“… 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 Lovers
A lively start to the season last Monday night (check out the ‘find us on facebook’ button at the bottom of this page to see the assembled cast on Coffee-House Poetry’s facebook page) and an even bigger event coming up on Monday week (21st May, details under ‘next event’ below) so do get here early, particularly for those who’d like to read in the first half!
Plus ‘Rear Window’ themed creative-writing workshop this Sunday and lots, lots more…
Best wishes
Anne-Marie
next event
mon 21 may: redgrove’s life, with penelope shuttle, katrina naomi, pascale petit & alan brownjohn
From The Collector (Routledge, 1959) through over forty books of poetry to Sheen (Stride) in 2003, the year of his death, Peter Redgrove created one of the deepest and most distinctive bodies of work in 20c English poetry. With the publication this year of his Collected Poems (ed. Neil Roberts) and Roberts’ biography, A Lucid Dreamer: The Life of Peter Redgrove (both Cape, 2012), poets who knew Redgrove and his poetry gather at the Troubadour to celebrate his life and work:
- Alan Brownjohn (latest collection, Ludbrooke and Others, 2010) had his first collection published in 1954 and participated, like Peter Redgrove, in Philip Hobsbaum’s seminal ‘Group’;
- Pascale Petit was Poetry Editor at Poetry London for 15 years — her five collections, including What the Water Gave Me: Poems for Frida Kahlo (Seren), have been awarded, & shortlisted for, many major prizes and Les Murray has singled out her unequalled powerful, mythic imagination…;
- Katrina Naomi is from Margate and lives in London, was first writer-in-residence at the Bronte Parsonage Museum and is working towards a PhD on violence in poetry — her 2009 collection The Girl With The Cactus Handshake was shortlisted for the London New Poetry Award;
- Penelope Shuttle is Peter Redgrove’s widow — her 2006 collection, Redgrove’s Wife, was short-listed for Forward ‘Best Collection’ and T S Eliot prizes; Sandgrain and Hourglass (Bloodaxe, 2010) was a PBS Recommendation, and Unsent: New & Selected Poems, is forthcoming from Bloodaxe.
…plus open-mic in first half, one poem each, max. 25 lines on first-come basis, register when doors open @ 7.40 pm…
readings - summer 2012
mondays 8-10 pm, £7 (concs. £6)
- mon 21 may: redgrove’s life, with penelope shuttle, katrina naomi, pascale petit & alan brownjohn
- mon 4 jun: magma #53 launch, with guests ian duhig & maura dooley
- mon 18 jun: what we should have said, an entertaining, enlightening, innovative & unpredictable spoken-word shindig with zoë skoulding, patrick mcguinness, kate clanchy, stuart silver & huw warren
- mon 2 jul: baby, you can drive my car, themed end-of-season poetry-party with guest poets, music, prize quiz…
See full details of this season’s poetry readings
classes - summer 2012
workshops & seminars, sundays 12-3.30 pm
£28 (concs. £24), ‘Yeats walk’, 17 Jun, 12-2.30pm, £18, all advance booking only, with cheque, please, as our workshops/classes are frequently oversubscribed
- sun 13 may: rear window: themed writing workshop with anne-marie fyfe
- sun 3 jun: the overcoat: themed writing workshop with anne-marie fyfe
- sun 17 jun: land of heart’s desire: a w.b. yeats walk with c.l. dallat
- sun 1 jul: late collection: themed writing workshop with anne-marie fyfe
