Puzzle Poets Live
This event on 1st June 2015 has past.
This event series is no longer running. It last took place on 4th September 2017.
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We are inviting guests every month through the winter.
Everyone is welcome to contribute their stanzas in the Open Mic. We all get an enthusiastic encouraging welcome from the audience so why not give it a go?
Very friendly atmosphere. Good quality beers and wines; over 14 as event is in the pub
1st June 2015
We are very pleased to present our June Guest: Tom Cleary grew up in County Tipperary. He studied English and Irish at University College Dublin and taught English for thirty years in Secondary Schools in London, Manchester and Leeds, acting as Gen. Sec. for the Leeds branch of the NUT for his last 6 years as a teacher. He retired early and studied for a degree in Spanish and Russian at Bradford. He and his partner then lived for three years in Gandesa near Tarragona, teaching English. They now live in Hebden Bridge.
For two summers they helped organise the world on your doorstep music festival in the towns park. Tom needed to reclaim his life, though, and when he did he began to write poetry.
In 2011 Tom won the Writers Forum Happenstance Competition and in January 2014 he was the featured poet in Orbit 166. The W F Happenstance prize was to have been the publication of a sampler but there were too many good poems. These resulted in a pamphlet The third Miss Keane [Happenstance 2014]
Tom Cleary’s reading is unassertive, unemphatic and has both authority and authenticity. His poetry is textured and rhythmic. His images are clear, strong and resonant, with the strong feel for narrative of a born storyteller.
Guest at 8pm. Open Mic after a break.
Entry: donation to the hat
Time: 7.30pm
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Reviews for Puzzle Poets Live
Hello, I didn't notice the comment section had been added to our gig. That's good. Look forward to a few more WOL visitors. This month's guest sounds worth a trip.
Review is about Puzzle Poets Live at the Blind Pig on 4 Jun 2012 (event)
Hi Alexandros, Michael does sometimes read at The Puzzle (And has been a past guest) but I am not in regular contact with him. As I suspect you know, his work and the delivery of it are spellbinding. Win
Review is about Puzzle Poets Live at the Blind Pig on 7 May 2012 (event)
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Thu 3rd May 2012 20:27
Does anybody know when Michael greavy will next be reading at an Event ?
Review is about Puzzle Poets Live at the Blind Pig on 7 May 2012 (event)
Hi Julie / Jim / Catherine / Rob. You are always very welcome in Calderdale, A real breath of fresh air from Hull. Nice to chat, hopefully we will meet up again. Winston
Review is about Puzzle Poets Live at the Blind Pig on 5 Mar 2012 (event)
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Tue 6th Mar 2012 22:21
had a lovely evening four of us Jim Higo, Catherine scott, Rob Swan and Julie Corbett (Some of the Hull Carshare Poets). Warm and welcoming people, good beer and a pleasure to hear helen Mort and all the other poets.
thanks to Gaia and Sean
julie
Review is about Puzzle Poets Live at the Blind Pig on 5 Mar 2012 (event)
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Greg Freeman
Tue 6th Aug 2013 21:07
The Puzzle Hall Inn, in God's own country of Pennine West Yorkshire, is full of character, and full of characters in the adjoining bar. But Sowerby Bridge's Puzzle Poets, aided by the mic, gave as good as they got on Monday night in terms of noise - and delivered high-quality poetry, too. Guest poet Ralph Dartford read from his new collection Cigarettes, Beer and Love, and gave us two football poems as well, and spoke of his pride at being named poet-in-residence of Ossett Town FC. John Foggin maintained the Ossett connection and contributed some masterly poems from his sequence of childhood recollections; David Lindsay delivered a fevered account of some right carryings on at Luddenden Foot; other contributors included Spoken Weird's Genevieve Walsh. Write Out Loud's Julian Jordon and Greg Freeman added their twopennworth, and with Freda Davis presiding serenely over proceedings, it was no puzzle why this was a very satisfying poetry night.
Review is about Puzzle Poets Live at the Blind Pig on 5 Aug 2013 (event)