Our Fringe Poetry Binge is coming up very soon, on Monday October 30th at the earlier time of 6pm, upstairs at the King’s Head in Wells High Street, right after the Wells Litfest prizegiving event at the Cathedral School. Our main attraction will be Alex Corrin-Tachibana, with a side-order of ‘Angrams’ from Annie Fisher, Graeme Ryan and me, Ama Bolton. The Angram is a new literary form invented by Graeme Ryan at this year’s Langport Moot. It’s a fun and frivolous form of word-play and highly habit-forming. Open mic spots available; no need to book in advance.
I met Alex last year at the Tears in the Fence festival. Her reading was spellbinding. Her style is lively and punchy. Her subject is often the messier aspects of relationship. I’m really looking forward to hearing her again. Her debut collection, Sing me Down from the Dark, is published by Salt.
There will be no meeting on the first Monday of November, but read on …
A couple of events in the Wells Litfest may be of interest; both are on Saturday 4th November. At 2pm, Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph, and at 3.45pm, The Waste Land – a Biography of a Poem, by Matthew Hollis.
Poetry is not a luxury – Audre Lorde
ways with words in the city of Wells 