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First Fridays: On Friday 3 February 2012 Poets Anonymous will be meeting upstairs at the Woodside and South Norwood Social Club, Enmore Road, South Norwood. SE25 5NQ from 8pm. Admission £2.00. All are welcome - bring your firework poems and your poetry ears.
The Social club is close to South Norwood Swimming Pool - near the bus stop for the 130, 197 and 312 buses. The nearest station is Norwood Junction, about 10 minutes walk, and Arena Tram stop is also about 10 minutes walk.
Second Saturdays: Poets Anonymous also hold a Second 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 11 February 2012 in the Primary Room, between 2.30 and 4.30pm. Admission is £2.00.
PLEASE NOTE THERE IS NO MEEETING IN JANUARY 2012
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.
Poetry in Purley - Saturday 17 March 2012
Poets Anonymous will be hosting a reading at Purley Library, Bansted Road, Purley CR8 3YH from 2.00 to 4.00pm on Saturday 17 March 2012. TBring Spring poems, and ny other you would like to read. Free
Poets and Painters - an exhibition of poems and paintings from the UK and the US, including poems from members of Poets Anonymous, was held at the Runnymede Gallery until 30 May 2011.
http://www.runnymedegallery.co.uk/
Members of Poets Aonymous will be reading at the opening of the exhibition 11.30am on Friday, 6th May, and reading on Saturday, 7th May, from 2pm.
Poets Anonymous made another appearance at the South Norwood Arts Festival at the Woodside and South Norwood Social Club, Enmore Road, South Norwood. SE25 5NQ on 16 June 2011 from 8pm
For the Portland Road Arts Festival website with details of everything that happened in the festival click here
Poetry Plus 10 - pictures from the Poetry Plus 10 festival, held on 16 October at the CVA Resource Centre ca be found by clicking here
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.
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 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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