Thursday 28th January: Luke Kennard
Thursday 11th February: Laura Dockrill
Thursday 18th February: John Hegley
Thursday 25th February: Lavinia Greenwood
Thursday 4th March: John Agard
Wednesday 10th March: Workshop with Patrick McGuinness
Thursday 11th March: Patrick McGuinness and Tom Chivers
Readings at the Albion Beatnik Bookshop in Jericho. See you there!
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Showing posts with label events. Show all posts
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Monday, 2 November 2009
launch party now = Simon Armitage
OK, so, the launch party for tomorrow night has been cancelled. It was a short-lived but glorious dream.
Only now it just got a heck of a lot more glorious because the launch party is now officially merged with the Simon Armitage reading on Thursday, that's THURSDAY 5th NOVEMBER! Come and spend a warm, cosy bonfire night at the Jericho Tavern, from 8pm, enjoying music from Borderville and some incredible poetry from the one and only Simon Armitage. *cough*£5-on-the-door*cough*
Watch out for the event coming to a facebook page near you xxxxxxxxxxx
Only now it just got a heck of a lot more glorious because the launch party is now officially merged with the Simon Armitage reading on Thursday, that's THURSDAY 5th NOVEMBER! Come and spend a warm, cosy bonfire night at the Jericho Tavern, from 8pm, enjoying music from Borderville and some incredible poetry from the one and only Simon Armitage. *cough*£5-on-the-door*cough*
Watch out for the event coming to a facebook page near you xxxxxxxxxxx
Saturday, 31 October 2009
LAUNCH PARTY!
First of all, thanks to everyone who came to hear Luke Wright's incredible performance poetry on Thursday, it was a great evening!
But sadly time moves on and we must look to new and stranger things, such as...
THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY POETRY SOCIETY LAUNCH PARTY
To celebrate the kicking off of the term with Luke Wright and the amazing poets still to come (note: Simon Armitage on Thursday 5th November, put it in your diaries now...), join the committee and lots of other poetry-minded souls at The Wheatsheaf (129 High St), from 8pm on TUESDAY 3rd NOVEMBER.
There will be *live poetry and music* but also just a chance to mingle, drink, hook up, discuss the respective merits of Motion and Duffy, whatever floats your poetry boat.
See you there! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
But sadly time moves on and we must look to new and stranger things, such as...
THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY POETRY SOCIETY LAUNCH PARTY
To celebrate the kicking off of the term with Luke Wright and the amazing poets still to come (note: Simon Armitage on Thursday 5th November, put it in your diaries now...), join the committee and lots of other poetry-minded souls at The Wheatsheaf (129 High St), from 8pm on TUESDAY 3rd NOVEMBER.
There will be *live poetry and music* but also just a chance to mingle, drink, hook up, discuss the respective merits of Motion and Duffy, whatever floats your poetry boat.
See you there! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sunday, 25 October 2009
Events Updated!
Here are the updated events and NEW VENUES for our Michaelmas readings, plus a LAUNCH PARTY!
Thursday 29th October - 3rd Week
Luke Wright (plus guests), upstairs at the Big Bang Restaurant in Jericho. 8pm.
Map: http://www.thebigbangrestaurants.co.uk/contactus.htm
Tuesday 3rd November - 4th Week
Oxford University Poetry Society Launch Party, plus poetry and music. At 'The Wheatsheaf' pub. 8pm.
Map: click here
Thursday 5th November - 4th Week
Simon Armitage (plus live band) upstairs at the Jericho Tavern. 8pm.
Map: click here
Thursday 12th November - 5th Week
Lemn Sissay (plus guests) downstairs at the Big Bang Restaurant in Jericho. 8pm.
Map: http://www.thebigbangrestaurants.co.uk/contactus.htm
Thursday 19th November - 6th Week
Glyn Maxwell (plus singer-songwriter). Venue TBC
Thursday 24th November - 7th Week
Roger Mcgough (plus guests) downstairs at the Big Bang Restaurant in Jericho. 8pm.
Map: http://www.thebigbangrestaurants.co.uk/contactus.htm
see. you. soon!
x
Thursday 29th October - 3rd Week
Luke Wright (plus guests), upstairs at the Big Bang Restaurant in Jericho. 8pm.
