Next Buzzwords Sunday January 14th

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday January 14th

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

Workshop lead by David Clarke 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet David Clarke

 pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

 

David Clarke's first pamphlet, Gaud, won the Michael Marks award in 2013. His first collection, Arc, was published by Nine Arches Press in 2015 and was longlisted for the Polari Prize. Another pamphlet, Scare Stories, was published by V Press in 2017 and was named a Poetry School ‘Book the Year.’ His second collection, The Europeans, was published by Nine Arches in 2019, and was followed in 2023 by his third, The Field in Winter. His poems have appeared in publications including Magma, Poetry Wales and The Guardian.

Next Buzzwords Sunday December 10th

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday December 10th

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

Workshop lead by Kate Noakes 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Kate Noakes

 pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

 

As usual for our last one of the year, you may choose to read a favourite poem by someone else on the open mic.

 

Kate Noakes will be reading from her eighth collection, Goldhawk Road, which was published by Two Rivers Press in February 2023. She is presently researching a PhD on contemporary British American poetry and the poetics of the breath at the University of Reading. Kate has degrees in Geography, and English Literature and an MPhil in Creative Writing. She reviews poetry collections for Poetry Wales, Poetry London, The North and London Grip. She lives in West London and when not writing is a printmaker. More information can be found at www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com

Next Buzzwords Sunday November 12th

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday November 12th

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

 

Workshop lead by Raine Geoghegan 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Raine Geoghegan

 pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

 

Raine Geoghegan, MA is a Welsh born poet, playwright, and tutor of Romany ethnicity. She is a Forward Prize, twice Pushcart Prize, and Best of the Net nominee. Her work has been published online and in print with Poetry Ireland Review; Poetry Wales; Travellers’ Times; The Lonely Crowd and more. Her essay, ‘It’s Hopping Time’ was featured in ‘Gifts of Gravity & Light’ with Hodder & Stoughton 2021. Her three pamphlets are published with Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2018, 2019 & 2022. Her full collection was published with Salmon Poetry Press in 2022. ‘Apple water: Povel Panni’ her first pamphlet was listed in the Poetry Book Society spring 2019 Selection. She performs in the UK, Ireland and earlier this year gave a reading at the Poetry Lounge in Sydney. She is currently editing an anthology of Romany Women Writer’s and Artists with Salmon Poetry Press which will be published in June 2024. @RaineGeoghegan5 

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday October 1st

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday October 1st

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

 

Workshop lead by Cliff Yates 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Cliff Yates

 pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

 

Cliff Yates’s New & Selected Poems (Smith/Doorstop) brings together over thirty years of work, from his Fenton Aldeburgh prizewinning debut Henry’s Clock to his most recent pamphlet Another Last Word and beyond. He taught English at Maharishi School, where his students were renowned for winning poetry competitions. He has led courses and workshops for many organisations including the Arvon Foundation, the Poetry Society and the British Council. He wrote Jumpstart Poetry in the Secondary School during his time as Poetry Society poet-in-residence .

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday September 10th

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday September 10th

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

 

Workshop lead by Claire Crowther 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Claire Crowther

 pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

 

Claire Crowther has published five collections. Her first, Stretch of Closures (Shearsman), was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Best First Collection Prize and her fourth, Solar Cruise (Shearsman), was a PBS Recommendation for Spring 2020. Her New and Selected Poems, alongside Sense and Nonsense, a collection of her prose (reviews and essays), is forthcoming from Shearsman in late 2024. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and teaches Creative Writing at Oxford University. Claire is Deputy / Reviews Editor of Long Poem Magazine.

 

Don't forget to get your entries in to the Buzzwords Poetry Competition https://buzzwordspoetry.blogspot.com/p/buzzwords-poetry-competition-2023.html

Next Buzzwords Sunday July 16th

Next Buzzwords Sunday July 16th

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

 

Workshop lead by Pat Edwards 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Pat Edwards

 pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

 

Pat Edwards is a writer, reviewer and workshop leader from mid Wales. Her work has appeared in Magma, Prole, Atrium, IS&T as well as in a number of anthologies. Pat hosts Verbatim open mic nights at the Poetry Pharmacy in Bishop’s Castle, and she curates Welshpool Poetry Festival. Pat has three pamphlets: Only Blood (Yaffle 2019); Kissing in the Dark (Indigo Dreams 2020); Hail Marys (Infinity Books UK 2022).

