surely there are degrees of literature) offer a
way out ― out of a time, a space, a life, a status, a level of experience
that is unsatisfactory to the reader. Not by virtue of escape, but by
metamorphosis, via instruction. As you are being offered a way out of
literary exile by the recommended guide ― books, maps, and in the end, one
hopes, transportation to the inherited literary land of Barbara Pym. And
although you may not now want to arrive in such a place, you have chosen
it as your destination. But I suppose you must. After all, it does not
make sense that you should have chosen to enter a fictional world you find
irritating (though you may realise that it is possible to learn something
from it).
Join Sheila
Hillier
launching A
Quechua Confession
at the Barbican
Library
Silk St, Barbican,
London, EC2Y8DS
Friday
18th June, 7.00 p.m.
rsvp: jan@cinnamonpress.com
An extract from A Quechua Confession
Manual
Internal Exile
Let’s go tomorrow, live in a small
town
with three bridges and a river running
through,
where everyone’s a stranger, we’re not
known.
A low-roofed house standing on its
own,
no gates or hedge, a creaky glass
lean-to.
Let’s go tomorrow, live in a small
town.
We’ll walk the High Street on the note of
noon,
visit dark parlours at the back of shops,
go
where everyone’s a stranger, we’re not
known.
Feed the stray dogs, slipping out at
dawn;
at the plain butcher’s, stay silent in the
queue.
Let’s go tomorrow, live in a small
town
where a path slopes by a bean-field,
down
to the river-bank, through a copse of red
willow.
Where everyone’s a stranger, we’re not
known.
When we leave who’ll notice that we’ve
gone?
We’ll make no friendships, nothing to
undo.
Let’s go tomorrow, live in a small
town
where everyone’s a stranger, we’re not
known.
Join Arlene Ang, Mark
Fitzpatrick
Launching Seeing
Birds in Church is a Kind of Adieu
& By Way of
Dust and Rain
& Claudia Jessop
reading from This is the Woman Who
Pages of Hackney
Bookshop
Sunday
27th June 2p.m.
An extract from Seeing Birds in Church in a Kind of
Adieu
What the Tabby Scratched
Today
The lampshade on the end table
is crooked. In the room, there
are
signs of violence: a spilt
vase,
the flowers crushed by fallen
books, the torn curtain, blood
on the sofa, animal fur on the
rug.
My skirt is frayed at the hem,
the sole of my left boot
threatens
to come off. The lights have gone
out
the way a chameleon’s tongue
furls back into its mouth.
A door flaps; this house has
bats.
On my mother’s desk, there’s an
old
Gratta e Vinci ticket. The
price,
2500 lire, is half-covered by
socks
she failed to mend. A black
Labrador
licks its wounds by the dying
fire.
An extract from By Way of Dust and
Rain
Built to Code
For all its stark geometry the
blinds
suppress a tenderness. The stairs are
where
you put them, but less than what was
climbed.
Refuge rescued from remorse, these walls
tore
down trees, the majesty of
natural
canopy, the blue jay’s perch. It will
take
time to bring the outside in,
unravel
the carpets, brighten walls, finish the
deck.
Time to avoid the neighbors. And why
not
a pergola above the front
entrance?
A roof garden over the garage?
What
do you surmise? A fence? Why, yes, a
fence
replete with recrimination, a
gate
before beds of black-eyed Susans, your
gaze.
An extract from This is the woman
who
Day Starting on an Upper Floor
Early morning
I raise the blind, and see
the stacked city
re-invented by sunlight.
Other people’s windows turn
to changing screens
of marbled inks
where glass records the change of
days,
a face, suddenly framed
or a glimpse
of someone, folding
white clothing, carrying
a child from room to room,
buttoning a shirt while walking
over the floor.
I am so high up here,
attending to the detail
I think I am alone with it,
but a woman
watering a plant
raises her face; we share her pouring stance,
arrested
over her green leaves,
we see each other
before the day.
