BIG DAY of POETRY

Saturday 10th October:
 Cramphorn Theatre, Chelmsford


Festival Events, doors open 1 pm
Tickets:
Eve: £8.00 (£6.50 conc)
Afternoon: £5.00 (£3.50 conc)
buy both tickets together for £1 discount

all timings approximate

1pm Doors open - readers sign up for Open Mic slots
Meet and talk with other poets. Peruse the poetry bookstall

Live Artist Vicki Weitz performs - a girl in a dress (write me)
“It’s like fridge magnets only better”

1.30 to 2.45  Open Mic
your chance to perform before a friendly and appreciative audience.

2.45 to 3.15 interval    

3.15 to 4.15 Tall Lighthouse present their guest readers

Alex Brockhurst
Alan Buckley
Brendan Cleary
David Crystal
Helen Mort

tall lighthouse tall-lighthouse is a dynamic, independent poetry business with a fast growing reputation for its diverse family of poets. It publishes pamphlets, chapbooks, anthologies and full collections.
Founded in 1999, tall-lighthouse was nominated for the Michael Marks/ PBS / British Library publishers award in 2009 and received four PBS pamphlet choices in the last year.
Two years ago, tall-lighthouse launched the pilot project under the editorial guidance of Roddy Lumsden: a series of pamphlets introducing some of the best poets under 30 writing in Britain and Ireland today.

 

4.15 to 4.30 interval            

4.30 to 5.30 Three Essex Poets:
Jeremy Over
Joanna Ezekiel
Sally Festing

 

 
Break
                           

7.15  Poetry Competition Winners
with adjudicator Jo Bell

7.45  Inua Ellams

8.05 Kathryn Simmonds

8.30 interval                

9.00 to 9.40 John Hartley Williams

10pm   finish 



 

 

Essex Poetry Festival 2002