| August 2008 - Forthcoming gigs:
Friday September 19 - Christine Webb and Joan Taylor
Published by Peterloo
Poets, ‘After Babel’ (2004), Christine won the annual Poetry London
Competition in 2007 and was runner up in the influential Mslexia magazine
Poetry Competition. Her poetry is reflective and quietly witty.
Joan, originally from New Zealand
where her poems were published in a variety of magazines and journals,
notably the Tirangi Poets series, also writes novels and non-fiction
works. She is now very active on the local poetry scene and has a poem in
the current issue of Wivenhoe News.
Friday October 17 - Will Holloway and Adrian May
An evening in Will’s company
should be full of surprises. Check his website for enlightenment on the
importance of cockroaches.
Adrian
teaches at Essex
University
and is well-known as a songwriter, lyricist and performer on the folk-song
circuit and in the professional theatre. His influences include Blake,
Lawrence, and Stevie Smith.
Friday November 21 — Ros Barber and Annie Brechin
Roe is an award - winning
poet published by Anvil. She writes about childhood, lost innocence,
family life. ‘Not the Usual Grasses Singing: A Journey Around The Isle
Of Sheppey’ was published in 2005.
Annie lives in London
and performs regularly at venues such as The Poetry Café, the Poetry
Shack, Borders Bookshop and Battersea Arts Centre. Widely published in
magazines, she was one of five young poets chosen to take part in John
Betjeman’s 100 Birthday celebrations in
Cornwall.
Friday December 12 - Book Launch Celebration — details
ISA
FUTURE DATES FOR YOUR
DIARY: February 20th, March 20th 2009
Gigs: 8.00 p.m.
Congregational Church Hall, High Street. Admission: £5
Contact: Chris Tanner
Tel: 07840 745220, email: emma.chris@tiscali.co.uk
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