Join Gill
McEvoy
Launching The
Plucking Shed
Alexander’s Bar,
Chester
Monday
19th July 7.30 p.m.
rsvp: jan@cinnamonpress.com
An extract from The Plucking
Shed
The Green
Man
Dip your hand in my skull,
pluck out a branch,
grow it from the earth of your
palm.
Wind slithers through my head of
leaves,
moss coats my chin,
rain dribbles from my beard of
oak,
lichen crusts my skin.
Ah, but my body oozes
honey, sap.
Come, dip.
3. Cinnamon Writing
Awards
Cinnamon Press competitions offer writers in
different genres excellent publication opportunities. We run each of the
competitions twice a year with closing dates of June 30th and
November 30th in 2010. Some of our most successful books have
come to as competition entries.
Poetry Collection Award £100
The aim of this award is to provide a platform for
new voices in poetry. The winning author has his/her
poetry collection published with Cinnamon Press and receives a prize of
£100. We also publish an anthology of the best poems submitted and entry
includes a copy of the winners' anthology.
Short Story Award: £100
The competition is open to new and
published authors.
The first prize for a story between 2,000 and 4,000
words is £100 & publication. Up to ten runners up stories' are also
published in the winners' anthology. Entry includes a copy of the winners'
anthology.
Novel/Novella Writing Award
£400
The aim of this award is to encourage new
authors, enabling debut novelists/novella writers to achieve a
first publication in this genre. The winning author has his/her first
novel published by Cinnamon Press and receives a prize of £400. The four
runners up also receive a full appraisal of their
novel.
Guidelines for all Genres
- Entrants for the novel/novella and poetry categories should not previously have had a novel/novella or full poetry collection published. Short story writers may have had stories, but not a single author collection published.
- Entries must be made by post unless they are entries from outside UK, which may be submitted electronically – contact jan@cinnamonpress.com
- Please enclose sae or email (sufficient for response only, not return of work)
- Submit the first ten thousand words of your novel/novella or 10 poems up to 40 lines (unpublished) or story of 2,000-4,000 words (unpublished) in a clear type script, double spaced for prose.
- Please mark each sheet with a nom de plume and working title in the header.
- Do not put any other identification on the work, but enclose a separate sheet with the genre you are entering, name, address, email contact & nom de plume and titles of poems/working title.
- Deadline for next submissions–30th June 2010
- Entry is £16 per entry for all categories (this includes a copy of the winners anthology for the poet and short story categories, worth £8.99)
- Please make cheques payable to ‘Cinnamon Press’ or you can pay online in a range of currencies using PayPal
- Work will not be returned, so please keep a copy.
- Send your work to: Cinnamon Press Writing Award, Meirion House, Glan yr afon, Tanygrisiau, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, LL41 3SU.
- Results will be sent to everyone who includes a sae or valid email by October (for June competitions) or March (for November competitions)
- All enquiries: jan@cinnamonpress.com
4. Cinnamon
Writing Courses:
a free place at
Harlech or a special offer from Gardoussel
Cinnamon Press Writing Weeks – Inspiring your
writing for 2010
Courses from Cinnamon Press are a great way to
bring energy and commitment to your writing. The autumn course in Harlech
is now full, but there is still a chance to win the last slot on this
course by entering the competition – just £12 and your story or poems
could get you a place. www.cinnamonpress.com/birthday
The course at the stunning retreat centre in
Gardousel, France in June has a few remaining places and promises
an amazing writing holiday to bring your work to life. Sharon Black, the
retreat owner is offering a fantastic discount on the last available
places – only £200 for the course plus full board for the week in your own
room (or bring a non wiritng partner for only £150)
The workshops will focus on making your writing
come to life, whether you are working on fiction or poetry. We will
explore starting points, imagery and structure and ways of bringing
precision and vividness to your language. Each group will be limited in
size to allow plenty of time for mentoring sessions. There will also be
opportunities to workshop each others’ work and to share work in progress
as well as time to write, relax and explore the beautiful
locations.
