“… 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
Get in the mood for another Troubadour summer season with the cafe’s music-video ‘short’, a taste of that ambience you’re all familiar with from vibrant Monday nights & stimulating Sunday afternoons. Check out our readings and workshops/classes and get all our dates into your poetry diaries now!
next event
mon 20 may: transatlantic signals: us &uk poets featuring margot farrington, claire dyer, joshua weiner, kim moore, kathryn maris, janet rogerson, linda gregerson, sarah jackson & henry fajemirokun
A change to the usual seasonal kick-off format — new & established voices — this evening’s programme offers a rare chance to hear what’s now & happening either side of the Atlantic with—
- NYC-based literature, visual-arts & theatre organiser, activist & reviewer Margot Farrington — 2nd collection Flares and Fathoms, Bright Hill Press, NY);
- Claire Dyer — debut poetry collection, Eleven Rooms, (Two Rivers, 2013) — also has a novel, What If, due from Quercus (October 2013);
- Joshua Weiner who holds the Amy Lowell Travelling Scholarship & has edited At the Barriers (on Thom Gunn) — third collection, The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish (Chicago, 2013);
- Kim Moore, a peripatetic brass teacher in Cumbria & a 2011 Eric Gregory & Geoffrey Dearmer award winner; If We Could Speak Like Wolves was a 2012 Poetry Business winner;
- Kathryn Maris from NYC, 2nd collection, God Loves You (Seren, 2013) — her poems appear in Best British Poets 2012 & Oxford Poets Anthology;
- Janet Rogerson who lives & works in the North-West of England; A Bad Influence Girl (Rialto, 2012) is her debut collection;
- Linda Gregerson’s Magnetic North was a 2007 NBA finalist; she teaches at Univ. of Michigan & divides her time between London & Ann Arbor;
- Sarah Jackson’s first collection Pelt (Bloodaxe, 2012) was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award & her pamphlet, Milk, was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award.
readings - may-jul 2013
mondays 8-10 pm, £8 (concs. £7)
- mon 20 may: transatlantic signals: us &uk poets featuring margot farrington, claire dyer, joshua weiner, kim moore, kathryn maris, janet rogerson, linda gregerson & sarah jackson
- mon 3 jun: simon armitage, frieda hughes, paul stephenson, huw warren & stuart silver in what we should have said: an entertaining, enlightening, innovative & unpredictable spoken-word shindig
- mon 17 jun: a wnaed yng nghymru /made in wales with phil bowen, marianne burton, rebecca perry, robert seatter, judy brown, graham clifford, rhian edwards & kathryn simmonds, introduced by amy wack (ed.)
- mon 1 jul: magma #56 launch night with special guest, david morley
- mon 15 jul: simply red! themed end-of-season poetry-party
See full details of this season’s poetry readings
classes - jan-jul 2013
workshops & seminars, sundays 12-3.30 pm
£28 (concs. £24) all advance booking only, with cheque, please, as our workshops/classes are frequently oversubscribed
- sun 19 may (rpt) a northern spring: poetry seminar with c.l. dallat
- sun 2 jun, seeing red! themed writing workshop with anne-marie fyfe
- sun 16 jun, to sleep, perchance… themed writing workshop with anne-marie fyfe
- sun 30 jun, 12-2.30 pm: land of heart’s desire — a w.b. yeats walk with c.l. dallat
- sun 14 jul, mapping the island: themed writing workshop with anne-marie fyfe