Events
'Poetry is the best words in the best order'
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Lots of Live Autumn Events coming up and one Zoom.
Plus
Poetry Teignmouth will have a stall at the Pavilions
on Saturday 14th October 2023 at the Writer's Fair - see you there!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Lots of Live Autumn Events coming up and one Zoom.
Plus
Poetry Teignmouth will have a stall at the Pavilions
on Saturday 14th October 2023 at the Writer's Fair - see you there!
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Donations
We would like to reward star guests with a small fee and we would be delighted to receive donations via the button below, labelled ‘Buy Now’. Any profits will go to paying for other events once restrictions are lifted. If you prefer a different method of payment, please use BACS to pay into ‘Poetry Teignmouth’ at sort code 60 21 47, a/c no 58608486.
£3 is the suggested donation for a single event, or you can use the pull down menu below to donate £25 to cover all events over 12 months.
Donations
We would like to reward star guests with a small fee and we would be delighted to receive donations via the button below, labelled ‘Buy Now’. Any profits will go to paying for other events once restrictions are lifted. If you prefer a different method of payment, please use BACS to pay into ‘Poetry Teignmouth’ at sort code 60 21 47, a/c no 58608486.
£3 is the suggested donation for a single event, or you can use the pull down menu below to donate £25 to cover all events over 12 months.
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LIVE EVENTS
Tuesday 26th September 2023 5.30pm
Jennie Osborne & Rosie Jackson reading from
Signals From The Other and Love Leans Over The Table
Ivybridge Bookshop, PL21 9AB
Jennie and Rosie are very different poets, by road they live a short distance from each other though their writing is two full moons apart. Both are magnificent poets able to eclipse what it means to be a bard. Ivybridge presents a fascinating opportunity to see and hear them together in the airy well stocked surroundings of a bookshop that seeks to specialise. Rosie's Love Leans Over The Table has been described as "passionate and affirming", Jennie's Signals From The Other poems, "brutal in their honesty"; a meeting of friends but a division of labour. Contemporary poetry from two writers who also know how to perform live with nuance. 5.30pm start !!!!
Jennie Osborne & Rosie Jackson reading from
Signals From The Other and Love Leans Over The Table
Ivybridge Bookshop, PL21 9AB
Jennie and Rosie are very different poets, by road they live a short distance from each other though their writing is two full moons apart. Both are magnificent poets able to eclipse what it means to be a bard. Ivybridge presents a fascinating opportunity to see and hear them together in the airy well stocked surroundings of a bookshop that seeks to specialise. Rosie's Love Leans Over The Table has been described as "passionate and affirming", Jennie's Signals From The Other poems, "brutal in their honesty"; a meeting of friends but a division of labour. Contemporary poetry from two writers who also know how to perform live with nuance. 5.30pm start !!!!
Wednesday 27th September 2023 7.00pm for 7.30pm
Serenity Open Mic Session in Sernity Gallery, Brunswick Street, Teignmouth
Your host for the evening is Liz Diamond
Tuesday 3rd October 2023 7.30 to 9.30pm
An Evening With…. Dylan Thomas
at the Oyster Catcher, 12 Northumberland Place, Teignmouth TQ14 8DD
Door: £3.00
Your host for the evening is Jennie Osborne.
1. Short introduction to Dylan Thomas, his life & work.
2. Bring your favourite poem by Dylan Thomas to read & say why it means something to you.
3. Short focus on classic pieces by Dylan Thomas
The Opening Voice to Under Milk Wood
A Refusal To Mourn The Death , By Fire, Of A Child In London
Read by Wayne Smith
(Further sessions of An Evening With… will take place on Tuesday 5th December & Tuesday 6th February)
Wednesday 4th October 2023 7.30pm
Alice Cross Centre, Bitton Park Road, Teignmouth, TQ14 9BT
Susan Jordan & Simon Millward, will be launching new collections.
In Simon Millward’s collection, Two Rivers, the confluence of two rivers near where he lives becomes an apt metaphor for his exploration of the natural world and of the ties and bonds of friendship and family in his new collection of poems which 'over and again turn the familiar and largely rural into the strange and wonderful’ (Kevin Crossly-Holland) Simon lives in North Devon and has been co-Chair of Moor Poets for several years. His previous collection, An Invitation, is a collaboration with a photographer friend.
In Susan Jordan's pamphlet Tasting the Sweet Cold, the sensual details of food and clothes are a focus for memories of childhood and growing up. 'This is generous and fearless exploration, and its particularity, so well remembered, will touch the child in every reader.’ (Christopher Southgate) Susan (picture below) lives in Ashburton and has been a long time supporter of Poetry Teignmouth. Tasting the Sweet Cold is her fourth book of poetry.
