Our Border Policy.
We do include some events that occur next to the West
Midlands.
For events well beyond the region try the Arts Council of England's Live Literature
website www.liveliterature.net
Tuesday 2nd October doors open at 7.30 Barlow Theatre, Spring Walk, Langley.
Brave New Words - SHOWCASE
OF NEW WRITING FROM SANDWELL.
Come and listen to an evening of exciting new writing from fresh talent in Sandwell.
Writers and their mentors will be reading to include: Mike Coleman, Andrew Barnes, Jennie
Kitching, Brendan Hawthorn, Lynne Voyce, Andrew Detheridge, Roz Goddard, Dave
Reeves, Steve Clarke, Roshan Doug... and others.
Bar available. £2.00 including food - and buy your tickets for
A Fine Excess Tuesday 16th
October 7pm for 7.30 - too good to miss
A Fine Excess provides theatregoers with an ideal opportunity to hear
and enjoy some of the best work of the past whilst getting a taste of some of our leading
contemporary poets - including Sean O'Brian, whose Firebox is the book to
understand contemporary verse
Michael Donaghy, Sean O'Brien, Selima Hill
and Roddy Lumsden
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Birmingham - New Street. |
Tuesday October 2nd 6.30pm
George
Alagiah "A Passage To Africa"
George Alagiah was born in Ceylon but emigrated to
Ghana when he was 5 years old. ‘A Passage to Africa’ is a devastating
autobiographical account of Africa by the BBC’s distinguished former Africa
correspondent.
Join us for a vivid insight into the Dark Continent
128 New Street Birmingham B2 4DB tel. 0121 631 4333 fax. 0121 643
2441
email enquiries@birmingham-newstreet.waterstones.co.uk
Waterstone's - key venues for Birmingham Book Festival |
Wednesday,
October 3rd. 8pm Wolverhampton Libraries
The first in a long line of poets performing at the
Little Civic, Wolverhampton
Moqapi Selassie, the
rising dub star from Winson Green, Birmingham.
Tickets £4
Little Civic, North Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1RQ Box
Office 01902 552121 Lines open 9.30-6.00 Mon-Sat.
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WARWICK AUTUMN 2001 |
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Wednesday 3rd October,
7.15 p.m. The Studio Warwick Arts Centre
Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris' sensational novel Five Quarters of
the Orange revolves around a recipe book, continuing the theme of culinary intrigue
begun in Chocolat and Blackberry Wine. Joanne Harris shot to
international fame (and the Oscars!) with the filming of Chocolat. Not so long ago, Harris was a writer to
watch, but she has more than fulfilled the promise in Five Quarters of the Orange, a bleaker and deeper
novel with an even more compelling story line. And not so long ago again, before that
fame, Joanne Harris was Andrew Losowsky’s teacher in the North of England. Andrew is
now a Warwick graduate, and he chairs tonight’s event.
Warwick Arts Centre Call Box Office 024 76 524524 £4.50
(£3.00)
for details of free lecture
series click here |
Trains, and boats, and planes
National Poetry Day 4th October - the theme Journeys - by fridge,
balloon.....
Coffee Morning
Shirley Library at 10.30am until noon around the theme Journeys.
Everyone's welcome to join us and bring some poems to share. No need to book
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Birmingham - New Street. |
Thursday October 4th 12.30pm
99 Red Balloons - well
around thirty in fact to be launched from the atrium and full of poetic surprises,
including book tokens and six pairs of tickets to see Simon Armitage, Brian Patten and
John Hegley at the Birmingham Book Festival - around a one-in-three
chance of winning - better than the Lottery, and you don't even need to buy a ticket!
Thursday October 4th 1.00 -
2.00pm
The mac Poetry Fridge They
said it couldn't be done. The mac Marketing Department
will be moving the big mac poetry fridge around the city asking passers-by to
create their own cool poems on the fridge door. "We will be at Waterstones New Street
from 1pm to 2pm and joined by Sibyl Ruth and David Fine to get the ball rolling."
