WHAT'S GOING ON IN NOVEMBER...
Emma will be slamming at the New Inn in Gloucester as part of Brenda Read-Brown's team on 6th November 2011. 3pm onwards.
Brewers' Troupe is running a performance poetry workshop between 7pm and 9.30pm on 15th November at the Boars Head in Kidderminster. It's £8 to take part. If you'd like to book a place then email emmaasif@hotmail.com
17th November - THREE POETS WALK INTO A PUB with Mark Niel, Emma Purshouse and Heather Wastie. Ye Olde White Harte, Kinver. 7.45 - 10.15. Open mic slots are available.
Bilston Voices will have a Black Country theme this month. Brendan Hawthorne, Jill Tromans, Ron Davies, Mike Tinsley and Geoff Stevens will all be strutting their stuff. Emma Purshouse will MC. 7.30pm at Cafe Metro on 24th November.
29th November - THREE POETS WALK INTO A PUB with Mark Niel, Emma Purshouse and Heather Wastie. The King and Castle, Kidderminster. 7.45 - 10.15pm Open mic slots are available.
Saturday 5 November 2011
Wednesday 12 October 2011
What's happening in October?
Recharge Your Batteries. What makes you smile? Makes you feel better? Makes your day? Take time out to come to our FREE poetry reading and writing sessions and find out!
Emma will be leading these free poetry tasters in Stoke on Trent on October 5th and October 19th. To book a place phone 01782 238455. The sessions run from 10am - 12.30pm.
It's National Poetry Day on 6th October - Emma will be working with year 10 students at Sandwell Academy.
On 8th October it's the UK All Stars Poetry Slam. 15 poets go head to head at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
Emma is taking part in a slam in Crewe on 13th October at the Axis Art Centre.
Post Card Poets is happening as part of The Birmingham Book Festival on Friday 14th October 2011. Emma will be reading at this event. The event is FREE and takes place at the Library Theatre to book phone the box office on 0121 446 3232. Check out the fabulous events that are taking place between 6-16 October (not to be missed Tony Harrison 15th October).
Emma is supporting the critically acclaimed MONKEY POET at the Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton on Friday 21st October @ 8pm.
"makin projects proudly presents MONKEY POET in 'Welcome'. Think Bill Hicks meets Mark Thomas, with a dash of rhyme, and you've got Monkey Poet.
'Welcome' is a double bill of shows.
'Welcome...to Afghanistan' It's 1839. Britain is going to start a war it cannot win. History repeats itself. A Play adapted from Lt. Greenwood's memoir published in 1844. "Comic, brainy and disturbing. Turns dark tragedy into dark comedy." NUVO MAGAZINE, INDANAPOLIS. "A sweeping war epic, plenty of laughs and a resonant finale" THEATRE GUIDE, LONDON.
'Welcome...to the UK. Satiric Stand-Up in Rhyme. "A throwback to the 80s and that's no insult. Comedy with a real viewpoint." THE SCOTSMAN "Hilarious" CITYLIFE "Topical original and delivered with style. The audience was in stitiches." THREE WEEKS.
For more information please visit www.monkeypoet.co.uk
EMMA PURSHOUSE provides support with 'Who Does She Think She Is?' - poetry meets family tree as Emma brings together weird and whacky characters from her previous three shows (with the odd new creation thrown in for good measure).
Tickets £9 (£7)
ARENA THEATRE BOX OFFICE 01902 321 321
Please note that this event is likely to contain strong language and adult material.
The fabulous Jean Sprackland comes to Wolverhampton to read at the Alan Garner Centre on the afternoon of 26th October. For more information phone Simon Fletcher 01902 552061.
27th October sees Emma acting as MC at the regular Bilston Voices event. This month with got Nadia Kingsley from Fair Acre Press and Dave Reeves launching his new collection 'Black Country Dialectics' published by Offas Press.
Emma is performing as part of this event.
29th October sees Ned Williams launch his new books at the Imperial Banqueting Suite.
Ned Williams
Wednesday 7 September 2011
What's Happening in September
SEPTEMBER 2011.....
