POETRY TEIGNMOUTH
“POETRY MATTERS”
  • Home
  • Events
  • Festival 2023
  • Competition 2023
  • Poetry
  • Poetry Archive
  • Links
  • Readings
  • Festivals Archive
  • Email Opt-in
  • Veronica Aaronson
  • Graham Burchell
  • Ian Royce Chamberlain
  • Virginia Griem
  • Jennie Osborne
TEIGNMOUTH POETRY (MINI) FESTIVAL – 28TH/29TH MAY 2022
 
Our mini festival is now over, and was much enjoyed by everyone.  The sun shone and showed Teignmouth at its best.  The Pavilions was the perfect venue, and we are getting some fantastic feedback.
We shall be posting pics as soon as we can, but in the meantime there are plenty of photos on the Teignmouth Poetry Festival Facebook page.  Thank you all for coming, it was great to see so many poetry people together.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Picture

Katrina and the Open Competition winners.                                                                      Photo: Viv Wilson
Picture
Open Competition winners, Graham Burchell shortlisted poets and the judges.                      Photo: Viv Wilson
Picture
Rosie and Mark Totterdell, winner of the Graham Burchell award                                           Photo: Viv Wilson
Picture
Rosie and the shortlisted Graham Burchell award poets                                                          Photo: Viv Wilson
Picture
The judges and organisers.                                                                                                Photo: Viv Wilson
Picture
Caleb and Tom
To download the festival brochure in .pdf format click here.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
​PROGRAMME

ALL EVENTS TAKE PLACE IN THE PAVILIONS
 
Pavilions Teignmouth, Den Crescent, Teignmouth, TQ14 8BG
 
Tickets for all events and workshop are available only through
Pavilions Teignmouth, either in person, by phone, or online at
www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk    /    01626 249049 
 
Box Office hours:  Mon to Sat, 10am - 3pm and for one hour before
a performance or screening.
 
Note: booking charge of 50p per transaction (not per individual ticket)
for bookings in person, and £1 per transaction for online/phone bookings.
 
No charge for tickets to free events.
 
Unsold tickets for events (except workshop) will be available on the door. 
​_____________________________________________________________
Sat 28th May
Pavilions Teignmouth – The Studio
2 – 3.00pm      FREE  - but ticket required, limited space       
 Despite Knowing

​
Booking link: www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk/events/despite-knowing​
Picture
Veronica Aaronson introduces her important anthology of poems
on the subject of addiction. Despite Knowing ranges through alcohol,
drugs, gambling, computers, sex, phones and shopping, looking at
the problem of addiction from the perspectives of users, family
members and professionals. Over 50 poets contributed: many will
read their work at this event – and some will present their poems
in the form of songs.
_______________________________________________________​
Pavilions Teignmouth – Auditorium
3.30 – 4.30pm                                £5.00
Tom Sastry & Caleb Parkin, presented by Marc Woodward
​
​Booking link: https://www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk/events/tom-sastry-caleb-parkin-presented-marc-woodward​
Picture
Tom Sastry is a funny and engaging performer. His first collection,
 A Man's House Catches Fire (2019) was highly commended in the
 Forward Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection
 Prize.  He will be showcasing his  latest collection You have no normal
country to return to, a darkly comic exploration of national identity
and the power of modern myths.
​

Picture
 


Caleb Parkin is Bristol City Poet 2020 – 22. His work has appeared in 
The Guardian, Rialto, Poetry Review, Magma and many other periodicals.
Books include This Fruiting Body (Nine Arches Press) and Wasted Rainbow 
(Tall Lighthouse). He came 2nd in the National Poetry Competition 2016
and 1st in the Winchester Poetry Prize 2017. Caleb tutors for the Poetry
Society, Poetry School, Arvon and others, and has an MSc in Creative
Writing for Therapeutic Purposes. Later this year there’ll be a new
pamphlet from Broken Sleep and a collection of his ‘City Poet’ work. 
​____________________________________________________________​
Pavilions Teignmouth – Auditorium
 5 – 6.30pm            FREE – no ticket required
Competition Prizegiving
 
The top 10 successful poets in each category of the  Teignmouth
Poetry Festival Competition will read their poems and there’ll be
adjudications from Open judge Katrina Naomi, and Rosie Jackson,
judge for the inaugural Graham Burchell Award for Devon Poets. 
Followed by prize presentations, and an opportunity to ‘Meet the
Judges’.  Introduced by Virginia Griem and Ian Royce Chamberlain.
 _________________________________________________________
 Pavilions Teignmouth – Auditorium
 8 – 9.00pm                                      £10.00          
Katrina Naomi & Rosie Jackson, readings from our
​competition judges, presented by Jennie Osborne

​​Booking link:​ www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk/events/katrina-naomi-rosie-jackson-presented-jennie-osborne
Picture
Katrina Naomi’s latest project, Same But Different, is a poetic collaboration
with Helen Mort, published in Sept 2021 by Hazel Press. Her most recent
collection, Wild Persistence, (Seren, 2020), received an Authors’ Foundation
award from the Society of Authors. Her  poetry has appeared on Poems on
the Underground and BBC Radio 4’s Front Row. Katrina lives in Cornwall.
www.katrinanaomi.co.uk 
 
Picture
Rosie Jackson’s many competition successes include first prize in the
Teignmouth Open, 2021. Her poetry publications include, most recently,
Light Makes it Easy from Indigo Dreams. This followed two collaborations:
Aloneness is a Many-Headed Bird (with Dawn Gorman, Hedgehog Press, 2020),
and Two Girls and a Beehive (with the late Graham Burchell, Two Rivers Press,
2020).  www.rosiejackson.org.uk
_________________________________________________________________
​Sun 29th May
Pavilions Teignmouth – The Studio
 10.30 – 1.00pm          £15.00 -   SOLD OUT 
Poetry Workshop with Katrina Naomi
 
Booking link: www.pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk/events/poetry-workshop-katrina-naomi SOLD OUT

​'What Makes a Prize-Winning Poem?' Katrina knows about competition
success – only last year she won the prestigious Keats-Shelley Competition. 
But as a highly experienced judge she is also well-qualified to talk about
the elusive art of making a judge sit up and take notice.  She will discuss
how not to do it, but mostly she’ll encourage people to think about titles,
first lines, last lines, verbs, even themes – and that crucial matter of
injecting some flamboyance.
____________________________________________________________