Serenity Open Mic Session in Sernity Gallery, Brunswick Street, Teignmouth
Your host for the evening is Liz Diamond
Tuesday 3rd October 2023 7.30 to 9.30pm
An Evening With…. Dylan Thomas
at the Oyster Catcher, 12 Northumberland Place, Teignmouth TQ14 8DD
Door: £3.00
Your host for the evening is Jennie Osborne.
1. Short introduction to Dylan Thomas, his life & work.
2. Bring your favourite poem by Dylan Thomas to read & say why it means something to you.
3. Short focus on classic pieces by Dylan Thomas
The Opening Voice to Under Milk Wood
A Refusal To Mourn The Death , By Fire, Of A Child In London
Read by Wayne Smith
(Further sessions of An Evening With… will take place on Tuesday 5th December & Tuesday 6th February)
Wednesday 4th October 2023 7.30pm
Alice Cross Centre, Bitton Park Road, Teignmouth, TQ14 9BT
Susan Jordan & Simon Millward, will be launching new collections.
In Simon Millward’s collection, Two Rivers, the confluence of two rivers near where he lives becomes an apt metaphor for his exploration of the natural world and of the ties and bonds of friendship and family in his new collection of poems which 'over and again turn the familiar and largely rural into the strange and wonderful’ (Kevin Crossly-Holland) Simon lives in North Devon and has been co-Chair of Moor Poets for several years. His previous collection, An Invitation, is a collaboration with a photographer friend.
In Susan Jordan's pamphlet Tasting the Sweet Cold, the sensual details of food and clothes are a focus for memories of childhood and growing up. 'This is generous and fearless exploration, and its particularity, so well remembered, will touch the child in every reader.’ (Christopher Southgate) Susan (picture below) lives in Ashburton and has been a long time supporter of Poetry Teignmouth. Tasting the Sweet Cold is her fourth book of poetry.

Tuesday 31st October 2023 7.30 to 10.00pm
Roger Philip Dennis & Steve Day
+ Open Mic
at Uncut, the Phoenix, Exeter, EX4 3LS
Tickets on the door.
Roger Philip Dennis is an enigma. In 2014 he won the prestigious National Poetry Prize and remains among the very finest poets in the UK.... whilst having no collection under his own name. However in 2022 he collaborated with Steve Day. The result, the ‘luscious’ (as described by Pat Fleming) poetry collection Invocations And Portraits. If you missed their Extravaganza concert at Ashburton's Tinner's Moon Festival in May featuring dance, music & film... that's a pity. Nonetheless, Uncut's performance will be featuring new work and 'something special', including Ric White (reeds/flutes) & Eliza Jacobs (cello).
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ONLINE EVENTS & COURSES
19th September 7.30-9pm
Zoom in your room, the last ever Poetry at the Mill
No 'guest' poets, an opportunity for our regulars and visitors to have an open mic slot.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85824583060
Meeting ID: 858 2458 3060
Passcode: 970798
For a place email: ronnieaaronson@hotmail.com
Poetry For Beginners - A course at The Pavilions
Commences 6th October 2023, runs fortnightly for five sessions, 10.30am - 12.30pm
The final session will be a week later. Tutor: Liz Diamond
https://www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk/events/poetry-writing-course
Poetry Teignmouth enquiries: email: poetryteignmouth18@gmail.com
Roger Philip Dennis & Steve Day
+ Open Mic
at Uncut, the Phoenix, Exeter, EX4 3LS
Tickets on the door.
Roger Philip Dennis is an enigma. In 2014 he won the prestigious National Poetry Prize and remains among the very finest poets in the UK.... whilst having no collection under his own name. However in 2022 he collaborated with Steve Day. The result, the ‘luscious’ (as described by Pat Fleming) poetry collection Invocations And Portraits. If you missed their Extravaganza concert at Ashburton's Tinner's Moon Festival in May featuring dance, music & film... that's a pity. Nonetheless, Uncut's performance will be featuring new work and 'something special', including Ric White (reeds/flutes) & Eliza Jacobs (cello).
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ONLINE EVENTS & COURSES
19th September 7.30-9pm
Zoom in your room, the last ever Poetry at the Mill
No 'guest' poets, an opportunity for our regulars and visitors to have an open mic slot.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85824583060
Meeting ID: 858 2458 3060
Passcode: 970798
For a place email: ronnieaaronson@hotmail.com
Poetry For Beginners - A course at The Pavilions
Commences 6th October 2023, runs fortnightly for five sessions, 10.30am - 12.30pm
The final session will be a week later. Tutor: Liz Diamond
https://www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk/events/poetry-writing-course
Poetry Teignmouth enquiries: email: poetryteignmouth18@gmail.com