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The DIY POETS are busy busy busy in the next coming months, which is great news as there are plenty of opportunities for you to catch them in action!

The first event to kick off is Crosswords which is every second Wednesday of each month… The next one being July 13th  the event is located at The Caves under the Malt Cross and is hosted by DIY POET Leanne Moden. The event is predominantly open mic with one featured guest poet the event starts at 7:30pm onwards and is just £2 entry fee (which is a complete bargain for the talent you get to see).

Malt Cross address; 16 St James’s St, Nottingham NG1 6FG (if new to the venue you can ask bar staff how to get to the caves, I am sure they will be more than happy to help!)

The next of the DIY POETS events will be on July 14th, Poems of the Proletariat which will be held at the Arnold Methodist Church and will commence at 8pm. Entry is free for this event so there are no excuses to miss out really are there?

Arnold Methodist Church address; 54 Front St, Arnold, Nottingham NG5 7EL

Into August the DIY POETS are hosting the event DIY Poets Present which is a very fitting title! This will be on August 31st at 7:30pm the entry fee for this event is just £3. The event will showcase a number of the DIY POETS old and new so please come along and show support the featured poet on the night will be Eagle Spitz and we will also have music from Dog Explosion. The venue is to be hosted at our usual spot the Maze which you can find at the top of Mansfield road.

Maze address; 257 Mansfield Rd, City Centre, Nottingham NG1 3FT

If you do not get a chance to check out any of the events above do not worry! As there is a new event called Soapbox which is located at the Lofthouse, this event is on every Thursday at 7:30pm. You will be able to listen to some spoken word, comedy and acoustic music for just £3 entry….Sounds amazing to me!

Lofthouse address; 35 Warser Gate, Nottingham, Hampshire, NG1 1NU

All Tickets can be purchased on the doors at the venues, we hope to see you there!

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Sherwood Art Week 2016

Sherwood Art Week 2016

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As part of  Sherwood Art Week 2016 (18-25th June) there will be poetry events organised by DIY poet’s Andrew Martin. Please come along and support these.Sherwood Art Week 2016

Poetry Workshop, Sunday 19th June, 2-5pm at The Place, Melrose Street, Sherwood
The workshop will be an informal opportunity to share ideas and our own work with like minds. Please bring two examples of your poems. We can share skills for editing and performing written work, including timing, voice control and connecting with the audience.
Spoken Word Open Mic, Tuesday 21st June, 7:30-10pm, The Robin Hood pub, Sherwood. Free.
For more details about these two events Sherwood Art Week 2016 contact Andrew Martin at anim_al67@yahoo.co.uk
Gate To Southwell Festival

Gate To Southwell Festival

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This year – for the first time ever – the Gate to Southwell Festival in Nottinghamshire will be hosting poetry and spoken word alongside its more usual musical fare.

Spoken Word Showcase

The Spoken Word Showcase will be taking place on the afternoon of Saturday 11th June, with poetry and storytelling courtesy of DIY Poets, performing some of the best spoken word in the East Midlands. They’ll be plenty of tall tales, comedy, rhythms and rhymes, as well as loads of poems based on the themes of music and community.

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It’s a chance to check out the broad range of talent on the local spoken word scene, and see some of the rising stars ‘Before They Were Famous’! The showcase is loosely based on the themes of music and community, but anything can happen with spoken word!

Southwell Slam

Then, on Sunday 12th June, it’s over to you! Yes, you’re invited to get involved, and participate in the very first Southwell Slam – an open poetry and spoken word performance competition, giving budding poets the chance to perform their work as part of the festival.

In case you’re not familiar with a poetry slam, it’s a competition where people read or perform a short piece of writing for an audience. Each performer can choose to read out a poem, song lyrics or a short story, and the performer can also choose to read their own work, or a piece of writing by another author. Each performer gets just three minutes in which to recite or read their piece, and at the end of the competition, the audience decide their favourites. The winner will be given the title of the Festival Bard for 2016!

Could you have what it takes?

 

Information

To find out more about the event and to purchase tickets follow the links below.

Spoken word at Southwell

Tickets

For more information contact Leanne Moden at Southwellslam@gmail.com

DIY POETS Quarterly Gig – May 19th – 7:45 @ THE MAZE, NOTTINGHAM

DIY POETS Quarterly Gig – May 19th – 7:45 @ THE MAZE, NOTTINGHAM

It’s been a hectic few weeks for DIY POETS with the formidable success of the International Womens’ Day event at Rough Trade Nottingham which raised a chunky bit of money for relevant charities, a trip to Birmingham for  a gig with a community choir and Frank churning out more published volumes of his work. On the grapevine, it’s becoming legend that volume 7 will actually be available before volume 6 – Frank is clearly travelling in the Tardis of poetry publication. Look out for his work, it’s now available at Five leaves Bookshop, as well as at DIY Poets’ gigs.

The May gig sees Hazel Warren in the featured poet slot – a relatively fresh face to DIY Poets who has quickly become a mainstay  – her verse is insistent, quirky, compelling and puts a smile on yer face, and we’ll have a selection of the usual suspects for a warm up, as well as an appearance from the mighty Mouthy Poets!

