Manky Poets with Peter Street

Open Mic Event

Contact: manky@toucansurf.com

A readaround for floor poets, followed by our guest, Peter Street:

Peter Street, born in Wigan 1948 is an international published poet born to an Irish mother, brought up with English stepfather sired by a Spaniard from Seville. Peter began to write after a severe spinal accident in 1982, which turned out to be one of the best things to happen to him.

“It’s impossible to disassociate Peter Street’s poetry from the back cloth of his disability since he only began writing after his accident. But disability doesn’t figure in his work, it merely drives him on to greater achievement. Street’s writing reveals a positive language.”
Judy Meewezen, North West Times.

He has performed his poetry in places like, The Cornerhouse, Manchester, Wigan Pier, Bolton Octagon, Piazza, Covent Garden, Civic Centre Carlisle, plus hundreds of pubs and clubs up and down the country.

ITV made a twelve minute Remembrance Sunday Special about his time as a poet in 1993 during the Bosnian/Croat conflict. His poems have also been broadcast on the BBC World Service. He was poet in residence for BBC G.M.R. “Who Cares”. He won the National Poetry Societies “Fish and Chips” Placement Last year and wrote a series of poems for the highly successful Tony Bevan Catalogue.

He is the recent recipient of a Royal Literary Fund grant and has been writer in residence in numerous schools, colleges and prisons such as The International Youth Camp, England.

He is a qualified youth worker and has also worked as a chef in his own Mediterranean cafe. He has also worked as a forester, gravedigger and exhumer.

“A new generation of poets like Mr Street – who hail from working class backgrounds – are bringing verse back home. For many British Poets like Mr Street pushing poetry is now a mission. Like a wondering medieval minstrel, he’s bringing his art to the people.”
Ernest Beck, Wall Street Journal.

Collections:
"Trees Will Be Trees" Shoe String Press ISBN189949 60 9
"Still Standing" Towpath Press ISBN 1 901999 084
"Out Of The Fire" Spike Books - ISBN 0 9518978 1 0 - Forward Nomination
Thumbing FRom Lipik to Pakrac, New and Selected Poems, Waterloo Press

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Price: £2.00 / £1.00

Time: 7:30pm