WHAT Chloe West Fundraiser Gig WHEN Tuesday, April 19th, 14:00 (my set is at 21:00 – see below) WHERE The River Rooms Mill Race Lane, Stourbridge DY8 1JN (map) MORE INFO This fundraising gig has been set up to raise money for the County Air Ambulance, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Chloe West herself following the [...]
April 1, 2011
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 [...]
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 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.
September 3, 2010
WHAT? City Voices WHEN? Tuesday, September 14th Event starts at 19:45 WHERE? The City Bar 2/3 King Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1ST (map) MORE INFO I will be one of the features at “City Voices”, Simon Fletcher’s monthly poetry night showcasing both spoken word and page poetry. The other guest poets will be Heather Wastie, Brendan Hawthorne, Michael [...]
July 13, 2010
I wrote here about my oh-so-secret mission to London. Well, I can now disclose the truth to you, oh internet: I am the new Apples & Snakes West Midlands Programme Coordinator. If you’re not familiar with Apples & Snakes – it’s the UK’s foremost organisation for the promotion of spoken word as an art form. You [...]
April 17, 2011
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