Map: http://www.thebigbangrestaurants.co.uk/contactus.htm
Tuesday 3rd November - 4th Week
Oxford University Poetry Society Launch Party, plus poetry and music. At 'The Wheatsheaf' pub. 8pm.
Map: click here
Thursday 5th November - 4th Week
Simon Armitage (plus live band) upstairs at the Jericho Tavern. 8pm.
Map: click here
Thursday 12th November - 5th Week
Lemn Sissay (plus guests) downstairs at the Big Bang Restaurant in Jericho. 8pm.
Map: http://www.thebigbangrestaurants.co.uk/contactus.htm
Thursday 19th November - 6th Week
Glyn Maxwell (plus singer-songwriter). Venue TBC
Thursday 24th November - 7th Week
Roger Mcgough (plus guests) downstairs at the Big Bang Restaurant in Jericho. 8pm.
Map: http://www.thebigbangrestaurants.co.uk/contactus.htm
see. you. soon!
x
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
London Poetry Systems comes to Oxford
OUPS joins up with the London Poetry Systems for their Oxford promotion event; come see our own Oxford talent, incl. President Caroline Bird!
Saturday, 10 October 2009
Michaelmas 09 Readings
What we have got lined up for you this term:
FABER NEW POETS TOUR
Wed 14th Oct - 1st Week
Old Dining Hall, Teddy Hall, 8pm
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LUKE WRIGHT
Thu 29th Oct - 2nd Week
SIMON ARMITAGE
Thu 5th Nov - 4th Week
LEMN SESSAY
Thu 12th Nov - 5th Week
GLYN MAXWELL
Thu 19th Nov - 6th Week
ROGER MCGOUGH
Thu 26th Nov - 7th Week
Venue TBC - doors will open at 8pm, readings start at 8.30pm and last about an hour.
We'll also have supporting music acts for some of these - more news on this soon!
Join our Facebook group to get news and handy event invites direct to your profile!
FABER NEW POETS TOUR
Wed 14th Oct - 1st Week
Old Dining Hall, Teddy Hall, 8pm
---
LUKE WRIGHT
Thu 29th Oct - 2nd Week
SIMON ARMITAGE
Thu 5th Nov - 4th Week
LEMN SESSAY
Thu 12th Nov - 5th Week
GLYN MAXWELL
Thu 19th Nov - 6th Week
ROGER MCGOUGH
Thu 26th Nov - 7th Week
Venue TBC - doors will open at 8pm, readings start at 8.30pm and last about an hour.
We'll also have supporting music acts for some of these - more news on this soon!
Join our Facebook group to get news and handy event invites direct to your profile!
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Next term!
Our brand new term card has arrived...and there are LOTS of treats in store...
THURSDAY READINGS:
Wk 1 (22/01) - Burns' Night Winter Warmer reading by RODDY LUMSDEN
Wk 2 (29/01) - TRANSLATION FESTIVAL featuring David Constantine, editor of 'Modern Poetry in Translation' magazine, as well as Simon Smith, poet-translator of Catallus.
Wk 3 (05/02) - Tall Lighthouse's PILOT POETS Emily Berry, Camellia Stafford, Vidyan Ravinthiran
Wk 4 (12/02) - poet laureate ANDREW MOTION
Wk 5 (19/02) - JAMIE MC KENDRICK
Wk 6 (26/02) - RUTH PADEL
Wk 7 (05/03) - FRANCES LEVISTON
Wk 8 (12/03) - JOHN SIDDIQUE
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WORKSHOPS
Our regular workshops meet, as last year, on Wednesdays in The Mitre, starting promptly at 8pm, so please come along and meet some of Oxford's young and decidedly alcoholic poets!
And aside from our wednesday workshops, we've ALSO got these masterclasses:
Wk 3 (06/02) - a special pre-Valentine's Day Sonnet Workshop at Christ Church in Lecture rm 1.
Wk 5 (20/02) - Translation Workshop to hone your skills and follow up the festival in second week.
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COMPETITION
OUPS will administrate the Martin Starkie Poetry Competition, as well as the Declamation Competition during Hilary 2009.
