Events
'Poetry is the best words in the best order'
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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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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TEIGNMOUTH POETRY FESTIVAL 2023
Friday March 31st
3pm Andy Brown will present extracts from his latest publication 'The Tree Climbing Cure'.
5pm Rosie Jackson and Graeme Ryan's 'Poetry of Unknown Things', based on Sufi writing but including readings from many more modern poets.
8pm Jacqueline Saphra, poet, playwright, self-confessed agitator and founder member of Poets for the Planet. Her recent poetry collections have carried memorable titles: 'Dad, Remember You Are Dead' and 'All My Mad Mothers'.
Saturday April 1st
2.30pm Competition Prizegiving free event
4.30pm Fiona Benson, multiple award winner and one of the UK's brightest stars in contemporary poetry will read from 'Ephemeron', her latest, highly acclaimed collection.
7.30pm ‘Inanna Reimagined’ by Veronica Aaronson retelling the 5000 year-old legend of Inanna, Sumerian Goddess with thirteen poets and two musicians.
Sunday April 2nd
2pm Open mic
3.30pm 'Poetry in Other Languages', a long-time favourite of festival audiences.
7.30pm 'Green Money’ presenting the poetry of Steve Day and Jennie Osborne interacting with the music of the Day Evans Dale Ensemble featuring the violin of Peter Evans. The Festival Finale in this year's programme.
The complete programme appears in Festival brochures, now available at The Pavilions, cafes, Arts Quarter shops, Devon libraries and information points and is also downloadable on the Festival 2023 page of this website.
All ticket sales are via Teignmouth Pavilions, either on-line, by phone, or in person,
pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk, or call on 01626 249049. The box office is open 10am - 3pm Mon to Saturday, and one hour before screenings or performances.
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TEIGNMOUTH POETRY FESTIVAL 2023
Friday March 31st
3pm Andy Brown will present extracts from his latest publication 'The Tree Climbing Cure'.
5pm Rosie Jackson and Graeme Ryan's 'Poetry of Unknown Things', based on Sufi writing but including readings from many more modern poets.
8pm Jacqueline Saphra, poet, playwright, self-confessed agitator and founder member of Poets for the Planet. Her recent poetry collections have carried memorable titles: 'Dad, Remember You Are Dead' and 'All My Mad Mothers'.
Saturday April 1st
2.30pm Competition Prizegiving free event
4.30pm Fiona Benson, multiple award winner and one of the UK's brightest stars in contemporary poetry will read from 'Ephemeron', her latest, highly acclaimed collection.
7.30pm ‘Inanna Reimagined’ by Veronica Aaronson retelling the 5000 year-old legend of Inanna, Sumerian Goddess with thirteen poets and two musicians.
Sunday April 2nd
2pm Open mic
3.30pm 'Poetry in Other Languages', a long-time favourite of festival audiences.
7.30pm 'Green Money’ presenting the poetry of Steve Day and Jennie Osborne interacting with the music of the Day Evans Dale Ensemble featuring the violin of Peter Evans. The Festival Finale in this year's programme.
The complete programme appears in Festival brochures, now available at The Pavilions, cafes, Arts Quarter shops, Devon libraries and information points and is also downloadable on the Festival 2023 page of this website.
All ticket sales are via Teignmouth Pavilions, either on-line, by phone, or in person,
pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk, or call on 01626 249049. The box office is open 10am - 3pm Mon to Saturday, and one hour before screenings or performances.
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Poetry Teignmouth Online Event Tuesday 11th April 7.30pm
Pippa Little is an award-winning Scots poet settled in Northumberland where she has been involved with teaching and mentoring at both basic skills and university level. She has four pamphlets, one of which, The Spar Box (Vane Women Press) was a PBS Choice, and three full collections from Carcanet and Arc. Time Begins to Hurt came out from Arc last year. Her work appears in many anthologies worldwide and in poetry magazines print and online.
Pippa Little is an award-winning Scots poet settled in Northumberland where she has been involved with teaching and mentoring at both basic skills and university level. She has four pamphlets, one of which, The Spar Box (Vane Women Press) was a PBS Choice, and three full collections from Carcanet and Arc. Time Begins to Hurt came out from Arc last year. Her work appears in many anthologies worldwide and in poetry magazines print and online.
Anne Ryland’s third poetry collection, Unruled Journal, is published by Valley Press. Her previous books are Autumnologist, shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2006, and The Unmothering Class, which was a New Writing North Read Regional choice. Her work is widely published in magazines and anthologies, and she has translated poems by German poet Hilde Domin. Anne lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed and leads writing workshops in Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.
