Canterbury Poets - you are invited to our FREE September Event in Canterbury!

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You are invited to the 2nd Canterbury Poets @ Orange Street event! Sunday September 14th 6:00pm to 7:30pm Entry to the 2nd Canterbury Poets event is FREE. Grab a drink at the bar, put your name down for the Open Mic segment and enjoy the poetry.	A Great 1st Event! On Sunday the 10th of August 2008, from 6:00pm to 7:30pm, Canterbury Poets - in conjunction with Save As Writers Group and Conversation Poetry - held a poetry evening at the Orange Street Music Club, the City's premier venue for live events. Click here for a full(ish) report.	"I didn't get to read in the open mic!" Because so many people were keen to read in the open mic slot at the last event at Orange Street, 8 people didn't get to read. Don't worry! You'll get first refusal in September. Also, we'll be kicking off at 6:00pm on the dot next time, so there'll be a much longer open mic slot. So please try to arrive between 5:45pm (when the doors open) and 6:00pm, and if you have any poetry pamphlets or leaflets for your own events, etc, feel free to pass them around! Or sell your publications on the Table.
Stubborn Mule Orchestra A new poetry collection is now available. 'Stubborn Mule Orchestra' includes selected poems by Luigi Marchini (former winner of the Canterbury Writers Poetry Prize), Christopher Hobday and Gary Studley (former winner of the University of Kent's T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize). Read some of Luigi's poems. Read some of Christopher's poems. Read some of Gary's poems.	Save As Writers Group Save As is a local writing group for both students and non-students, chaired by award-winning local poet Luigi Marchini. For more information, or to book yourself a reading slot at the next meeting, click here to visit the Save As Writers Group page.	EKLAAP, the East Kent Local Arts Authority Partnership, is pleased to announce the launch of East Kent Live Lit, a live literature network for writers, artists, producers, promoters and venues in East Kent. EKLAAP was formed in 2004 to support the growth of contemporary arts in East Kent and to access the benefits and added value that joint working creates. East Kent Live Lit aims to facilitate networking for local artists, provide opportunities for professional development and training, and work toward encouraging and creating bold new work. The first network meeting was held in Canterbury in August 2008 and further local meetings will be held in Shepway, Thanet and Ashford in September and October, with a view to producing an evening celebrating live literature in East Kent this autumn. For more information, or to contact coordinator Peggy Riley, please visit the new website: www.livelit.co.uk
Conversation Poetry Quarterly Conversation is a FREE poetry publication available from the website as a downloadable PDF file. Submissions are welcome, and one of the editors, David Nettleingham, can be found at the Conversation Poetry Group meetings at the Castle Arts Cafe. Click here to visit the Conversation Poetry Quarterly website .	Articles "In the darkness the poet succumbs to a different kind of inspiration, one that is not caused by the outside world, but produced by the unstimulated mind" Christopher Hobday revisits Juha Virtanen's collection 'Eight Hundred and Fifty-Three Scenes' in the Canterbury Poets Article section.	On June the 19th, 2008, delegates from several different local creative writing groups gathered under the banner of Corner Stone Writers to showcase their talents. The event followed an English Forum for Kent and Medway. Earthworks was hosted by the University of Kent on June 19th and luminaries included John Agard and Canterbury Poet Laureate Patricia Debney. Read a report of the Corner Stone event here courtesy of organiser Gary Studley.
Poets Take to the Streets In an exciting event organised by the City's First Poet Laureate, Patricia Debney, several local poets left their garrets and coffee houses, and took to the streets. See a selection of the pictures taken by Katie Blythe.	ISSUE NOW AVAILABLE The new issue of Conversation Poetry Quarterly, edited by David Nettleingham and Christopher Hobday and featuring poetry by Arwen Bird, Nancy Charley, Ben Hickman, Anne Kenny, Luigi Marchini, Louise McCudden, Joshua Siegel and Gary Studley is now available for FREE download here.	Logos Logs Off The University's poetry and prose journal Logos has ceased. Resources are now being poured into a new, exciting venture... watch this space for news. The outgoing editorial board, consisting of Chris Hobday, Luigi Marchini, Gary Studley, Laurie Porter, Beverley Smith and Pat Griffin, would like to thank the University, and the Logos readership, for their support. Click here to visit the Logos memorial page.
Roll Up for the Arabian Derby Celebrated Poet Sue Wicks has announced her first collection of short fiction. For more information, click here.	The Grill Canterbury Poets will be publishing a series of interviews in which local poets will quiz each other about their material, their influences and their approach to writing. If you would like to be involved, let us know.	Writing for Freedom The Writing for Freedom Workshop featuring former investigative journalist Adel Guemar and poet Hubert Moore took place on Saturday June 14th from 12:00pm - 16:00pm at the Friends Meeting House, Canterbury. Read a report on the event A Life Worth Living by Nasrin Parvaz That Day by Bekele D. Woyecha Poems from the workshop
OYSTER POETS of Whitstable Bob Mee, editor of Iota Magazine & publisher of Ragged Raven Press, read his poems and discussed the relationship between poet and editor on Monday July 6th.	WANTED Poems, Articles, Interviews (poet to poet) News mail@canterburypoets.co.uk	Poetry Workshops Canterbury Poets, in association with other local groups and poets, will be running a series of workshops in 2008 and 2009. Check this page for news.
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