Contextual: 15 – tomorrow!

A gentle reminder that February's Contextual poetry reading event is tomorrow! Our readers will be: Kerry Darbishire Tom Larner Kate Miller Gillie Robic David Thompson Contextual: 15 will be held on Thursday 23rd February @ 19:30 UK-time. If you would like to be considered as a reader at a future Contextual event please let me know [...]

Contextual: 15 – just one week away…

A gentle reminder that February's Contextual poetry reading event is just seven days away. Our readers will be: Kerry Darbishire Tom Larner Kate Miller Gillie Robic David Thompson Contextual: 15 will be held on Thursday 23rd February @ 19:30 UK-time. If you would like to be considered as a reader at a future Contextual event please [...]

Contextual: 15 – two weeks from today…

A gentle reminder that February's Contextual poetry reading event is just two weeks away. Our readers will be: Kerry Darbishire Tom Larner Kate Miller Gillie Robic David Thompson Contextual: 15 will be held on Thursday 23rd February @ 19:30 UK-time. If you would like to be considered as a reader at a future Contextual event please [...]

Contextual: 15 – our readers

I am delighted to announce our readers for February's Contextual poetry reading event: Kerry Darbishire Tom Larner Kate Miller Gillie Robic David Thompson Contextual: 15 will be held on Thursday 23rd February @ 19:30 UK-time. If you would like to be considered as a reader at a future Contextual event please let me know (if you've [...]

Contextual: 14 & Contextual: 15

Yesterday we held our first Contextual virtual poetry reading event of the year - the fourteenth in the series - and are pleased to report that we had twenty-four people attend the session! My thanks to all those who 'Zoomed in', and especially to our readers: Richard Lister, Graeme Ryan. Brian Docherty, Penny McCarthy and [...]

Contextual: 14 – tomorrow!

Our next Contextual virtual poetry reading event will be held tomorrow, Thursday 26th January starting at 19:30 (UK-time) and will run for one hour. Our main reader will be Richard Lister whose collection, Edge & Cusp, was published late last year. The second reader will be Graeme Ryan who has a revised edition of Valley [...]

Contextual: 14 – next Thursday!.

Our next Contextual virtual poetry reading event will be held on Thursday 26th January starting at 19:30 (UK-time) and will run for one hour. Our main reader will be Richard Lister whose collection, Edge & Cusp, was published late last year. The second reader will be Graeme Ryan who has a revised edition of Valley [...]

This quarter’s newsletter now available

The second issue of our quarterly newsletter is now available. The four-page newsletter contains a general update, a look into the future, highlights three of our publications, and has a full catalogue of all our books. It comes in .pdf format and is emailed to those who have contributed to our books, competitions, anthologies etc. [...]

Contextual: 14 – Our readers…

Our next Contextual virtual poetry reading event will be held on Thursday 26th January starting at 19:30 (UK-time) and will run for one hour. Our main reader will be Richard Lister whose collection, Edge & Cusp, was published late last year. The second reader will be Graeme Ryan who has a revised edition of Valley [...]

Contextual virtual poetry events 2023

During 2023 we plan to host another twelve Contextual virtual poetry reading events. At the moment these are likely to run on the last Thursday of each month starting at 19:30 UK-time and running for one hour. The first one will be on January 26th. For the new year we are opening a fresh list [...]