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“poetrywivenhoe”,
the new live poetry initiative, will be following its
successful March
launch, with a special
event in April featuring the Independent
on Sunday and Sunday
Express poet-in
residence, Martin Newell and local poet Mike Harwood.
They will both be
performing on Thursday April 19th,
at The Greyhound
function room, High St., Wivenhoe. The event starts at 8.00pm.
“poetrywivenhoe”
is an entirely voluntary community project dedicated to bringing the
best in live poetry to North Essex. Each month national and regional
poets are being invited to take to the stage in Wivenhoe.
In March, the group held
its inaugural event, featuring Matt Harvey, a regular performer on
Radio 4. His warm, witty poetics attracted a full house. Chris Tanner,
the group’s events organiser said,
“We were delighted. Starting a programme like this is
always going to be a leap in the dark, but we had a lively audience,
and lots of them said it was a fantastic night out”.
Martin Newell has been a
feature of the Colchester literary scene for many years. He has
frequently been on national radio. In 2004, he was the subject of an
Anglia TV Documentary, A Life Of Rhyme. He has
published one rock memoir This Little Ziggy and ten collections of poetry – one of which:
The Song of the Waterlily
came second in a search for The Nation's Favourite Sea Poem.
After two years with The
Independent On Sunday Martin Newell is now poet-in-residence and feature writer for The
Sunday Express.
Martin
is supported by Mike Harwood. After many years teaching creative
writing at Essex University, Mike has recently featured in the Chimera
poetry magazine. He
has had two plays performed by the Colchester Theatre Group, Leaving
Home and
The Chimes. In 2006 his first collection Words
Count was published.
For further information
please contact:
Chris Tanner tel: O1206 827612
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