“… life, literature, and the pursuit of happiness in the famous Troubadour cellar-club, London’s liveliest and best–loved poetry landmark since the 1950s …”
welcome
from Coffee-House Poetry organiser, Anne-Marie Fyfe
Dear Poetry Supporters
Great to see so many turning out last Monday night to support East Coast poetry magazine Smiths Knoll and eight of its favourite poets.
And the winter journeys continue. Our travelling Troubadours thus far — in this season of challenging climatic conditions — have made here it from Minnesota, Yorkshire, Belfast, Lincolnshire, Devon, County Down, Suffolk, Gloucestershire… and all been met with a warm welcome from packed and enthuisiastic Troubadour cellar-club poetry audiences.
So do make it along next Monday to welcome a travelling troupe of poets published by Welsh publisher Seren Books and the country’s leading poetry journal, Poetry Wales.
And in the long lull between one year’s exciting Troubadour Poetry Prize Awards and the next (of which more news in April/May) do take a look at last year’s and previous year’s winners and winning entries on the website.
Look forward to seeing you all again on Monday 8th…
Anne-Marie
next event
mon 8 feb, 8pm at the troubadour, seren/poetry wales: amy wack & zoë skoulding introduce pascale petit, patrick mcguinness, siobhan campbell, kathryn simmonds, james methven, samantha wynne rhydderch, meirion jordan and carol rumens
Seren Books editor Amy Wack & Poetry Wales editor Zoë Skoulding introduce nine of the press’s poets and/or magazine’s contributors:
- Next Gen poet Pascale Petit – her 5th collection What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo (Seren, 2010) will appear in May 2010;
- fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford, Patrick McGuinness (forthcoming, Jilted City, Carcanet);
- Siobhan Campbell (Cross-Talk, Seren, 2009), prizewinner in Troubadour, National & Mslexia competitions;
- Kathyrn Simmonds— Sunday at the Skin Launderette (Seren) won the 2008 Forward First Collection prize;
- Oriel College (Oxford) lecturer James Methven, who won the inaugural Poetry Wales Purple Moose Prize with Precious Asses (2009);
- Samantha Wynne Rhydderch whose Not In These Shoes (Picador) was shortlisted for the 2009 Wales Book of the Year;
- Meirion Jordan— Moonrise (Seren) was shortlisted for the 2009 Forward First Collection prize;
- Zoë Skoulding, a Research Fellow at Bangor University—latest collection Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008);
- and Carol Rumens, whose 15th collection, De Chirico’s Threads is due from Seren in June.
readings - spring 2010
mondays 8-10 pm, £7 (concs. £6)
- mon 11 jan, ring in the new: with sue rose, christopher reid, katrina naomi, john wedgewood clarke, maureen boyle, paul maddern, wendy french, william oxley, joyce sutphen and henry fajemirokun
- mon 25 jan, smiths knoll: michael laskey & joanna cutts introduce robert etty, emily wills, david healey, marianne burton, stephen payne, esther morgan, christopher james, catherine ormell
- mon 8 feb, seren/poetry wales: amy wack & zoë skoulding introduce pascale petit, patrick mcguinness, siobhan campbell, kathryn simmonds, james methven, samantha wynne rhydderch, meirion jordan and carol rumens
- mon 22 feb, escarmouches II: war of independence …coffee-house colloquies with alan jenkins, carrie etter, roddy lumsden and molly peacock
- mon 8 mar, magma 46: magazine launch with guest poets anne-marie fyfe and penelope shuttle
- mon 22 mar, spring fever: a seasonal end-of-season poetry party
See full details of this season’s poetry readings
classes - spring 2010
sundays 12-3.30 pm, £28 (concs. £24), advance booking only
- sun 24th jan, form and freedom: new creative-writing workshop with jo shapcott
- sun 31st jan, relishing difficulty: a c.l. dallat seminar on john ashbery, medbh mcguckian, jorie graham & others
- sun 14th feb, stranger than fiction: themed writing workshop with anne-marie fyfe
- sun 21st feb, memory and forgetting: new creative-writing workshop with mimi khalvati
- sun 21st mar, the art in the everyday: writing workshop with c.l. dallat
