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SUMMARY:Spoken Word Open Mic - Part of Abergavenny Writing Festival
DESCRIPTION:As part of Abergavenny Writing Festival we’re celebrating inclusivity and diversity in the world of writing in Wales.\nThe Writing Festival kicks off social proceedings with an accessible spoken-word open-mic event here in the cosy and easy to access bar area.  The event will be hybrid so both audience and participants are able to join either in person or via a zoom link.  There will be closed captioning and BSL interpretation for the performance.\nThis event is delivered with the support of write4word through its ‘Press Speak Not Delete’ project\, creating a hybrid of physical performance and digital channels to develop a more diverse and accessible arts sector. \nThe open-mic programme is limited to 8 participants in the physical venue and 8 participants on-line. Performance slots are 4 minutes in length. \nGeneral entry £5\, entry for participants is also £5 but includes an additional complimentary ticket for a friend or family member. Please contact dominic@write4word.org to book a slot. \nClick this link to buy tickets
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/spoken-word-open-mic-melville/
LOCATION:Melville Centre Cafe-Bar\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:comedy,community,Event,music,Poetry,storytelling,talks,theatre
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SUMMARY:Poetry Upstairs
DESCRIPTION:An evening of Poetry at The Melville\n“Poets are outsiders; activists\, outlaws\, revolutionaries unimpressed by a sanitized world” \nA local institution\, Poetry Upstairs has been a staple of the Abergavenny Poetry Scene since 1992.\nThirty years on and the readings continue\, open to all who wish to pass through or remain with one\nof the longest regularly running poetry reading series in Wales.  If you’ve never been…  do come along\nand be part of the The Abergavenny Poetry Scene. \nClick here to view guest Poets
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/poetry-upstairs-25th-october/
LOCATION:Melville Centre Cafe-Bar\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:art,Event,Poetry,talks
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SUMMARY:New Poets Poetry Cafe
DESCRIPTION:With the renowned and charismatic Ric Hool\, The New Poets Poetry Cafe is a series of\n4 sessions  hosted in The Melville Cafe/Bar.  For the writer\, this series is for anyone\ninterested in developing their poetry.  This group is also open to those poetry enthusiasts\nthat do not write but want to learn and share in their passion. \nEach participant brings one self-penned poem plus copies of that poem for discussion during\nthe first 45 minutes; after a short break the  poems of an exemplar poet will be introduced. \nSessions will run on Tuesday’s:\n20th December\n17th January\n21st February \nTo book your spot\, please call 01873 853167 or email melvillecamanager@gmail.com
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/new-poets-poetry-cafe/
LOCATION:Melville Centre Cafe-Bar\, The Melville Centre\, Pen-y-Pound\, Abergavenny\, Monmouthshire\, NP7 5UD\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Poetry,workshops
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SUMMARY:POETRY UPSTAIRS- 27th September
DESCRIPTION:Poetry Upstairs for: TUESDAY 27th September \nDon’t miss this opportunity to join us – another three amazing poets to listen to and chat to… bar and doors open 6:30\, performance begins 7pm. \n  \nNicholas Murray is a freelance author and journalist based in Wales and London.  Born in Liverpool; the author of several literary biographies including lives of Franz Kafka\, Aldous Huxley\, Bruce Chatwin\, Andrew Marvell and Matthew Arnold\, five collections of poems\, and two novels.  His biography of Matthew Arnold was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997 and his biography of Aldous Huxley was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Prize in 2003.  