The first Sunday of every month currently sees an event called Art Tournament in Gloucester’s The New Inn (note I live in the UK!). I have been going along and performing at these events which are much fun January’s one was near my birthday so was hijacked as a birthday outing – sadly I was […]
Things I want to achieve this year: 1) Get The Little Book of Festive Poetry released in print, audio and e-book 2) Do the same for The Little Book of Olympic Poetry but before the Olympics actually start 3) Do poetry challenges: – Month of Poetry (Jan) MoP – World Poetry Writing Month (Feb) WoPo […]
This is a video of me reading The Little Book of Festive Poetry which I wrote a few years ago as part of the PiBoIdMo challenge. I was asked to read at The Brewery Cheltenham as part of a fund raiser for Winstons’ Wish organised by Cheltenham Poetry Festival. In the video Jean my 6 […]
Tomorrow Saturday 24th September 2011 sees the Exhibition in Braille a touchy feely art attraction set up by Centre Arts to raise money for the Gloucester County Association for the Blind. Tickets cost £5 and are avaliable at the doors which are open 12-7pm. There are some really cool things there for you to touch […]
I am now running poetry workshops and courses for such organisations as The Cheltenham Poetry Festival and Centre Arts mainly for children. The main two workshops I am offering are the Poetry Dragon which has appeared in the local newspaper and Muse Monsters. Both of these offer a handicraft as well as writing activity for […]
Saturday ie tomorrow I will be doing a quick poetry reading in the Waterstones in Cheltenham with some fantastic other poets (it’s a quick one as I’m running away to a family wedding!). This event is organised by the Cheltenham Poetry Festival who have been putting on some fantastic events through out the year. The […]
The weekend saw the first ever Cheltenham Poetry Festival and it was fantastic – it really was. There were some cracking events, photos of some of it below. I saw one of my favorite singers Men Diamler accompanied by the poet Cliff Yates. I saw a haunting performance of prose and poetry by Jonathan Taylor […]
I am going to be reading my poem Piaf tonight as part of the Poetry and Piaf event at Cafe Rouge Cheltenham as part of the Poetry Festival – event starts at 7 pm and tickets are £10. The singer is fantastic and even if you think you don’t know the songs you will as […]
Cheltenham Poetry Festival is on 31st March to 3rd of April and there are lots of fantastic events that I’m hoping to go to but I am also going to be reading and acting at several events! I am reading my Edith Piaf poem at the Poetry and Piaf events on the Thursday and the […]
From the 31st of March until the 3rd of April you will find me hanging around the Cheltenham Poetry Festival 🙂 There is Poetry with Piaf, a children’s slam, poetry and punk – and that’s just for starters! I recommend you check it out. You can get tickets for events at the Cheltenham Town Hall.