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Here’s the latest podcast – featuring Yanny Mac and Tim Wells. Lovely stuff. Why not listen to it and have a little think for us? We’re making decisions about who to book for the next few Norwich Poetry Clubs. Who would you like to see in Norwich? Leave us a comment. The podcast of the last event – Martin Figura and Clare Pollard is now available to download from http://norwichpoetryclub.jellycast.com/jellycast Listen … to … THIS! Norwich Poetry Club is getting ready to welcome Elvis McGonagall in just over a week’s time. Elvis is one of the poets occasionally in residence on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live, along with over very own Luke Wright. His verse is often political, very witty and always performed with great gusto. Our local turn is this month courtesy of John Osborne, reading poems from his new Nasty Little Press Collection – What If Men Burst in Wearing Balaclavas? If you can’t make it to Norwich for the gig then the podcast will be online shortly afterwards. Click this LINK Subscribe to get the monthly podcast. Some photos from the opening night. Many thanks to our resident snapper Martin Figura.
Yanny Mac reviews our opening night: In years to come, people will say “I was there. I was at the inaugural launch of Norwich Poetry Club”. (Even if they weren’t). Sorry if you couldn’t get in. We thought about bigger venues, but downstairs at The Bicycle Shop in St.Benedict’s is more suited to our plans, and 50 people max. is a perfect sized audience for a spoken-word gig. Compered admirably by the ever-loveable John Osborne, NPC gave us Luke Wright’s ‘ballad set’ as the local poet’s offering. Bouncing between belly-laughs, satire & pathos, Wright set the tone for the evening, opening with “Fat Josh” and then holding our hands tightly, as we embarked on an emotional rollercoaster ride of rhyme & reasoned verse. The second half belonged to Martin Newell. Standing-in at the last minute for Caroline Bird, the UK’s “most published poet” seemed relaxed and loquacious, as he furnished us with anecdotes, jokes & what seemed like a poetic travelogue around the Eastern Counties. The audience responded marvellously to our two poets. People of all ages, and from all backgrounds hung on every word spoken, whilst delighting in the excellent ale selection, and helping themselves to jaffa cakes & jammie dodgers. Norwich Poetry club will return to The Bicycle Shop on March 16th, with Elvis McGonagall and the ubiquitous (and ever-loveable) John Osborne. It’s an intimately small venue. Will you be there? The Norwich Poetry Club kicks off in February 2010 with performances from visiting poet Martin Newell and resident Luke Wright. It will be the first in a series of boutique, back-to-basics poetry events held at The Bicycle Shop on St Benedicts Street, Norwich. Each poet will perform for 30 mins or so with a short break in the middle. A podcast of each event will be made available the week after via iTunes and this website. The Norwich Poetry Club is run by six poets from Norwich: Martin Figura, Yanny Mac, Molly Naylor, John Osborne, Hannah Walker and Luke Wright. |
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