EvEnts at a glancE 6 - 9 OctObEr 2011 FringE sunday 25th sEptEmbEr7.30pm-10.30pmExeter Poetry Slam 2011£3ticketsonthedooronlyBardsofExeterClivePiG&JackieJunohostthesecondExeterPoetrySlam.WANTED:12oftheWildestWordslingersin the West. Vagabond versifiers, rabid rhymesters, haiku hucksters and poets of all persuasions are invited to participate in this contestofverbalshenanigans.Performanceandcontentwillbejudgedbylastyear’sslamwinnerIanRoyceandtheaudience.12 contestants, 3 rounds, 1 winner. Simples.PoetswishingtoentercontactClivePigon07792251176. thursday 6th OctObEr7pm-9pm The Charles Causley Reading w/ David Constantine & Hugo Williams£7ExeterCentralLibraryAneveningwithtwooftheUK’smostacclaimed poets. Friday 7th OctObEr4pm-5pmExeter University PhD Reading: Eleanor Rees, Ben Smith, Jaime Robles, Jackie Tarleton, Jos Smith

FREEExeterCentralLibrary7pm-9pm The Ronald Duncan Reading w/ Harry Guest & Lawrence Sail£7ExeterCentralLibraryFringE9pm This is just to say: an intimate performance for 15 people£7ExeterPhoenixBlackBoxWritten and performed by Hannah Jane WalkerSaying sorry is conversational ellipsisSayingsorryissocialglue

But what if you want to apologise for somethingandmeanitThisisjusttosayisaconversationaboutmanipulation, Britishness, love and winningThis is just to say is instillation art, performance poetry and good companyThis is just to say is smudging its make-up, buyingbouquetsandscreeningyourcallsAn intimate piece for 15 in a welcoming environment, set around a table. Pull up a chair, drink some wine and share your thoughtsandideasonthesubjectifyoulike.This piece is about saying sorry, why we do it, and what we do when we want to apologise forthingsthatreallymatter.Hannah unpicks the fabric of her identity, reflecting on notions of cultural identity and the use/misuse of language. The self-reflective toneandactivitiesinvitetheaudiencetoreflect and share their apologies and stories. Brought to you by Apples and Snakes, the UK’s leading performance poetry organisation for poetry with bite find out more at www.applesandsnakes.org saturday 8th OctObEr11am-12.30pm Anne Caldwell Workshop£12ExeterCentralLibraryAnne Caldwell’s workshop will explore ideas of voice in poetry – what does the notion of finding your own voice actually mean and what happens if you write from unusual and unexpected points of view in your work? Can this lead to a journey of self discovery? It is suitable for beginners and more experienced writersandwilltakeyouthroughaseriesofinspirational exercises that Anne used herself when writing material for her collection, ‘Talking With The Dead’: ‘Her characters speak with glittering conviction whether they are one of the four and twenty blackbirds, RobinsonCrusoeorawomanlivingunderwater.’ Alicia StubbersfieldPlaceslimitedto12.Bookearly!

11am-12noon The Bards of Exeter welcome in the Festival Weekend: Clive PiG and Jackie JunoFREEExeterCentralLibrary

12.30pm -1.30pm Book Launch: ‘The Untenanted Room’ by James SimpsonFREEExeterCentralLibrary2pm-3.30pm Rachael Boast; Frances Leviston; Anne Caldwell£6ExeterCentralLibraryAn afternoon reading with three brilliant poets.

4pm-5pm Kevin MacNeil Scottish Islands Poetry£6ExeterCentralLibraryJoin editor, poet and novelist Kevin MacNeil for a reading of Scottish Islands poetry.

5.30pm Book Launch: ‘This Line’s Not For Turning’ Edited by Jane MonsonFREEExeterCentralLibraryWith guest poets: Jane Monson, Luke Kennard, Andy Brown, Anthony Caleshu, CarrieEtter FringE 9pm This is just to say: an intimate performance for 15 people£7ExeterPhoenixBlackBoxSeeFridaynightfordetails. sunday 9th OctObEr11am-12.30pm Fiona Benson Workshop£12ExeterCentralLibraryThis workshop will use visual art works to inspire poems. Participants will be asked to bringatleastoneimageofaworkofarttheyfeel they can respond to creatively, and to researchalittleoftheartist’slifeandthoughtin preparation for the workshop.During the workshop we will look at published poems that use artworks as their stepping off points, discuss how successful and strong they are as poems, and investigate the challenges involved in creating a poem that can stand on its own two feet, independent of theartworkthatgaveitgenesis.Wewillthendosomeguidedwritingexercisesin response to the images we have brought andworktowardscreatinganearlydraftof

a poem. At the end of the session there will be group feedback on these early drafts and guidancewillbegivenonhowtotakethemforwards.

