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.

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday January 8th

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday January 8th

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

Workshop lead by Frank McMahon 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Frank McMahon

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

 

 

Frank McMahon was born and raised in Birkenhead, Merseyside. After graduating he began his career in Social Work/ Welfare as a practitioner and manager, working for three Local Authorities, British Red Cross and ActionforChildren. He also served for nine years as a school governor. He is married with two children and six grandchildren.

He took up writing poems seriously in 2016 and his work has been published in print and on-line.Last year, two poems were awarded second prizes.

 In January 2020 Palewell Press published his first volume of poems, “At the Storm’s Edge.”

They will be publishing his second collection, A Different Land, in July 2022.

 In 2021 he read at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. In 2019, he created two podcasts for Ragged Foils Productions. 

When not writing (plays, a novel, short stories and poems) he enjoys walking, ( The Cotswolds are his new playground) ; his allotment, travel, music. He counts himself fortunate to have some wonderful friendships. He is a member of Somewhere Else Writers and Wordbrew Groups in Cirencester, whom he thanks for their patience in reading and critiquing his work.

Next Buzzwords Sunday December 11th

 

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

Workshop lead by Alicia Stubbersfield 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

 

Guest poets are our two Gloucestershire prize winners from The Buzzwords competition: Kathryn Alderman and Alicia Stubbersfield

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

 

Kathryn Alderman  is a Masters student of Creative & Critical Writing at the University of Gloucestershire and is writing her dissertation is on ecopoetry. She’s widely published in leading journals including Ink, Sweat & Tears, 14 Magazine, The Poetry Bus Magazine, Atrium Poetry and the Dear Politicians ecopoetry anthology due out Summer 2023. She's won the Cannon Poets’ ‘Sonnet or Not’ Competition, the 'Gloucestershire Prize' for Buzzwords Poetry Competition 2022 and is a runner-up in the 2022 Gloucestershire Writers' Network Competition. 

Alicia Stubbersfield’s fourth collection, The Yellow Table (Pindrop Press) was described by Andrew McMillan as a ‘book that cuts the pretension and is smart enough to wear its learning lightly.’ She lectured at Aberystwyth University, was Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University and frequently tutors for The Arvon Foundation. She is working on her fifth collection, Enigma Machine.

Next Buzzwords Sunday November 13th

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday November 13th

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

Workshop lead by Jessica Mookhergee 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

 

Guest poet Jessica Mookhergee

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

 

Jessica Mookherjee is a British poet of Bengali heritage. She was brought up in Mumbles, Wales, lived most of her adult life in London and now lives in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Her second collection, Tigress, published by Nine Arches Press and was shortlisted for the Ledbury Munthe Prize for best second collection in 2021. Her third full collection is Notes from a Shipwreck also published with Nine Arches Press .She has been published in many print and online journals and anthologies, including the Bloodaxe anthology ’Staying Human’. She has been published in journals such as Agenda, The North, Rialto, Under the Radar, Finished Creatures, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Magma and Poetry Wales. She has twice been highly commended for best single poem in the Forward Prizes.

Next Buzzwords Sunday October 9th

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday October 9th

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

Workshop lead by Angela France 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

 

Guest poet Peter Reynard

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

 

Peter Raynard is a disabled working class poet, and editor. His previous two books of poetry are Precarious, (Smokestack Books), and The Combination: a poetic coupling of the Communist Manifesto, (Culture Matters), both in 2018. He edited Proletarian Poetry: poems of working class lives, for five years (www.proletarianpoetry.com), featuring over 150 contemporary poets. His second collection Manland was published by Nine Arches Press in July 2022.