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Events
CHELTENHAM POETRY FESTIVAL 2012
Saturday 21 April 2012 at 5:00pm
The Exmouth Arms, Cheltenham. Tickets: £6.00/4.00
Poetry Jukebox with Nine Arches Press: Luke Kennard, Daniel Sluman and Phil Brown
Nine Arches Press presents a poetry reading with a unique twist: the audience has a hand in choosing the themes of the poems. So prepare for work that touches on the big issues, and some of the little ones too – everything from love, death and madness to laughter, losing and being drunk...!
This promises to be a show full of surprises, with three poets who are among the most striking voices in contemporary British poetry.
http://www.cheltenhampoetryfest.co.uk/eventdetail.php?ID=31
CHIPPING CAMPDEN LITERATURE FESTIVAL 2012
Thursday 3rd May 2012
9pm at the Church Rooms, Chipping Campden. £5.00
Angela France is back by popular demand for a third year with Nine Arches Poets Daniel Sluman, Matt Merritt and Maria Taylor.
Open mic spots for audience members to read their own work, or much loved poems by others.
Please sign up on the door.
Book tickets: 01386 841 222
http://www.campdenlitfest.co.uk/contentok.php?id=88
Nine Arches Press and Sidekick Books present…
Thursday 17th May 2012, at 7.00 p.m.
Big Green Bookshop, 1 Brampton Park Road, Wood Green, London N22 6BG
FREE ENTRY
To celebrate the launch of Alistair Noon’s Earth Records, we welcome you to the Poetry Rodeo….
With special guest poets, Nia Davies, Alistair Noon, Edward Mackay, Andrew Frolish.
Alistair Noon was born in 1970 and grew up in Aylesbury. Besides time spent in Russia and China, he has lived in Berlin since the early nineties, where he works as a translator. His poetry and translations from German and Russian have appeared in nine chapbooks from small presses. Earth Records is his first full-length collection.
Andrew Frolish was born in Sheffield in 1975. After studying politics at Lancaster University, he trained to be a teacher in the Lake District. His poems have been published in a variety of magazines, including PN Review, Acumen, Envoi, Tears in the Fence, The Interpreter’s House, Pulsar, Iota, Orbis and The Agenda Broadsheet. He has received prizes in several competitions and won the Suffolk Poetry Society Crabbe Memorial competition in 2006. His poems for children, along with lesson plans for teachers, have been published by Hopscotch. He now lives with his family in Suffolk, where he is a headteacher.
Edward Mackay lives and writes in east London where he also runs a conflict resolution charity. He was shortlisted for the 2009 Eric Gregory Awards and the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize, and blogs at http://postcardsfromdoggerland.wordpress.com/. Edward's debut pamphlet is forthcoming from Salt in 2012. Find out more at www.edwardmackay.com/.
Nia Davies was born in Sheffield and has been writing poetry and fiction since the age of 14. She won the first Stanmer Prize for poetry and in 2008 was awarded a place on the Academi Mentoring Scheme for writers to develop her novel Polaris. She has lived in Wales and is currently based in London where she works for Literature Across Frontiers – a European platform for literary translation and intercultural dialogue. She is also a project manager for Cyfnewidfa Len Cymru / Wales Literature Exchange – Wales’s hub for literary translation. Nia's poems featured in 2012 anthology The Salt Book of Younger Poets. http://niadavies.wordpress.com/.
Nine Arches Press and Nottingham Writer’s Studio present…
Sun 20th May 2012 at 6.00 p.m
Jam Café, 12 Heathcoat Street, Nottingham NG1 3AA
FREE ENTRY
To celebrate the launch of new publications by four extra-special poets, we welcome you to the Poetry Rodeo….
With guest poets Alistair Noon, Sarah Jackson, CJ Allen and Aly Stoneman
Alistair Noon was born in 1970 and grew up in Aylesbury. Besides time spent in Russia and China, he has lived in Berlin since the early nineties, where he works as a translator. His poetry and translations from German and Russian have appeared in nine chapbooks from small presses. Earth Records is his first full-length collection.
Sarah Jackson's pamphlet Milk (Pighog) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award. Her work appears in a wide range of magazines and anthologies including Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century (Bloodaxe) and The Best British Poetry 2011 (Salt). Pelt is published by Bloodaxe in May 2012.
C. J. Allen’s prize-winning poetry (in the Arvon, Yorkshire, Lebdury, Ilkley, Ware, Nottingham & English Association competitions, amongst others) has been appearing in magazines & anthologies in the UK, USA, Ireland & elsewhere for what feels to him like hundreds of years. His most recent collections are: A Strange Arrangement: New and Selected Poems (Leafe Press, 2007), & Lemonade (a red ceilings press e-book, 2010). Violets – winner of the Templar Press Short Collection Competition – was published in November 2011. He currently edits the reviews pages of the literary magazine Staple.
Aly Stoneman is an arts project coordinator and poetry editor at LeftLion Magazine. Her writing explores relationships between human beings and landscape through myths and journeys. A commissioned poet for Lyric Lounge and winner of the Nottingham Poetry Society Slam 2011, her pamphlet Lost Lands was published by Crystal Clear Creators in March 2012.
Nine Arches Press & Crystal Clear Creators Present:
Bi-monthly Mondays at The Western, 70 Western Road, Leicester LE3 0GA
NEXT EVENT: Monday 21st May 2012 at 7.30pm.
Guest Poets: Julie Boden, Alistair Noon, Richard Robertson and C.J. Allen.
FREE ENTRY
Open mic & Celebration of the launch of Alistair Noon and CJ Allen’s new Nine Arches Press poetry collections.
Alistair Noon was born in 1970 and grew up in Aylesbury. Besides time spent in Russia and China, he has lived in Berlin since the early nineties, where he works as a translator. His poetry and translations from German and Russian have appeared in nine chapbooks from small presses. Earth Records is his first full-length collection.
Robert Richardson: as well as appearing in CCC's Hearing Voices, he has been published in Agenda poetry magazine and also co-edited ‘Homage to Imagism’ (AMS Press, New York). As a visual artist, he was recently included in ‘Artists’ Postcards: A Compendium’ (Reaktion Books, London).
C. J. Allen’s prize-winning poetry (in the Arvon, Yorkshire, Lebdury, Ilkley, Ware, Nottingham & English Association competitions, amongst others) has been appearing in magazines & anthologies in the UK, USA, Ireland & elsewhere for what feels to him like hundreds of years. His most recent collections are: A Strange Arrangement: New and Selected Poems (Leafe Press, 2007), & Lemonade (a red ceilings press e-book, 2010). Violets – winner of the Templar Press Short Collection Competition – was published in November 2011. He currently edits the reviews pages of the literary magazine Staple.
Julie Boden is Symphony Hall’s Poet in Residence and she explores the frontiers of poetry and music in collaboration with a ‘meticulous eye’ and an ‘ear for the mellifluous’. Accomplished on both stage and page, her sensitivity, warmth and humour have endeared her to a wide audience.
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