The biography of Franz Kafka has been translated into nine languages. Nicholas Murray is a regular contributor of poems\, essays and reviews to a wide range of newspapers and literary magazines and has many collection of published poems. \n  \n  \nJemma L King is a poet based in West Wales. She won the Terry Hetherington Young Writer of the Year Award in 2011 and in 2014 was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Wales Book of the Year for her poetry collection ‘The Shape of a Forest’ (Parthian Books). Her second book ‘The Undressed’ was released by Parthian Books in 2014. She is a reviewer of contemporary literature for numerous publications and teaches literature and creative writing at Aberystwyth University. She is a founding member of the Centre for Women\, Writing and Literary Culture. \n  \n  \nCharles Wilkinson: The Snowman and Other Poems (Iron Press\, 1987) Ag & Au – 36 page pamphlet (Flarestack Poets\, 2013). This publication formed part of a submission that helped to win Flarestack the Michael Marks Award for poetry publishing. The Glazier’s Choice (Eyewear – forthcoming 2019); shortlisted for The Beverly Prize. Charles Wilkinson’s early work was published in magazines\, including Delta\, English\, Iron\, Littack\, and The Human World. \nHis more recent poems have appeared in over fifty publications\, including Envoi\, Poetry Wales\, Poetry Salzburg (Austria)\, Tears in the Fence\, The SHOp (Eire)\,Crannog (Eire)\, The Interpreter’s House\, Magma\, Fire\, Stand\, Scintilla\, Shearsman\, Pennine Platform\, Other Poetry\, Earthlines (The Two Ravens Press)\, The Warwick Review\, Under the Radar\, New Writer\, The Reader\, The Iron Book of New Humorous Verse\, Entanglements (The Two Ravens Press)\, The Aesthetica Annual\, Snow Lit\, Revand Otoliths (Australia)\, as well as in American magazines such as Gargoyle\, The Madison Review\, The Raintown Review\, Lummox\, Futures Trading\, and The San Pedro River Review. \n  \nPlease bring £5 to pay on the door\, but DO pre-register to ensure your seat! Email info@melvillecentre.org.uk \n  \nFree parking and wheelchair access. \nPlease do not bring food or drink in the building that is not purchased here. \n  \nPOETS: \n            \nCharles Wilkinson                                       Jemma L King                                       Nicholas Murray
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/poetry-upstairs-27th-september/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
CATEGORIES:art,books,Poetry,talks
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SUMMARY:Poetry Upstairs - at The Melville
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to Poetry Upstairs at The Melville on: \nTUESDAY 19th JULY  at 7pm until 9pm \nDoors open at 6:40pm  Entry £5 \n(cash on the door please\, cards preferred for the bar) \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 may not be able to admit anyone who has not registered beforehand\, as we need to know numbers ahead of the evening; please call ahead to check availability. \n  \nThree more top-class poets: \n  \nJeremy Hilton is the author of twelve books\, most recently Lighting Up Time: Selected Poems 1991 – 2004. The full sequence of Fulmar’s Wings (75 poems) is due from Knives Forks & Spoons Press in 2021. A novel\, A Sound Like Angels Weeping was published by Brimstone Press in 2012. Hilton was born near Manchester in 1945 and has degrees in English Literature and in Social Work. From 1972 until 1998 he served as a social worker\, mostly in Worcestershire. Between 2007 and 2017\, he studied music composition\, and completed a number of contemporary chamber music pieces\, some of which have been performed. In 2017\, he moved to Bridport in Dorset with his partner\, the writer Kim Taplin. \n  \nAnn Drysdale now lives in South Wales and has been a hill farmer\, water-gypsy\, newspaper columnist and single parent – not necessarily in that order. Her poems have been published in several of the Potcake Chapbooks. Her seventh volume of poetry\, Vanitas\, has recently joined a mixed list of published writing\, including memoir\, essays and a gonzo guidebook to the City of Newport. \n  \nMike McNamara was born in Ireland but lives in South Wales. He had his first collection Overhearing The Incoherent published in 1997. His poetry\, short stories and drawings have been published in mags in Ireland\, North America\, Canada\, Singapore and the UK. Mike also had a selection of poems published in The Pterodactyl’s Wing (Parthian\, 2003). His latest collection Loose Cannon is published by Subterranean Blue Press. \n  \n          
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/poetry-upstairs-at-the-melville/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
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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      
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/poetry-evening-june-28th/
LOCATION:Monmouthshire
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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 
URL:https://melvillecentre.org.uk/event/poetry-evening-may-31st/
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