THE POETRY KIT NEWSLETTER APRIL 2004
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CONTENTS
March stats
Special events
Books and Mags
Other news
Competition deadlines
March 2004 STATS
40227 Hits for 20 days in March, (Website down for the first ten days of
March)
Special Events
8th April 2004 - London N1
Maundy Thursday Madefication:
16 of London's Top Performance Poets -The MacBeth pub, 70 Hoxton Street, N1
Thursday, 8 April 2004, 7.30 onwards. Free Event
Nearest tube: Old Street
Contact Rhian on 07789 950 531 or at [log in to unmask]
including Andrew Copeman, Cynthia Hamilton, David Jay, Emma Hammond, James
Byrne, James Lydon, Jason King, John Citizen, Kevin Reinhardt, Project
Adorno, Rebecca Sabin, Rhian Edwards, Robbie Chops, Robert Yates, SP
Howarth, Toby Davies.
17th April 2004 - Haywards Heath Saturday, 17 April, 11.30 am.
Halcyon Bookshop, Broadway, Hayward's Heath.
Book-signing by Vaughan Stone of his book "Through The Apartheid Keyhole".
From 17th April 2004, Series - London SE11
SPREAD THE WORD LITERATURE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY presents
You Are What You Read - Reading Queer Fiction WORKSHOPS
Have you been changed by a book you've read? How do the books you read shape
your sexual identity? Do we allow the books we read to challenge the ways we
define ourselves?
DATES: Saturdays: 17 April; 1 May; 15 May; 29 May; 12 June; 26 June
TIMES: 2 - 5 pm
VENUE: Spread the Word, 77 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX
PRICE: £40/£20 concession
BOOKING ESSENTIAL THROUGH SPREAD THE WORD ON 020 7735 3111
OR VISIT www.spreadtheword.org.uk
17th and 30th April 2004 - Lampeter. Lampeter Writers’ Workshop
Simon Armitage: 6pm, Saturday 17th April
UA Fanthorpe: 7pm, Friday 30th April
Both readings will be held in the Cliff Tucker Theatre, University of
Lampeter, Lampeter.
Tickets, at £3, are available before April 5th from : Kathy Miles, c/o
Library, University of Wales Lampeter, Lampeter, Ceredigion, SA48 7ED, or at
the door.
20th April 2004 - London WC1E - Cats Night Out at The Drill Hall - 16
Chenies Street, London WC1E 7EX
Nearest tube Goodge Street. Non- metered parking after 6.30pm - Access,
fully accessible theatre, bar and toilet facilities
April 20th at 8pm - Tickets: £7, £5 concessions. Box Office. phone and
minicom: 020 7307 5060 on line booking www.drillhall.co.uk FLOOR SPOTS:
Women poets should sign up at 7.30pm if they would like the opportunity to
read, bring a copy of ONE poem, max.50 lines.
22nd April - Liverpool - Neon Highway Poetry Reading - Women of Merseyside
read their poems: Thursday 22nd April Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool -
7.30-10pm Admission £2
24th April 2004 - Beaumaris, Anglesey, North Wales - Poetry from Ireland and
Wales
A Reading by Paula Meehan, Gwyn Parry, Carol Rumens
Saturday 24th April, 2004, 7.30pm Iorwerth Rowlands Community Centre,
Beaumaris, Anglesey.
Admission £4/£2 Concession
Contact: Nessa O’Mahony, Tel: 01248 810987
29th April 2004 - Liverpool
JIM BENNETT'S POETRY NIGHT AT LCL
Last Thursday in each month from April 29th 2004
at Liverpool Central Library
6.30pm - 8pm
Jim's very successful Poetry Night from Ellsmere Port brought to Liverpool.
Special Guests and a family friendly atmosphere. First time readers always
very welcome. Phone Jim on 0151 691 1111 to book a place or turn up on the
night.
3rd May 2004 - London Embankment - NEW FROM LANCE PIERSON LONDON POETRY
WALKS
Lance’s dates with the London Walks Co. Summer ’04 season are now confirmed
as Bank Holiday Mon May 3 – 10.30am
Sat Sept 11 – 2.30pm. Start at Embankment Tube: a 2-hour walk by the river,
crossing Waterloo and Westminster Bridges, with 13 or 14 poems performed
along the way. £5.50 (concessions £4.50) - www.lancepierson.org
BOOKS and MAGS
Jim Bennett's new poetry collection "The Man Who Tried to Hug Clouds"
pub April 2004 by Bluechrome read about it or order from;
http://www.bluechrome.co.uk/
NOVEMBER COMPETITION DEADLINES
Deadlines further ahead are listed at http://www.poetrykit.org/comps.htm
15th April 2004 First prize is £500, second prize £200, third prize £100.
MYELOMA AWARENESS OPEN POETRY COMPETITION 2004
POEMS ON ANY SUBJECT and up to forty lines are invited for the first-ever
Myeloma Awareness Poetry Competition, Entries £3 per poem. entry form
www.myeloma.org.uk.
24th April 20041st £1000 2nd £250 3rd £100 - Creating Reality Open Poetry
Competition
for an unpublished poem in English of up to 70 lines.
www.macdc.demon.co.uk. entry £5 for the first
poem. Competition Administrator, Creating Reality, 8a Womersley Rd, London,
N8 9AE.
30th April 2004 - 40% of prize pool - The Lions Club of Castle Point Open
Poetry Competition for poems of up to 40 lines. No entry form - entry fee
£5.00 for the first poem and £2.50 for any additional poems, payable to 'The
Lions Club of Castle Point'.
B. MacDonald at the LCCP Poetry Competition,at 36 Burlington Gardens,
Hadleigh, Essex SS7 2JL
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21st May 2004 - £150 each category - Northampton Literature Group's 2004
Open Poetry Competition for free verse, and verse using rhyme. Entry: £3.00
per poem. Entry forms from Brian Dee on 01604 710794, e-mail
[log in to unmask] or by stamped addressed envelope to B Dee 165 Birchfield
Road, Northampton, NN3 2BZ.
30th May - £250 - NO ENTRY FORM REQUIRED. 40 line max poems each to be
typed on a single side of A4 paper. A separate sheet of A4 should contain
the titles of poems, name, address and phone number of entrant.
Entry fees: £3 One poem, £5 for Two, £10 for Five. Cheques payable to "Split
the Lark Poets". Liz Turner, 1 King Edward Road, Deal, Kent. CT14 6QL
Tel/fax 01304 367625.
31st May 2004 - 1st prize £100 - Wallasey Writers prize "FAITH" (to fit in
with Liverpool's Year of Faith on the build up to being European Capital of
Culture 2008 - Short story and poetry contest from Wallasey Writers Group.
£3 entry covers entry into either category. 1st Prize £100 possibility of
winners and shortlisted poems being included in our anthology. This years
theme is "FAITH". Entries to Roger Cliffe Thompson, Wallasey Writers Prize,
2 The Mount, Liscard, Wallasey. Please include your name and address and
title of your entries on a separate sheet. No identifying details on your
story or poem. Closing date 31st May 2004, Cheques or Po's to "R Cliffe
Thompson"
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