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--MEMBERSHIP: £10 termly or £25 yearly including entry to all events, so very good value! Readings are £3 each to non-members. Wine is included.
Don't forget to join our mailing list if you'd like to receive updates on the readings and events that we are running as well as other ways to get involved. Email eloise.stonborough@seh.ox.ac.uk to sign up.
THURSDAY READINGS:
Wk 1 (22/01) - Burns' Night Winter Warmer reading by RODDY LUMSDEN
Wk 2 (29/01) - TRANSLATION FESTIVAL featuring David Constantine, editor of 'Modern Poetry in Translation' magazine, as well as Simon Smith, poet-translator of Catallus.
Wk 3 (05/02) - Tall Lighthouse's PILOT POETS Emily Berry, Camellia Stafford, Vidyan Ravinthiran
Wk 4 (12/02) - poet laureate ANDREW MOTION
Wk 5 (19/02) - JAMIE MC KENDRICK
Wk 6 (26/02) - RUTH PADEL
Wk 7 (05/03) - FRANCES LEVISTON
Wk 8 (12/03) - JOHN SIDDIQUE
*
WORKSHOPS
Our regular workshops meet, as last year, on Wednesdays in The Mitre, starting promptly at 8pm, so please come along and meet some of Oxford's young and decidedly alcoholic poets!
And aside from our wednesday workshops, we've ALSO got these masterclasses:
Wk 3 (06/02) - a special pre-Valentine's Day Sonnet Workshop at Christ Church in Lecture rm 1.
Wk 5 (20/02) - Translation Workshop to hone your skills and follow up the festival in second week.
*
COMPETITION
OUPS will administrate the Martin Starkie Poetry Competition, as well as the Declamation Competition during Hilary 2009.
*
--MEMBERSHIP: £10 termly or £25 yearly including entry to all events, so very good value! Readings are £3 each to non-members. Wine is included.
Don't forget to join our mailing list if you'd like to receive updates on the readings and events that we are running as well as other ways to get involved. Email eloise.stonborough@seh.ox.
Saturday, 22 November 2008
Open Mic!
Thanks so much to everyone who read at our open mic night on Thursday. We had cake, wine, crisps and readings from this splendid bunch:
Ben Doeh
Charlotte Geater
Christopher Jones
Dorian Van Braâm
Elizabeth Wenger
Eloise Stonborough
Geoffrey Lim
Geraldine Clarkson
James Lowe
Madeline Wright
Mark Mayes
Minoo Dinshaw
Nannette O’Brien
Paul Kelly
Peter Lomax
Richard O’Brien
Robert Rapoport
Ross Smith
Sammy Jay
Sean Hughes
Sophie McGrath
Stephen Bochonek
Will Davies
William Harris &
Yuan Yang
Only two weeks of term left now - don't forget MATTHEW HOLLIS on Thursday of 7th* and then DALJIT NAGRA** (!) the next week on Dec 4th, including the OUPS CHRISTMAS RAFFLE. Expect great things.
Also remember we're trying to collect a poem each from the people who read on Thursday so we can put them up here. Email me with your poems! - laura.marsh@chch.ox.ac.uk
*Nov 27th, the Pontigny Room at Teddy Hall, 8pm
**Dec 4th, Lecture Rm 1, Christ Church, 8pm
Ben Doeh
Charlotte Geater
Christopher Jones
Dorian Van Braâm
Elizabeth Wenger
Eloise Stonborough
Geoffrey Lim
Geraldine Clarkson
James Lowe
Madeline Wright
Mark Mayes
Minoo Dinshaw
Nannette O’Brien
Paul Kelly
Peter Lomax
Richard O’Brien
Robert Rapoport
Ross Smith
Sammy Jay
Sean Hughes
Sophie McGrath
Stephen Bochonek
Will Davies
William Harris &
Yuan Yang
Only two weeks of term left now - don't forget MATTHEW HOLLIS on Thursday of 7th* and then DALJIT NAGRA** (!) the next week on Dec 4th, including the OUPS CHRISTMAS RAFFLE. Expect great things.