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Other Events
Thursday April 6th 7.15pm Fire River Poets
Online readings from Ama Bolton and Veronica Aaronson
Saturday April 15th 7.30 – 9.45 pm Alice Cross Centre, Teignmouth
Launch of Rosie Jackson’s new collection, Love Leans over the Table. including readings from Sue Proffitt, Helene Demetriades, Julie Mullen, Graeme Ryan, Ian Royce Chamberlain, etc, and cello music from Eliza Jacobs.
Rosie is one of the Poetry Teignmouth team. Widely published, she has won many awards including 3rd Prize Kent and Sussex 2022, 1st prize Teignmouth 2021, 1st prize Poetry Space 2019, 1st prize Wells 2018. She enjoys collaborating with other writers, artists, film-makers and photographers. Two Girls and a Beehive: Poems about Stanley Spencer and Hilda Carline (2020) was co-written with Graham Burchell; Aloneness is a Many-headed Bird (2020) with Dawn Gorman.
Love Leans over the Table is her new collection from Two Rivers Press. It celebrates both human and divine love, tracing a path from loss to epiphany, with powerful evocations of the lives of mystics such as Julian of Norwich, John Donne, Simone Weil.
Moniza Alvi writes: ‘These are rare, nourishing poems, open and vulnerable, spiritually aware and with an acute sense of beauty and struggle.’ Kim Moore calls them ‘startling, moving poems that explore the porous, shifting boundary between the historical and the contemporary.’
Other Events
Thursday April 6th 7.15pm Fire River Poets
Online readings from Ama Bolton and Veronica Aaronson
Saturday April 15th 7.30 – 9.45 pm Alice Cross Centre, Teignmouth
Launch of Rosie Jackson’s new collection, Love Leans over the Table. including readings from Sue Proffitt, Helene Demetriades, Julie Mullen, Graeme Ryan, Ian Royce Chamberlain, etc, and cello music from Eliza Jacobs.
Rosie is one of the Poetry Teignmouth team. Widely published, she has won many awards including 3rd Prize Kent and Sussex 2022, 1st prize Teignmouth 2021, 1st prize Poetry Space 2019, 1st prize Wells 2018. She enjoys collaborating with other writers, artists, film-makers and photographers. Two Girls and a Beehive: Poems about Stanley Spencer and Hilda Carline (2020) was co-written with Graham Burchell; Aloneness is a Many-headed Bird (2020) with Dawn Gorman.
Love Leans over the Table is her new collection from Two Rivers Press. It celebrates both human and divine love, tracing a path from loss to epiphany, with powerful evocations of the lives of mystics such as Julian of Norwich, John Donne, Simone Weil.
Moniza Alvi writes: ‘These are rare, nourishing poems, open and vulnerable, spiritually aware and with an acute sense of beauty and struggle.’ Kim Moore calls them ‘startling, moving poems that explore the porous, shifting boundary between the historical and the contemporary.’
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Dates of future Poetry Teignmouth Online Events
Tues 2nd May Zoom Open Mic with Rosie Jackson and Janet Sutherland
Tues 6th June Zoom Open Mic with Rachael Clyne and Veronica Aaronson
if you’d like an open mic slot, please contact Rosie: rosie@rosiejackson.org.uk
Dates of future Poetry Teignmouth Online Events
Tues 2nd May Zoom Open Mic with Rosie Jackson and Janet Sutherland
Tues 6th June Zoom Open Mic with Rachael Clyne and Veronica Aaronson
if you’d like an open mic slot, please contact Rosie: rosie@rosiejackson.org.uk
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EVENT NOTES
Open Mic/Readings
Open Mic/Readings online via Zoom - Doors will open at 7.30pm so people can chat via the chat box and events will start at 7.45pm. Guest poets will be given a 15-20 minutes slot and the open mic-ers will have time to give a short introduction and share one poem.
EVENT CONTACTS
For details of Zoom events or to obtain the link for an event, please email ronnieaaronson@hotmail.com quoting the date and event name.
If you’d like an open mic slot, please contact Rosie: rosie@rosiejackson.org.uk
For other Poetry Teignmouth enquiries: poetryteignmouth18@gmail.com.
EVENT NOTES
Open Mic/Readings
Open Mic/Readings online via Zoom - Doors will open at 7.30pm so people can chat via the chat box and events will start at 7.45pm. Guest poets will be given a 15-20 minutes slot and the open mic-ers will have time to give a short introduction and share one poem.
EVENT CONTACTS
For details of Zoom events or to obtain the link for an event, please email ronnieaaronson@hotmail.com quoting the date and event name.
If you’d like an open mic slot, please contact Rosie: rosie@rosiejackson.org.uk
For other Poetry Teignmouth enquiries: poetryteignmouth18@gmail.com.