Past Events

Emma Purshouse at Poets’ Cafe in Reading

Date: October 13, 2023
Time: 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location: Poets' Cafe at South Street, 21 South Street, Reading, Berkshire. RG1 4QU.

Reading’s longest-running and best-loved poetry platform, Poets’ Café, is organised and hosted by The Poetry Society’s Reading Stanza.

Tickets £5

For more information visit www.poetscafereading.co.uk

Guest poet will will be Emma Purshouse.  Open mics available.

Poets, Prattlers & Pandemonialists at Bewdley Festival

Date: October 10, 2023
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Location: St. George's Hall, Load Street, Bewdley, DY12 2EQ

Join Emma and award winning poet, Steve Pottinger, for an afternoon of first-class performance.  Expect witty, intelligent, and accessible wordsmithery.

Poetry on Demand at Blackberry Fair

Date: October 7, 2023
Time: 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
Location: Whitchurch Town Centre

Emma Purshouse and Steve Pottinger write ‘Poetry on Demand’ for the people of Whitchurch.  Roaming poets will be wandering around creating Free poems as part of Blackberry Fair shennanigans.

Albrighton Library Celebrates National Poetry Day

Date: October 4, 2023
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Albrighton Library, Station Road, Albrighton, Shropshire. WV7 3QH.

Emma will be performing with Steve Pottinger at Albrighton Library in Staffordshire the day before National Poetry Day.  This performance is a Poetry on Loan event.

Voices from the Fountain with Emma Purshouse

Date: October 3, 2023
Time: 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: The Fountain, 49 Lower Forster Street, Walsall. WS1 1XB.

Emma will be a featured poet for October’s ‘Voices from the Fountain’.  This is a monthly spoken word night that runs in Walsall on the 1st Tuesday of the month.

Launch Event for ‘Festival in a Book’

Date: September 28, 2023
Time: 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Location: Various

Emma is reading a poem at the online launch for ‘Festival in a Book’ on 29th September.

This book is jam packed full of poetry from the poets who took part in ‘Wenlock Poetry Festival’ over the years.  There are three events  to help launch this wonderful book.

Thursday 28th September – online launch 8pm BST for a place contact l.lefroy@glyndwr.ac.uk ).

Thursday 5th October – Shrewsbury Poetry – 7.30pm St Nicholas Cafe Bar, opposite Shrewsbury Library – contributors are welcome to read their anthology contribution for the open mic section of the evening. Free entry.

Thursday 12th October – online Poetry Breakfast 9am. This is Anna Dreda’s regular Poetry Breakfast, and for this month it will have a focus on the Festival Poetry Breakfast section of the anthology. The event will be dedicated to the memory of John Foggin, whose beautiful poem Wren is included. Please email info@wenlockbooks.co.uk if you’d like information. Guide price is £5.

Morecambe Poetry Festival 22nd September til 24th September 2023

Start date: September 22, 2023
End date: September 24, 2023
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Morecambe

Join a whole host of top-notch poetry names for an extravaganza of spoken word over the festival weekend.  To purchase tickets head to the website.

https://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/Lancaster/The-Morecambe-Winter-Gardens/Morecambe-Poetry-Festival/36181978/?hasNewTicketBox=1&sktag=14829&skcampaign=onegigSK

Emma will be performing with Steve Pottinger on Saturday 23rd September 2023.

Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists – Whose Round Is It Anyway?

Date: July 19, 2023
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Location: Underground at The Clubhouse, 3 Water Street, Buxton SK17 6XN

Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists’ are delighted to be bringing their new show ‘Whose Round Is It Anyway?’ to Underground at the Clubhouse as part of Buxton Fringe. This show won an award for Best Spoken Word Show at Morecambe Fringe in the summer of 2022, the very first time it was performed.

The premise of the show is simple: three poets meet up in a pub. It’s been two long years since they last met. There’s been a pandemic. How have they fared? Can they remember how to behave in company? And is this a work event or a party?

Into this framework, the pandemonialists pour a rich mix of banter, social comment, humour, and their own highly-crafted, accessible poetry.

“This show was a real treat. On the surface, three friends having their first post-pandemic pint down the pub to share their lock-down experiences. In reality, a sequence of very polished individual performances by three accomplished spoken word artists, artfully blended within a setting of pub chat and banter. The poetry was exceptional, the whole idea was ingenious, and the audience were captivated.” Lancaster Guardian review of Morecambe Fringe performance

 

Poetry on Demand at Bilston Library for Black Country Day

Date: July 14, 2023
Time: 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Location: Bilston Library, Mount Pleasant, Bilston WV14 7LU.

Emma will be appearing at Bilston Library in an event organised by Poetry on Loan and Wolverhampton Libraries.  If you’d like a unique Black Country poem written just for you right there and then, pop in between 11.00am and 1.30pm.

Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists: Whose Round Is It Anyway?

Date: July 12, 2023
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Underground at The Clubhouse, 3 Water Street, Buxton SK17 6XN

Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists’ are delighted to be bringing their new show ‘Whose Round Is It Anyway?’ to Underground at the Clubhouse as part of Buxton Fringe. This show won an award for Best Spoken Word Show at Morecambe Fringe in the summer of 2022, the very first time it was performed.

The premise of the show is simple: three poets meet up in a pub. It’s been two long years since they last met. There’s been a pandemic. How have they fared? Can they remember how to behave in company? And is this a work event or a party?

Into this framework, the pandemonialists pour a rich mix of banter, social comment, humour, and their own highly-crafted, accessible poetry.

“This show was a real treat. On the surface, three friends having their first post-pandemic pint down the pub to share their lock-down experiences. In reality, a sequence of very polished individual performances by three accomplished spoken word artists, artfully blended within a setting of pub chat and banter. The poetry was exceptional, the whole idea was ingenious, and the audience were captivated.” Lancaster Guardian review of Morecambe Fringe performance

 

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