Hellooo beautiful Poetry Peeps!
The 4th Thursday of the month is nearly upon us, so here’s the flier for the next Survivors’ Poetry Back-in-Lockdown Lounge Party for this Thursday 25 February at 7.30pm – 10pm. The live link is on the flier below, and our facebook page Survivors Poetry Gigs, and here again :
Meeting ID : 816 6827 5722
Passcode : 270157
We have a fantastic lineup for you to enjoy, plus lots of space for Open Mic so take the plunge if you feel to and bring a poem or a song to share, or just come along to watch – the more the merrier and YOU create the magic by your presence! We will celebrate our community, heal each other with our words and music, tell our stories, reach our hands out to each other in virtual space and give each other solace and solidarity and friendship. Bubble up with us!
Our featured Guest Artist on Thursday is rising star of the poetry world based in Northern Ireland, Survivor poet Mike Wilson. This is his biog :
Michael Wilson is a national award-winning published performance poet. His writing is a balance of light and shade. He is a multi national slam finalist and winner of several slams, including Cheltenham Lit UK slam and Belfast Book Festival slam. His show and book were performed during a full run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, gaining a five star review from Bouquets and Brickbats. His first full book, Bedlam’s Best and Finest, is an experimental poetic expose of mental illness and health. Michael has toured the UK and Ireland extensively and last year toured central and east Canada. Michael often performs his poems along with sign language. He has been broadcast on BBC Radio regional and national as well as RTE Radio 1 in the Republic of Ireland. He has been organising events for years and cut his teeth in Manchester. He most recently won the NZ At Your Place slam. He resides in Portstewart, Northern Ireland.
We also have a fantastic array of Special Guests – Wendy Young (Misery With Oomph), Manny (imaginative journey, Be The Change), Jeanette JuPierre (be prepared to be stunned and shaken), John Adlam (tangled up in blue), and Armorel (brave, raw and heartfelt songs), plus all the superb poets from the floor. As usual at our events there is a real mix of more established and less experienced poets, all incredibly talented, yes that means YOU!
There will be more tributes to our dear Frank Bangay on Thursday who passed away at home on 25 January, we dedicated the night to him last month. Once Core Arts have got any handwritten poems they can find and his PC from his flat and transferred the poems he had on there to his newly-developed website and we have access to as much of his work as possible, we will have a special tribute night for him on zoom. And of course a night in his honour at the Poetry Cafe once we can get back there… If you would like to share some memories of Frank on Thursday and maybe one of his poems please feel very welcome to do so.
A note – you will have received the Special Bulletin from Survivors’ Poetry last week outlining plans etc for Frank and including obituaries that have been written for him – there was a typo in the link to Colin Hambrook’s piece in Disability Arts Online magazine – here it is again :
Finally, there was much interest in our featured artist last month, Skylar J Wynter, who has just published her first collection of poetry, Pieces of Humanity. Here again are the links to her social media platforms and links to where you can purchase her book.
WEBSITE
FACEBOOK
INSTAGRAM
LINKEDIN
YOUTUBE
TWITTER
BOOK PURCHASE LINKS
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Amazon AUS
See y’all on Thursday!
Survivors’ Poetry