Puzzle Poets Live at the Blind Pig
This event on 4th April 2016 has past.
This event series is no longer running. It last took place on 4th September 2017.
Open Mic Event
Contact: freda247davis@gmail.com
Puzzle Hall poets Live has had to find a new venue due to the closure of the Puzzle. Fortunately Julie at the Blind Pig has accomodated us on a regular basis and made us very welcome.
The Blind Pig is at 4 Tower Hill, Sowerby Bridge HX6 2EQ It is a short walk up hill from the Puzzle.
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?
Like the Puzzle, the Blind Pig has a very friendly atmosphere. Good quality beers and wines; over 14 as event is upstairs in the pub.
We regret the accessibility is not great if you find stairs difficult or non existent if stairs are impossible for you.
4th April 2016
“Helen Mort is among the brightest stars in the sparkling new constellation of Young British Poets” -Carol Ann Duffy
Helen Mort was born in Sheffield. Her first collection ‘Division Street’ was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and the TS Eliot prize. . In 2010 she became the youngest poet in residence at the Wordsworth Trust. In 2013 she was crowned Derbyshire Poet Laureate. In 2014 won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. Her next collection ‘No map could show them’ is forthcoming from Chatto and Windus and is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She is also the spoken word half of a poetry and flamenco duet with guitarist Samuel Moore: www.poetaflamenco.com
A stand out poet of her generation, she was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Poetry Award as well as a clutch of other prizes, and was given a Foyle Young Poet of the year award so many times (five) that they made her a judg.
And in a super double bill, Mr Winston Plowes,
The indefatigable host and compere of Hebden’s monthly Shindig , Calderdale’s very own aural Duchamp and friend of the Puzzle hall Poets Live. Over the summer, Winston’s a hare chasing bicycles and winning by miles. In winter he catalogues found jigsaw pieces and tunes the family silver. Each night he waits with his black cat ‘Fatty’ cat under starlight for his found poems to return to roost from the pages of journals published worldwide at his floating home in Calderdale UK. His collection of surrealist poetry Telephones, Love Hearts & Jellyfish, Electric Press will be published this winter by Electric Press.
Entry: donation to the hat
Time: 7.30pm
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Reviews for Puzzle Poets Live at the Blind Pig
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)
<Deleted User> (6501)
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)