Friday 27th January 2017 with three great headliners
selected by Mark Connors, Joe Williams and Peter White respectively, namely Matthew
Hedley Stoppard (it just had to be), Rosalind York (who was one of the
headliners at our first ever WORD CLUB) and the brilliant Geoff Hattersley.
There will be the usual open mic slots available so come down to the best pub
in the land for this grand Winter feast of poetry. I’d like to request that
every reader does at least one cover version in their set and open mic slot to
maybe introduce or re-introduce other WORD CLUBBERS to a poem or a poet we’ve
either not heard before or not heard for a while. Might be an idea to bring a
couple just in case anyone decides to read the same poem!
Matthew Hedley Stoppard was born in Derbyshire but now lives in
Otley, West Yorkshire where he is the country's first official Town Poet.
Valley Press has published two of his collections of poetry. His debut, A
Family Behind Glass, was included in The Guardian's Readers' Books of the Year
2013, and his second book was written in collaboration with Leeds poet James
Nash. His poems and short stories have appeared in various magazines and
anthologies, and on BBC radio.
Rosalind York read Theatre at Dartington before starting a
family. Since then she has never found a matching pair of socks. She has poems
in the Other Poetry anthology, Miracle and Clockwork and OWF Press'
anthologies, Spokes and The Garden. She won three places on the Guernsey
International Poetry on the Buses 2016 competition and she imagines her poems
are riding in the back seat and making rude gestures out of the window.
Geoff Hattersley was born in Wombwell and now lives in
Huddersfield, where he runs a Reading Round group for the Royal Literary Fund.
He is also a member of the RLF’s online production team, interviewing authors
for their archives. His collections include ‘Don’t Worry’ (Bloodaxe, 1994) and
‘Back of Beyond (smith|doorstop, 2006). His most recent publication is’ Outside
the Blue Hebium’ (smith|doorstop, 2012).
The first rule of WORD CLUB is: Everyone talks about WORD CLUB.
SO SPREAD THE WORD!
The Chemic Tavern, 9
Johnson Street, Leeds. LS6 2NG
7.30 pm till 10.15 ish.
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