Past Events

Word of Mouth

Date: June 22, 2017
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: The Booth Hall, East Street, Hereford. HR1 2LW

Spoken word at the Booth Hall Hereford.  Featuring Emma Purshouse.  £3.50/£1.50 (students).  Open mic slots available.

Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists

Date: June 15, 2017
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am

Yes, We Cant

Date: June 4, 2017
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Pretty Bricks, 5 John Street, Walsall. WS2 8AF

New spoken word night brought to you by Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists.  Featuring the amazing Jonny Fluffypunk.  Expect to be entertained. “Intricate humour, surreal fantasy, sharp irony and wit” The Independent.

FREE entry – pay what you feel.

Guest slot from Paul Francis.  Open mic slots available (strict five minute ruling…so time your poems!)

The Audlem Poetry Slam

Date: May 25, 2017
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: The Bridge Inn, 12 Shropshire Street, Audlem CW3 0DX

The Audlem Music and Arts Festival Poetry Slam.  MCd by Emma Purshouse and Dave Pitt.

Come along and take part if you think you’re bard enough.

Poetry Night at Quatt Village Hall

Date: May 20, 2017
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Quatt Village Hall

Three different poets, three very different styles. Expect an evening of wit, wisdom and wry humour, with a good dollop of the Black Country thrown in!

Jane Seabourne, Brendan Hawthorne and Emma Purshouse are coming to entertain you!

Tickets £10. Please bring your own drinks, food available to buy.

Contact Jackie on 01746 781759 to book

Black Country Authors

Date: April 28, 2017
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Cellar Bar, Katie FitzGeralds, 187 Enville Street, Stourbridge DY8 3TB

Featuring Dave Reeves, Emma Purshouse, Paul Mcdonald, RM Francis and Kerry Hadley Pryce.

Price: £5

www.wegottickets.com

Spoken Trend

Date: April 26, 2017
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Bulls Head, Kings Norton

A Birmingham based monthly event, giving the opportunity for spoken word  artists and poets to perform their material in a welcoming and relaxed setting.

Featuring Emma Purshouse.

Putting Poetry In Its Place

Date: April 23, 2017
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Mid Wales Arts Centre, Maesmawr, Caesws, Newtown SY17 5SB

Come to Mid Wales Arts Centre for an afternoon of poetry and music which is rooted in place: Enjoy Black Country’s Steve Pottinger and Emma Purshouse – 2 exceptional performance poets whose work is both entertaining and thought-provoking; musician Andrew Warren – who along with a Welsh speaker will pay tribute to Caersws’ John ‘Ceiriog’ Hughes; then sit back, laugh and revel in the 2014 Costa Award for Poetry winner Jonathan Edwards – who will read from My Family and other Superheroes, as well as treat us to some of his new work. Nadia Kingsley will be hosting.

Tickets from: http://fairacrepress.co.uk/shop/event-putting-poetry-in-its-place/

Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists

Date: April 21, 2017
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Arena Theatre, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton

Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists – (a new show from Pitt, Pottinger and Purshouse)

What happens when three poets who barely know each other decide to put on a show?

Join Dave Pitt, Emma Purshouse, and Steve Pottinger as they meet in a pub somewhere a lot like Wolverhampton and 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 like you’ve never seen before. May contain language.

Poetry of The Black Country Workshop

Date: April 8, 2017
Time: 12:00 am - 12:00 am
Location: Tipton Library, Owen House, 17 Unity Walk, Tipton DY4 8QL

Emma Purshouse will be running a workshop on the ‘Poetry of the Black Country’ at Tipton Library between 11am-1pm.

This workshop is to support work being created for the Offa’s Press anthology, The Poetry of the Black Country. Free event.

If you’re a keen writer of Black Country poetry or poetry about the Black Country then you’re welcome to come along.

Please don’t send any poetry in yet as Offa’s Press shall be opening a window for submissions, with full details, from June 1 to July 23.

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