Write Out Loud - October Newsletter
Welcome to the October Newsletter from Write Out Loud.
This month :
* National Poetry Day
* New Write Out Loud Event
* How many Poets...
* Write Out Loud events in
October
* Poetry Competitions
* World Poets' UK Tour
* Zebra Poetry Film Festival
This month's article comes from "Poetry Aloud" a Bury St. Edmunds Poetry Group
National Poetry Day
As expected there are a plethora of events for National Poetry (Thursday, 9th Oct) which you can find in the gig guide. This year Write Out Loud is having two events, an early evening one starting at 7pm at Oldham's central library and a later one starting at 8.30pm at the Tudor House in Wigan. Hope to see some of you at one of them
New Write Out Loud Event
This month we launch a new event on Wednesday 15th October at the Waterside Arts Centre, Sale Town Centre M33 7ZF in Trafford starting at 7.30pm. The event will then be held every third Wednesday of the month.
How many poets does it take to change a light bulb?
On Thursday 23rd October, from 7.30pm to late, there's a special fundraiser for a cancer charity at the Deaf Institute, Trof, 135 Grosvenor Street Manchester, United Kingdom M1 7HE
This promises to be an excellent and varied night with the best of Manchester's Poets and Comedians. All the bright young things will be there as will be many of us grumpy old gits, truly a night to remember. See our News section for more details.
Write Out Loud Events
All our other regular events continue through-out October
19th - 8pm Howcroft Inn, Bolton
26th - 8pm Boars Head, Middleton
30th - 7.30pm
6th November - 7.30pm Caffe Nero, Wigan
Also on 6th Nov - 8pm Stubbing Wharf, Hebden Bridge
Full Details of these and gigs from around the country in the Gig guide on the web site.
Poetry Competitions
Perhaps you've already noticed but we do bring you news of various poetry competitions as we become aware of them. At the moment we've got details of the Bookhabit poetry competition - see News for full details
World Poets' UK Tour
Following the extraordinary success of the first World Poets’ Tour in 2005, the Poetry Translation Centre has organised its second World Poets’ Tour which will take place this October. See News/Gig guide for more details
Zebra Poetry Film Festival - Berlin
From 9 -12 October 2008 the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin is organising the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, the international festival for poetry films.
FAQs
We've produced a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file to help people get the most out of the site - if you want a copy email the info@writeoutloud.net and simply say you want one!
Finally
As usual we urge you to tell us about your events, send us reviews, email photographs of your events and continue checking www.writeoutloud.net, not only for the comprehensive gig guide, but also for News from the poetry world, details of competitions, workshops, reviews and much more.
See you at a poetry event near you soon
The Press Team
www.writeoutloud.net
Poetry ALoud
The Bury St. Edmunds poetry reading group goes from strength to strength. Started in January 2008 it is based on an idea by Mike Banister who has been organising a group known as ‘Café Poets’ in Halesworth Suffolk for the past five or six years. Poetry Aloud promotes the reading in public of writers’ own work.
The group consists of local poets and writers, both amateur and professional, who have met on a bi-monthly basis to read their own work. Because the majority of the audience are also writers a sympathetic hearing is ensured, which gives confidence to those of us who have never had the courage to present our work previously. We also have some in the audience who come just for the pleasure of listening, or to support friends. A few people who like to read favourite poems by published poets or friends are also made welcome.
The group is supported by a web site on which poems read at the meetings may be published. A criteria of the web site is that only poems read at the meetings are eligible for publication. At the July meeting several important changes were agreed. A new name was chosen to differentiate the group from the Halesworth Café Poets: the Bury group is now called Poetry Aloud and is supported by a brand new web site - www.poetryaloud.co.uk. The meetings are to increase in frequency to monthly, as from September 2008, and a new co-host Rob Lock was introduced. Rob read one of his poems for us.
Glimpses
In a car a man’s astounded
at the backdrop to the lashing rain
that’s washing weeks of grime away:
on his left, the sun in all its glory
sits behind a cloud that’s just,
he judges, dense enough
to let him glance full on.
It’s low, and shafts of light,
as tangible as those that Jesus slid down
as a child in some Renaissance painting
radiate towards huge banks of cloud
amassed like Michelangelo’s.
They penetrate the haze;
celestial vapour trails spin out.
Pinks and yellows, turquoise, stun
and all the while a kettle drum
of rain helps elevate these pastel hues
beyond all under-lit electric shades
of bruise he’s ever seen in any sky.
The moment has no end.
He’s almost having doubts about his doubts.
In a house a woman chuckles
at audacious antics in Bad Girls
as Fenner gets away with murder;
shushes as the man comes in
burbling on about this sky he’s seen.
© Rob Lock
This, and poems read at previous meetings by many other members, may be found on www.poetryaloud.co.uk.
The group continues to attract new members to augment its growing band of regular readers, who often read at other venues in the county. Poets are also encouraged to record their poems so that an audio file can be added to the text on the web site. This gives everyone a chance to hear as well as read the poems. It is hoped that other groups will also make use of the website to publish poems read at their meetings. The next meeting of the group is Thursday 25th September 2008, 7.30, at The Lounge (Coffee Bar), Hatter Street, Bury St. Edmunds. Subsequent meetings will be at the same venue, on the last Thursday of the month. Anyone wishing to read should contact poetryaloud@apora.co.uk or telephone 01 284 76 77 28
This month :
* National Poetry Day
* New Write Out Loud Event
* How many Poets...
