Monthly Archives: January 2014

February 2014, What’s On Midlands Spoken Word

Posted on January 25, 2014 by garylongden

Sun 2nd Poets with passion, Ort Cafe,500-504 Moseley Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, B12 9AH 3.30pm, free in open mic. Tues 4th Night Blue Fruit, Coventry,7.30pm start, free in, Tony Owen hosts-open mic sign up on the night. Tues 4th Word … Continue reading →

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Spire Writes, Chesterfield, January 2014

Posted on January 25, 2014 by garylongden

This was my third visit to Spire Writes but my first to the new venue, the White Swan PH. A deluge outside of biblical proportions was ignored by a burgeoning audience which spilled out of the main room into the … Continue reading →

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Poems 2014

Posted on January 25, 2014 by garylongden

A Cumbria peak has been declared a mountain after amateur surveyors found it was three quarters of an inch (2cm) higher than originally thought. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-22025371 – Growing Up Thack Moor rests still, No longer a hill, In a moment something … Continue reading →

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January 2014, What’s On Midlands Spoken Word

Posted on January 21, 2014 by garylongden

The new year opens with a plethora of fine regular events and the opening of a new one, The Poetry Lounge in Ludlow on Tues 21st.Severla events catch the eye, but Helen Mort’s Spire Writes in Chesterfield on we 8th … Continue reading →

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