Poetry Cafe
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Antony Mair launches ‘Bestiary, and Other Animals’ at the Poetry Cafe
To The Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden last night, where Antony Mair launched his first full collection, Bestiary, and Other Animals, published by Live Canon. The Poetry Cafe was more crowded than I have ever seen it. Introduced by Helen Eastman, director of Live Canon, the reading was in two halves, reflecting the two sections…
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Ernstophilia
Several years ago I had a feverish flu and was staying in a room where the only thing within reach of the bed was a book of Max Ernst’s fabulous paintings. I love Ernst anyway, and when I recovered I wrote this poem about someone who is deliriously obsessed by the painter’s work. It was originally published in…
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Reading Jan 7th Poetry Cafe
Here’s another Telltale Press event to jolt you into 2016 wide-eyed with wonder. I’ll be reading with Jack Underwood, snapped up by Fabers like a hot kipper, Kitty Coles whose poems are charged with mythic power, plus Cartoon Kid and Telltale favourite Siegfried Baber. A shout out to Andrew King whose photograph of me reading…
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Stanza Bonanza – 25th June, Poetry Café, Covent Garden
I find myself pulling on the jersey for Brighton in a Brighton vs Palmer’s Green event, a ‘Stanza Bonanza’ at the Poetry Café near Covent Garden. Entry’s free and everyone is welcome. It starts at 7:00 and poets will be bludgeoning one another with their deathless poems till about 9.30pm. I for one am looking forward to it. Full event details…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 