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DIY Poets Quarterly Gig at The Maze, Nottingham

DIY Poets Quarterly Gig at The Maze, Nottingham

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Featured poet on this occasion is the wonderful, evergreen Jim Willis. Jim’s granite Edinburgh tones deliver his butterfly light stanzas across a vista of verse with steel elegance. He originally developed an interest in poetry when attending Leith Academy, now turned into flats. Jim likes to link his poems, no matter how tenuous that link might be, and without any semblance of order. Jim will be exploring three main themes: music, holidays and cats – the order guaranteed to be random! Music is provided by folk based singer song writer Jezz Hall. 8 til late. £3 entry, A bargain!

STOP PRESS: Sources close to DIY Poets have revealed today that Frank McMahon will be debuting a happy poem.

DIY Poets at the Maze, Nottingham (UK) – 13th February

DIY Poets at the Maze, Nottingham (UK) – 13th February

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DIY Poets present the latest in our quarterly night of spoken word at the Maze on Thursday 13 February. As well as local bards DIY Poets there will a featured set from the fantastic Clare Stewart and the evening will be rounded off in style by local band, Fun With Numbers. £ 3 entry, a bargain.

DIY Poets meet every month, on the first Wednesday, at 8pm, upstairs at the Broadway Cinema, all poets old and new welcome, for discussions around future events and reading each others poems, with constructive feedback and muchos encouragement. At the last meeting we found a quiet spot on the mezzanine, and Jim grumbled about the lack of draught beer at that particular bar area, but he settled down eventually.

Poet Profile: Frank McMahon

Poet Profile: Frank McMahon

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Frank McMahonI have been writing poetry for over fifteen years and I’m a founder member of DIY Poets, which has been running for eleven years.  I published my first book last year, Unfashionable Places, and I’m now working on the follow up, Difficult Second Volume. I enjoy producing both poetry for the stage and for the page. I have written nearly 1500 poems, but hopefully there is quality as well as quantity in my work!

DIY Poets, Live Spoken Word at the Maze, Nottingham – Nov 14th

DIY Poets, Live Spoken Word at the Maze, Nottingham – Nov 14th

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John Humphries of DIY Poets.
John Humphries of DIY Poets.

DIY Poets present the latest of our quarterly nights at the Maze, Mansfield Road, Nottingham, on Thursday November 14th. As well as local bards DIY Poets there will be acoustic music from Wall Flower. 8 til late £3 entry A bargain!

The featured poet on the night will be the always entertaining John Humphries (pictured). John’s been a stalwart of DIY Poets since its inception over 10 years ago, and remains one of the most compelling performance poets in the UK. He will be debuting a new poem: ‘Buzzcocks at Blackpool’, amongst many other fine pieces.