LitfestThis year, Valentine’s Day stretched into a weekend. So Litfest responded accordingly, by stretching the normal 12 point font into something a little larger, printing poems from North West based poets up on the walls of the NICE bar here in The Storey Creative Industries Centre.
This is what some of them look like:
Apologies, if you can’t read them properly, I took the pics on my phone. Although it’s also a cunning ploy since if you’d like to read them, you’ll just have to come over…
Some time ago we shared some ideas to keep your old books out of the skips round the back of Oxfams all over the country.
Well, we’ve had more ideas sent through …
Spotlight Writing Surgeries
Sunday 28th February 7 – 9pm
Whether you are just starting out
or have been writing for some time…
Whether you write for performance or the page…
Would you like to get some creative feedback on your writing?
Then come to a One-To-One 20 minute Surgery
@ The Gregson Centre, Moor Lane, Lancaster.
Fee: £5
Places are limited and must be booked in advance -
To sign up for a 20 minute writing surgery
or for Further Information e-mail:
spotlightclub@btinternet.com
or phone: 01524 381642
Spotlight’s Open Mic Slam!
Friday February 19th
Doors Open 8pm
Grab your three minutes at the mic’ and perform
your way to audience acclaim and a £50 Cash Prize.
You’ve got just 180 seconds to make an impact as a performer!
Perform Poetry, Prose, Comedy or Song, anything -
As long as it’s original and all your own work
Grab the mic’, wave your ego and charge!
2nd Prize £25 – 3rd Prize £15
Places are limited to book a slot email:
spotlightclub@btinternet.com
PLUS MUSIC FROM MIKEY KENNEY
Simon Baker – Compere
John Freeman – Chair of Judges & Scorer
Lancaster Spotlight is funded by Arts Council England and supported by Lancashire County Council and
Lancaster City Council.
Spotlight works in association with litfest.
www.spotlightlancaster.co.uk
We have just received notice of an event which may interest all lovers of foreign literature in the area. Taking place at Bowland College, Lancaster University next Wednesday (Feb 24th) from 2.15pm, is an afternoon of foreign literature as students and staff alike read from their favourite pieces both in the original and translated texts.
Free entry! All welcome!
The Wordsworth Trust is now accepting applications for the next residency.
Poet in Residence 2010 – 2011
The Wordsworth Trust
The Wordsworth Trust is seeking a new Poet in Residence, to run for 9 months from July 2010 to end March 2011.
(The residency may be extended to a year pending confirmation of further funding from Arts Council England.)
The Wordsworth Trust was founded in 1891 to maintain Dove Cottage, in Grasmere, Cumbria, home of William Wordsworth when he wrote much of his greatest poetry. Dove Cottage is now an internationally famous visitor attraction, and the Trust’s collection is now home to 90% of Wordsworth’s known manuscripts, one of the largest archive collections of a writer in the world. The Trust is keen to maintain the tradition of creativity associated with Dove Cottage, and is striving to be the centre of poetry activity in North West England. In support of this aim it runs a growing contemporary literature programme, which includes a season of poetry readings, renowned as one of the best in the country, and a range of workshops and other events, often presented in partnership with national organisations such as The Poetry School and the Poetry Translation Centre. The programme is funded by Arts Council England.
This Residency offers an invaluable opportunity for a published poet, from any cultural background and writing within any literary tradition, to spend time in Grasmere, Cumbria, in the heart of the Lake District, an area of outstanding natural beauty that so much inspired William Wordsworth. The poet will be given space to develop their own work and will also take part in the Wordsworth Trust Literature Programme and the wider cultural life of Cumbria.
The Poet in Residence will be paid a monthly stipend of £1000.00 and provided with a cottage for which they will be charged a subsidised rent.
For full details, and application procedure contact Andrew Forster on A.Forster@wordsworth.org.uk or 015394 35544
Closing date for applications 5.00pm Friday 5th March 2010.
Another lovely box of poetry books arrived in the Poetry Bookcase today from another new publisher.
Templar Poetry produce some beautifully bound and presented volumes and have some fine names on their list, including two of our local poets Mike Barlow and Jane Routh.
Along with the books came news also of the Templar Poetry Pamphlet & Collection Competition 2010. Judged by Pat Winslow, the closing date is May 8th 2010.
Our lovely Poetry Bookcase is slowly growing its stock, and we have recently added new stock from 2 more independent poetry presses.
Seren Books, based in Bridgend, South Wales, has been publishing great poetry for over 25 years and aims “to give voice to outstanding writing in the English language from Wales”.
Flipped Eye publishing was founded in 2001 and is dedicated “to publishing great and affordable fiction and poetry”. Flipped Eye has won awards from the Poetry Book Society and was shortlisted for an Independent Publishers Guild Award in 2007.
Books from both publishers are now in stock at the Poetry Bookcase and are well worth a browse. Authors include Owen Sheers, Peter Finch, Carol Rumens (all Seren) and Ainsley Burrows, Jacob Sam-La Rose and Nii Ayikwei Parkes (Flipped Eye).
And if you haven’t discovered the Poetry Bookcase yet, now would be a good time to make that acquaintance.
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