Jan Fortune-Wood has taught creative writing for
the Open College of Art, The Writer’s House, the Arvon Foundation
(tutoring both adults and teenagers), Women on Tour writing courses in
Spain and does mentoring work as part of the co-operative, Triskele
Writes. Jan is a qualified teacher and member of the National Association
of Writers in Education and Academi’s Writers on Tour scheme. Her books
include novels, A Good Life, Dear Ceridwen and The
Standing Ground and poetry, Particles of Life and Stale
Bread and Miracles, a prose poetry collection which she recently
performed at a reading with poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. She is
currently working on a poetry sequence exploring emotions through
landscape and architecture of an abandoned slate mining village, Tŷ
Schrödinger and a novel that ranges across three generations and two
continents exploring issues of metamorphosis and identity, I’m Still
Here.
Where? In the tranquil and nurturing
environment of Gardoussel Retreat, a magical oasis of calm in one of the
most beautiful and untouched parts of France, the mountains at St Andre de
Valborgne, 1 hour from Nimes and 2 hours from Montpelier. Accommodation is
in a range of single-occupancy rooms (unless you request sharing). Meals
are delicious, home-made, organic and vegetarian. The area is stunning
with walks all around.
When? Sat 19 – Sat 26 June 2010.
How much? The cost for accommodation
(everyone will have their own room unless requested otherwise or you bring
a non-writing partner), all meals and tuition is now at the special offer
price of £200 (a massive reduction from the full price of
£580). There is also the opportunity to bring a non-writing
partner at a cost of £150 (reduced from £430) for accommodation and all
meals. The area has plenty to explore and the centre can also offer a
range of massages and Ayurvedic consultations at extremely reasonable
prices.
Travel: There are
various ways to get to Gardoussel. The fastest, simplest option is to fly
to Nimes from Stansted or Luton (just outside London), or Liverpool, then
share a taxi or travel up by bus (see below). Eurostar runs a train
service from London or Paris to Avignon or Nîmes; you can then take a bus
to St Jean du Gard. We can help to organise taxi shares and are happy to
collect you from the village of St Andre de Valborgne and bring you to
Gardoussel. Once the group has booked we will liaise to help co-ordinate
travel arrangements.
Ethos: This is a
family-run retreat and guests share in the life of the place while there.
Guests help by lending a hand after mealtimes – clearing up afterwards and
washing the dishes - stocking the wood burning stoves with logs (in winter
or cold nights), caring for their rooms and looking after the communal
living spaces. In reality, this requires about 20 minutes a day of each
guest’s time.
The group? This is a course for writers at a
range of levels. There are only eight writer places available to maximise
contact time and attention to individual work. Non-writing partners also
welcome at a reduced rate.
Booking? Contact Sharon for a booking form
by email
Win a late autumn Writing Break in
Harlech
Where? In a beautiful North Wales house
close to the coast at Harlech. Accommodation is in a range of twin and
single-occupancy rooms. There’s a large kitchen, living room and extra
dining room. The area is stunning with walks all
around,
When? October 30th – November
5th — a late autumn/early winter break to breathe new life into
your writing.
The group? This is a course for serious
writers at a range of levels with limited places available to maximise
contact time and attention to individual work.
Booking? The course is now full except for
one reserved place for the writing competition. Send a short story of
under 2,000 words or five poems or five microfictions plus a cheque for
£12 together with your details on a separate sheet to ‘Cinnamon Press
Birthday competition’ by the closing date of July 31st or pay
here and email your entry to jan@cinnamonpress.com The
winning entrant will be published in our spring 2011 anthology as well as
winning a place on the autumn writing course. Two runners up will be sent
10 Cinnamon Press books each.
6. Other writing
opportunities and events
Services for Writers –
TriskeleWrites
TriskeleWrites is a fantastic venture offering a
range of services for writers who want to improve their craft.
TriskeleWrites has been set up by three practising writers, editors and
tutors: Gail Ashton; Jan Fortune-Wood and Susan Richardson, to offer
manuscript appraisals, mentoring services to writers, creative writing
courses and specialist packages for those who want to self publish their
work.