If you fancy a giggle then why not come along to FUNNY WOMEN at Ashmore Park Library, Griffiths Drive, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, WV11 2JW. SATURDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER 2011 from 2.30 - 4.00. Three Offa's Press Poets entertain. Expect wry humour, dry humour, wit, laugh out loud moments and the odd groan as Emma Purshouse, Win Saha and Jane Seabourne take to the stage.
This is a FREE event. For more information then contact Ashmore Park Library 01902 556296.
SUNDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER 2011
Emma Purshouse and Jane Seabourne will be in action at ARTS FEST in BIRMINGHAM. 3.30pm - 4.00pm at the Council House (Nr the Town Hall and Library).
SATURDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER 2011
THE ANTIPOET
JO BELL
In the second half of the evening, Nick Pearson (Offas Press) will be reading from his new collection 'Made in Captivity'. Nick will be signing copies of his book which will be available to buy after the reading.
Thursday 11 August 2011
www.bridgnorthfestival.org
Thursday 21 July 2011
WHAT'S HAPPENING IN JULY?
Emma is running workshops for Wolverhampton Art Gallery on the 6th and 9th July.
Emma will be appearing at....
Bloxwich Bookmark
20th July.
Emma will be taking part in the Cultural Olympiad Open Weekend - She will be poet 1 in the Great West Midlands Poetry Relay - 23rd July (for more information go to www.writingwestmidlands.org)
July also sees the opening of the 'The Art of Story' Exhibiton at The Public in West Bromwich. Emma was part of the team working with local school children who have responded in their own way to the work of Allan and Janet Ahlberg. The exhibition runs from 6th July - 18th Sept (Wed - Sun)
Bilston Voices is on 28th July at Cafe Metro. It's a 7.30 start. Featuring, amongst others, Sarah Tamar, Anne Hastings and Heather Wastie. Emma Purshouse will be your MC for the evening.
Monday 4 April 2011
EMMA PURSHOUSE LIVE ON RADIO WILDFIRE
http://www.radiowildfire.com/ Monday 4th April 8.00-10.00 pm (UK time). + Roy McFarlane's Laureate's Diary from 10.00pm
April already and the shower at Radio Wildfire are set to stream you another realtime programme of spoken word and live literature, commentary and humour on Radio Wildfire Live! ...
Joining us in the studio will be David Calcutt, playwright, storyteller, poet and novelist, with his latest novel, the recently completed The Hunt for the Great Bear. Set in a distant future during another ice age, with many species of animals extinct and the few humans that remain living as in the ancient paleolithic, a small group of hunters set out to hunt the legendary Great Bear. What begins as an epic adventure becomes a mythic journey ... listen in to learn more.
Poet and slam champ Emma Purshouse will join us too with extracts from her Offa's Press cd Upsetting the Apple Cart and discussing her contribution to Snug, a successful spoken word pub show from Brewers' Troupe performed in public bars and where you find the action all around you.
We'll also be talking to Gary Longden the Spoken Word editor of Behind the Arras the online review magazine that continues to be the only theatrical website nationally which reports and reviews Spoken Word events. He'll be giving us his personal choice of the best spoken word artists and venues around at the moment.
There'll be tracks which have been recently uploaded to the Submit page of out website from Stephen Mead and Ryan Cole, both from the USA, from Mark Goodwinform from the UK, and from others; plus humour from the community of Little Hope, as we continue to dig down into the life of one community in rural England as Tony Judge reads from the Little Hope Parish Magazine.
Then at 10.00 pm you'll get the latest instalment of the Laureate's Diary from current Birmingham Poet Laureate Roy McFarlane. More recollections, musing and poems from another month in his hectic poetry year.
Join us: Monday 4th April from 8.00 pm UK time at www.radiowildfire.com
Radio Wildfire: live lit, conversation and humour (no fooling). We look forward to your company,
The Crew @ Radio Wildfire.
… Why not send your own tracks to Radio Wildfire by going to the ‘Submit’ page of our website and uploading MP3s of your work. Spoken word and music, comedy, storytelling, poetry, song and aural art, they are all part of the eclectic mix we are looking for when we create Radio Wildfire Live!
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Friday 14 January 2011
One poet from the West Midlands, one from elsewhere in the UK, and one from another country. This is Hit the Ode: a unique performance poetry night bringing world-class spoken word artists to the heart of Birmingham.