Poetry reading
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Our twelfth Contextual virtual poetry reading event will take place on Thursday 27th October starting at 19:30 Uk-time. Given the session represents the conclusion of a year’s span of Contextual meetings, it will follow more of an ‘open mic’ format in that there will be no main reader. We will still follow the process of…
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Our twelfth Contextual virtual poetry reading event will take place on Thursday 27th October starting at 19:30 Uk-time. Given the session represents the conclusion of a year’s span of Contextual meetings, it will follow more of an ‘open mic’ format in that there will be no main reader. We will still follow the process of…
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Yesterday evening we held our eleventh virtual poetry reading event. Eleventh! That’s quite remarkable given no-one knew how the fledgling idea would work out. Well now we do! Yesterday’s event was headlined by the winners and commended poets from our inaugural poetry competition held during the summer. And what a splendid event it was too!…
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Coverstory books‘ eleventh ‘Contextual’ poetry reading event is tomorrow, Wednesday 28th September, starting 1930 UK-time. Our main readers for ‘Contextual: 11’ will be the prize winners and commended poets from this year’s Poetry Competition. If you would like an invitation to the event – or a link to the recording of ‘Contextual: 10’ – please…
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Coverstory books‘ eleventh ‘Contextual’ poetry reading event is next week on Wednesday 28th September, starting 1930 UK-time. Our main readers for ‘Contextual: 11’ will be the prize winners and commended poets from this year’s Poetry Competition. If you would like an invitation to the event – or a link to the recording of ‘Contextual: 10’…
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Coverstory books‘ eleventh ‘Contextual’ poetry reading event is Wednesday 28th September, starting 1930 UK-time. ‘Contextual: 10’ was held last night and proved to be yet another splendid hour of original poetry. Thanks go out to our five super readers – and to the attendees, all of whom are keeping this initiative very much alive. Inspiring…
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Coverstory books‘ ninth ‘Contextual’ poetry reading was held yesterday, Wednesday 27th July, 1930 UK-time. It was yet another splendid hour of contemporary International poetry covering a wide range of topics. Our poets demonstrated feeling, perception, intelligence, wisdom and wit in various measure, and it was great to be able to revel in such diverse talent.…
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We have now added audio files to some of our book pages. In these, Ian Gouge reads a selection of pieces from individual collections of poetry or the opening chapter of a novel. The Homelessness of a Child; The Myths of Native Trees; At Maunston Quay; First-time Visions of Earth from Space; After the Rehearsals;…
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Coverstory books was delighted to host our seventh ‘Contextual’ poetry reading event yesterday. Another great turnout for an hour of really good quality contemporary poetry. My thanks to all the attendees – and especially to our four readers: Simon French, Adele Cordner, Pratibha Castle and Ann Pelletier-Topping. Simon read from his recently published The Deadwing…
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Coverstory books was delighted to host our sixth ‘Contextual’ poetry reading event yesterday. Another great turnout for an hour of contemporary poetry. My thanks to all the attendees – and especially to our four readers: Eleanor Swanson, Margaret Beston, Zanna Beswick and David Punter. Eleanor read from her upcoming collection, Non-Finito. Our next ‘Contextual’ event…
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