Next Buzzwords Sunday February 11th

 

Next Buzzwords Sunday February 11th

Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham

Workshop lead by Clare Best 7pm

Open mic and readings 8pm

Guest poet Clare Best

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

 

Clare Best has published a ground-breaking prose memoir, The Missing List (Linen Press 2018) as well as three full collections of poetry and several pamphlets and collaborative works. Her new collection Beyond the Gate (Worple Press 2023) has been described in The Frogmore Papers as her ‘richest collection to date’ and in London Grip as ‘warmly intelligent, questioning’. In 2020-21 Clare held a Fellowship at Guildhall School of Music & Drama where she co-created three chamber operas and a song cycle. She teaches Creative Writing for The Open University.

 

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).