Category Archives: Midlands Poetry What’s On

Wed 1st Speak Up, Hare & Hounds, Kings heath Birmingham,8pm, £6 in: Bridget Minamore, Neil ward,Dean Atta, Mikell pane,BRIDGET MINAMORE: A very special lady indeed, winner of the Hammer and Tounge Slam – you know you have one of those … Continue reading →

Sat 24th Mar Oxford Literary Festival, till 1st April, a superstar laden event: http://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/ Fri 13th-15th April Much Wenlock Poetry Festival http://www.wenlockpoetryfestival.org/programme/poetry-competition/index.shtml Wed 18th -24th Apr The Cheltenham Poetry Festival; http://www.cheltenhampoetryfest.co.uk/ Sun 22nd Apr Stratford upon Avon Literary Festival -until … Continue reading →

Mon 2nd SW @N,Newhampton Inn, Riches Street, Whitmore Reans, Wolverhampton, WV6 0DW.8pm, Poetry, Storytelling and song, Peter Chand hosts. Thur 5th Yard of Tales,Joules Yard, rear of 53-55 High Street, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, LE16 7AF.Yard of Tales is a performance … Continue reading →

Thursday 1st 8-10pm Blackdrop @ New Art Exchange.Nottingham, 8pm Price £3.00,Ft poets Kokumo, Moqapi Selassie, Roy McFarlaine, Sue Brown, Mother Hubbard and more, from Celebrate Wha? The new Black British Anthlogy of Midlands writers.,Come along and buy a copy at … Continue reading →

Tuesday 1st November Night Blue Fruit, Taylor Johns Canal Basin, Coventry,8pm: Open mic, free in, Barry Patterson Hosts Thursday 3rd Fizz 9, Tythe Barn Polesworth Abbey,7.30pm, free in. From Dublin Afric McLinchley, Colm Scully, Jennifer Mathews plus open mic Thursday … Continue reading →

Fri 1st Word and Sound,Art House Cafe, Crowngate, Worcester from 7.30pm. Entry £3, Jenny Hope officiates Fri 1st John Hegley, Guildhall, Leicester:This Friday, June 1st, poetry hero and legend, John Hegley will make a special flying visit to Leicester to … Continue reading →

Lichfield Literary Festival: 1st-13th Wellington Literary Festival : 1st -22nd Birmingham Book Festival: 6th -16th Cheltenham Literary Festival: 7th -16th Warwick Spoken Word Festival: 1st -9th Check Festival Websites for details of the above. Saturday 1st, An Evening with Poet … Continue reading →

Welcome to my “Festival Special Round-Up”, there is so much going on this month that I have decided to give these events a space all on their own with no fewer than five taking place across the region at Warwick, … Continue reading →

Such is the volume of Spoken Word events already booked in for September,over 50 at the start of the month and more always surface as the month wears on,that I checked how October was looking, and that seems just as … Continue reading →

Sun 4th ARTournament Sunday Daytime Chill, The New Inn in the centre of Gloucester (opp M&S)12-8pm,Free in. Poetry and acoustic music, Barnaby Eaton-Jones Mid-day ,Miki Bryne, 1pm,Jamie Doughty 1.30 ,Brown Torpedo, 2pm and after 6pm.Lisa Ventura 2.30pm,Jeremy Toombs, 3pm,Suz Winspear … Continue reading →