Pop Up Poetry
This event on 11th September 2012 at 19:30 has past.
Open Mic Event
Contact: popupoetry@gmail.com
This month at Pop Up Poetry at the Bar Des Arts Dónall Dempsey and Jan Windle welcome as their guests Chris Britt-Searle, Anthony Anaxoragou and Fran Isherwood, three strong spoken word artists – and Fran’s a singer too.
Anthony Anaxagorou has just returned from Vietnam where he has had many adventures. He’s a writer and performer of compelling honesty and compassion, who writes from his own experience on topics related to the spiritual search for inner peace and detachment, alongside themes relating to politics, racism, history and philosophy. In 2009 he published his first book, Card Not Accepted, which stands as a collection of essays, short stories and poetry all reflecting moments from his life and an overall commentary on western living. Since then he has been the author of six more publications, participated in BBC radio programmes on poetry and in 2010 toured Britain with the award winning hip-hop artist Akala. He has worked alongside the Poetry Society assisting in numerous creative writing workshops and mentoring other young poets in developing their own creativity.
We met Chris Britt-Searle earlier this year, not long after the present series of events began, and were highly impressed by his fluent, imaginative and often humorous poems. Chris can weave worlds of fantasy that draw an audience in, with ever more unexpected scenarios swimming up through his words. His poems can equally be witty and caustic, and always he is entertaining.
Fran Isherwood is a breath of fresh comic air, never caught without an appropriate pun. Her poems regale us with sardonic sideways glances at the tricky side of being a woman in the twenty-first century, particularly as a dizzy blonde!
And as well as all this, we have our Open Mic, with many regulars but always new faces coming along – sign up from 7.15 if you’d like to read, or turn up at 7.30 for a prompt start.
Entry: Free
Time: 7:30pm
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