by Nick | Mar 4, 2024 | News
Sometimes I love water more than people I love fat raindrops pocking the pavements like falling gooseberries some days I can’t stop saying petrichor its three syllables so mysteriously right surely Dior was thinking of sunlight on the Seine as he rippled metres of...
by Anne Bailey | Jan 12, 2024 | News, Programme
Please join us on Zoom. The whole evening will be given over to you and your poems so SIGN UP FOR AN OPEN MIC SLOT! using the Eventbrite link which will appear around 10 days before the event on or Home Page. We will give a time allocation for each reader nearer the...
by Anne Bailey | Jan 12, 2024 | News, Programme
This event will take place on Zoom. It will begin at 7.30pm. Please book tickets and an Open Mic slot through the Eventbrite Link which will appear on our Home Page around ten days before the date. Pascale Petit was born in Paris and lives in Cornwall, she is of...
by Anne Bailey | Jan 12, 2024 | News, Programme
This event will take place on Zoom. It will begin at 7.30pm. An Eventbrite link to reserve a ticket will appear on our Home Page around 10 days before the event. The Competition Winners and judge John McCullough will read poems. John will also talk about the process...
by Anne Bailey | Jan 12, 2024 | News, Programme
This event will be held at the Maddermarket in Norwich [Entrance St John’s Alley, NR2 1DR]. Doors will be open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. We are suggesting a donation of minimum £3 for those who attend. The venue includes a bar. It will be possible to sign up...
by Anne Bailey | May 28, 2022 | News, recent events
This event will begin at 7.30pm, it will take place on Zoom. Please book tickets and an Open Mic slot through the Eventbrite link which will appear on our Home Page ten days before the date. Jane Burn is a working class, pansexual, autistic person, poet, artist,...
by Anne Bailey | May 28, 2022 | News, recent events
This event will begin at 7.30pm. Please book tickets through the Eventbrite link which will appear on our home page 10 days before the event. Jennifer Wong was born and grew up in Hong Kong, she is the author of several collections including Goldfish...
by Anne Bailey | Aug 15, 2021 | News, recent events
Events begin at 7.30pm on Zoom. Please book tickets through the Eventbrite link on our home page 10 days before the date. Caleb Parkin, Bristol City Poet 2020 – 22, won second prize in the National Poetry Competition 2016, the Winchester Poetry Prize 2017 and...
by Anne Bailey | Oct 15, 2020 | News, recent events
This event will take place through Zoom. See Home Page from ten days before the event to book. A poem from Rishi Dastidar’s debut Ticker-tape was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2018. A pamphlet, the break of a wave, was published by Offord Road Books in 2019....
by Web Admin | Sep 13, 2019 | News
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 Café Writers Open Poetry Competition, judged by Daljit Nagra. Daljit writes: The Café Writers Competition, from its title implies a local manner, yet the entries were truly international. I loved judging this...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 30, 2018 | News
The Winner We are delighted to announce the Winner of the 2017 Cafe Writers Open Poetry Competition, judged by Liz Berry, is Tammy Armstrong with her poem Road Salt Dome. Road Salt Dome after Paul Farley Off the highway, out of the way like ant hills, or bee...
by admin | Jan 30, 2017 | News
We are delighted to announce the Cafe Writers Poetry Competition Winners 2016 Our judge Andrew McMillan has done sterling work and we have the results for the Café Writers Poetry Competition. Judge’s report and winning poems to follow soon! There were very close...
