poetry

Debate 

The Poetics of Money #2: Fay Roberts

February 13, 2017March 17, 2017 Editor Buckingham Palace, Fay Roberts, Nationwide, Nationwide Poetry, poetry, Spoken Word

-by Fay Roberts– A young man’s voiceover tells us about individuality and rebellion as conventionally beautiful folk drive and dance

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Debate 

The Poetics of Money #1: Sophie McKeand

February 12, 2017May 1, 2017 Editor Anthony Anaxagorou, Gary Oldman, Joelle Taylor, John Cooper Clarke, John Lydon, Ken Loach, money, Nationwide, Nationwide Poetry, poetics of money, poetry, Sophie McKeand, Vice

The Nationwide adverts, along with collateral backlash, have been sparking debates among poets on social media for several weeks now.

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Magazine Online Magazine Opportunities 

List of South African Literary Journals (publishing in English)

September 4, 2016 Editor poetry, prose, resources, Robert Berold, South Africa

This list comes courtesy of Robert Berold, to which I’ve made one subtraction and one addition! Aerodrome    (updated online journal

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Live Literature 

Launch of Rock Life: 17 Poems from the Welsh Valleys by Gemma June Howell (Nos Da, Cardiff, 20/11/15)

December 13, 2015December 13, 2015 Mab Jones Cardiff, celebration, Gemma June Howell, J. Brookes, launch, live, Live Literature, Music, poetry, Renn Hubbuck-Melly, Spoken Word, Wales

  -Reviewed by Renn Hubbuck-Melly– As I stepped down into the basement venue of Nos Da, a broken floorboard bounced

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Spoken Word 

The Wyrd Wonder Presents… an Evening of Ghastly Delight… (Chapter, Cardiff, 13/03/15)

March 23, 2015March 28, 2015 Mab Jones A Flock of Shadows, Fiction, gothic, Live Literature, poetry, prose, stories, The Ghastling

-Reviewed by Jemma Beggs- What better way to spend Friday 13th than attending ‘An Evening of Ghastly Delight’ in Cardiff’s

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Spoken Word 

Some People Have Too Many Legs by Jackie Hagan (Llanover Hall, Cardiff, 06/03/15)

March 7, 2015March 8, 2015 Mab Jones Cardiff, disability, glitter, Jackie Hagan, legs, Live Literature, Mab Jones, Manchester, Performance, poetry, show

-Reviewed by Mab Jones- TimeHop tells Jackie Hagan that it is two years ago today when she was making the

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Festival Spoken Word 

Shame by John Berkavitch

August 19, 2014August 19, 2014 websterpoet Breakdance, Hip-Hop, John Berkavitch, poetry, Shame, Spoken Word, Streetdance, Theatre, Underbelly

– reviewed by James Webster – Shame is a highly ambitious and well-realised multi-disciplinary show. Created by John Berkavitch, this

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Festival Spoken Word 

Wingman by Richard Marsh

August 19, 2014August 19, 2014 websterpoet Edinburgh Fringe, Jerome Wright, Play, Pleasance, poetry, Richard Marsh, Theatre, Wingman

– reviewed by James Webster – Richard Marsh‘s two-man poetry play is a marvel of wit and emotion. Like all

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Pamphlets Poetry Translation 

I Can Almost See the Clouds of Dust by Yu Xiang (trans. by Fiona Sze-Lorrain)

August 3, 2014September 12, 2014 Editor Adrienne Rich, AWP, China, David Lehman, Fan Jinghua, Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Marianne Moore, poetry, Poetry in Translation, Wallace Stevens, Yu Xiang, Zara Raab, Zephyr Press

-Reviewed by Zara Raab– Named by The Asian Review of Books as one of the top women poets writing in

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Spoken Word 

Review: Landscape II by Melanie Wilson

October 2, 2013October 23, 2013 Editor Burton Taylor Studio, Fuel, Fuel Theatre, James Webster, Melanie Wilson, multimedia, poetry, Spoken Word, Theatre

-Reviewed by James Webster– The thrum of deep base sound ebbs away, leaving only a ring of tinnitus. The lights

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