Journal
Established Poets invitation to support Evolving Talent
Dear poets and writers, please visit the Evolving Collection and take some time to read a couple of the poems, watch a film or live performance and leave some words of encouragement for the evolving talent who have been exploring the impact of Evolution on our lives 150 years after the publication of On the [...]
Going global
“Liverpool poets Sheuly and Lucy, and Newcastle poets Craig, Lydia, Steven and Chris rocked at York’s performance, at the National Science Learning Centre. An audience from 25 countries loved their performance, and they were interviewed for a Prague radio documentary as well! They were fab.” Valerie Laws
Upcoming events at a glance..
Thursday 22nd October, 7.30pm Manchester Museum, Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL Tickets are free but booking is advised, book on 0870 428 0785 or www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk Friday 23rd October 7pm Private event Chester Zoo, in the North of England Zoological Society’s Russell Allen Lecture Hall Professor Greg Hurst will address the NW branch of Flora/Fauna international, [...]
A poem in lieu of…….. Ansuman Biswas
Thank you Elizabeth. I’m honoured to be invited to such an exclusive event. I would have loved to come but I’ll be on stage at the Donmar Warehouse. I’m doing a play there – ‘Life is a Dream’, a Spanish Renaissance play about a man locked in tower for all his life who ponders the [...]
Evolving Gigs – Newcastle
Valerie Laws wrote: “Newcastle Group did a great gig at the Cumberland Arms, a packed house, noisy punters, well done Craig, Chris, Steve and Lydia!” This venue’s a regular spoken word event, 10×10, at Cumberland Arms, Newcastle, “a feisty and boisterous event usually, with ten… acts, poetry, music, standup, often controversial, with a vociferous audience!”
Dead Good Poets Society
Kicked off the performance phase of the Liverpool project last night at the Everyman Bistro, inspiring a whole night of Darwin-tinged poetry from the Dead Good Poets Society. Liverpool Evolving Words was brilliantly represented by Yahya, Lucy, Siobhan and Ruth, with Dinesh as back-up. Plenty more to come in August.
Thoughts from Dinesh at Museum of Liverpool
Dinesh Allirajah 18 May 2009 : “I suppose one interesting thing about our workshops is how site-specific they are. We’re working in amongst the collections, both what’s on display and what’s preserved in the basement. It’s felt like an induction into a world of curators, scientists and collectors…
