Poetry Events

Performance Poetry: Aisle 16
Services To Poetry
Tue 25 Sep 8pm Doors 7pm £10 (Friends of Quay Arts £9)
Venue: Quay Arts 01983 822490

In July 2006, armed only with a beat-up Ford Escort, a handful of biros and Kate Bush’s greatest hits, Aisle16 spent five days travelling the length of the country creating a bizarre poetic travelogue of Britannia and her subjects as found under the neon lights of Britain’s service stations. Is there beauty in a KFC mega bucket? Can poetry be created on the M25? Is it really better to travel hopefully than to arrive? Backed by the Aisle16 trademark digital slideshow and told in their ‘multi-vox’ delivery style. Suitable for ages 12 and up.

"They do with words what I try and do with art. Some of my favourite poets"
Ralph Steadman

Performance Poetry with Music: Maggie Sawkins Book Launch
Tue 2 Oct 8pm Doors 7pm £2
Venue: Quay Arts 01983 822490

Maggie Sawkins is co-founder of Tongues & Grooves, the popular poetry and music club in Southsea. She has read at The Troubadour, The Poetry Café, the 2006 Torbay Poetry Festival and has had poems published in Writing Women, Mslexia, Acumen, Magma and in many other magazines and anthologies. Her pamphlet Charcot’s Pet (Flarestack) received excellent reviews, and her first full collection,
The Zig Zag Woman is due to be published by Two Ravens Press in September 2007.

Music will be performed by Bernard MacDonagh (harmonium), Martin Heys (guitar and vocals), and Stephanie Heys (bodhran). They are all members of the Irish music band, Feckless.

Poetry Reading with Jane Draycott
Wed 10 Oct 8 - 10pm £5 (Friends of Quay Arts £4)
Venue: Quay Arts 01983 822490

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear poet Jane Draycott perform her work, including pieces from Tideway, (Two Rivers Press) written during her residency at Henley River and Rowing Museum, and from her forthcoming collection with Carcanet. Three times shortlisted for the Forward Prize, Jane has published two collections with Carcanet, Prince Rupert’s Drop and The Night Tree.

...sensuous and crystalline David Morley - The Guardian

Open Mic Poetry
From the River to the Sea
Thu 11 Oct 8:15pm £2
Venue: Quay Arts 01983 822490

Where the river meets the sea... A special Open Mic Poetry Evening for the ‘Wight Words’ season. Join poets from across the Island in the Quay Arts Rope Store Gallery for a special Open Mic Poetry Evening on the theme of rivers and the sea. Get into the flow and read out up to three of your own poems inspired by all things watery, or come and listen as the words wash over you.

Sign up by 8:10pm to book yourself a 5 minute slot.