Warwick Words – Festival of Literature and Spoken Word
4 – 7 October 2007

Poetry Tea Rooms: Rhymes & Verse On the Menu
If you like your tea and cake served up with a dollop of fabulous poetry, then look no further than the Thomas Oken Tea Rooms in Warwick on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th October (11am – 4pm).

As a finishing touch to her year as Warwick Poet Laureate, Helen Yendall has invited local poets to showcase their talents in the 500-year old tea shop for the Warwick Words Festival and over 30 of them have risen to the challenge.

“I was delighted with the response,” Helen says. “There’s a wealth of talent in our region and many of the performing poets are published writers or Poet Laureates themselves. I like the idea of taking poetry out into unusual places and I’m sure it’s going to be great fun - for the poets and customers alike! This event is open to all and if any of the Tea Room visitors would like to read out one of their own poems, they’ll be more than welcome.”

Poets who will be performing upstairs in the Thomas Oken Tea Rooms include members of The Leam Writers, Warwick Words Writers’ Group and Inktank, plus Giovanni ‘Spoz’ Esposito (Birmingham Poet Laureate 2006 -7), Sean Kelly and BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire’s own Poet Laureate, Jo Roberts.

For more information on the poets or to request a timeslot to read your own poem, please contact: Helen Yendall – Warwick Poet Laureate helenyendall@yahoo.co.uk

Emma Purshouse will be reading at 2pm on Friday 5th October 2007 in the tea rooms!

WORD UP! POETRY NIGHT...CELLAR BAR...CASTLE CAFE...CARDIGAN...CEREDIGAN

THURSDAY 4TH OCTOBER 2007. About the Show…..What would happen if Punch and Judy were guests on the Jeremy Kyle Show? This poetry performance transplants characters from the traditionalPunch and Judy puppet show into the culture of day time television.“A splendid mixture of social comment and comedy” written and performed by Wolverhampton based performance poet Emma Purshouse.

Mc Sue Hamblen

Open mic slots and a poetry competition!

The Professor Vyle Show
Poetry with Punch

A one hour
one woman show
written and performed by
Emma Purshouse


Preview show 21st September 2007
infront of an invited audience.

Watch this space for forthcoming performances
of this poetry play!

Thursday September 20th 2007 - Women Who Write
Monthly women's writing workshop lead by Emma Purshouse.
Venue: Bilston Community Centre, Prouds Lane, Bilston
Time: 7.00 - 9.00pm
Cost: Free - All women writers are welcome
Contact: emmaasif@hotmail.com

If I Cover My Nose You Can't See Me...
Written and performed by Polar Bear
Tue 18 Sep 2007 - Wed 19 Sep 2007
Director Yael Shavit
Co-produced by Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Apples & Snakes

A 28-year-old stuck in a job he never wanted. A 10-year-old private detective looking for answers. An affair, an imaginary friend, an absent father, a story waiting to be written and a tragic accident.If I Cover My Nose... is part of our work-in-progress series, which gives audiences the chance to see up-to-the-minute theatre from a range of companies before they take flight into fully-fledged productions. Come and experience this miniature season of future theatre.

Saturday September 15th 2007
Chainwomen's Festival @ The Black Country Museum

Speakers include Tony Benn and Billy Bragg.

Emma Purshouse will be performing poetry at different locations around the site throughout the day. Also performing will be John Edgar, Mike Tinsley, Lozz Hipkiss and Billy Spakemon.

Tuesday 11th September 2007 - City Bar, King Street, Wolverhampton
'City Voices'
7.30 pm
Cost: Free event, all welcome
Contact: Simon Fletcher 01902 552061

Tune in to the Radio Four Slam final
13th September 2007 @ 11pm

Tune in to the second of the Radio Four Slam semi-finals
6th September 2007 @ 11pm

Tune in to the first of the Radio Four Slam semi-finals
30th August 2007 @ 11pm


Thursday August 16th 2007 - Women Who Write

Monthly women's writing workshop lead by Emma Purshouse.
Venue: Bilston Community Centre, Prouds Lane, Bilston
Time: 7.00 - 9.00pm
Cost: Free - All women writers are welcome
Contact: emmaasif@hotmail.com

Tuesday 14th August 2007 - City Bar, King Street, Wolverhampton

'City Voices' 7.30 pm
Cost: Free event, all welcome
Contact: Simon Fletcher 01902 552061

Thursday July 19th 2007 - Women Who Write

Monthly women's writing workshop lead by Emma Purshouse.
Venue: Bilston Community Centre, Prouds Lane, Bilston
Time: 7.00 - 9.00pm
Cost: Free - All women writers are welcome
Contact: emmaasif@hotmail.com


Tuesday 10th June 2007 - City Bar, King Street, Wolverhampton

'City Voices' 7.30 pm
Cost: Free event, all welcome
Contact: Simon Fletcher 01902 552061

Emma Purshouse and Dorothy Baruch talk about their residencies
with Wolverhampton Libraries.

Win Saha reads from her new collection 'Love is a Four Letter Word'