12noon-1pm Moor Poets ReadingFREEExeterPoetryFestival2pm-3pm Shearsman Showcase£6ExeterCentralLibrary

3.30pm-4.30pm Of Love and Hope with Chris Tutton, Roselle AngwinFREEExeterCentralLibraryA poetry performance in aid of Breakthrough BreastCancerandBreastCancerCare.A special event to celebrate the recent publication of the extraordinary and hugely popular poetry anthology, ‘Of Love and Hope’, which celebrates all aspects of life and love and features many of our best loved poets.Many people’s lives are affected by breast cancer and this is an opportunity to support BreakthroughBreastCancerandBreastCancer Care as all profits raised from the saleofthisbookwillbedonatedtothesetwotremendousandvitalcharities.Join us for an amusing, fun and poignant afternoontoclosethefestival.www.breakthrough.org.ukwww.breastcancercare.org.uk FringE7pm The Captain’s Tower£8/£5concessionsorEPFstubholdersBikeShedTheatreIn The Captain’s Tower: Seventy Poets Celebrate Bob Dylan at Seventy poets from sevendecadesandofsevennationalitiesrespond to the evolution of the Picasso of Song’s culturally defining, innovative and restless fifty year career within the history of recorded sound, invoking the canon of the spoken and written word in a show that combines poetry in performance with music. Having toured the country from Hay to Latitude via the Troubadour, the editors Phil Bowen, Damian Furniss and David Woolley plus special guests will be bringing it all backhometoExeterwherethebookwasconceivedtoroundoffthesecondExeterPoetryFestivalinstyle.

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Guest Writers • 2011Anne Caldwell grew up in the north-west of England and now lives in West Yorkshire just below Midgley Moor. Her poetry has been published in several anthologies - Poet’s Cheshire (Headland) and The Nerve (Virago) and in three collections by Cinnamon Press. Her first pamphlet collection was Slug Language, Happenstance (2008). She performs all over the UK, and has won a first collection award from Cinnamon Press. The National Association for Writers in Education

employs Anne to run their CPD programme for writers. Her new collection is Talking With the Dead (Cinnamon Press February 2011). She is currently senior lecturer in creative writing at Bolton University.

Andy Brown’s poetry books are Goose Music (Salt, 2008, with John Burnside); The Storm Berm (Tall Lighthouse, 2008); Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006 (Salt, 2006) and five previous volumes of poetry. His forthcoming book of poems, based on the paintings of Hieronymus

Bosch, is The Fool and The Physician (Salt, 2011). A selection of his poems appears in the anthology Identity Parade (Bloodaxe Books, 2009). He is Director of Creative Writing at the University of Exeter.

David Constantine born 1944 in Salford, Lancs, was for thirty years a university teacher of German language and literature. He has published several volumes of poetry (most recently – 2009 – Nine Fathom Deep); also a novel, Davies (1985), and three collections of short stories: Back at the Spike (1994), Under the Dam ( 2005) and The Shieling (2009). He

is an editor and translator of Hölderlin, Goethe, Kleist and Brecht. His translation of Goethe’s Faust, Part I was published by Penguin in 2005; Part II in April 2009. He is the winner of 2010 BBC National

short Story Award. With his wife Helen he edits Modern Poetry in Translation.

Hugo Williams was born in 1942 and grew up in Sussex. He worked on the London Magazine from 1961 to 1970, since then he has earned

his living as a journalist and travel writer. He has been TV critic on the New Statesman, theatre critic on the Sunday Correspondent and film critic for Harper’s & Queen. He writes the ‘Freelance’ column in the Times Literary Supplement and lives in London.

Frances Leviston was born in Edinburgh in 1982 and grew up in Sheffield. She read English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and completed the MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. She won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in

2006. Her first collection, Public Dream, was published by Picador in 2007 and shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Her poems have appeared in the TLS, The Times, the Guardian, Identity Parade and Edinburgh Review. She teaches for a range of educational organisations and reviews new poetry for the Guardian.

Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern languages at Cambridge before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in Japan and England. With his wife, Lynn

Guest, a historical novelist, he now lives in Exeter. His Collected Poems, A Puzzling Harvest, was published by Anvil in 2002.

Lawrence Sail was born in London in 1942 and brought up in Exeter. His most recent books are Waking Dreams: New & Selected Poems, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation (Bloodaxe Books, 2010), Songs of

the Darkness: Poems for Christmas, with illustrations by his eldest daughter Erica, (Enitharmon, 2010) and a memoir, Sift: memories of childhood (Impress Books, 2010). He has compiled and edited a number of anthologies, including First and Always: Poems for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital, inspired by his son Matthew (Faber, 1988) and, with Kevin Crossley-Holland, The New Exeter Book of Riddles (Enitharmon, 1999) and Light Unlocked: Christmas Card Poems (Enitharmon, 2005).

Eleanor Rees was born in Birkenhead, Merseyside in 1978. Her pamphlet collection Feeding Fire (Spout, 2001) received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and her first full length collection Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007) was shortlisted for the

Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards, Dublin. Her second, Eliza and the Bear (Salt, 2009) is also a performance for harp and voice and has toured across the North West. Rees works in the community as a poet, running writing workshops for The Windows Project in Liverpool, teaches for The Poetry School and in Higher Education. From 2011 she begins an AHRC funded PhD at the University

of Exeter Department of English where her research interests explore the theory and practice of the local poet. She often collaborates with other writers, musicians, artists and works to commission. She lives in Liverpool.

Clive PiG is a Bard of Exeter. He forays far and wide as a storyteller, songsmith and performance poet. In recent years he’s appeared at the Glastonbury Festival, WOMAD, the Cambridge Folk Festival and the Westcountry Storytelling Festival. Two of his stories were featured on

The Ocean, BBC Radio 2. His latest CD, Uncle Wolf, is a collection of songs with a twist and tales with teeth. Three of Clive’s poems appeared in Oddrot, Exeter’s newest poetry journal.

Jackie Juno is the other Bard of Exeter, and a writer and creatrix of multi-media shows which combine her comedic, singing, dancing and artistic talents to full effect. Although Birmingham-born, she moved to Devon in 1983. Her first stand-up comedy gig was on her 30th birthday, assisted by the supportive setting of Totnes Carnival and more than a few dry sherries. She has since appeared at Glastonbury Festival, WOMAD, Hammersmith Palais, Hackney Empire,

Melkweg Amsterdam and Gidleigh Village Hall. (Twice).

Ben Smith is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. His work focuses on the significance of border spaces in contemporary environmental poetry. His poems have appeared in Acumen, Envoi, Succour and Poetry Wales.

Jos Smith was born in Kent but has lived in Liverpool, Nottingham and Exeter in recent years. He has been publishing poems in small magazines and through Arts Council funded projects for a while now and has recently been researching a PhD on ‘Rewriting the British and Irish Landscape in the Twenty-First Century’, a critical project that looks at the The New Nature

Writing and its progenitors across English Literature. He hopes to publish a first collection of poems with Little Toller in 2012.

Jaime Robles is currently working on a series of poems based on the Hoxne and Staffordshire hoards. She published her most recent book of poetry, Anime, Animus, Anima, with Shearsman Books (2010). Her poems and reviews have been published in numerous magazines,

among them Agenda, Conjunctions, Jacket, New American Writing, Shadowtrain and Volt! She produces many of her texts as artist books, and her bookworks are in

several special collections, including the Bancroft Library, Berkeley; The Beinecke Library, Yale University; and the Oulipo Archive in Paris. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, she is now living in Exeter.

Jacky Tarleton is studying for a PhD at the University of Exeter with Andy Brown, partly focusing on the significant moment within a Bachelardian Reading of Louis MacNeice. The other part consists of a recreation of significant moments through her own poetry. This tends to lead to short poems, one of which, ‘3 a.m. Phone Call’, won the 2010 Huddersfield Literature Festival Poetry Competition. Her poems have also been published in

Vortex and South. Having been brought up in the north, and worked in Zambia, Kent, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, she now lives in Exeter.

