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THE FIRST BIG BILSTON HALLOWE'EN SLAM

Saturday 31st October 2009
Imperial Banqueting Suite, Lichfield Street, Bilston, WV14 0AJ
• 8pm (doors 7.30pm)
• £10/£9 concession. Ticket price includes curry!
Tickets available from
Big Deal Music
128 Salop Street
Wolverhampton
01902 423567

Here’s a Halloween that’s guaranteed to raise your spirits! Dress up in your best hag-rags, grab a broomstick and fly down to an evening of rhythms, rhymes and other things that go bump in the night at Bilston’s super-unnatural performance poetry competition! Fifteen verse-wizards aim to move your hearts and hearing parts with their magic words, but who will be the next Harry Po(e)tter? Which witch will cast a stanzaic spell over you? Your hosts, Grand High Sorceress Sara-Jane Arbury and Master of Cemeteries Marcus Moore, provide tricks and treats aplenty, while random judges rate the writing, assess the performances and gauge the warmth of the applaudience. Your response to the bards on show will help sort the prize pumpkins from the bobbing apples! For further information, or to take part in the Slam, contact Marcus at info@spiel.wanadoo.co.uk or ring 01285 640470. Ticket price includes a spookily sumptuous curry!

Postcard Poets
27/10/2009
VENUE: LIBRARY THEATRE

Take 20 poets. Ask each of them to write a poem on the National Poetry Day theme of Heroes and Heroines, short enough to fit on a postcard, and accessible to all readers. Select the best six - and you get the Postcard Poets. Their poems are available on attractive postcards at libraries throughout the West Midlands, but tonight all six will be reading in person. Free postcard for every audience member!

Featuring:
Jo Bell
Julie Boden
Roz Goddard
Emma Purshouse
Spoz
Catherine Whittaker

More information
Venue: Birmingham Book Festival - Venue Information
Cost: Free
Times: 8.00pm
t: 0121 303 23 23
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CHELTENHAM LITERATURE FESTIVAL

Voices Off: The UK All Stars Poetry Slam!

Saturday 10 October 2009 at 8:00 pm

(180mins)

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NATIONAL POETRY DAY

8th October 2009

Emma Purshouse performs poetry and talks about how she goes about writing poems

2-3 pm

A Poetry on Loan

live event

Venue: Central Library, Walsall

Warwick Words Festival

INVITATION TO: POETRY TEA ROOMS

Thomas Oken Tea Rooms, Warwick

Thursday 1st October 11am – 4pm
Friday 2nd October 11am – 4pm

Poetry Tea Room’s is a two-day free event for Warwick locals, tourists and Festival goers and while they’re sipping tea and munching cake, we’ll be serving up a huge dollop of fabulous poetry from the West Midlands!

Emma Purshouse will be reading at 11.00am on Friday 2nd October

Why not come along to some of the other Warwick Words events, please check out the website, which lists the full programme:
www.warwickwords.co.uk Booking is open now!