Music will be from the always excellent Paul Carbuncle.
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DIY POETS Host Sheffield Poets @ The Lofthouse in ‘Lace and Steel’ on Jan 31st, 3:00 to 6:00

DIY POETS Host Sheffield Poets @ The Lofthouse in ‘Lace and Steel’ on Jan 31st, 3:00 to 6:00

Lace and Steel Loft House final PDFDIY POETS endured a full on brolly buster back in October 2015, when they travelled to Sheffield to take part in WORD DROP, a fringe festival event at the Hop Hideout Beer Shop. Poets mingled on wooden benches supping craft ales, listening to a Stranglers album on audiocassette, the perfect antidote to the rain pelting down beyond the beer shop doors. Some fine poetry got read, some from Nottingham, the rest from Sheffield, and a mutual respect was born.

Well, it’s the turn of DIY POETS to host, so on Sunday 31th January between 3:00 and 6:00, at the Lofthouse, ‘Lace and Steel’ will join forces again to bring a poetry experience to savour, poets from Sheffield travelling down to Nottingham.

There will be music and song from Stacey McMullen.

I hope they bring the Stranglers cassette down from Sheffield, and if it rains we won’t be bothered.

DIY POETS Quarterly Gig @ The Maze, Nottingham, Thurs 11th Feb 2016, 7:45

DIY POETS Quarterly Gig @ The Maze, Nottingham, Thurs 11th Feb 2016, 7:45

DIY maze Feb 2016 blake depp FINAL pdfAs featured in today’s Nottingham Evening Post, and fresh from the exertions of Nottingham Poetry Festival, mingling with the likes of Henry Normal and Lemn Sissay, and from jumping on stage to perform at any given opportunity, DIY POETS are back on home turf at the Maze.
So, to sample some very fine poetry, from a diverse and colourful line up, covering every subject under the sun, from potatoes to Donald Trump, although the difference there is not great, from bass players to unruly technology, from chocolate bunnies to mobile phones, from romance to psychedelia, it’s kaleidoscopic, a sonic tonic for the chronic cynic, and also too for innocent bystanders who only came in for a quiet pint.
Headlining is the metrical maestro, Leanne Moden, who has the knack of pulling you right into her dazzling breeze of words. Don’t miss.
And stay around to check out POP ORCHESTRA, our music act.

DIY POETS Quarterly Gig @ The Maze, Nottingham, Thurs 11th Feb 2016 – 7:45 pm

DIY POETS Quarterly Gig @ The Maze, Nottingham, Thurs 11th Feb 2016 – 7:45 pm

DIY maze Feb 2016 blake depp FINAL pdfAs featured in today’s Nottingham Evening Post, and fresh from the exertions of Nottingham Poetry Festival, mingling with the likes of Henry Normal and Lemn Sissay, and from jumping on stage to perform at any given opportunity, DIY POETS are back on home turf at the Maze.
So, to sample some very fine poetry, from a diverse and colourful line up, covering every subject under the sun, from potatoes to Donald Trump, although the difference there is not great, from bass players to unruly technology, from chocolate bunnies to mobile phones, from romance to psychedelia, it’s kaleidoscopic, a sonic tonic for the chronic cynic, and also too for innocent bystanders who only came in for a quiet pint.
Headlining is the metrical maestro, Leanne Moden, who has the knack of pulling you right into her dazzling breeze of words. Don’t miss.
And stay around to check out POP ORCHESTRA, our music act.

DIY POETS’ DIARY DATES – December 2015

DIY POETS’ DIARY DATES – December 2015

cropped-11143331_10156209684665438_6237317540433413888_o.jpgDIY POETS member and seasoned poetry campaigner, Leanne Moden is running an Open Mic at the Malt Cross on Weds Dec 9th. Free entry! With headline acts and caves to explore . . .

New Year:

DIY POETS have an event at the Lofthouse on Sunday 31st Jan, 3-6 pm, Free entry. With visiting poets from Sheffield, bringing some lyrical steel!

Forthcoming DIY POETS quarterly gigs at the Maze for 2016, more details to follow in due course:

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DIY POETS’ DIARY DATES – November 2015

DIY POETS’ DIARY DATES – November 2015

While some people grow facial hair during the month of November, DIY POETS find themselves with a growing diary. Dates are sprouting like sideburns chemically enhanced by steroids, some of them DIY POETS events, plus others attended regularly by the collective. I’m assembling this lot from the back of crumpled fag packets and faded biro scribble from the back of my hand, so it may be incomplete, but nonetheless it’s a neatly trimmed, well groomed web post:

– DIY POETS Quarterly Gig at the Maze, Nottingham – 12th Nov – doors open 7:45
– DIY POETS @ The Lofthouse as part of Nottingham Poetry Festival – 24th Nov – 8:00 till 10:30 – FREE! (Doors open @ 7:45)
– Speech Therapy @ The Guitar Bar as Part of Nottingham Poetry Festival, 26th Nov – 8:00
– Frank McMahon launches ‘I Wish I Could Sing Like Noddy Holder’ @ Nottingham Writers’ Studio – 4th Dec – 7:30

 

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Another Frank McMahon Book Launch – Dec 4th @ Nottingham Writers Studio

Another Frank McMahon Book Launch – Dec 4th @ Nottingham Writers Studio

It’s remains to be seen whether Frank arrives on the night in a pair of chunky platform boots and clip on ginger sideburns, but he says he’d like to sing like Noddy Holder, and that’s understandable – that Black Country barrel house bellow is awe inspiring.

‘I Wish I Could Sing Like Noddy Holder’ is Frank’s 5th or 6th book. I’m losing count. I know some people are waiting for the box set, but when poetry of this quality is on offer that would be foolhardy.

Frank will be reading from the book at this event, and other members of DIY POETS will also perform. Music from Pegefo, and vinyl spins by John Humphries.

Unmissable.
Book Launch I Wish I Could Sing Like Noddy Holder PDF