Poetry Wivenhoe

We're finishing off the year with two very popular and witty performers: JUDE SIMPSON and ADRIAN MAY. We'd love it if you could come along, but you'll have to hurry to get the best seats because every time it's been a full house!

JUDE SIMPSON: “In the arena of mainstream poetry, the 1970s had the cosy Pam Ayres to feed our nation’s need for digestible and accessible work; the 1980s saw a new brand of ‘angry young men’ in the genre, such as Craig Charles and Benjamin Zephaniah. While the 1990s was a decade not in particularly poetic frame of mind, in the 21st Century the rhymesters are back with a vengeance in the forms of Luke Wright and Jude Simpson. In short, Jude Simpson should be a national treasure; her laconic, sultry style is a joy to behold and her skill with rhyme and timing exquisite.” ( Wolsey Theatre)

ADRIAN MAY: .....”sometimes he’s easy, sometimes he ain’t . Not all his poems leap out of the page at you wreathed in perfect scansion and inflating themselves with impeccable rhyme; instead they’re bursting with joy and verve and sadness and the blues. They collar you with their honesty and their sly wit. At the heart of his poem is a clear eye. And the poems that do the conventional metric and rhyme demand your attention for their humour and their humanity” ( Peter Kennedy)

Entry: £5 on the door

Time: 8:00pm