Villanelles

Gloucester

Sunday 27th October 2019

19.00 - 22.30 pm

Venue: the Fountain Inn, Gloucester

 

Welcome to an inspirational evening of live poetry entertainment!

Join us and our relaxed friendly atmosphere. If you are new to poetry, experienced, page or a spoken word/performance poet (or you just want to watch), this event is for you. Guest poets will be reading their magical work.

Admission is £5.00 and all are welcome.

We don't reserve open mic slots for this event as names are taken at the event, so be early to ensure you have a slot.

If you've never been to a poetry event before, be warned, this may seriously inspire you!!!

Lots of parking available nearby.

Guest poets include:

Liz Lefroy

‘Liz Lefroy read as a guest on Carol Ann Duffy’s 2016 Shore to Shore tour. She was winner of the 2016 Café Writers Prize, the 2011 Roy Fisher Prize, runner up in the 2017 Wigtown Poetry Competition, and highly commended in the Bridport Prize 2015.  She has published three pamphlets, most recently Mending The Ordinary. Of this Gillian Clarke wrote, "This is a little book of songs: a love-song to an 85-year-old stranger, to sons, at the school concert, or shopping; poems to places, remembered childhood, a mortally ill mother, and all in the easy voice of a natural poet.’

Nicola Harrison

‘Singer, author, scriptwriter, performance poet and voice coach, Nicola is Lecturer in Song and Interpretation at Pembroke. She has written for radio, national newspapers and magazines and had work published in a wide number of publications from BBC History magazine to British Music and Classical Music Magazines to Resurgence and Ecologist magazine! Her directorial work focuses on the magical interface of poetry, words and music and her shows explore this relationship in a multitude of forms, from Shakespeare’ songs to the poetry and music of Federico Gardia Lorca. Her last major show, Casa Margarita, toured for three years and combined poetry, storytelling, music and song to critical acclaim. She is a professional singer and musician and her poetry focuses on the themes such as the sea, love in the strangest of guises, wildlife, the natural world, and these are often set to music. Her performance poetry is written to be performed rather than put in print and deals with pithy or unusual subjects and gritty situations.
Her two books The Wordsmith’s Guide Poetry Music and Imagination volumes 1 and 2, (2016 Compton Publishing) received much media coverage and two small poetry books ‘The Becoming’ and ‘Winetown’ were published in April and July 2018.’

Josephine Lay

‘Josephine Lay is a published poet with two collections of poetry; Inside Reality and Unravelling, both published by ‘Black Eyes’. Josephine is currently Poet in Residence at Cheltenham Library, and she is passionate about poetry and libraries, and the vital part they both play within community.
She is a member of The Gloucestershire Poetry Society and hosts ‘Squawkers’; the monthly Poetry Night at The Sober Parrot, Cheltenham, under the GPS banner. She is a member of The Cheltenham Poetry Society and actively supports the Cheltenham Poetry Festival and the Gloucester Poetry Festival. 
     Lay’s poems often speak of the human condition; of life, love, loss. Josephine is a firm believer that page poetry and performance poetry both play an important part in the modern day poetry scene.  She runs poetry workshops and performs her work in various venues around Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, and surrounding counties.’

R. M. Francis

‘R. M. Francis is a writer from Dudley. He recently completed his PhD at the University of Wolverhampton where he is a lecturer on the Creative and Professional writing degree. He's the author of five poetry Chapbook collections: Transitions; (The Black Light Engine Room, 2015) Orpheus; (Lapwing Publications, 2016)  Corvus' Burnt-wing Love Balm and Cure-All; (The Black Light Engine Room Press, 2018);  Lamella (Original Plus Chapbooks, 2019) and Fieldnotes from a Deep Topography of Dudley (Wild Pressed Books 2019). In 2020 Smokestack Books will publish his first full length collection and his debut novel is due with Wild Pressed Books. In Spring 2019 he became the inaugural David Bradshaw Writer in Residence at Oxford University.’

 

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