Crystal Clear Creators and Nine Arches Press are staging their latest Shindig! open mic reading at The Western,
Western Road, Leicester, next Monday from 7.30pm. As usual it's free and open to all, and you can sign up for open mic slots at the door.
Featured poets are Jessica
Mayhew, John Lucas, Phil Brown and Helen Calcutt.
Jessica Mayhew is 22, and is
part way through her degree at the University of Northampton, where she is
studying English Literature and Creative Writing. A pamphlet, Someone Else's
Photograph, will be published by Crystal Clear Creators in March 2012.
Phil Brown teaches English in Sutton and
has been regularly writing poetry for about 10 years. In 2009 he was
shortlisted for the Crashaw Prize and won the Eric Gregory Award in 2010. His debut collection, Il Avilit, has
just been published by Nine Arches Press. He is the Poetry Editor for the
online magazine and chapbook publisher, Silkworms Ink.
John Lucas’s most recent book is Next Year
Will Be Better: A Memoir of England in the 1950s. He runs Shoestring Press.
Helen Calcutt was born in 1988 and grew up
in the West Midlands, with familial roots in South West Wales. Her first
pamphlet collection is forthcoming next year with Perdika. She works as a visiting writer for, among
others, Creative Alliance, Writing West Midlands, and The Young People’s
Writing Squads. She was awarded an Arvon writing Grant in
September 2011.
Looks a great line-up as usual - I'm looking forward to getting hold of Phil Brown's collection.
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