The Best Words project is now well underway and the Words and Pictures autumn season brochure is almost ready to be released. It’s packed full of poets and events programmed for several venues across the region. The web version will be posted here on the website shortly. Here’s a quick overview of what is happening:
Emerging Voices
One strand of best words is the Emerging Voices writing project for young writers aged 18-25. We have established our group and their autumn schedule is already looking busy with a series of workshops and events including visits from poets working on the national scene. Their first meeting was inspiring for all of us and we’re looking forward to a fine body of new work from them.
Poetry Cafe
Poet and teacher Carolyn Doyley takes the helm of the Poetry Cafe in September when it reconvenes on the 3rd Thursday of the month at Riverhead Coffee. There will be a mixture of workshops, read-arounds and poetry suppers through the autumn with some very special guests.
Great Grimsby Community Choir
Pat McCarthy and I have been writing music over the hottest summer I can remember – thankfully it’s cool and rainy today – music for centenary of the end of the First World War, and music for Christmas. It’s not easy to envisage the frozen landscape of midwinter, the short days and darkness when you feel like a basking lizard but we’ve done our best and Great Grimsby Community Choir will be rehearsing their new music from September.
McCarthy and Moon
We have three gigs booked for the autumn so far and we are looking to add dates. We are setting some of the poems from Poems from the Swamp and working on other material. We are particularly delighted that the incredible Dave Green is joining us in November at the Albert Room for some great improvisation and the warmest bass sound you can imagine.
Josie Moon 