POETRY
Conversation POETRY QUARTERLY / THE CONVERSATION PAPERPRESS
Issue 8 (Summer 2009) now available.
This Issue:
Writing is a powerful weapon in difficult times. Kate Adams describes some of her experience working with refugees - trying to understand how creativity can keep a person sane, how poetry can give us something tangible in our attempts to engage with those who have suffered and been displaced.
Alongside a series of poems that in their own way deal with issues of place and identity (with a focus on US poets), half of this magazine is dedicated to the writing of dispossessed people and those who have worked closely with them in association with Refugee Week in the UK.
Poetry by:
Aso, Rose Auslander, Charles Clifford Brooks III, David C. Byrne, Chris Fegley, Amylia Grace, Rick Kearns, Stephen Mead, F. Mehrban, Kadour Milnyali, M.V. Montgomery, Elizabeth Noble, Sylva Portoian, Colin Campbell Robinson, Benjamin A. Smith, Haymanot Tesfa & Bekele D. Woyecha.
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Maggie Harris
Saturday 19th September
Ramsgate Library,
Guildford Lawn,
Ramsgate
01843 593532
2.00 ~3.00 Writing Workshop
HAVE ROOTS WILL TRAVEL - a one hour writing workshop
drawing on the rich inspiration of gardens, gardening, and the journey some of our best-loved plants have taken to get here. We will look at how writers use gardens in their work and take part in a writing exercise.
Maggie Harris has published two collections of poetry, has just finished a memoir about growing in the Caribbean, and is currently working on a third collection, 'After a Visit to a Botanical Garden'. She was International Writing
Fellow at Southampton University.
www.maggieharris.co.uk
Please contact Ramsgate Library to confirm interest in attending Maggie’s workshop.
3.30 ~ 4.30 Poetry Reading, including Open Floor
READING BY THE WRITE WOMEN PERFORMANCE POETS –
featuring ‘Poems on a Postcard’ – and including a selection of poems celebrating the Isle of Thanet.
Entry to both events is FREE, but please be aware that the
Write Women are proud to be supporting ‘Nicole’s Fund’ for
the Teenage Cancer Trust, and all donations will therefore be
gratefully received.
A series of ‘Poems on a Postcard’ will be available, with
all proceeds to Nicole’s Fund, Teenage Cancer Trust.
Maggie Harris @ Orange Street, Sunday October 11th
Maggie Harris is a Guyana-born writer who has lived in Kent since 1972. A performance poet, tutor and literature event organiser, she won the Guyana Prize for Literature for her first book Limbolands in 2000, directed the first live literature festival in Thanet Inscribing the Island from 2002-4, and won an Arts Councul Grant for her memoir, The Conch Shell.
She has run several projects and workshops for Kent Libraries, the Arts Council, Glyndebourne in Thanet, and several schools, and will be running Creative Writing workshops for WEDG(World Education Development Group in Canterbury)
Maggie will be guest poet at the Orange Street Music Club on Sunday 11th October.
www.maggieharris.co.uk
Word Slam @ Coffee and Corks, CANTERBURY
Coffee & Corks
13 Palace Street
Canterbury,
CT1 2DZ
Canterbury's newest poetry and prose evening.
Email Andrea on af240@kent.ac.uk for more info on the next event and how to participate!
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