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It is with much sadness that we have to announce that Joyce Dann has died. She was a beautiful and graceful person, who always looked for the good in everything. She was a great supporter of poetry and Poets Anonymous. She will be very much missed. Our thoughts are with Brian.
First Fridays: The First Friday meeting now has a new home - the bar at the Fairfield Hotel, 1 Landsdowne Road, Croydon, CR9 2BN.
The next meeting at the Fairfield Hotel will be Friday 6 August at 8pm. The guest poet will be Julian Van Hauson, a superb poet of wonderful observation. Floor spots will be available. Admission is £2 for the waged, £1 for the unwaged.
For more information email peter@poetsanon.org.uk .
Poets Anonymous also holds a Saturday meeting at the United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove. Bring your own or your favourite poems to read, or just come to listen and enjoy. The next date and time is Saturday 14 August 2010 in the Primary Room, between 2.30 and 4.00pm. Admission is £2.00.
The guest poet for the 14 August will be Martin Burl, master of the sonnet and celebrant of the supermarket.
These meetings are on the second Saturday of the month. The United Reformed Church, Addiscombe Grove is two minutes walk from East Croydon Station, Tramlink and buses.
There will be
no Saturday meeting in September 2010.
Poets Anonymous will be made another appearance at the Portland Road Arts Festival at the Gold Coast pub, 224 Portland Road, SE25 4QB, on 14 July 2010.
For further details of the Gold Coast pub click here .
For the Portland Road Arts Festival website with details of everything that happened in the festival click here
POETRY PLUS 10 will be held on Saturday 16 October at the CVA Resource Centre, 82 London Road, West Croydon, CR0 2TB. This is the 10th all day festival run Poets Anonymous - this will be celebrating Poets Anonymous 20th anniversary.
At the festival there will be two poetry workshops (one run by Myra Schneider, one by Janice Fixter), guest poets, the re-run of the aeronautical poetry competition, music, poetry and more poetry. There will be plenty of floor spots
The cost of the day will be £10.00 (£7.50 concessions), plus £2.50 for entry into one of the poetry workshops (numbers will be limited for the workshops, so it is first come first served).
If you want to come to the Festival, take part in a workshop, or would like further information, please contact festival@poetsanon.org.uk
Poetic Licence: The latest edition of Poetic Licence, issue 30, has been published, featuring new poetry from around the world. It costs £3.50, with a subscription of three for £9.50. For further details please e-mail Poets Anonymous . Submission of new poetry for consideration for future issues is welcome - no more than 6 poems per issue, can be e-mailed to Poets Anonymous.
Croydon Central Library, Katharine Street, is displaying a Poetry Poster in the Level 1 Literature section. There will be a new poster each month.
Poetry Workshops:
Poets Anonymous have held a series of workshops at Pepperton uk wholefood restaurant and gallery.
These workshops were organised as '... pairs of sessions with a gap of a week between pairs to allow members to work on their projects. The method of working is quite informal but will concentrate on Sound, Form and Rhythm in turn. There are no prizes, no losers, but there is the risk of seriously enjoying yourself!'
'If you would like to discuss your work, to improve your style or grasp of poetic form, or even if you don't write poetry but would like to, one of our Poetry Workshops might be the very thing you are looking for!' - Brian Dann, Workshop Leader.
For further details of future workshops please click here to e-mail Poets Anonymous
The Eighth Poetry Plus festival was held at the Fairfield Hotel on 22 June 2003. For the winning Poetry Poster and pictures of the some of the participants click here
The Ninth Poetry Plus festival was held on 17th and 18th July 2004. Among the guest poets were Jean Sprackland, Atilla the Stockbroker, Sarah Maguire, Micheal Donaghy, Adam Horovitz and many other poets from around the UK. The Tenth Poetry Plus festival is being held on 16 October 2010
Poets Anonymous were involved in a project on the About Face exhibition at the Croydon Clocktower, Katharine Street, Croydon. Some of the poems written by members of Poets Anonymous inspired by the exhibits were on display at the exhibition. A booklet of the poems, together with line drawings of the exhibits and poets' heads has been published, it costs £2.50 from Poets Anonymous, 70 Aveling Close, Purley, Surrey CR8 4DW (cheques payable to Poetry Plus). A few of the poems and line drawings can be viewed by clicking here.
Poets Anonymous publish Poetic Licence, a magazine of good new poetry. Poetic Licence has a rotating editorship so it does not get stuck in the rut of a particular house-style. Submissions are welcome.
Poets Anonymous have undertaken projects with a group called Poets Anonymous from the USA. In 2002 there was a Poets & Painters collaboration with the US Poets Anonymous group and the Croydon based Minigalleries art group, at the same time poems by the UK Poets Anonymous were on display in the United States with paintings by American artists. Some of the US paintings inspired by UK poems can be found here. For Poets Anonymous US website - click here
For further details of Poets Anonymous and Poetic Licence click on the e-mail button and send an e-mail, or if you prefer snail-mail write to Poets Anonymous, 70 Aveling Close, Purley, Surrey CR8 4DW.
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