Damian Furniss’ first full collection Chocolate Che was highly commended in the Forward Prize. His pamphlet The Duchess of Kalighat won the Tears in the Fence competition. He co-edited The Captain’s Tower: Seventy Poets Celebrate Bob Dylan at Seventy, singled out by The Guardian as a book to watch out for in 2011. Using forms as varied as their subjects – travelling among revolutionaries in Latin America, taking on the voices of the great artists of the twentieth century, working with dying destitutes in India – his poetry works images into narratives that are both darkly humorous and strangely moving.

James Simpson is a Jerwood/Arvon Award Winner and was a prizewinner in the Thomas Hardy Society’s James Gibson Memorial Poetry Competition. He has collaborated with the artist and printmaker Carolyn Trant on the artist’s book, Hunting the Wren (Parvenu/Actaeon Press) which was purchased by the British Library, Special Collections. Recently they have worked together on The Untenanted Room (Agenda Editions). His work has been anthologised in Our Common Ground (Silverdart Publishing), a collection of poems celebrating farming and the countryside. He has always lived in the South Downs and his work is deeply rooted in the area.

David Woolley has been writing poetry since the age of eight, but he’s still not sure what he is doing or why. His favourite poets are usually Keats, Dylan Thomas and Roy Fisher. He has published one pamphlet and three collections, mostly from Headland Press, the latest being Pursued by a Bear. He mistrusts the terms ‘performance poetry’ ‘spoken word’ ‘page poet’ etc – “it is either well-crafted or it isn’t, and you either enjoy hearing/seeing it read aloud or you don’t. I hope you do…”

Phil Bowen has published four collections of poetry, his first full collection, Variety’s Hammer (Stride) being selected for inclusion in The Forward Anthology of 1998. His last collection Starfly was also published by Stride in 2004. He is the editor of two Stride anthologies: Jewels & Binoculars – (fifty poets celebrate Bob Dylan) and Things We Said Today – poetry about the Beatles. He has also written four plays : A Handful of Rain – an imagined meeting between Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas, A Case of the Poet, Parlez Vous Jig Jig and Anything but Love – in which Dorothy Parker meets the lyricist Dorothy Fields. Born in Liverpool in 1949 ,where he taught Drama until 1979, he now lives in Newlyn in Cornwall and works all over the country as a freelance writer, performer and teacher.

Rachael Boast was born in Suffolk in 1975. Sidereal was published by Picador in May 2011 and is shortlisted for the Forward Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection.

She currently divides her time between Bristol and Scotland.

Kevin MacNeil, acclaimed award-winning, bestselling writer was born and raised in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Novelist, poet, playwright, editor, aphorist

and lyricist, he is the author of The Stornoway Way, Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides, Be Wise Be Otherwise, and The Callanish Stoned. His latest novel is A Method Actor’s Guide to Jekyll and Hyde and he is the editor of the recently published These Islands, We Sing: An Anthology of Scottish Islands Poetry.

Jane Monson works as a freelance Creative Writing tutor and Events Organiser in Cambridge. She has an MA in

Creative Writing and a Ph.D in Creative and Critical Writing, during which her debut collection was published: Speaking Without Tongues, (Cinnamon Press, 2010). This Line Is Not For Turning is her first anthology.

Hannah Jane Walker has read at festivals and venues around the UK at places like

Latitude, Truck, Norfolk & Norwich Festival and Forest Fringe. She runs Norwich Poetry Club at the Bike Shop with Luke Wright, John Osborne and Martin Figura and produces projects such as Screen Test and Haircuts by Children for people like the Norfolk & Norwich Festival. She also writes articles and runs writing workshops in schools and community groups. Her pamphlet of performance poems is available from Nasty Little Press. Hannah writes with The Poetry Takeaway.

Anthony Caleshu is the author of a novella, a critical study of the American poet James Tate, and two collections of poetry, most recently Of Whales: In Print, In Paint, In Sea, In Stars, In Coin, In House, In Margins. He won the Boston Review Poetry Prize 2010 for poems from

his current manuscript-in-progress, The Victor Poems. He is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Plymouth University.

Luke Kennard was born in Kingston Upon Thames in 1981 and grew up in Luton.

