One more reminder that the Nine Arches Press Shindig is on Monday (April 12th), with readings from 7.30pm, at the Looking Glass, 68-70 Braunstone Gate, Leicester LE3 5LG.
The featured readers are Myra Connell, Lydia Towsey and Simon Turner.
Lydia Towsey is a poet and performer. Commissions include: Freedom Showcase in 2007 and Beyond Words in 2009. Residencies include two weeks with Theatre Royal Stratford East and years inside Leicester’s coffee shops... Lydia has performed with John Hegley, Jean Binta Breeze and Keorapetse Kgositsile, the South African Poet Laureate. Her latest publication is within The Great Grandchildren of Albion (a forthcoming project of Michael Horovitz). She comperes and coordinates WORD! the longest-running East Mids poetry night (www.myspace.com/wordleicester) and in 2009 was the Artistic Director of The Lyric Lounge (www.lyriclounge.co.uk). She’s doing an MA in Writing and putting together her first collection. She drinks a lot of tea.
Simon Turner was born in Birmingham in 1980. Heaventree Press published his first collection, You Are Here, in 2007. His poems and reviews have appeared in a number of publications, including Tears in the Fence, The Wolf, Horizon Review and The London Magazine. With George Ttoouli, he co-edits Gists and Piths, an experiment in blogging dedicated to the publication and discussion of contemporary poetry, which has been up and running since 2007. He lives and works in Warwickshire.
Myra Connell’s first collection of poems, A Still Dark Kind of Work, was published by Heaventree Press in 2008. Her poems have appeared in various magazines, and her short stories in two collections from Tindal Street Press, Her Majesty and Are You She? Her new collection, From The Boat, is just out from Nine Arches. She lives in Birmingham and has two grown-up sons.
Entry is absolutely free, and you can sign up on the door for the open mic.
PS. Simon's new collection is called Difficult Second Album. I've been trying to come up with a list of 20 great difficult and/or great second albums, along with little write-ups to justify the claim - any suggestions? There might even be a free book or pamphlet or two in it for the best I receive...
3 comments:
Predictably enough, I'm going to suggest "Under the Pink" by Tori Amos.... a fantastic second album (and yes, I'm not counting Y Kant Tori Read, as that was a group effort, not a solo album...), definitely tighter than the still excellent "Little Earthquakes", and doing the great trick of being both more accessible, yet more opaque and deep... with such songs as "Past the Mission," "Icicle" (a sweet song about what to do instead of church on a sunday!) and the sweeping "Yes, Anastasia" it must rank as one of the classic second albums of all time...Tori is one of the few singer songwriters whose lyrics are unarguably poetry.... and I'm prepared to fight anyone who says different... it may even help lift the restraining order....
Predictably enough, I'm going to suggest "Under the Pink" by Tori Amos.... a fantastic second album (and yes, I'm not counting Y Kant Tori Read, as that was a group effort, not a solo album...), definitely tighter than the still excellent "Little Earthquakes", and doing the great trick of being both more accessible, yet more opaque and deep... with such songs as "Past the Mission," "Icicle" (a sweet song about what to do instead of church on a sunday!) and the sweeping "Yes, Anastasia" it must rank as one of the classic second albums of all time...Tori is one of the few singer songwriters whose lyrics are unarguably poetry.... and I'm prepared to fight anyone who says different... it may even help lift the restraining order....
Sounds a good call - I'll add it to the list, to be posted soon.
I'll sort you out a book or two, as well.
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