Past Events

Diversion @ Ledbury Poetry House featuring Barry Hollow and Emma Purshouse

Date: January 27, 2023

Time: 7:00 am - 9:00 pm

Location: Ledbury Poetry House, 1 Bye St, Ledbury HR8 2AA

A new series of spoken word events. Open mic sign-up on the night.

Saturday Books’ Poetry Breakfast

Date: December 17, 2022

Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Emma Purshouse and Steve Pottinger will be performing poetry for Saturday Books’ Poetry Breakfast. Later in the day there will be a Christmas Fair in the bookshop, so why not come along and make a day of it.

CWU Benefit Gig

Date: December 8, 2022

Time: 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

Location: The Royal British Legion, Church Hill, Wednesbury WS10 9DF

Emma will be performing with Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists as part of a night of live entertainment intended to raise funds for striking postal workers from Wednesbury CWU.

Expect music, poetry & much, much more….

Free entry but donations appreciated. Money goes towards a strike fund for postal workers within Wednesbury who are facing unprecedented attacks on their pay & working conditions.

Book Signing in Waterstones Wolverhampton

Date: December 3, 2022

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location: Waterstones, 13-15 Victoria St, Wolverhampton WV1 3NP

Emma will be signing copies of her new poetry collection ‘It’s Honorary, Bab’. This book is part diary extracts and part poems that detail Emma’s time spent as the first Poet Laureate for the City of Wolverhampton. Also to buy on the day will be Emma’s first poetry collection ‘Close’ and her novel ‘Dogged’. A great opportunity to get Christmas presents for the readers in your life.

Book Week Scotland Workshop Event – Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway

Date: November 25, 2022

Time: 10:30 am - 1:00 pm

Location: 44 High St, Gatehouse of Fleet, Castle Douglas DG7 2HP

Join Steve and Emma for a unique writing workshop

Writing people and place: making the ordinary, extraordinary.

Followed by a light lunch at The Bakehouse.

A unique opportunity to work with two experienced workshop leaders who love what they do. Both award winning poets from the English Black Country, whose respective work often focuses on the people, place, language and landscape of their post industrial region. Join them for a morning of fun and friendly creative writing activities designed to get you thinking about your place and your people. You will be invited to experiment with a couple of poetry forms, find wonder in the world around you, and make new work based upon close observance of everyday lives.

BOOKING:
email: chrys@chryssalt.com
tel or text mob: 07891 803027
£12.00

Book Week Scotland Performance Event at The Gatehouse of Fleet

Date: November 24, 2022

Time: 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Location: The Bakehouse, 44 High St, Gatehouse of Fleet, Castle Douglas DG7 2HP

Steve Pottinger and Emma Purshouse perform.

Tickets £5

Keele Readings

Date: November 21, 2022

Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Location: Senior Common Room, Keele University, ST5 5BG.

Emma will be featuring for Keele Readings. FREE event. All welcome.

contact arts@keele.ac.uk

01782 734340

https://www.keele.ac.uk/about/events/2022/november/emmapurshouse-keelereadings/eventtitle,361287,en.php

Country Voices

Date: November 19, 2022

Time: 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Location: The Water Rat, Buildwas Road, Ironbridge, TF8 7BJ.

Join us at the Water Rat for readings from Parveen Brigue, Colin Wells, and Emma Purshouse. Tickets are £5 on the door.

Quiet Compere Online

Date: November 12, 2022

Time: 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Location: Online event

Emma Purshouse will be co-hosting a Quiet Compere Online Showcase with Sarah L Dixon. The event features George Bastow, Gracey-Bee, Penny Blackburn, Mark Connors, Linda Goulden, Helen Ivory, Elizabeth McGeown, Jennifer A.McGowan, Jack McLean and Mark Pajak.

To book your online place contact…

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Launch of Flamingo by Kathryn Bevis

Date: October 29, 2022

Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Location: The Poetry Pharmacy, 36 High Street, Bishops Castle, Shropshire, SY9 5BQ

The launch of Kathryn Bevis’ debut pamphlet Flamingo at the Poetry Pharmacy, with guest readings by Emma Purshouse and Jeanette Burton

Tickets are £3 available here…

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-flamingo-by-kathryn-bevis-tickets-427062905647?aff=erelexpmlt

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