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Disappear Here Project Launch (The Box, Fargo, Coventry, 16 March 2017)

March 24, 2017March 25, 2017 Sally Jack Ben Cook, Brian Harley, Cormac Faulkner, Coventry, Dara Mortimer, Disappear Here, Emilia Moniszko, Emily Wright, James Grady, John McCaughley, Mab Jones, Martin Green, Philip Larkin, Richard Hourguez, Sangham Sharma, Sarah James, Stella Backhouse, The Box, Zoe Palmer

reviewed by Stella Backhouse Known for his ambivalence towards the city of his birth, Philip Larkin’s best known work about

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Matt Watts: Playlist (Attenborough Arts, Leicester, 26 February 2017)

February 28, 2017May 1, 2017 Sally Jack Attenborough Arts, Leicester, Leicester Comedy Festival, Matt Watts, Playlist, Rock Band, Sally Jack

reviewed by Sally Jack Matt Watts’s Playlist considers the role music plays in our lives, particularly now we are set

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The Venus Papers Stage Show (Attenborough Arts, Leicester, 4 February 2017)

February 8, 2017December 20, 2017 Sally Jack Attenborough Arts, Botticelli, Burning Eye Books, Dave Dhonau, Leicester, Lydia Towsey, Ola Szmidt, Renaissance One, Scott Bridgwood, The Venus Papers

– Reviewed by Sally Jack– Writer and performer Lydia Towsey Paintings and artwork Scott Bridgwood Co-directors Rachel Mars and

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McGregor Poetry (Festival): Voices on Fire 26-28th August 2016

August 28, 2016January 17, 2017 Editor Cape Town, Ethne Mudge, Harry Owen, James Matthews, Jolyn Phillips, Kobus Moolman, McGregor Poetry Festival, Nick Mulgrew, Poetry in McGregor, South Africa, Temenos, UWC

-Reviewed by Claire Trévien– This isn’t going to be much of a review. I don’t think someone running three events

Anthology Live Literature Poetry

Alice: Ekphrasis at the British Library

August 1, 2016July 30, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Alice in Wonderland, Alice: Ekphrasis at the British Library, Andrew McMillan, Anna Kisby, Helen ivory, Jenna Clake, Lewis Carroll, Luke Wright, Miriam Gamble, Sarah Salway, Sharon Black, Vanessa Gebbie

– Reviewed by Jenna Clake – Alice is an anthology celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll’s

Interactive Literature Live Literature Saboteur Awards

Meet the artist: Sophie Fenella

May 16, 2016May 16, 2016 Editor Dynamite Commission, Saboteur Awards, Sophie Fenella

Sophie Fenella was the winner of our inaugural Dynamite commission and will be performing her poetry installation ‘The Archive’ at

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Jon Compliant at Voicebox (UnDegUn, Wrexham,14/12/15)

December 23, 2015 Anna Jamieson Jon Compliant, Live Literature, north Wales, Sophie McKeand, Spoken Word, Tim HUmphreys, Voicebox, Wales

-Reviewed by Sophie McKeand– It’s Monday evening and, to quote an old Welsh language idiom, it’s raining old wives and

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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 Anna Jamieson 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

Festival Live Literature Poetry Spoken Word

Raving Beauties (Literary Leicester festival, Attenborough Arts Centre, 10 Nov 15)

November 14, 2015November 14, 2015 Sally Jack Bloodaxe Books, Dee Orr, Fan Viner, Literary Leicester festival, Raving Beauties, Sue Jones-Davies, University of Leicester

-reviewed by Sally Jack– What with body image and the tampon tax, women’s bodies are still ‘up there’ as far

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John Osborne and Molly Naylor

September 18, 2015September 18, 2015 websterpoet Burton Taylor Studio, James Webster, John Osborne, Molly Naylor

– reviewed by James Webster – – at the Burton Taylor Studio, Oxford, 17/09/15 – Poetry porn – probably a