Next Buzzwords Sunday January 5th

Next Buzzwords - Sunday, January 5th
 
Workshop, led by Hilda Sheehan 7pm

Guest readings and open mic 8pm

Guest poet: Hilda Sheehan
 
Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

£5 waged, £3 unwaged

Hilda Sheehan is a writer and arts events organiser based in Swindon. She has been a psychiatric nurse and Montessori teacher. Her first collection of poetry, The Night My Sister Went to Hollywood, is published by Cultured Llama (www.culturedllama.co.uk). And a pamphlet, Frances and Martine’  is due out in August 2014 from Dancing Girl Press. Her poetry has been published in The Rialto, Poetry Salzburg Review, Tears in the Fence, The Interpreter’s House, ArtemisPoetry, The New Writer, Ink, Sweat and Tears, South, and the BBC Website.

 “Like a firework set off in the heart of the culture’s kitchen”. William Bedford in Acumen 77

Next Buzzwords Sunday December 1st

Next Buzzwords - Sunday, December 1st
 
Workshop, led by David Morley 7pm

Guest readings and open mic 8pm

Guest poet: David Morley
 
Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

£5 waged, £3 unwaged

David Morley’s collections include The Gypsy and the Poet (Carcanet, 2013), a PBS Recommendation, and Biographies of Birds and Flowers: Selected Poems (Carcanet, 2014). He published Enchantment (Carcanet 2011), a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year chosen by Jonathan Bate. The Invisible Kings (Carcanet, 2007) was a PBS Recommendation and TLS Book of the Year chosen by Les Murray. He writes for The Guardian and Poetry Review. He was one of the judges of the 2012 T.S. Eliot Prize and the 2013 Foyle Young Poets of the Year.

Next Buzzwords - Sunday, November 3rd

Next Buzzwords - Sunday, November 3rd
 
Workshop, led by Bobby Parker 7pm

Guest readings and open mic 8pm

Guest poet: Bobby Parker

Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

£5 waged, £3 unwaged



BOBBY PARKER was born in 1982 in Kidderminster, England. He writes a column for popular on-line magazine The Quietus, and his poetry has been widely published. Publications include the critically acclaimed experimental poetry/art books 'Ghost Town Music' and its sequel 'Comberton' (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press). He is currently trying to find a home for 'Blue Movie', his first full-length collection of published poems, and something he considers to be his life's work.

''I love Bobby Parker's writing. Ghost Town Music was one of my favourite things of last year... an endlessly engaging mix-up of artifice, diary, fury, confessional, surrealism/cubism, art and photography. The post-it notes in Comberton are brilliantly funny, thought-provoking and sad ("WE WALKED AROUND AT NIGHT IN THE SUMMER LISTENING FOR COUPLES HAVING SEX WITH THEIR WINDOWS OPEN"), giving it something in common with the first. But it goes further. It's a collection of poems whose narrative outstrips most novels for depth, mystery and staying power.'' - Luke Kennard 

Next Buzzwords Sunday, October 6th

Next Buzzwords - Sunday, October 6th
 
Workshop, led by Julia Deakin 7pm

Guest readings and open mic 8pm

Guest poet: Julia Deakin

Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

£5 waged, £3 unwaged

JULIA DEAKIN was born in Nuneaton and worked her way north via the Potteries, Manchester and York to Huddersfield. Widely published, she has read twice on Poetry Please and won several competitions. 

 

‘Crafted, tender poems, written with passion and purpose,’ said Simon Armitage of her first collection, Without a Dog (Graft, 2008). Anne Stevenson ‘read it straight through at a single sitting’ enjoying its ‘mature wit and wisdom’. ‘Real linguistic inventiveness’ said Ian McMillan. ‘Bold, irreverent and wickedly funny,’ said Alison Brackenbury of her Poetry Business Competition winner, The Half-Mile-High-Club.

 

Michael Symmons Roberts describes her second book, Eleven Wonders (Graft 2012) as ‘powerful, assured, elegant. Her formal skill and inventiveness make this a rich and eclectic collection. Those who, like me, have admired her individual poems in the past, will be struck by their cumulative strength and range, and this book deserves to win her many new readers.’

 

Julia lives near Huddersfield and teaches at the University of Bradford.

More details at www.juliadeakin.co.uk

Next Buzzwords Sunday September 1st

Next Buzzwords - Sunday, September 1st
 
Workshop, led by Penelope Shuttle 7pm

Guest readings and open mic 8pm

Guest poet: Penelope Shuttle


Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

£5 waged, £3 unwaged

Penelope Shuttle has lived in Cornwall since 1970.  She is the widow of the poet Peter Redgrove (1932-2003).

UNSENT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1980 – 2013, Bloodaxe Books, appeared in October 2012.

SANDGRAIN AND HOURGLASS, Bloodaxe Books, was published in October 2010, and was a Recommendation of The Poetry Book Society, and a poetry book of the year in The Financial Times.

In 2007 Shuttle was awarded a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry.

Her 2006 collection, REDGROVE’S WIFE, ( Bloodaxe Books)  was short-listed for the Forward Prize for Best Single Collection, and for the T S Eliot Award.

She gives numerous readings in the UK and overseas.

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday 7th July

Next Buzzwords - Sunday, 7th July

Workshop, led by Philip Rush 7pm

Guest readings and open mic 8pm

Guest poets: Philip Rush and David Clarke

Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

£5 waged, £3 unwaged

Philip Rush lives in Stroud. He took a a degree in English at the University of London and another in drama at the University of Bristol and now works as a headteacher. His poetry has been widely published in journals such as Smiths Knoll, The North and The Rialto, and he has had poems published in the USA. He was in Carcanet's 'New Poetries IV'. Garlic Press published a pamphlet, 'Catching my Own Drift', in January 2012. He has a selection of short pamphlets from Yew Tree Press.

David Clarke was born in Lincolnshire and lives in Gloucestershire. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in several magazines, both in print and online, including Iota, Under the Radar, South Bank Poetry and New Walk. His pamphlet Gaud was one of the winners of the Flarestack Poets pamphlet competition in 2012. He blogs at http://athingforpoetry.blogspot.co.uk 

Next Buzzwords, Sunday 2nd June

Next Buzzwords - Sunday, 2nd June

Workshop, led by Matthew Stewart 7pm

Guest readings and open mic 8pm

Guest poet: Matthew Stewart
 
Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

£5 waged, £3 unwaged


Matthew Stewart lives between Extremadura, Spain, and West Sussex, England. He took a degree in Modern Languages at St Peter's College, Oxford, and now works in the Spanish wine trade. His poetry has been widely published in journals such as London Magazine and The Rialto, etc, and he blogs at http://roguestrands.blogspot.com. Happenstance Press published his first pamphlet collection, Inventing Truth, in April 2011, followed by a second chapbook, Tasting Notes, in September 2012