Puzzle Poets Live at the Blind Pig
This event on 5th September 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.
5th September 2016
7.30 for 8pm start finishing before 10pm
Puzzle Hall Poets is proud to welcome its September Guest. Jackie Hagan is an award winning cosmic scally who downs champagne from her glittery false leg. She is a poet, comedian, live artist and playwright who doesn’t quite fit neatly into any of those categories. She is also a committed community artist who believes in the power of creative expression to effect lasting social change.
Her first solo show 'Some People Have Too Many Legs’ is still touring (Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Show 2015; Winner of Flying Solo 2014; a NRTF/Contact Commission). Her second solo show 'Jumble Souls' has just been commissioned. She also has a play ‘Cosmic Scallies’ optioned by Graeae Theatre, set in her hometown Skelmersdale about working class flippancy. She won the Creature Futures Literary Prize for poetry last year.
For the past 10 years she has run Seymour Poets which is a project that gives space and effort for marginalised adults and people with behavioural problems to find a way to express themselves in writing that works for them.
Her publications are available from Flapjack Press. Ch 4 have just made a documentary about her which can be found here http://www.channel4.com/programmes/limb-pimpin/on-demand/64524-001
After a break Jackie will be followed by the Open Mic. bring your own poetry or something you love, and read or tell it to us.
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)