Teignmouth Poetry Festival 2019
Feedback on Teignmouth Poetry Festival
Extracts from email, Twitter and Facebook responses:
In my opinion Teignmouth Poetry Festival is the very model of a successful UK Arts Festival. As a promoter of the best in contemporary poetry, Teignmouth punches well above its weight.
Just wanted to thank you all for all your hard work putting on the best Teignmouth Poetry Festival yet! Felt very honoured to be there.
What an extraordinary & moving show - Martin Figura's intensely personal solo performance…
Thanks so much for sending the reports on the poems so promptly, and the photos. It was very nice to see you again at Teignmouth and to be so warmly welcomed - those are the things that really make an occasion like that.
I thought the festival was excellent with some really interesting events. It was well organised throughout, and very people-friendly with people around to help and direct at all points. It was easy to see how busy the committee had been in organising everything.
I thought you did an amazing job with the festival, it was excellent in every way.
Just to say thank you for a wonderful festival. It gets better every year! I can really see the colossal amount of work that goes into making sure it all runs so smoothly.
… an exemplary Poetry Festival on every level. There is a real buzz about the town and a wide range of involvement from both locals and further afield in poetry…
It was wonderful. What a heart-warming and inspiring atmosphere!
So many good readings and such a lovely atmosphere.
A wonderful finale – a Poetry Slam featuring 12 very talented spoken word participants doing their stuff in front of a packed and highly interactive audience in a celebration of the democracy, power to communicate and excitement of poetry today.
… our sincere appreciation for all of your hard work, professionalism, love of poetry and undoubted passion to share the best it has to offer with as many people as possible.
Extracts from email, Twitter and Facebook responses:
In my opinion Teignmouth Poetry Festival is the very model of a successful UK Arts Festival. As a promoter of the best in contemporary poetry, Teignmouth punches well above its weight.
Just wanted to thank you all for all your hard work putting on the best Teignmouth Poetry Festival yet! Felt very honoured to be there.
What an extraordinary & moving show - Martin Figura's intensely personal solo performance…
Thanks so much for sending the reports on the poems so promptly, and the photos. It was very nice to see you again at Teignmouth and to be so warmly welcomed - those are the things that really make an occasion like that.
I thought the festival was excellent with some really interesting events. It was well organised throughout, and very people-friendly with people around to help and direct at all points. It was easy to see how busy the committee had been in organising everything.
I thought you did an amazing job with the festival, it was excellent in every way.
Just to say thank you for a wonderful festival. It gets better every year! I can really see the colossal amount of work that goes into making sure it all runs so smoothly.
… an exemplary Poetry Festival on every level. There is a real buzz about the town and a wide range of involvement from both locals and further afield in poetry…
It was wonderful. What a heart-warming and inspiring atmosphere!
So many good readings and such a lovely atmosphere.
A wonderful finale – a Poetry Slam featuring 12 very talented spoken word participants doing their stuff in front of a packed and highly interactive audience in a celebration of the democracy, power to communicate and excitement of poetry today.
… our sincere appreciation for all of your hard work, professionalism, love of poetry and undoubted passion to share the best it has to offer with as many people as possible.
A few photographs from the events.
Roger McGough photo Viv Wilson
Virginia Griem photo Viv Wilson
Skylark photo Virginia Griem
Sunday evening's slam event winners:
1st Marc Woodward 2nd Nick Lovell 3rd Melanie Crump 
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Martin Figura photo Dave Vallis
John Greening photo Viv Wilson
Roger McGough with Patricia and William Oxley look at the Song & Dance exhibition in TAAG photo Virginia Griem
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The Hillstead Trophy and Pzazz 3
photo Marc Woodward
Pzazz3, the latest of our in-house anthologies, was launched at the 2019 Festival. Every poem in the book has been heard at Poetry Teignmouth open mic sessions. Martin and Nikki Hillstead presented a fabulous new trophy, shown above, for the best poem with a green or ecological theme.
Here are the results:
First Prize
Marc Woodward - The Surfer King’s Last Wish
Highly Commended:
Clive Donovan - Jerks of Beauty
Margaret Sheppard - Rewilding
Commended:
Alec Taylor- Government Directives
Ruth Butler - Seen from the Seawall
Lucinda Carey- November 2018 West Wales
Here are the results:
First Prize
Marc Woodward - The Surfer King’s Last Wish
Highly Commended:
Clive Donovan - Jerks of Beauty
Margaret Sheppard - Rewilding
Commended:
Alec Taylor- Government Directives
Ruth Butler - Seen from the Seawall
Lucinda Carey- November 2018 West Wales
The festival brochure tells you what you missed and is shown below. To download it in .pdf format click here.
As always, festivals require volunteer stewards and other helpers – if you would like to be involved please get in touch.
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