Pop Up Poetry
This event on 17th June 2014 at 19:30 has past.
Open Mic Event
Contact: popupoetry@gmail.com
Don't forget that 30th June is the deadline for submissions to the second Pop Up Anthology, which will be out in October. If you've ever read at one of our events, you can submit up to four poems to our email address for selection and we guarantee to publish at least one of them.
Pop Up Poets meet regularly on the third Tuesday of each month. We normally invite two or three guests to feature (20 minute sets), and the rest of the evening is devoted to the open mic (5 minute spots). We have a loyal group of regulars but every month we meet new poets and audience members who come back to enjoy the warm welcome they find in this stylish but intimate venue. The events are normally free.
We have four talented guests reading at our June event.
Sue Guiney lives in London but has recently returned from Cambodia, where she has run arts and photography projects for young people. Her second novel about the country, ‘Out of the Ruins’ was published by Wardwood Publishing in January this year following her first, ‘A Clash of Innocents’, her poetry play, ‘Dreams of My’ and a collection of poems, ‘Her Life Collected’.
Patrick Osada is a poet and editor living in Berkshire. He is a member of the Management Team for SOUTHPoetry Magazine. He has had four collections of his poems published since 1996 including his latest, Choosing the Route.
Steve Pottinger is no stranger to the Bar des Arts and we always enjoy this published performance poet’s passionate work. He writes about the sadness and injustice of life with a witty touch that engages the most cynical among us. His latest book ‘Island Songs’ is published by Ignite Press. We’re very glad to catch Steve at the Bar des Arts before he disappears to take part in the Edinburgh Festival in August.
Gary from Leeds is also going to Edinburgh in August with his one-man show, and we’ll have a sneak preview of part of that when he comes to the Bar. Gary has performed and won awards at slam events all over Britain, inspiring enthusiastic reviews for his thought-provoking poems. Gary, a trained journalist, is also the editor of the twice-yearly magazine ‘The Alarmist’.
There are 10 open mic slots (strictly 5 minutes each) - please sign up before 7.15 if you would like to read. See you there!
Entry: free
Time: 7:30pm
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Janice Windle
Thu 19th Jun 2014 11:23
June's Pop Up was a great success despite a few glitches - what with glorious weather, Mexico playing Brazil in the World Cup (a lousy draw), our back-cloth screen collapsing and almost braining Dónall, our mic-stand proving short of a rod or two and our stage lighting staying obstinately unlighted. Luckily, all these material disaster happened before the start of the evening.Our host was suffering from some lurgi that kept him a bit quieter than usual and the evening started and finished half an hour later than usual. The omens were not good.
BUT!!! Our audience was small but high quality, our featured guests were many and equally high quality. Sue Guiney's talk and reading was delightful as she spoke about her friends and work in Cambodia; Patrick Osada charmed us all with his beautiful poems about rural England. Steve Pottinger ranted with his usual gentle vehemence and Gary Hartley convinced us of the positive value of negativity (coming from Leeds may help, he suggested) and had us laughing late into the night - he'll do well in Edinburgh next month, we predict.
At the open mic (which no-one used in the absence of the mic stand) we heard and enjoyed Kyle Hayle's moving poems, especially his tribute to his father and Arlington. Thomas Thurman read a selection of his poems after Frances Cornford and John Betjeman among others and Andy Frost read his lovely pieces about kite-flying. Holly Luhning read her moving found poems about 17th and 18th century medicine; Karen Izod's first appearance at Pop Up gave us her thought-provoking meditations on modern war. Mary Pargeter's touching poems were about her brother's sudden death and Richard Alleyn's poems again touched on the theme of war. Janis Haves finished the evening by reading her new poem (her first new composition for two years, she said) and had us all laughing again. I hope I haven't missed anyone out. It was a night to remember for several reasons, but mainly for good vibes and good poems.
Review is about Pop Up Poetry on 17 Jun 2014 (event)