Next Meeting Wednesday 6 February

[Rupert Davies-Cooke]

Hope your writing is going well.

 

Next meeting is Wednesday 6 February (next week) and so, as always, send me a quick email saying if you can make it (so I can work out the numbers) and also let me know if you want to read something.

 

I have found a brilliant simple Blog writing software hidden away on the latest Windows Live Toolbar.  It is called Windows Live Writer.  Very useful as it allows me to type offline, and upload later at my own convenience. The toolbar is available at www.toolbar.live.com ; watch out as you install as it asks you if you also want to change your default search engine and homepage, and also wants to install an email interface along with MS Messenger.

 

Finally, for those of you interested in poetry recitals, there is an evening at The Troubadour at 265 Old Brompton Road LONDON SW5.  The Troubadour is a great little coffee bar and has been around for longer than any Starbucks.  Well worth a visit just to see the place.  The poetry reading is this coming Monday 4th Feb. at 8pm.  Tickets at the door £6 concessions £5.  Cheques payable to Coffee-House Poetry, no credit cards.

 

The Line-up is as follows:

 

Novelist/Next-Gen-poet Tobias Hill was shortlisted for 2004 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year—his Salt collections include Midnight in the City of Clocks and Zoo;

 

The Grimoire of Grimalkin is the latest poetry offering from journalist, Butoh-based dance exponent & film-maker (The Sea and Medusa, 2006) Sascha Aurora Akhtar (b. Pakistan);

 

Chris McCabe (b. Liverpool, 1977) is Assistant Librarian at The Poetry Library—The Hutton Enquiry is his first book;

 

Weightless Road includes the ten-country motorbike odyssey of former adman Vincent De Souza—heart-rendingly perceptive  (David Morley);

 

Isobel Dixon (A Fold in the Map) was born in Umtata, grew up in the Karoo, studied at Stellenbosch & won the Olive Schreiner Prize in South Africa;

 

Peter Abbs is professor of Creative Writing at Sussex University & poetry editor of Resurgence—latest of his 6 collections is Icons of Time;

 

2002 Gregory-Award-winner Eleanor Rees (b. Birkenhead) is a member of Word Hoard;  her debut collection Andraste’s Hair, offers up a heartfelt hymn to her native Liverpool (The Guardian);

 

critic & award-winning dramatist/poet Luke Kennard—The Harbour Beyond the Movie—is an associate editor for The Kenyon Review; 

 

Keeping Time by teacher, critic & creative-writing tutor Tim Dooley follows his last collection The Interrupted Dream & two Poetry-Business-winning pamphlets;

 

Tamar Yoseloff (b. US, 1965) was Programme Co-ordinator for The Poetry School and is currently writing a novel—Fetch is her third collection.

 

 

Right, bye for now.  See you on Wednesday!

 

Best wishes

 

Rupert

 

 

Rupert Davies-Cooke

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