Poetry
New video content on its way!
Look out for new content on the Evolving Words site – more of the poetry films from around the UK and footage of the performances at the Wellcome Collection, which includes the fantastic new commission from Soweto Kinch. In the meantime, why not whet your appetite with some poetry from young people across the UK. [...]
Newcastle poets get international recognition
Led by Valerie Laws, the Newcastle group performed at York Science Learning Centre in October. The young poets were recorded by Martina Maskova, presenter of Czech radio station Radio Cesko. Check out the show on Tuesday 17 November at www.radiocesko.cz — just look for Studio Cesko.
Event: Young Identity & Evolving Words
Darwin. School Bullies. Natural Selection. Eugenics. Evil Genes. The Dating Game. Mothers. Individual Significance and everything in between. As part of the Manchester Literature Festival, Manchester poets Shirley May and Ali Gadema have been working with the vibrant Young Identity young people’s collective to create poetry that explores how Darwin’s science connects to our 21st [...]
Nu Century Arts Gives Evolving Words the Spotlight
Check out the Nu Century Arts Blog for their piece on Evolving Words, Soweto Kinch and Birmingham lead poet Kimberly Trusty.
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, [...]
Evolving Words Poetry Podcast
Check out this new podcast of poetry from the Evolving Words project at World Museum Liverpool. If you really like it, you can download the podcast to keep — you can even download the transcript!
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!”
National Poetry Competition 2009
National Poetry Competition 2009 First prize £5000 enter online at www.poetrysociety.org.uk Deadline 31 October 2009
Filmaker for Cambridge on board
Jenny Nightingale has joined the Cambridge Collective as the film maker for the next part of the project. Lively as ever, the group decided that the film should feature a line or short section from each of their poems. Some people in the group didn’t call themselves poets or writers before this project but now [...]