He writes and publishes poetry and short stories and has written for the stage, taking numerous productions to the Edinburgh Fringe. He has a PhD in English from the University of Exeter and lectures in creative writing at the University of Birmingham. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2005 and his first collection of prose poems The Solex Brothers was published later that year by Stride. His second collection The Harbour Beyond the Movie was published by Salt in 2007 and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, making him the youngest poet ever to be shortlisted. A third collection, The Migraine Hotel, was published by Salt in 2009 and a new pamphlet, Planet-Shaped Horse has just been published by Nine Arches Press. His criticism has appeared in the TLS and Poetry London. He reviews fiction for The National (Abu Dhabi). Chris Tutton Award winning author Chris Tutton has published five collections of poetry, including Seasons of Winter (2005) Rain Angel

(2003) Ecumenical Shadows (1998) and contributed to numerous magazines and anthologies. A festival favourite, his many appearances on television and radio include Radio 4’s ‘Loose Ends’, Radio 1’s Mark Radcliffe and Radio 6 music’s Sean Keaveny. He has been resident poet on Carlton Television and at Warminster Library.

Roselle Angwin is a Cornish author, poet, painter and environmentalist whose

work has won a number of awards. Her poetry has been displayed on buses and cathedral websites and has appeared in numerous anthologies. Imago (2011) is her first novel and poetry collections include Bardo (2011) Under the ‘Fire in the Head’ banner she leads an international holistic creative writing programme.

Graham Burchell was born in Canterbury and now resides in Dawlish. He

has two poetry collections published Vermeer’s Corner (Foothills Publishing), and

The Book of Dawlish (Searle Publishing), and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University. He has won, or been placed in a number of poetry competitions, and his poetry has appeared in many print and online literary magazines.

Rebecca Gethin’s first collection River is the Plural of Rain was published by Oversteps Books in 2009. Her first novel Liar Dice won

the Cinnamon Press Novel Writing Award, published in October 2011. Her poems appear in various poetry magazines and on television. She lives on Dartmoor and teaches Creative Writing in a local prison.

Jennie Osborne lives in Totnes, enjoys performing at readings and open mics around Devon and is active in

local poetry groups. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines, including The Rialto and The Shop, and her first collection How to be Naked was published by Oversteps Books in 2010.

Ian Royce is a poet who connects. He makes the difficult accessible and weaves his own perspective into words that non-poets understand. His curiosity is limitless. In performance he incites

reaction: laughter, tears, reassurance, outrage... To be unaffected is not an option. He was the winner of the 2010 Exeter Poetry Festival slam, lives in Ipplepen and claims to be far too old to be respectable.

Fiona Benson’s poems have been published in many magazines and journals including The TLS, The LRB, Poetry Review and Arete. She was anthologised in ‘Addicted

to Brightness’, and had poems represented in Oxford Poetry Broadsides and the Scottish Poetry Library’s Best Scottish Poems online anthology of 2007. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2006 and was a 2009 Faber New Poet. Her pamphlet is Faber New Poets 1. She lives in Exeter with her husband and daughter, James and Isla Meredith.

Carrie Etter has been writing and publishing prose poems since 1985. Her first collection, The Tethers (Seren, 2009), won the London New Poetry Award, and her second, Divining for Starters, was published by Shearsman in 2011. She has also edited an anthology, Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman, 2010). She is senior lecturer in creative writing at Bath Spa University, where since 2006

she has annually taught Sudden Prose, a module focused on prose poetry and flash fiction.

Harriet Tarlo was born in Worcester in 1968. She studied at the University of Durham for several years, receiving her BA in 1989 and her PhD (on the American poet, H.D.) in 1995. Her academic writing focuses on

modernist and contemporary poetry with particular interest in linguistic experimentation, gender and landscape/environment. She now teaches English and Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam

University. She lives with her partner and two children near Holmfirth, having lived in West Yorkshire since the mid-nineties. She spent most of the previous decade in County Durham, and is also a frequent visitor to the North Cornish coast. Her poetry engages as closely as it can with these places, not in an attempt to represent them, but to embody the sound and rhythm of human relationships with the outside.

Mark Goodwin was born in 1969, spent his childhood on a farm in Leicestershire, and now lives on a narrow-boat on the river Soar, just north of Leicester. He works as a community poet with a wide

range of people, including pupils and teachers in schools and colleges, other writers and artists, museum services, and with people who use mental-health services. Mark has been learning to write poetry since he was 16, and during that time has developed a love of playing with language. Both of his Shearsman collections reflect his deep interest in what has been termed ‘landscape’—whether that be on a run-down housing estate on the rim of Leicester, in an ancient stone circle on the edge of the Hebrides, or in amongst the intricacies of Cornish coastland.