Poetry Readings at The Troubadour: 263-267 Old Brompton Road, London SW5
readings - autumn 2010
mondays 8-10 pm, £7 (concs. £6)
- mon 20 sep: random harvest: with yvonne green, helen ivory, martin figura, agnieszka studzinska, john greening, gale burns and kate noakes with music from singer/guitarist henry fajemirokun
- mon 4 oct: celebrating silver on the rialto: Norwich based poetry magazine the rialto celebrates 25 poetic years with a vaporetto’s-worth of regular and new contributors
- mon 18 oct poems on the underground: stopping once again at earls court (district and piccadilly) to celebrate a great london poetry venture now much imitated throughout the world’s metropolitan transportationm systems
- mon 1 nov: london festival fringe new poetry award: a celebration of new poets and first collections with poetry panel judges adam o’riordan, tamar yoseloff & daljit nagra reading alongside fifteen shortlisted first-collection poets with a special slot for 2010’s £2,500 Award winner… watch this space
- mon 15 nov: magma 48 poetry magazine launch: with magazine contributors and special guest poets including philip gross, winner of this year’s t.s. eliot prize
- mon 29 nov: fourth troubadour international poetry prize: come and hear prize judges maurice riordan and gwyneth lewis read alongside first, second and third plus another twenty prize-winners in our annual competition… and hear who’s won before the news hits the streets!
- mon 13 dec: unlucky for some — end-of-season poetry-party with invited guest poets reading their own and others’ favourite poems about luck, fortune, prophesy, superstition, magpies, ladders and the like… plus music, prize draw, prize-quiz…