128 New Street Birmingham B2 4DB tel. 0121 631 4333 fax. 0121 643
2441
email enquiries@birmingham-newstreet.waterstones.co.uk
Waterstone's - key venues for Birmingham Book Festival |
The big mac poetry fridge having writ, moves on... Up New Street, past
Needless Alley, Chamberlain Square to the Centre of the Child, Birmingham Central Library,
3pm to 4pm
Meanwhile
Poetry On Loan at South
Yardley Library 2.15 - 3.30 with Philip Coker
"fairly informal thing, no charge, all welcome."
Trains, and boats, and planes
National Poetry Day 4th October - the theme Journeys - by fridge,
balloon.....
Coventry
Libraries Live Literature events
2pm - 4pm
Central Library will be hosting a poetry telling café with Irene Yates.
Irene will be reading from
her favourite poems as well as encouraging members of the public to read extracts of their
favourite poems as well as being on hand to assist aspiring poets with their works
The venue will be set out
like a conventional café with refreshments being throughout
Free and all welcome. For
further details, contact Mark Williams on 02476 832328
literature.development@coventry.gov.uk
Thursday
4th October The MAC,Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham
5pm - 6pm - Welcome home big mac
poetry fridge - and where have you been?
then
What’s On @ mac Poetry
Competition
Celebrate National Poetry Day
in the company of talented poets - of all
ages – from around the region. This is
your chance to hear the competition winners read
their prize-winning poems, and to see if you agree with the judges!
Parkside Room – 6.15 Free
followed by
Poets in the Parkside
Cannon Poets and Cannon Hill Writers – who both meet at mac – combine forces to read their work in an
informal atmosphere. An ideal opportunity for anyone who wants to join a writing group to
find out more….
Parkside Room – 8pm
- mac
box office number 0121 440 3838
boxoffice@mac-birmingham.org.uk
www.mac-birmingham.org.uk
Access generally
very good, click on website or e-mail enquiries@mac-birmingham.org.uk
mac reading group now full - place your
bookmark down for new group in autumn |
Trains, and boats, and planes
National Poetry Day 4th October - the theme Journeys - by fridge,
balloon, rhubarb and digbeth.....
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Birmingham - High Street. |
Thursday October 4th 6.30-
8.00pm
A mini-super Rhubarb &
Digbeth
Roi Kwabena, Roshan
Doug, Julie Bowden, Matt Nunn, Brian McInally
...and your chance to pit your poetry up against the Wonder Wall.
Fancy being the next
Birmingham Poet Laureate after Roshan....click here
24-26 High Street Birmingham B4 7SL tel. 0121 633 4353 fax. 0121 633 4300
email enquiries@birmingham-highstreet.waterstones.co.uk
Waterstone's - key venues for Birmingham Book Festival |
Tindal Street Press Thursday 4 October at 7pm, Walsall Leather Museum
Surviving Sting
launched by Paul McDonald
"Very funny, very crude, and very Walsall”
Surviving Sting -- a comic gem of a novel by Walsall writer
Paul McDonald -- charts 7 days of madness on a dog-rough estate in ‘the ugliest town
in the country’, summer 1979. Come and hear this new author read and discuss his
laugh-out-loud, defiantly regional novel. All are very welcome.
“The most comical thing I’ve read in a long
time”
First Word on the First Word
Programme
Once again,Worcestershire Libraries have been
successful in attracting some very good names. The
programme currently consists of
2nd October – Tenbury Library
– Sam Llewellyn
11th October – Malvern Library
– Sally Beauman
12th October (?) – St Johns
Library – Phil Rickman
14th November – Kidderminster
Library – Andrew Davies
6th December – Stourport Library
– Storytelling Café
17th January – Droitwich Library
– Louis de Bernieres
30th January – Kidderminster
Library – Frances Fyfield
6th March – Redditch Library
– Annie Murray
19th April – Droitwich Library
– Behind the lines: 1st World War poetry with Gabriel Woolf & Rosalind
Shanks
26th April – Bromsgrove Library – Jonathan Coe
Full
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