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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 will be held on 5 March 2010, from 8.00 - £2 waged, £1 unwaged. The featured poet will be Sue Young.
Sue Young's poetry is lyrical and enchanting, telling a clear story. Her poetry has matured to mix free verse with a closely guided underlying structure. Her obvious sensitivity helps make her a poet of some renown and we believe a woman who you will find worth coming to listen to.
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 13 March 2010 in the Primary Room, between 2.30 and 4.00pm. Admission is £2.00. The featured poet will be the poet and artist, Joel Arnstein.
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 made another appearance at the Portland Road Arts Festival at the Gold Coast pub, 224 Portland Road, SE25 4QB, on 10 June 2009. 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
Poetic Licence: The latest edition of Poetic Licence, issue 29, 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. We will be holding the 10th festival in June or July 2005.
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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