Butchers Dog newsletter

I have recently signed up to receive the Butchers Dog newsletter and I thought my followers may be interested in seeing the latest one as it has details of a free poetry launch party in June (if you happen to live in or near Newcastle), information on a poetry workshop and how to submit to Butchers Dog:

Butcher's Dog 3 Launch Party! Saturday 7 June 2014, 5pm Who says that poetry has to happen when the sun goes down? Come and join us for afternoon tea* at the fabulous Toffee Factory to celebrate the launch of issue 3. Compered by the BD3 editors - there'll be brilliant poets, interval poeting games and copies of our beautiful, limited edition magazines to buy! The Toffee Factory is ideally placed in the heart of the Ouseburn Valley so you can make the BD3 launch the start of a night out - The Tyne Pub is just across the road, The Free Trade is just up the hill and Ernest and the Cumby are really close by. Or, of course, you might prefer to head straight home and curl up with BD3! Come! It'll be aces. Confirmed readers: Jane Burn, David Coldwell, Keith Hutson, Neil Fulwood, Amanda Quinn & Owen Vince Venue: Toffee Factory Lower Steenbergs Yard Quayside Ouseburn Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 2DF Free but ticketed. Book your BD3 Launch tickets with Eventbrite! * Don't worry there'll be wine too.     WORKSHOP: Moments of Epiphany in association with Apples and Snakes 2.30pm, 7 June 2014 at the Toffee Factory "I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering" - Robert Frost Many of the greatest poems seem to offer moments of epiphany, times when - for better or worse - we see ourselves and the world around us more clearly; when everything becomes that bit sharper. In this workshop, we will look at a selection of poems from Butcher's Dog 3 which reveal their truths, sometimes as explosions, sometimes fires, and think about how we, too, might use our lives in verse. The workshop will give us time to share work, complete short writing exercises, and hopefully leave with new poems brewing with secrets, sparks and epiphanies of their own. The workshop is led by BD3 editors Jake Campbell and Amy Mackelden. Places are limited and priortity will be given to people attending the launch. Advanced booking is essential, to reserve your place please contact degna@butchersdogmagazine.com. Thanks to the wonderful people at Apples and Snakes we are able to provide this workhsop free of charge.      Get your very own Butcher's Dog  (and send us your poems) So you know you can get hold of copies of our canny little mag dead easily, don't you? Each beautiful, limited edition issue only costs a fiver or you can subscribe and get a whopping 20% off the cover price. Visit our website to bag yourself a bargain. You can also find out how to submit for Issue 4.       Come and play We're looking for a talented and experienced poet to co-edit the next issue. If you think you might have what it takes to be a guest editor on BD4 we'd love to hear from you. Send your CV and a covering note telling us what your issue of Butcher's Dog would look like to degna@butchersdogmazine.com. Deadline: 19 May 2014. The role of guest editor is unpaid but expenses will be covered.     News from our Friends and other stuff we think you might like Congratulations to BD3 poet Natacha Bryan on being shortlisted for the Pighog/Poetry School Pamphlet Prize What are you up to on 7 May? Fancy the Poetry School's Digital Open Day? Live Theatre has some fantastic poetry events coming up in May Get a newspaper, get a marker pen, go!