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SUMMARY:Word Central Open Mic Night featuring Genevieve Walsh
DESCRIPTION:Open Mic Poetry & Spoken Word hosted by Tony Curry.\nWith special guest Genevieve L. Walsh.\nWednesday 3rd May 2017\, 6pm – 8pm [doors open 5.30pm]. Free entry.\nManchester Central Library\, St Peter’s Square\, Manchester M2 5PD.\nTo book an open mic slot (4 minutes max) – please email mail@flapjackpress.co.uk to get on the reserve list. \nGeneviève L. Walsh’s debut solo collection covers her first five years of performing her punk-song-length poetry about love\, hatred\, aggressive platitudes\, sexual politics\, alienation and inebriation. \nIncludes a Foreword by Henry Normal. \n“A collection full of passion and subversion … keen and urgent with an untamed beauty – like a puma caught under a streetlight. She chooses her language and targets with precision and infuses humour and fight in every verse.” – Henry Normal\, poet \n“Rejecting the beige and embracing the dark\, this collection is a lyrical and defiant hymn to vodka nights and concrete days. Shot through with nostalgia and the fear of losing fellow dancers to normality.” – Kate Fox\, Stand-up Poet \n“A unique and passionately inclusive voice guides us with incredible skill and dexterity through everything that unites us: love\, loss\, and drunk conversations. This book is a brutally affectionate hug and a call to arms for all the losers\, freaks\, and feral lost souls of the world.” – Steve Nash\, Saboteur Awards Performer of the Year
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SUMMARY:Henry Normal: Travelling Second Class Through Hope
DESCRIPTION:Better known as co-writer of award-winning TV and film shows such as The Royle Family\, The Mrs Merton Show\, The Parole Officer\, Coogan’s Run and Paul Calf\, and producer of\, amongst many others\, Oscar-nominated Philomena\, Gavin and Stacey\, Moone Boy\, Uncle and Alan Partridge\, Henry Normal started his writing career as a poet. \nBorn in Nottingham\, Henry’s writing career blossomed during his time in Manchester. He set up the Manchester Poetry Festival in the nineties\, which continues to this day having widened to become the Manchester Literature Festival. In 2016 he set up the Nottingham Poetry Festival\, now an annual event. \nIn the early eighties he performed at pop concerts\, cabaret and comedy clubs\, folk clubs\, jazz clubs\, factories\, hospitals\, schools and poetry events. Henry toured with Pulp in their early days and later with Lemn Sissay and I am Kloot’s John Bramwell\, then called Johnny Dangerously. \nHenry performed full runs at the Edinburgh Festival with Hattie Hayridge\, Linda Smith\, and his one man show ‘Encyclopedia Poetica’ – later to become a 4 part BBC Radio 4 series. \nSpotted at Edinburgh\, Henry was given a six episode Channel 4 series called Packet of Three\, co-starring Frank Skinner and Jenny Eclair. He has since worked on over 400 TV and radio shows and films\, as either script editor or producer or both. \nIn 2016 Henry was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by Nottingham Trent University. \nSince his first book Is Love Science Fiction? in 1986 he had eight further books published up to 1994. In 2016\, after an absence of 22 years\, Henry published Staring Directly at the Eclipse and has begun performing poetry again at major Literature Festivals. His recent Radio 4 shows A Normal Family and A Normal Life were much acclaimed and a third Radio Show A Normal Love will be transmitted on Valentine’s Day 2018. \nTravelling Second Class Through Hope contains seventy poems personally selected from his early collections. \n“Dovetails bittersweet poetry with a sublimely observant wit” – Guardian \n“The Alan Bennett of Poetry” – The Scotsman \n“The nerd triumphant” – Manchester Evening News \n“A gentle giant of stand-up poetry” – List \n“In amongst his work lie some of the most tender\, compassionate and moving pieces I have read from a modern poet” – Artful Reporter \n“The enfant terrible of alternative poetry” – Leeds Other paper \n“Witty and uncannily accurate with his observations” – The Stage \n“Distinctly funny” – Time Out \nFREE EVENT. DOORS OPEN AT 5.30PM.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/henry-normal-travelling-second-class-through-hope/
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SUMMARY:Just an Ordinary Lawyer
DESCRIPTION:“The British Empire was trying desperately to hold on to its colonial possessions by any means … and the foul would often override the fair.” \nTayo Aluko follows the multi-award winning Call Mr Robeson with another brilliantly put-together history lesson delivered as art\, as we host the first performance in the North West. Nigerian Tunji Sowande quietly breaks through multiple barriers to become Britain’s first Black judge in 1978. Also a fine concert singer and keen cricket lover\, he muses on international politics and history as they affect the Black world from Africa to the USA and Britain\, from the point of view of one who would rather watch sports\, and spread love and peace through the medium of song.
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/just-an-ordinary-lawyer/
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