Also remember we're trying to collect a poem each from the people who read on Thursday so we can put them up here. Email me with your poems! - laura.marsh@chch.ox.ac.uk
*Nov 27th, the Pontigny Room at Teddy Hall, 8pm
**Dec 4th, Lecture Rm 1, Christ Church, 8pm
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
A Reading from Geoffrey Hill
IX from The Triumph of Love
On chance occasions –
and others have observed this – you can see the wind,
as it moves, barely a separate thing,
the inner wall, the cell, of an hourglass, humming
vortices, bright particles in dissolution,
a roiling plug of sand picked up
as a small dancing funnel. It is how
the purest apprehension might appear
to take corporeal shape.
I love Hill’s sensitivity to the weight of words, how the mental (and real) tongue and ear lift and drop sounds, how the eyes imagine clusters and densities of letters, and attribute physicality to shifting speech particles. The aural-syntactical quality of this poem appeals to my ear, so I decided to record a vocal interpretation of it:
Click the title of this blog to hear it.
On chance occasions –
and others have observed this – you can see the wind,
as it moves, barely a separate thing,
the inner wall, the cell, of an hourglass, humming
vortices, bright particles in dissolution,
a roiling plug of sand picked up
as a small dancing funnel. It is how
the purest apprehension might appear
to take corporeal shape.
I love Hill’s sensitivity to the weight of words, how the mental (and real) tongue and ear lift and drop sounds, how the eyes imagine clusters and densities of letters, and attribute physicality to shifting speech particles. The aural-syntactical quality of this poem appeals to my ear, so I decided to record a vocal interpretation of it:
Click the title of this blog to hear it.
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Termcard
Hello poetic Oxonians!
This term we have a very exciting programme of readings planned:
WEEK 3 (30/10): Paul Farley (winner of Whitbread Award and twice a Forward Prize winner)
WEEK 4 (06/11): Todd Swift
WEEK 5 (13/11): Colette Bryce (winner of the National Poetry Competition in 2003)
WEEK 6 (20/11): Open Mic
WEEK 7 (27/11): Matthew Hollis (poetry editor at Faber and Faber)
WEEK 8 (04/12): Daljit Nagra (author of the acclaimed 'Look We Have Coming to Dover!')
The first of these will take place at Christ Church in Lecture Room 1 (actually a very cosy room despite the name) on Thursday 30th at 8.30pm. Free for members/ £3 to join on the night. Arrive between 8 and 8.30pm to get good seats/soak up the poetic atmosphere (there will be lots of this).
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If you want to do some extra clicking, you can watch a video of Paul doing a tour of Tate Liverpool, talking about the Liverpool he grew up in and 1964 as "a pop cultural year zero" here:
http://mesn.museumpods.com/video/video/show?id=917795:Video:3056
or listen to him reading some of his poems at the wonderful Poetry Archive:
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=27
*
Hope you can make it!
Laura
p.s.
Find the event on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=14484989969
This term we have a very exciting programme of readings planned:
WEEK 3 (30/10): Paul Farley (winner of Whitbread Award and twice a Forward Prize winner)
WEEK 4 (06/11): Todd Swift
WEEK 5 (13/11): Colette Bryce (winner of the National Poetry Competition in 2003)
WEEK 6 (20/11): Open Mic
WEEK 7 (27/11): Matthew Hollis (poetry editor at Faber and Faber)
WEEK 8 (04/12): Daljit Nagra (author of the acclaimed 'Look We Have Coming to Dover!')
The first of these will take place at Christ Church in Lecture Room 1 (actually a very cosy room despite the name) on Thursday 30th at 8.30pm. Free for members/ £3 to join on the night. Arrive between 8 and 8.30pm to get good seats/soak up the poetic atmosphere (there will be lots of this).
*
If you want to do some extra clicking, you can watch a video of Paul doing a tour of Tate Liverpool, talking about the Liverpool he grew up in and 1964 as "a pop cultural year zero" here:
http://mesn.museumpods.com/video/video/show?id=917795:Video:3056
or listen to him reading some of his poems at the wonderful Poetry Archive:
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=27
*
Hope you can make it!
Laura
p.s.
Find the event on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=14484989969
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