Spotlight Club

Open Mic Event

Contact: Ron Baker 01524 381642 or spotlightclub@btinternet.com

Jennifer Copley - Poetry
Jennifer Copley has a string of recent competition successes to her credit including
National winner in the Ottakar’s and Faber Poetry Competition 2006
and being highly commended for her entry in the Forward Prize 2007.

Mike Barlow - Poetry
Mike Barlow was winner of the National Poetry Competition 2006 with his poem
The Third Wife. He has previously won First Prize in the Ledbury Poetry Competition 2005,
and First prize in the Amnesty International Competition 2002.'

Jane Routh - Poetry
Jane Routh is a poet and photographer who manages woodlands and a flock of geese in the Forest of Bowland.
Her first collection Circumnavigation (Smith/Doorstop won the Poetry Business Competition
and was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. Teach Yourself Mapmaking followed in 2006.

Norman Hadley - Poetry
Norman Hadley is a mathematician based in Garstang who spends his days designing
mammoth engines to make ships skip over the foam like stones thrown by dads showing off.
His evenings are spent trawling through his rhyming dictionary for 'orange'.
His poems hop from tragic to comic to sentimental weird in the flick of a metaphor,
aspiring to the pigeonhole marked 'un-pigeon-hole-able'.

Plus Music:

James Wood & Friends
James Wood is known locally as an excellent guitarist and musical inovator.
At Spotlight he will be performing a contemporary graphic score with a double bassist and two songs with a vocalist.

Joe Spence & Andy Raven
Joe Spence started playing guitar at the start of 2005 and then wrote some songs -
'Something like that anyway.' Since then he has become a highly skilled acoustic musician
writing 'cleverly contrived and lyrically heavy songs'.
He has become a regular at Spotlight, appearing with the equally talented Andy Raven of
How's My Pop, a band with a growing reputation and a buzz about their name.

Compere: Simon Baker

Price: £3.00 / £2.00

Time: 8.30