* Write Out Loud events in
October
* Poetry Competitions
* World Poets' UK Tour
* Zebra Poetry Film Festival
This month's article comes from "Poetry Aloud" a Bury St. Edmunds Poetry Group
National Poetry Day
As expected there are a plethora of events for National Poetry (Thursday, 9th Oct) which you can find in the gig guide. This year Write Out Loud is having two events, an early evening one starting at 7pm at Oldham's central library and a later one starting at 8.30pm at the Tudor House in Wigan. Hope to see some of you at one of them
New Write Out Loud Event
This month we launch a new event on Wednesday 15th October at the Waterside Arts Centre, Sale Town Centre M33 7ZF in Trafford starting at 7.30pm. The event will then be held every third Wednesday of the month.
How many poets does it take to change a light bulb?
On Thursday 23rd October, from 7.30pm to late, there's a special fundraiser for a cancer charity at the Deaf Institute, Trof, 135 Grosvenor Street Manchester, United Kingdom M1 7HE
This promises to be an excellent and varied night with the best of Manchester's Poets and Comedians. All the bright young things will be there as will be many of us grumpy old gits, truly a night to remember. See our News section for more details.
Write Out Loud Events
All our other regular events continue through-out October
19th - 8pm Howcroft Inn, Bolton
26th - 8pm Boars Head, Middleton
30th - 7.30pm
6th November - 7.30pm Caffe Nero, Wigan
Also on 6th Nov - 8pm Stubbing Wharf, Hebden Bridge
Full Details of these and gigs from around the country in the Gig guide on the web site.
Poetry Competitions
Perhaps you've already noticed but we do bring you news of various poetry competitions as we become aware of them. At the moment we've got details of the Bookhabit poetry competition - see News for full details
World Poets' UK Tour
Following the extraordinary success of the first World Poets’ Tour in 2005, the Poetry Translation Centre has organised its second World Poets’ Tour which will take place this October. See News/Gig guide for more details
Zebra Poetry Film Festival - Berlin
From 9 -12 October 2008 the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin is organising the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, the international festival for poetry films.
FAQs
We've produced a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) file to help people get the most out of the site - if you want a copy email the info@writeoutloud.net and simply say you want one!
Finally
As usual we urge you to tell us about your events, send us reviews, email photographs of your events and continue checking www.writeoutloud.net, not only for the comprehensive gig guide, but also for News from the poetry world, details of competitions, workshops, reviews and much more.
See you at a poetry event near you soon
The Press Team
www.writeoutloud.net
Poetry ALoud
The Bury St. Edmunds poetry reading group goes from strength to strength. Started in January 2008 it is based on an idea by Mike Banister who has been organising a group known as ‘Café Poets’ in Halesworth Suffolk for the past five or six years. Poetry Aloud promotes the reading in public of writers’ own work.
The group consists of local poets and writers, both amateur and professional, who have met on a bi-monthly basis to read their own work. Because the majority of the audience are also writers a sympathetic hearing is ensured, which gives confidence to those of us who have never had the courage to present our work previously. We also have some in the audience who come just for the pleasure of listening, or to support friends. A few people who like to read favourite poems by published poets or friends are also made welcome.
The group is supported by a web site on which poems read at the meetings may be published. A criteria of the web site is that only poems read at the meetings are eligible for publication. At the July meeting several important changes were agreed. A new name was chosen to differentiate the group from the Halesworth Café Poets: the Bury group is now called Poetry Aloud and is supported by a brand new web site - www.poetryaloud.co.uk. The meetings are to increase in frequency to monthly, as from September 2008, and a new co-host Rob Lock was introduced. Rob read one of his poems for us.
Glimpses
In a car a man’s astounded
at the backdrop to the lashing rain
that’s washing weeks of grime away:
on his left, the sun in all its glory
sits behind a cloud that’s just,
he judges, dense enough
to let him glance full on.
It’s low, and shafts of light,
as tangible as those that Jesus slid down
as a child in some Renaissance painting
radiate towards huge banks of cloud
amassed like Michelangelo’s.
They penetrate the haze;
celestial vapour trails spin out.
Pinks and yellows, turquoise, stun
and all the while a kettle drum
of rain helps elevate these pastel hues
beyond all under-lit electric shades
of bruise he’s ever seen in any sky.
The moment has no end.
He’s almost having doubts about his doubts.
In a house a woman chuckles
at audacious antics in Bad Girls
as Fenner gets away with murder;
shushes as the man comes in
burbling on about this sky he’s seen.
© Rob Lock
This, and poems read at previous meetings by many other members, may be found on www.poetryaloud.co.uk.
The group continues to attract new members to augment its growing band of regular readers, who often read at other venues in the county. Poets are also encouraged to record their poems so that an audio file can be added to the text on the web site. This gives everyone a chance to hear as well as read the poems. It is hoped that other groups will also make use of the website to publish poems read at their meetings. The next meeting of the group is Thursday 25th September 2008, 7.30, at The Lounge (Coffee Bar), Hatter Street, Bury St. Edmunds. Subsequent meetings will be at the same venue, on the last Thursday of the month. Anyone wishing to read should contact poetryaloud@apora.co.uk or telephone 01 284 76 77 28
Mon, 6 Oct 2008 09:13 am
