Join Emma Purshouse for this fun writing workshop in conjunction with Lichfield Cathedral. Create stories and poetry that makes use of newspaper stories, magazine articles and old books. £5 per ticket.
https://thelittleboxoffice.com/lichfieldcathedral/event/view/112643
Open mic night MCd by Emma Purshouse, Dave Pitt and Steve Pottinger. All welcome. In the first half people read creative writing written on a theme. This month it’s ‘Social Media’. In the second half anything goes. Come along and share your work.
The SFL Poetry Cafe
with Nellie Cole, Kuli Kohli and Emma Purshouse
Tickets: Full £10.00 U21s £6.00
Offa’s Press is dedicated to publishing and promoting the best in contemporary West Midland poetry and poets. This year’s Poetry Cafe features three such poets, Nellie Cole, Kuli Kohli and Emma Purshouse.
Nellie Cole was born in 1996 in the Black Country. She began writing poetry while studying at the University of Birmingham. Since then her work has appeared online and in print, in anthologies This is Not Your Final Form (The Emma Press, 2017) & The Poetry of the Black Country (Offa’s Press 2017)
Nellie’s collection, Bella, is a work which blends factual evidence with folklore, superstition, hearsay and the imagination,these poems explore the Worcestershire murder mystery ‘Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?’
She works as a poetry workshop leader and mentor.
Kuli Kohli was born in Uttar Pradesh in India but has lived in England since 1973. A council worker in Wolverhampton, she is married with 3 children and helps to run Blakenhall Writers’ group. She’s written a novel, Dangerous Games, about living with cerebral palsy in an Asian family, as yet unpublished, and writes a blog for Disability Arts Online: http://disabilityarts.online
Like the best patchwork quilts from India and England, Kuli Kohli’s Patchwork has vivid colours, homespun originality and a variety of subjects and forms of poetry. This is a promising debut collection by a Wolverhampton Punjabi writer.
Emma Purshouse is a lively and original performance poet. She is a slam winner and regularly performs at spoken word venues and literature festivals across the country. Emma has had short stories and poetry published in various anthologies and small press magazines. She has an MA in Creative Writing. Emma is part of the Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists Collective alongside Dave Pitt and Steve Pottinger and they have hosted the SFL Poetry Slam for the last 2 years and will be doing so again this year.
Emma’s first full collection from Offa’s Press, Close, is a closely observed, wonderfully humane study of a community somewhere in the Black Country
Tickets are available here http://www.shrewsburylitfest.co.uk/events/event/56/
The SFL Poetry Slam is an absolute blast! 15 (or thereabouts) incredible performers share their work and are then judged, in heats, by the audience. This is a competition ( you have 3 minutes ). A full on, explosive competiton. And it is a huge amount of fun. So don’t miss it this year…
2017’s Festival saw the first SFL Poetry Slam and the winner was Brenda Read Brown, who won an opportunity to perform at last year’s Festival. She hosted the Poetry Brunch and was, once again, a great success.
2018’s winner, Jason N Smith, will be performing at this year’s Festival in support of Friday’s headline act – Dean Atta.
2019’s winner is, as yet, unknown but they will also have the chance to perform at next year’s Festival.
The whole shebang is masterminded by the Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialist Collective.
Tickets are £10 (£6 for under 21) available from
http://www.shrewsburylitfest.co.uk/events/event/53/
Wednesday 13th November with feature poets Tom Sastry and Emma Purshouse. Open mic slots available. Free event. Welcome to amazing poetry spoken words, candlelight and warm snug atmosphere .
Open Mic Poetry and Spoken Word hosted by Tony Curry.
Wednesday 6th November at Manchester Central Library, St. Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD.
6pm – 8pm [doors open 5.30pm] – Free Entry.
We have two special guest poets in November, Emma Purshouse and Steve Pottinger, members of the Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists collective in Wolverhampton.
Open mic spots for November are available to book from Wednesday 16th October via mail@flapjackpress.co.uk.
N.B. Open mic slots are 3 minutes maximum and allocated on a ‘first come first served’ basis.
If the open mic slots are already filled you will be offered a space on the reserve list.
Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists present their ever popular spoken word night.
This month the featured artist is Lorna Meehan. In the ‘Half Ender’ slot we have John Lawrence.
This is a pay as you feel event. Come along and join us. To reserve a place please email poetsprattlerspandemonialists@gmail.com
6 open mic slots available in advance/4 on the door. Strict 5 minutes.
Three poets meet to plot their path to fame and fortune. Will they be distracted by beer and scratchings? Will they put the world to rights? Come and find out. An evening of poetry and theatre like you’ve never seen before.
The poets invite you to join them for a drink and chat after the show in the Lighthouse Cafe for an informal Q&A.
16+. £5 plus booking fee. Tickets available from Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton.
Featuring Emma Purshouse, Steve Pottinger, and Dave Pitt.
Join Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists for the sharing of the Creative Black Country ‘Finding Our Funny Roots’ project. A potted history of Black Country comedy between 1950 and 2000. Featuring Alex Vann, Brendan Hawthorne, Billy Spakemon, Steve Pottinger, Dave Pitt, and Emma Purshouse.
Tickets £5 from this link
http://www.whatsonwolverhampton.com/arena-theatre/finding-your-funny-roots
Home and Away is a quarterly event brought to you by Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists. October’s event will be at Lych Gate Tavern in Wolverhampton in a change of venue.
Featuring home turf poetry from Damien Dickens, Jessica Melia, Dave Francis. Plus top-notch spoken word from the Derbyshire dream team Daron Carey, Sophie Sparham, and Jamie Thrasivoulou.
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