First Thursday
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First Thursday grew out of Jabberwocky, an earlier poetry group that met on the Wirral since 1969, The format has been distilled over the years and now comprises:
Picture of the Month
Poem of the Month
Music
The Item
Open Book - a chance to read a small poem of your own
We meet each month except August. There are occasional variations of format and venue to accommodate well know guest poets.
3rd October 2024 at 19:00
This is a FIRST THURSDAY SPECIAL and is a departure from our usual format (above).
FIRST THURSDAY present renowned poet Raymond Antrobus whose accolades include The Ted Hughes Award, Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, PBS Winter Choice, A Sunday Times Young Writer of the year Award, Somerset Maugham Award and The Guardian Poetry Book Of The Year 2018, as well as a shortlist for The Griffin Prize, T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. In 2018 he was awarded The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, (Judged by Ocean Vuong), for his poem Sound Machine. Also in 2019 and 2021 his poems (Jamaican British, The Perseverance and Happy Birthday Moon) was added to the UK’s GCSE syllabus.
Music from the accomplished composer and bassist Paulo Sonnaillon
Price: £12.00
Time: 7:00pm (First Thursday)
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