Support Charlie Bobus Fundraising show @ Red Bones or purchase the book online. Proceeds in aid of first Canada Tour to represent Jamaica at the Dub Collective's Fall International Dub Poetry Festival in Hamilton Canada. It will take place from November 8 to 11, 2007. Come Get your signed Creative Energy Book of Motivation & Poetry or Creative Energy CD. Also Watch out for Charlie Bobus live Interview and Performance on the new series "The Word Sound Power" now showing on BETJ! www.myspace.com/thewordsoundpower
Simon So cool to see your wee one making a guest appearance!! Yasmin xxx p.s if you were a pervo that could read so badly, but you know who I mean ; ) x
Watch my FameCast performance and Vote for me to win!!!
I am happy to announce that your votes helped me get to the final round of the FameCast competition. As one of the five finalists, I was flown to Austin, performed a 12-minute set of poetry and now need your vote one last time!
The next two Salt Margins at The Whitechapel Gallery are unmissable. Hope to see you there!
Thursday 2 August
Luke Kennard Laura Forman Adam Green The Ex-Men
At 26 Luke Kennard is the youngest ever nominee for the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection. He reads from The Harbour Beyond The Movie, his outstanding
second book. Lazy Gramophonite Adam Green reads from Satsuma Sun Mover, a surreal coming-of-age tale. Generation Txter Laura Forman performs poems about Bon
Jovi (yes!) and Battersea Power Station. Plus music and spoken word from Glasgow-based duo The Ex-Men. Doors 7pm, free entry. Produced in association with
Salt Publishing.
Thursday 20 September
Melanie Challenger Eleanor Rees Chris McCabe Songdog
Salt poets Eleanor Rees (Andraste's Hair) and Melanie Challenger (Galatea) have both been nominated for this year's Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
Which is reason enough to come and hear them read. Like Eleanor, Chris McCabe is a Salt poet and a Liverpudlian. His collection The Hutton Inquiry is a
powerful examination of language under pressure. Musical refreshment is provided by the excellent Songdog, led by playwright Lyndon Morgan.
FOURTEEN SHOWS, SIX POETS, ONE VAN…
… YES, IT’S GENERATION TXT
Following the success of acclaimed new poetry anthology Generation Txt, penned in the margins is taking the six gifted young poets featured in the book on a national tour to fourteen venues. Hand-picked from a nationwide search for writing talent, the poets include former Northern Young Writer of the Year Emma McGordon and celebrated performance poet Inua Ellams, as well as Joe Dunthorne, whose debut novel Submarine has just been snapped up by Hamish Hamilton. Natural Sciences graduate Laura Forman, creative writing student Abigail Oborne and experimental poet and text artist James Wilkes complete the bill.
Hailed by distinguished poet and critic Roddy Lumsden as 'a vital cross-section of the poetry that will progress and flourish' and by the TES as 'a creative ideas manual', the Generation Txt tour will be a must-see event for anyone interested in the future of literature.
May 17 – GREAT TORRINGTON Plough Arts Centre
May 18 – SWINDON Festival of Literature
May 19 – STROUD Artspace
May 22 – LONDON Bloomsbury Theatre
May 24 – MAIDENHEAD Norden Farn Centre for the Arts
May 25 – OXFORD Playhouse
May 26 – MANCHESTER Contact Theatre
May 28 – LIVERPOOL The Pilgrim
May 29 – DURHAM Gala Theatre
May 30 – NEWCASTLE Lit & Phil
June 1 – BIRMINGHAM MAC
June 2 – NORWICH Norwich Arts Centre
June 3 – CAMBRIDGE JE Wilson Drama Studio
June 5 – BRIGHTON Earth & Stars
