WHAT Talking Cities (part of Birmingham Book Festival’s Spring Thing) WHEN Saturday, April 9th, 18:30 WHERE The Library Theatre Birmingham Central Library, Paradise Place, Birmingham B3 3HQ (map) MORE INFO The Spring Thing is a leaner, more compact version of the Birmingham Book Festival, a short but intense celebration of literature which makes the wait [...]
April 1, 2011
WHAT Swindon Festival of Literature WHEN Saturday, May 14th, 19:30 WHERE Town Hall Regent Circus (map) MORE INFO The Swindon Festival of Literature‘s grand finale is an extravaganza of of music and poetry, with tunes from the Glow Globes and Angela Jones, and a very strong line-up of poets, featuring, in no particular order, Catherine [...]
February 19, 2011
WHAT Sssh Boom Ssh Boom WHEN Saturday, February 19th, 19:00 WHERE The Nave 1 St Paul’s Rd, Islington, London N1 4 (map) MORE INFO This is the third instalment of Sssh Boom Ssh Boom. The night is a surprising mix of various art forms – from dance, through music, magic and theatre to, well poetry. [...]
February 16, 2011
WHAT Brizzlemania WHEN Wednesday, February 16th, 20:00 WHERE The Arts House 108a Stokes Croft Bristol BS1 3RU (map) MORE INFO I love Bristol, but I have never had the chance to perform there. Except, that is, for an unplanned guest slot at a Smoke & Mirrors featuring Bernat, Laura & Sergio, which ended in me [...]
January 31, 2011
WHAT The Freeway Poets WHEN Wednesday, February 2nd, 19:00 WHERE The Winchester 39 Poole Hill, Bournemouth, United Kingdom (map) MORE INFO The Dutch tour is over – watch this space for some pictures and a quick recap, coming very soon indeed – but February promises to be a very busy month, with several gigs in various [...]
January 8, 2011
WHAT? PureandGoodandRight WHEN? Monday, January 10th, 2011, 19:30 WHERE The Sozzled Sausage 141 Regent St Leamington Spa CV32 4NX (map) MORE INFO Fun fact: the first time I headlined PureandGoodandright was around three years ago. Natasha Godfrey, then the Apples & Snakes West Midlands coordinator, was there, and kindly recommended me to the rest of [...]
November 22, 2010
This is a bit different from the standard gig announcement: this Thursday, I am launching a new regular poetry night at the Victoria in Birmingham. I’m calling it Hit the Ode, because I believe that a bad pun will set expectations nice and low, and people will be totally bowled over by the show. We have [...]
October 17, 2010
WHAT? The first London Anti-Slam! WHEN? Wednesday, 27 October, 2010, 19:30 WHERE? ARTCH Next door to Ten Gales gallery, Arch 11, Gales Gardens London, Bethnal Green, E2 0EJ (map) MORE INFO Anti-slam champion Raymond Antrobus will host the night in conjunction with the evil mastermind behind the whole concept, Paula Varjack, flying in from here [...]
October 9, 2010
WHAT? Cheltenham Literary Festival WHEN? Sunday, October 10th, 2010, 15:00 WHERE? Voices Off Stage Regent Arcade, Cheltenham (map) MORE INFO The Cheltenham Literary Festival is one of the biggest in the UK. Invited writers are ferried from the station to the luscious green room by limousines and fed with gourmet food. They then appear on [...]
October 4, 2010
You can listen to me live today on Radio Wildfire, talking about my work with Apples and Snakes and maybe reading some poems, too. The live transmission starts at 20:00 UK time. Image source.
April 1, 2011
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