Next Buzzwords Sunday June 11th

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday June 11th

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

Workshop lead by Janet Sutherland 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Janet Sutherland

 pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

 

Janet Sutherland grew up on a dairy farm, she is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Messenger House (Shearsman Books, 2023). Her previous collections all from Shearsman are Home Farm (2019), Bone Monkey (2014), Hangman’s Acre (2009) and Burning the Heartwood (2006).   The Messenger House, a hybrid collection, is about her great-great-grandfather’s travels to Serbia in the 1840’s with his friend Mr Gutch, a Queen’s Messenger. Her poems are widely anthologised and published in magazines such as New Statesman, The Spectator and The North.  A critical essay on the poet Charles Reznikoff appeared as an afterword to two new editions of his work, Holocaust, in the UK (Five Leaves Publishing, 2009) and USA (Black Sparrow Press, 2007). She won the 2017 Kent and Sussex Poetry Prize and received a Hawthornden Fellowship for 2018.  She has an MA in American Poetry and lives in Lewes, East Sussex. https://www.janetsutherland.co.uk/

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday May 14th

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday May 14th

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

Workshop lead by Kelvin Corcoran 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Kelvin Corcoran

 pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

 

Kelvin Corcoran’s first book was published in 1985 and his Collected Poems will be published in May 2023 by Shearsman.  His work has been consistently praised for its sustained lyricism and commended by the Poetry Society and the Forward Prize committee and commissioned by the Arts Council and Medicine Unboxed.  With Robert Sheppard he is co-editor of The New Collected poems of Lee Harwood.

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday April 2nd

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday April 2nd

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

Workshop lead by Kate Noakes 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Kate Noakes

 pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

 

Kate Noakes will be reading from her eighth collection, Goldhawk Road, which was published by Two Rivers Press in February 2023. She is presently researching a PhD on contemporary British American poetry and the poetics of the breath at the University of Reading. Kate has degrees in Geography, and English Literature and an MPhil in Creative Writing. She reviews poetry collections for Poetry Wales, Poetry London, The North and London Grip. She lives in West London and when not writing is a printmaker. More information can be found at www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday March 12th

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday March 12th

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

Workshop lead by Adam Horovitz 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Adam Horovitz

 pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

 

Adam Horovitz is a poet, performer and editor based near Stroud. 

His debut collection, Turning, was released by Headland in 2011. His second book, released by the History Press in June 2014 to coincide with the Laurie Lee centenary celebrations, was A Thousand Laurie Lees, which draws on memoir, myth and literature inspired by Cider with Rosie country.^[14]

In 2015 he released an album of poetry and music, Little Metropolis. In 2018, his book The Soil Never Sleeps was published by Palewell Press, after a year-long residency on four Pasture-fed Livestock Association farms. In April 2020, he launched The Thunder Mutters, a poetry and music podcast celebrating the work of John Clare, with fiddle player Becky Dellow, with whom he has collaborated on shows since 2014.

In 2021, a poem of his was included on the Cerys Matthews and Hidden Orchestra album We Come From the Sun, released on Decca, alongside nine other poets. His third collection of poetry, Love and Other Fairy Tales, was published in late 2021 by Indigo Dreams.

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday February 12th

Next Buzzwords Sunday February 12th

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

Workshop lead by Stephen Payne 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Stephen Payne

 pay on the door, £5 waged, £3 unwaged.

 

Stephen Payne is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bath, where until September 2020 he taught and conducted research in Cognitive Science. He lives in Penarth in the Vale of Glamorgan. His first full-length poetry collection, ‘Pattern Beyond Chance’, was published by HappenStance Press in 2015 and shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year. 

 

He will be reading from his second collection, ‘The Windmill Proof’, which was published in September 2021 and a pamphlet ‘The Wax Argument & Other Thought Experiments’ which followed in February 2022.