Loaded words 25.11.20

Enjoy a fabulous p&g spoken word and poetry virtual event with poet Joolz Denby and - from Scottish rap group The Honey Farm - Bee Asha Singh and Gael Curran, alongside eclectic editor and curator Gregory McCartney of Abridged (one of p&g's best-loved publications) and HU.

Are our words loaded against us? Do we think of and react to spoken word differently to poems in books? And how does online fit in? This debate has been going on a long time but do poets today even want or need to get published on paper - and what extra does that offer them?

This event celebrates both (and a few more methods for getting your word out besides), looks at differences to access between spoken word and book and magazine publishing, and how that might affect poets from less well-represented groups. Hear spoken word at its finest plus a chance to discuss in articulate and inspirational company why and how our words can be loaded to be heard and shared.

Faciliated by p&g's own Bridget Khursheed.

This event is free. Yes that's right! We are available worldwide on Zoom. And don't forget that we are still looking for one more performer/poet - send us your links the usual way.

Learn more about the event and find out how to register here. Limited tickets available.

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More on Joolz Denby - if you need it - here.

More on The Honey Farm -"potentially the first and only and by default greatest Scottish female rap group of all time" - here and insta here.

More on Abridged here and HU here.

Mexico meets the North East Newcastle, England 13th June 2013

Readings from the Special North East issues of The Ofi from The Ofi Press Mexico with poets including Josephine Scott, Sheree Mack, Pippa Little, Bob Beagrie.

At just The Lit and Phil, 23 Westgate Road, NE1 1SE Newcastle upon Tyne, (not far from the fabled Ponteland where poetandgeek sometimes roams the supermarkets looking for footballer's mothers...).  This event may be free.

More information here https://www.facebook.com/events/372090509558288/ and here on the Ofi Press http://www.theofipress.webs.com/

No Alibis Bookstore: 7th February 2013 Belfast

Damian Smyth (winner 2012 iOTA Shots Awards) and Erin Halliday (2012 Templar Poetry Pamphlet & Collection Awards) are the poets at the Templar Poetry reading; both come from beautiful County Down. (Happy memories of visiting my granny and uncle there apart from the ghost on the landing and her love of tinned orange juice.)

Admission to the reading is free and it starts at 7.30pm.

No Alibis, 83 Botanic Avenue, Belfast BT7 1L  is very close to Botanic station in the University Quarter.

More information here http://templarpoetry.com/collections/new-titles and here http://www.noalibis.com/

Shearsman reading 9th January 2013 London, England

A nice way to slide into the new year if you are in this big bad capital city. A free reading with an all-American female (and poet amongst many other things) line-up of Melissa Buckheit, Maxine Chernoff and Jaime Robles.

You may know Robles already from her work at Five Trees Press, an award-winning literary publishing house based in San Francisco which she co-founded.

This event is held at the Swedenborg Hall, 20-21 Bloomsbury Way, WC1A 2TH. Did I mention already that admission is free?

You can find out more here http://www.facebook.com/events/548343065176737/

Aurélia Lassaque 12th December 2012 Oxford England

Lassaque is a contemporary Occitan poet and she will read with Lucile Deslignères, Sabine Chaouche and Claire Trévien in Occitan, French and English. Music is provided by gaita piper Mano Panforreteio.

This event runs from 7pm until 9pm at the beautiful Albion Beatnik Bookstore on Walton Street in Jericho Oxford (another former haunt of p&g). You will need to pay £2 to get in but that will be worth it for the music alone.

Aurélia Lassaque is a poet writing in French and Occitan. She is interested in the interconnections between poetry and the visual arts and has worked with Robert Lobet and other artists. She is based near Albi in south-western France.

Read about more here http://www.francisboutle.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=98 and here http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/bookshop/view/recommendation/3018.

You're going to die: poetry...4th December 2012 San Francisco USA

Not in Bugarach. (Co-incidentally the peak of which poetandgeek climbed some years ago right up and through la fenêtre).

You can perform although there are featured readers too. The organisers state the following - with admirable honesty -


"Please don’t perform anything with a setup that takes much more time than the time it takes for you to walk onstage. Honestly, plugging things in endlessly is boring."

Anyway this event is in San Francisco from 20:00 until 23:00 in PST and it is tonight.

Go to Viracocha 998 Valencia Street and enjoy. (It is worth going to Viracocha anyway.)

More details here http://www.facebook.com/events/164635857012092/


And by the way thank you to Thierry Strub for the use of this beautiful picture of the Pic de Bugarach.

Arizona Poetry Center

Rich pickings awaiting you here and you can while away the start of a long weekend or a slow Friday at work picking through the alphabetised archive.

 "voca, the University of Arizona Poetry Center's Audio Video Library, features recordings from the Center's long-running Reading Series and other readings presented under the auspices of the Center."

Nice...

You can find the main archive here http://voca.arizona.edu/ and you might check out Lawrence Ferlinghetti (including a marvellously ponderous schedule by A.N.Other) here http://voca.arizona.edu/index.php?reading_id=142.

Bill Manhire, Stirling, Scotland 29th March 2012

Prize-winning NZ poet and fiction writer Bill Manhire will be reading at the University of Stirling and answering questions. The event takes place 17:00 through 20:00 at Pathfoot A7 at the University.

Free apparently and all welcome to attend.

More information available here http://www.facebook.com/events/164854990299702/ and here http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/manhireb.html.

New Year live poetry Worcester England

Our first event for 2012 is poetry at the Lamb and Flag, the Tything in Worcester featuring the likes of Pat Winslow and Susanne Ehrhardt - this event is free but importantly please note that it takes place on the 4th January.

It starts at 8pm and is run by Templar poetry. There will be books for sale.

More information is available on Templar and the poets here http://templarpoetry.co.uk/index.html.

no man's land # 6 - Launch Reading 28th November Berlin, Germany

no man’s land launches Issue # 6 with a bilingual reading featuring authors Zehra Çirak, Michael Roes and Daniela Seel.

Turkish-born Zehra Çirak is the current recipient of the Chamisso Prize for writing in German as a second language, along with many other awards. Described as a “poet of the foreign”, Michael Roes is a novelist, anthropologist and filmmaker. Daniela Seel, publisher of Berlin’s KookBooks, is also an experimental poet.

This event takes places at St Georges English Bookshop, Wörther Str. 27, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg  from 20:00 - 23:30 on the 28th November 2011.

More at http://www.no-mans-land.org/ and information on KOOKbooks http://kookbooks.de/.

Oxford Rain Drops, Mumbai India 15th October 2011

Oxford Bookstore and Rain Drops E-Magazine proudly presents a poetry, book reading and storytelling event for all age groups. Open mic. Free. Date: Saturday 15th October, 2011 from 4 until 6pm.

Find this event at the Oxford Bookstore, Apeejay House, 3 Dinshaw Vachha road, Churchgate, Mumbai-20, Mumbai, India.

More information here http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149017548526974 and on Rain Drops E-Magazine which features puzzles and new poetry here https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rain-Drops-E-Magazine/251592264855615?sk=wall and the September edition here http://moksa.whitedrums.com/raindrops-2a.pdf.