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SUMMARY:"Poetry Upstairs!" at the Melville - June 28th
DESCRIPTION:2022 Reading Series \nTuesday  28th June 7pm start (please be there 6:30 – 6:50)            £5 Entry   (please bring cash for entry – the bar has a card reader for your drinks) \nDavid Costello (Liverpool)      Chris Hall  (Abergavenny)            Des Mannay (Newport) \nPlease contact us to register your place (you must book in advance)\, then pay on the door as usual.\nTo register\, email info@melvillecentre.org.uk and send your full name/s and telephone contact numbers\, or call Emma on 01873 853167 \nWe regret we may not have spaces for anyone turning up on the night who has not registered beforehand\, as we need to know numbers ahead of the evening; please call on the day to check if there are more places available.\n \nDavid J Costello lives in Wallasey\, Merseyside. He won the Welsh International Poetry Competition in 2011 and was placed 2nd in the 2018 competition\, was a PenFro Poetry Competition prizewinner in 2019\, and a prize-winning poet in both the 2015 Troubadour International Poetry Competition and the 2011 Grist Poetry Prize. David’s pamphlets are Human Engineering\, (Thynks Publishing\, 2013) and No Need For Candles\, (Red Squirrel Press\, 2016). He runs Pop-up Poets and is an active supporter and advocate for Wirral Libraries. His most recent 2020 collection\, Heft\, is published by Red Squirrel Press. \nChris Hall’s published work include\, Bneath Cragshaddo (WYSIWYG Chapbooks)\, Balladz f Bedlam (Stonebridge).The metaphysical poem A Journey was published in Scintilla and two poems Five Surrealist Paintings and Dewi Stone appeared in the Spring 2014 edition of Tears in the Fence. Work is to the fore in The Lonely Crowd and Leg Avant.                                                             His 2019 collection\, No Fish\, is published by Collective Press. \nDes Mannay is a Welsh writer of colour. His first poetry collection\, Sod ’em – and tomorrow is published by Waterloo Press. He is co-editor of The Angry Manifesto poetry journal. Winner -‘rethinkyourmind’ poetry competition (2015)\, LIT-UP poetry competition (2019). 2nd/ highly commended – Disability Arts Cymru poetry Competition (2015). ‘Gold Award’ – Creative Futures Literary Awards (2015). His work is featured in 26 poetry anthologies \n      
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SUMMARY:Poetry Evening May 31st
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the second Poetry Upstairs at The Melville Centre! \nTuesday  31st May 7pm            £5 Entry \n  \nNorman Jope (Plymouth)            Melisande Fitzsimmons  (Plymouth)                Mike Jenkins (Merthyr) \n  \nPlease contact us to register your place (you must book in advance)\, then pay on the door as usual. \nTo register\, email info@melvillecentre.org.uk and send your full name/s and telephone contact numbers\, or call Emma on 01873 853167.\nWe regret we cannot admit anyone who has not registered beforehand\, as we need to know numbers ahead of the evening. \n  \nNorman Jope was born in 1960 in Plymouth\, where he lives again after residence in a number of other locations (most recently Bristol and Budapest). \nHe has published For the Wedding-Guest (Stride\, 1997)\, The Book of Bells and Candles (Waterloo Press\, 2009)\, Dreams of the Caucasus (Shearsman Books\, 2010) \nand Aphinar (Waterloo Press\, 2012) and his poetry has appeared in many magazines and webzines in the UK\, Europe\, North America and Australasia. \nWith the late Ian Robinson\, he co-edited the anthology In the Presence of Sharks: New Poetry from Plymouth (Phlebas\, 2006). \nHe was the editor of the literary and cultural magazine Memes and co-edited a Critical Companion to Richard Berengarten (Salt\, 2011; reissued by Shearsman in 2016); \ncritical work has appeared in Tears in the Fence\, Terrible Work\, Stride and other outlets. He currently works as an administrator in higher education. \n  \nMélisande Fitzsimons writes a modern conversational poem that is alive to changing states and conditions. The reader is taken on a journey through narrative obsessions that moves from the ordinary to the extraordinary in its exposition of what it is to live as a migrant and internationalist. This is essentially the poetry of exile in Brexit Britain where ‘skin mutates into membrane\, too sticky to breathe’… ‘with barbed wire rasps / scratching at the whitewash’ mixed with an otherworldliness\, bodies being cleansed\, and family stories redolent of home.  Her collections include A Language of Spies (Crafty Little Press 2019) and Life Here is Full of Tomorrows (Leafe Press 2021). \n  \nMike Jenkins is an award-winning Welsh poet and author.\nHe is widely published and is much in demand for his lively performances and writing workshops. He has performed at the Hay Festival and the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and \nhas read and tutored at Ty Newydd\, the National Writers’ Centre for Wales.\nMike frequently appears on radio and television and is known among Cardiff City football fans as the club’s ‘unofficial poet’. \n 
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