If you want to know more please see
www.triskelewrites.co.uk
Competitions:
KUDOS (formerly Competitions Bulletin) lists
all the latest writing competitions and opportunities in six issues each
year. A free sample of a back issue can be emailed as a pdf file. Details
of around 250,000 pounds in prize money each issue. At least 50
competitions for poetry, around 40 for short stories. Plus collections,
anthologies, playwriting, nonfiction, books etc. Now in longer 32 page
format. Only £3 per issue; 6 issues: £18; Cheques to Carole Baldock: 17
Greenhow Avenue, West Kirby, Wirral CH48 5EL carolebaldock@hotmail.com www.kudoswritingcompetitions.co.uk
Poetry Events:
Camden & Lumen
A series of poetry events in Camden and Tavistock
Square in support of the cold weather shelters – a chance to hear talented
small press poets, read at open mics and submit work for the annual
anthology.
The Camden dates for 2010 are all the first
Friday of the month (June 4th; July 2nd;
Sept 3rd; Oct. 1st; Nov. 5th and
Dec. 3rd.)
June 4th: Ruth O'Callaghan
Presents Anthea Bennett, Pauline Drayson, Hannah Kelly, Judith Miller
& Jean Wallis. Poets from the floor welcome. Longer spots available.
Please bring a copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the
new anthology. Trinity United Reform Church, 1 Buck St, Camden Town
2 minutes Camden Town tube. ENTRANCE £5/£4. WINE.
The dates for Lumen events (88 Tavistock
Place, WC1 H9RT, Tubes: Russell Square or Kings Cross. Doors open 6.30 for
7pm are second Tuesdays of the month: June 8th;
July 13th; Sept 14th; Oct.
12th; Nov. 9th & Dec 14th.
June 8th: Ruth
O'Callaghan presents Staple Magazine.
Poets from the floor welcome. Longer spots available. Please bring a
copy of the poem if you wish to be considered for the new anthology.
88 Tavistock Place W.C.1; Tubes: Russell Square , Kings Cross,
St Pancras. ENTRANCE £5/£4. WINE
PLUS: 25th
June 2010 7.00p.m.; Mortlake Poetry Festival: Poetry
from
Connie Bensley, Ruth O'Callaghan & guest, Susan
Kramer. Poets from the floor welcome - read your own poem or your
favourite poem. St. Mary the Virgin Church, Mortlake High St. Mortlake
S.W.14. Mortlake Station or bus 209/419 from Hammersmith/Richmond.
ENTRANCE £5/£4. WINE
All proceeds to Cold Weather
Shelters.
Hay Poetry Jamboree
June 3rd - 5th 2010
Oriel Contemporary Art Gallery, Salem
Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay on Wye
June 3rd
6.30 - 7.30 p.m. Jamboree Launch
Reception
7.30 - 9.15 p.m. Childe Roland &
Robert Minhinnick
June 4th
11.00 - noon
Word Cloud, with Susie Wild
2.00 - 4.00 p.m. Keri Finlayson, Scott
Thurston, Anthony Mellors, Claudia Azzola,
Samantha
Wynne Rhydderch, John Goodby
5.00 - 6.00 p.m. Lecture by Zoe Brigley
Thompson - Surrealism and Welsh Poetry
7.30 - 9.15 p.m. Geraldine Monk & Alan
Halsey
June 5th
11.00-
noon Phil Maillard, Ric Hool and
Richard Gwyn
2.00 - 6.00 p.m. Randolph Healy, Ian
Davidson, Zoe Skoulding with launch of
Poetry Wales, Jean
Portante
7.30 - 9.15 p.m. Elisabeth Bletsoe &
Caroline Bergvall
9.30 -10.30p.m Grand Finale - Chicken
of the Woods
Entry £5 for 7.30 events (Concessions
£3).
Supported by Academi,
Poetry Wales, Elysium Gallery, Swansea University School of
Arts/CREW