Poetry: Coffee-House Poetry

I'm reading at the Troubadour in Earls Court next Monday, 26 January, in the company of some fine poets. Full details below. Come along, you can always catch Corrie on itv Player...

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mon 26 jan: salon d’hiver with rishi dastidar, kate ghyll, agnieszka studzinska, soul patel, angela kirby, jacqueline saphra, nick mackinnon & laura scott with henry fajemirokun

A Troubadour prelude to spring with a sparkling winter wordfest from:

• Rishi Dastidar is a member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen a The Complete Works Fellow was a runner-up in 2011 Cardiff International Poetry Competition, & featured in 2014’s Ten: The New Wave (Bloodaxe, 2014)
• Kate Ghyll has worked for Poetry Society of America, published short stories, acted in filmmaker Sophie Fiennes’ Front Row Orchestra & is starting an online cultural magazine The Reconnaissance
• Agnieszka Studzinska’s debut collection, Snow Calling, was shortlisted for 2010’s London New Poetry Award: her second is What Things Are (Eyewear, 2014)
• strategy consultant & Capoeira (Brazilian dance/martial-arts) practitioner Soul Patel is a Faber Academy graduate & member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen
• Angela Kirby’s poems have been read on Radio 4 & BBC TV, & translated into Romanian — her 3rd Shoestring collection is A Scent of Winter (2013)
• Jacqueline Saphra’s The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions (flipped eye, 2011) was an Aldeburgh First Collection nomination – If I Lay On My Back I Saw Nothing But Naked Women (Emma, 2014) is an illustrated book of prose-poems
• history teacher Nick MacKinnon lives in Winchester & Cambridge — his recent prizes include 2012 Keats-Shelley, 2012Hippocrates & 2013 Forward Best Single Poem
• Laura Scott’s magazine publications include Poetry Review & Tate Etc. – her pamphlet What I Saw (Rialto, 2013) won the Michael Marks Award
• plus singer/songwriter Henry Fajemirokun

Listorama: Facebook status updates vol 37

BetaRish (is)...

My life is mostly paint and words at the moment

The list is growing

has his nose pressed up against the glass

Oh heck, oh heck, oh heck

Time to get on with it

*sniffles*

Light is fantastic

remains confused by people’s willingness to put their heads inside crocodile jaws

*ill*

Wooo.Zeee

is an unreliable temperature gauge

has had his cover blown

is a dragoman

is a real-time deal delivery system

is a slave to tetrameter

is as frail as vaudeville

is entranced

is available to be a brand’s poetry partner

is gathering

leapt tall buildings in a single bound

is in the world

The simple schemes are always the most fiendish

Only the paranoid tweet once

is the universal service obligation

Remember me to the Ways and Means Committee

Remember me to the Undercity

is the definition

is practicing his spontaneity

So ends my first visit to Norwich. Hope to see more of you next time

is your clueless sidekick

grumble grumble, grumble grumble

too much chain, not enough mail

is a mean new rebel

Who is the what is the who?

is 37 signal strong

is a model of make believe

is burbling

Or maybe it’s too much?

is tripping the fuse fantastic

…and breathe…

lacks the power

is lacking power again

A stomach bug is not ideal Christmas preparation

Good things to all men. Except them. They’re rotters

is at work

May your 2015s be wonderful, your tribulations tiny, and your triumphs tremendous

Pinch punch… oh, the first day back in the office isn’t meant to be violent

is a voracious tweeter of bon mots

Poetry: One to watch

Me, apparently. I'd recommend keeping an eye on the other five instead.