First poetry night of 2011

Happy New Year to you!

Please come and join us for our first performance poetry night of 2011 on

Monday January 10 at 7.30pm at our great new venue

The Sozzled Sausage, Leamington Spa CV32 4NX
We are delighted to be starting the New Year with the very talented Bohdan Piesecki as our featured poet.

Bohdan is a performance poet and slam host born in Warsaw, Poland, currently based in the UK, where he is putting the finishing touches on a PhD in poetry translation. Before his move to England, Bohdan started the first poetry slam series in his country, introducing Poles to spoken word and creating a platform for a whole new generation of performers. Bohdan has travelled around Europe (with some forays into North America) with his poetry; he represented Poland at the 2007 Poetry Slam World Cup in Paris (and was the only European poet to reach the finals), proudly wore the title of the 2008 Hammer & Tongue Oxford Season Slam Champion, and was an artist in residence at the European Poetry Slam Days in Berlin in 2009. He has a keen interest in literary translation and ways in which it can be used in performance, and actively pursues collaborations with other poets as well as artists from fields such as photography, video, music, and dance.
Bohdan derives a perverse pleasure from inflicting poems in Polish on unsuspecting international audiences. He has a tendency to speak too much, enjoys walking, but not chewing gum, and still hopes to learn to play bass one day. He also finds writing about himself in the third person has lost a lot of its lustre since the advent of social networking sites.
Bohdan is also the West Midlands Programme Co-ordinator for Apples & Snakes. Find out more about what he does there by following this link.
For a more in-depth look at Bohdan’s work, please visit his website, http://wordra.in


DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED! With open mic support from…….yes……YOU!

Come and share your poems - seasoned poets & first time performers most welcome!
Admission £3 (£2 Student/OAP). If you're planning to come along, or would like to know more about the night, please email pgrpoetry@gmail.com

Look forward to seeing you there!

Christmas Greetings!

Happy Christmas from the PureandGoodandRight team to all of you!

We hope you have a great time and that all this magical weather is suitable inspiration for some creative writing!

We are starting the New Year with a new night for PureandGoodandRight.

Our first date will therefore be Monday 10 January at The Sozzled Sausage with special guest- the amazing Bohdan Piasecki

First night at our new venue last Sunday 28 November

We were delighted with the turn out for the fabulous Heather Wastie who had braved not only the weather but also illness and injury to be with us.

The upstairs room at The Sozzled Sausage soon filled up and all the very comfy leather sofas fully utilised!! We had to quickly grab some garden chairs to accomodate everyone! Moral of this story- arrive early for the comfy seats!

Thanks to the very helpful landlord, Greg, who stayed open late specially on Sunday for PureandGoodandRight.

Thanks everyone!

Next event Sunday 28 November

Our next Open Mic poetry event takes place on Sunday 28 November at 7.30pm at our brand new venue, The Sozzled Sausage, Leamington Spa CV32 4NX.

 How to get to The Sozzled Sausage.

Each month we invite a fabulous guest performance poet. This month we are delighted to have with us the highly amusing and very clever Heather Wastie.
         
Heather Wastie is a wordsmith, humorist and musician with a rich professional life as poet, composer, singer, songwriter, keyboard player and facilitator. She has published 3 illustrated poetry collections and often uses technology to create innovative pieces including music, spoken word and found sound. She is proud to be winner of the first PureandGoodandRight Poetry Slam in August 2010!

She has been described as multi-talented, a polymath, and it has been said that her work is clever, sophisticated, funny, touching, original, quirky, probing and poignant. On November 28th, at our fantastic new venue, she will attempt to live up to this reputation by performing poems and songs which represent and illuminate the range of her work to date.
If you would like to know more about Heather, see http://tiny.cc/Wasties_Space

DEFINITELY AN EVENING NOT TO BE MISSED! With open mic support from…….yes……YOU!

Come and share your poems - seasoned poets & first time performers most welcome!
Admission £3 (£2 Student/OAP)If you're planning to come along, or would like to know more about the night, please email pgrpoetry@gmail.com

Look forward to seeing you there! 

Great news! A new home for PureandGoodandRight

At last we have found a brand new venue we think we can reliably call home...we are all really excited!....

Announcing the fantastic pub- The Sozzled Sausage, 141 Regent Street, Leamington Spa CV32 4NX

The landlords have been very welcoming and enthusiastic about our performance poetry night. They have had the pub for just 8 months and in that time have really turned it round into a popular town venue.

The decor is eclectic, with plenty going on on other nights of the week and, amongst other things, a good selection of local beers. You can eat there too! The space we have to use is just great! It is a private upstairs room, a bit like The Fox only more upmarket and warmer! There are lovely leather settees, great decor, a bar......helping to create that cosy intimate space that is conducive to performing our poetry.

Look forward to seeing you all there on 28 November!!

A poem for our blog from Maggie Doyle

It's such a pleasant, peaceful place

Your wonderful Blog page

And perfectly acceptable

To poets of any age

And so with pen in ageing hand

When I feel the need to write

I will, with speed, (well as quick as I can)

And send it to your site.

 

9 Nov 2010

Hello!

We are extremely pleased to announce that PGR now has it's very own blogspot!!! Please have a look and let us have your comments/ poetry!

We also thought we would take this opportunity to let you know of some the upcoming local poetry events:

23 November- Poetry Bites with Jacqui Rowe- guest Joel Lane- at The Kitchen Garden Cafe www.jacquirowe.com

25 November- Hit the Ode- inaugural night- The Victoria, Birmingham. Info from bohdan@applesandsnakes.org

25 November- Birmingham poets book Launch at The Drum, Aston www.the-drum.org.uk/event/when-black-is-red

28 November- PureandGoodandRight with the brilliantly talented and very funny Heather Wastie

30 November & 1 December- SNUG by Brewer's Troupe at The Hollybush, Cradley Heath 8pm. To reserve tickets phone Emma on 07950 165265
or email emmaasif@hotmail.com

9 December- Public Address (Apples & Snakes Tour) at the MAC featuring the wonderful Mark Niel www.akickinthearts.co.uk


Hope to see you somehere soon!