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The Other Side of Sleep London Launch
We are launching our newest book, The Other Side of Sleep in a series of events over the end of September and beginning of October. This is the (north) London one, being held in conjunction with our...
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Launching The Other Side of Sleep – Graffiti
Here’s some audio from Bom-Bane’s in Brighton and video from Albion Beatnik in Oxford, of Elinor Brooks reading her poem Graffiti, at the launches for The Other Side of Sleep Filed under: Events,...
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Arachne Feast & Festival at BrockleyMAX
The Story Sessions are back – for a guest spot, maybe for good, depending… We are doing three events for BrockleyMAX. The first two are both on Saturday 30th May The Ladywell Gallery, (what used to be...
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Brockley Max Story Sessions part 1 videos
Here are some videos of our Festival themed The Story Sessions contribution to Brockley Max on Saturday. Alix Adams reading two poems on behalf of Elinor Brooks Jennifer A McGowan reading two of her...
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Arachne Press at Swindon Poetry Festival
We have a little cluster of poets in the South West, and we like to give everyone an opportunity to get out and read their work, so this year we asked the lovely people at Swindon Poetry Festival if we...
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Midsummer Night in the Garden
It cannot have escaped the notice of most people that it is 400 years since Shakespeare shuffled off this mortal coil. There’s been a lot of celebrating, and not to be outdone, we are joining in, not...
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What Country, Friends? and Mary Arden Videos
Carrie Cohen reads Elinor Brooks poem, What Country, Friends? Inspired by Twelfth Night, amongst other things. And Jennifer A McGowan reads her own sequence of poems, Mary Arden’s Garrets Another...
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Liberty Tales on Tour – Oxford
Thanks to a grant from the Arts Council we are able to take Liberty Tales a little bit further than we have taken some of our books, and we will be visiting Oxford, Colchester, Newcastle and Bath, as...
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Oxford and Lewisham Liberties
Here we all are having a rollicking good time at Albion Beatnik in Oxford. There was a bit of discussion about the correct pronunciation of ‘C’ in Latin , and there was apparently a bona fide Classics...
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Liberty Tales on Tour Newcastle Videos
Some video from last month’s Liberty Tales reading at Newcastle Blackwells where we gathered some of our more northerly authors together. Alison Lock Brian Johnstone (also reading Elinor Brooks and...
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Liberty Tales on Tour: Bath – Video
We had a great night in Bath, touring Liberty Tales alongside Shortest Day, Longest Night brilliant readers, great audience, lovely venue, catching up with friends, and lovely friends to stay with…...
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Songs of Protest and Liberty Tales
A taster of what we got up to at St Hilda’s for Brockley Max – (there would be more but I forgot to turn the recorder back on after the interval for a while) A barnstorming performance by both our …...
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Live lit events coming up
Being busy people we can’t always arrange our own events as regularly as we might like, so we are very happy when we get asked to take part in other people’s. Next Friday 22nd September 7pm Liam Hogan...
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Shoreham WordFest: Liberty & Protest videos
We had a lot of fun at Sussex Yacht Club in Shoreham for Shoreham WordFest on Thursday, lovely crowd, great acoustic and though we say it ourselves, some marvellous poems, stories and songs. Poems by...
View ArticleYear of the woman
Today is International Women’s Day, in the centenary year of partial suffrage for women. So an important day for women, but, you know, women are women every day, and there’s still plenty of work to be...
View ArticleLaunch Info for Vindication
We are launching Vindication on Wednesday 26th September 19:00-21:00 at the Poetry Café 22 Betterton Street London WC2H 9BX with readings from Jill Sharp, Elinor Brooks, Adrienne Silcock, and Anne...
View ArticleHappy Publication Day, Vindication
It’s publication day, and here are some of the readings from last night’s launch at the Poetry Cafe Jill Sharp reading The Dogs of Delhi Adrienne Silcock reading Drought, Winter 1929 Carrie...
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Jill Sharp reads Vlad the Impala Elinor Brooks reads Mathew Trewella and the Mermaid of Zennor Anne Macaulay reads part of Identification
View ArticleHappy National Poetry Day 2018!
To celebrate National Poetry Day, here are some more poems from the Vindication Launch on September 26th. (you can buy the book direct from us, or from your favourite bookshop Carrie Cohen reading...
View ArticleSolstice Shorts line up for London
Final London line up, subject to confirmation from the writers Stories A Vampire at Noon, Patience Mackarness High Noon, Marka Rifat Toast Crumbs, Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier Under the L, Liam Hogan...
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