News

summer 2009

POETRY INTUITION workshop in Birdwood House, Totnes

is on its summer break now, but AUTUMN TERM begins SEPTEMBER 7th

every Monday evening (7.30 to 9.30) This is an ongoing weekly poetry workshop in Totnes town centre. It is facilitated by Susan Taylor and Simon Williams. Continuing into its fifth year of practise, this group explores all aspects of poetry and creates fresh work through exercises and discussion. The £5 per session includes coffee or tea. There are usually spaces available for this evening workshop, as there is core group of regular members, plus extra writers, who are only able to visit , when time allows. Contact susan@farmhouse.ac for more details.

Book launch - REBECCA GETHIN & MIRIAM DARLINGTON

FRIDAY JULY 3rd - 7.30pm

Readings from ‘River is the Plural of Rain’ by Rebecca Gethin and ‘Windfall’ by Miriam Darlington, both from Oversteps Books. There will also be an open mic, which includes fellow Oversteps poets, Susan Taylor & Simon Williams and more poets from far and near. This event is part of the new ExC!Te Poetry programme, a new Poetry Society Stanza group, organised by Rachel McCarthy.

Women wearing white IN EXETER CITY CENTRE

SATRUDAY JULY 4th - 11am ‘til 2pm

This is the first time that Exeter High Street will see women in white taking to the street. THE TEMPLE OF NOTHING performers : 20 brides are taking to Exeter High street on the 4th July 2009 from 11am to 2pm. Join the biggest white dress/bride dress celebration in the country... we want 100's of brides present... if not 1000's - be there! Bring white horses, white cats and dogs, bring white umbrellas and white flowers... an EXTRA-ORDINARY flash mob event.

Moor poets - uncharted AT WAYS WITH WORDS

SATURDAY JULY 11th - 5pm in the Dukes Room, Dartington Hall

These poems, from a widespread network of Dartmoor writers, are selected for their ability to astound, provoke or amuse the listener. Enjoy a journey with the wrong map or share the delights of making love by the reflected light of cows. Meet the night-time chainsaw sculptor, women who swig whisky from the bottle, a cannibalistic rabbit and a newborn foal.

(Moor Poets CD ‘Uncharted’ is an Arts Council funded project)

Tickets £5 - from www.wayswithwords.co.uk or phone, box office: 01803 867373

MALTSTERS M ASH at THE MALTSTERS ARMS, nr TOTNES

SATURDAY JULY 11th - 8pm ‘til late

A candle lit evening suffused with a bubbly mix of music, poetry, song & storytelling. Performers & audience come along to stir this quintessential brew & take a nightcap in the Breakfast Room. It’s free entry & for details email: susan@farmhouse.ac

for details of the Maltsters Arms on romantic Bow Creek - click below

www.tuckenhay.com

Trade winds in the outdoors

SUNDAY JULY 12th - 3.30pm in the Ways With Words outdoor reading room

Pull up a garden chair for a picnic of poems, songs and stories by the popular Trade Winds performers. Visitors to the festival are most welcome to add their ways with words to the proceedings! It’s an informal affair and slots, which should be kept short and sweet, are allotted on the day, on a first come, first served basis.

Temple of nothing presents... WOMEN ARE REVOLTING!

THURSDAY JULY 16th - 8pm EXETER PHOENIX THEATRE

On a blank-white-canvas, glamorous, stunning, cheeky, real, raw and true. 15 extraordinary women writer/performers/artists merge and intertwine to create the first of a series of earth quaking performances, giving birth to new myths, and exploding conventional icons and traditions.

It’s time. It's showtime.

Tickets £10/£7 - for bookings: Exeter Phoenix box office: 01392 667080

CuTtiings from the garden begins at The White Hart patio

WAYS WITH WORDS LITERATURE FESTIVAL, DARTINGTON HALL

SUNDAY JULY 19th - 11am

Take a walk around Dartington’s magnificent gardens to hear poems inspired here over the generations. Susan Taylor and Simon Williams, both well known at the festival, are joined by Dartington poet, Pamela Sandry Gorman, who will add insights from when the garden sparkled in first bloom and she was a young girl.

Tickets £5 from www.wayswithwords.co.uk or phone, box office: 01803 867373

Muse and munch at THE EDINBURGH FREE FRINGE

FRIDAY AUGUST 21st - 12 noon

at St Martins Church Hall , 232 Dalry Road, Edinburgh, EH11 2JG

From the far reaches of the South Hams, South Coast poet & managing editor of Oversteps Books, Alwyn Marriage, performs with Oversteps poets, Susan Taylor & Simon Williams from Dartmoor and A C Clarke from Glasgow.

Oversteps Books publishes poetry collections by some of the best contemporary poets from all over the United Kingdom and further afield

This free event is part of the St Martin’s Exhibition.

North meets South at the APPLEDORE BOOK FESTIVAL
THURSDAY OCTOBER 1st - 2.00pm in St. Mary’s Hall, Appledore

A rare and exciting opportunity to hear four poets from opposing edges of Devon read from their latest collections. Alyson Hallett, Frances Thompson, Julie-Ann Rowell and Susan Taylor kaleidoscope love, snow, the movement of stones and travel into poems that promise not only to entertain, but to send you reeling into the dark and sensuous substance of life.

£4 from the festival box office: 01237 424949