Poetry Competition

Lightship are running an interesting collection of writing comps. Here is the contact address if anyone is interested. http://www.lightshippublishing.co.uk/competitions

Sean O'Brien gave a resounding reading at the LRB bookshop the other night where Ashok and I attended to the refreshments and rubbernecked the rubberneckers. I noticed a fair share of delightful bitchiness going on between some of the minor poets who turned up. It reminded me of the theatre world I used to inhabit. Minus the sex.

Kleinzahler Gig

Saw him in last night Newcastle with Andrew, Sean-he is good value; read Snow in North Jersey which is one of his I've always liked. As Ashok said he is reading in London,(and elsewhere I think) worth getting to see him if only for his delivery and style of reading. I bought Sleeping it off in Rapid City his new selected edition.

In more detail just in case!

Do hope you can come. LG

mon 16 may, a summer chorus—with roisin tierney, jennifer martin, martyn crucefix, jacqueline saphra, geraldine paine, robert vas dias, eve grubin and carrie etter

Summer starts as ever, with a seasonal chorus of voices, familiar and new:

* Dubliner Roisin Tierney, recently returned to London from several years in Spain—pamphlet Dream Endings (Rack Press, 2011);

* Jennifer Martin has a poetry MA from Bath Spa University and was shortlisted for a 2010 Eric Gregory Award;

* Martyn Crucefix’s new (fifth) Enitharmon collection, Hurt, follows his highly praised translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies (2006);

* Jacqueline Saphra’s Rock’n’Roll Mamma (Flarestack, 2008) will be followed this summer by The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions (Flipped Eye, 2011);

* Geraldine Paine (b. London, lives in Kent, Glamorgan M.Phil) had her first collection, The Go-Away Bird published by Belfast’s Lapwing Publications in 2008;

Anglo-American Poetry-School-tutor Robert Vas Dias has had nine collections published in UK and US including Still Life (Shearsman, 2010);

* Eve Grubin (Morning Prayer, Sheep Meadow Press) lectures at NYU in London and is Poet-in-Residence at London School of Jewish Studies;

* Carrie Etter, latest collection Divining For Starters (Shearsman 2011). Her collection The Tethers(Seren, 2009), was winner of the inaugural, Cegin/Coffee-House-Poetry-sponsored London New Poetry Award 2010.

Anne-Marie Fyfe (Organiser)
coffee-house poetry at the troubadour
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… life, literature and the pursuit of happiness… in the famous Troubadour basement:
London's liveliest & best-loved poetry venue…

readings MONDAYS from 8 to 10 pm, tickets £7 concessions £6,
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events at: 263-267 Old Brompton Road LONDON SW5
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