hope you can tune in and join us

happy yuletide!

www.caravanserai.info
www.thecourtyarddeli.co

Jam is a brand new collective based in Falmouth which combines live music, poetry and open mic. Our first event will take place at 5 Degrees Below on the 28th November. It’s free entry and there will also be a bar available for those in need of some alcohol fueled courage! So feel free to come spread your words whether it’s through song or poetry.

With readings from recently signed author Chelsey Flood, captivating travel writer Chris Brown and satirical performance poet Nick Jarvis on the cards, as well as free Winter Pimms, mince pies and an opportunity to look through the proofs and plates that all fed into the production process,  it promises to be great evening. Not to mention the fact that it’ll be your first chance to get your hands on a copy of The Parabola Project Issue II: Quickening.

For those of you that don’t know, The Parabola Project is an independently published creative writing anthology that showcases creative talent from Cornwall and beyond. Available online in Waterstones Truro and from independent bookshops across Cornwall, it costs £6 – with all profits going back into the production pot for issue III.

So what are you waiting for? Get out your diary and write this in in permanent pen -  “29 November, 7.30pm @ The Rum Bar, Falmouth, celebrating the launch of The Parabola Project and picking up my copy, can’t wait to see it…” or something similar.

Thursday 1^st December                       

David Grubb is to read at University College Falmouth – Tremough  PL Lecture 4, 4.30pm – 6pm.  To book, contact Helen Thomas: Helen.Thomas@falmouth.ac.uk

Wednesday 7th December:  Lorna Thorpe launches her second poetry collection –                                                 SWEET TORTURE OF BREATHING (Arc Publications).

The Crown Inn, Lanlivery*, 730pm – FREE. (*off the A390 between Lostwithiel and St Austell.)  Find out more on her website, where there is also a videoof her reading a poem from her last book –             www.lornathorpe.com

Thursday, December 8th, from 7pmPlease join us for a delicious Caravanserai Yuletide             meal and cabaret at the Courtyard Deli Art Cafe in Falmouth.

Hosted by wordsmith Mac Dunlop, featuring local accordion maestro Seamas Carey, and the popular poets Rob Barratt & Nick Jarvis.

Tickets are £20 – which include the festive meal below -are available in advance from the Courtyard Deli at 2 Bells Court Falmouth, or by phone on 01326 319526 (places are limited so it is advisable to book early)
Yuletide cabaret menu:
Home-baked Bread on arrival
Ham Hock Terrine with Spiced Red Cabbage Chutney
Veggie option: Baked Cornish Organic Brie with above chutney
Roast Baby Pumpkin with Melted Gruyere fondue filling & Roast Cornish Vegetables
Christmas Tarts with our own Boozy, Quince Mincemeat & clotted cream
Gluten free, Vegan & Dairy free diets will also be catered for on request.

www.courtyarddeli.co         www.caravanserai.info

Saturday 10^th December Camelford.   The Indian King Poets are running two more Saturday morning sessions at Garmoe Cottage to discuss the T S Eliot Prize shortlisted poets, on 10 December from 10 am – 12 pm, and 7th January.     No fee,but contributions to heating and refreshments welcome.             Non-members welcome.

Reading in Camelford (venue t.b.c.): Saturday 10 December open mic session with visiting poet Lorna Thorpe reading from her second collection, Sweet Torture of Breathing, out soon from Arc. Entrance by  donation; do bring a couple of poems in case your name gets drawn out of the hat. Time t.b.c. but usually 2.304.30 pm.Contact Helen Jagger Wood on 01840 212161 or                                                             indianking@btconnect.com

2012  Looking Ahead:

Saturday 11^th February Caroline Carver and Michael Swan reading and                                       discussing their work at the Morrab Library 10.15 to 12.30Caroline will be launching her new book.

Open Mic – contact Jenny Hamlett    jenny.kanow@hotmail.co.uk

Thursday 16^th February                                   

FPG AGM at 6.30, followed by readings/launch of Caroline Carver’s new collection (due January) and  Moira Andrew’s  ‘Firebird’

Ongoing:                                   

INDIAN KING POETS, CAMELFORD

Indian King Poets meet most Monday mornings at Garmoe Cottage,  Camelford, from 10 am – 12/12.30 pm for writing together and to bring  poems for peer criticism. Become a member for £12 p.a. and then £6 per session (and occasional day long workshops for £15 instead of  £30 or £25).

Penzance Poetry Society Stanza            meets the first Monday in the month (second Monday when there is a Bank Holiday)  at The Orchard Room   The Centre – Newlyn

Chywoone Hill  Newlyn  TR18 5AR   01736 365890

The cost will be £2.00 per session to be paid on the day and will include tea and coffee.   Please get in touch with Jenny Hamlett if you need directions.  01736  363146  jenny.kanow@hotmail.co.uk

Liskeard Poetry group meets second Monday of month at Stuart House. Barras St.                                     Liskeard 4.30pm to approx 6.30 More details

contact sec: annfoweraker@yahoo.co.uk

The Falmouth Poetry Group meets every second Monday of the month at 7.00pm in the library of Cornwall Polytechnic, Church Street, Falmouth, (the Poly), FPG members £2, non-members £3 per session. Poems are read aloud by the poet, then discussed and work-shopped before the poet                         comes back in. Criticism is acute and professional, (always friendly), but can be very helpful. (FPG annual subscription is £10.) For more information go to: moira.andrew@uwclub.net.

CARAVANSERAI PRESENTS:

An evening with Caravanserai at the Independent School of Art.
Annie Lovejoy and Mac Dunlop present caravanserai – a residency programme and performance platform on the Roseland Peninsula, along with special performances by Nick Jarvis, Danielle Allen and Seamas Carey.
You are invited to bring food and drink to share to:
St. Gluvias Church Hall, Penryn
(pathway/gate next to #46 West Street)
on Thursday November 3rd at 7:30pm

Thursday November 3rd, 7:30pm                       

An evening with Caravanserai at the Independent School of Art.

You are invited to bring food and drink to share to:
St. Gluvias Church Hall, Penryn
(pathway/gate next to #46 West Street)
Annie Lovejoy and Mac Dunlop present caravanserai – a creative residency programme and performance platform on the Roseland Peninsula, along with special performances by poets Nick Jarvis, and Danielle Allen and music from Seamas Carey.

                                                                                                www.caranserai.info

Saturday 5^th November:                The Indian King Poets are running two Saturday morning sessions at Garmoe Cottage to discuss the T S Eliot Prize shortlisted poets, on 5th November and 10 December from 10 am – 12 pm. Members have been allocated one poet and will take it in turns to lead discussion, 5 poets per session. No fee, but contributions to heating and refreshments welcome. Non-members welcome.

Contact Helen Jagger Wood on 01840 212161 or indianking@btconnect.com

Saturday 12^th November:                        Trebah Gardens Workshop    

with Caroline Carver andTom Scott.  Cafe Annexe on Saturday November 12^th.                                                      As it’s the day after Armistice Day, and remembering Trebah’s close links with the Normandy landings, the theme will be Departures, not just of war but departures in every sense you can think of, perhaps even threatened departures of much beloved species,due to diseases like Sudden Oak Death.

The workshop is 10:00 – 2:30, price is £12 including admission to the gardens.

contact: carvers@macace.net

Wednesday 7th December: Lorna Thorpe launches her second poetry collection – SWEET TORTURE OF BREATHING (Arc Publications).

The Crown Inn, Lanlivery*, 730pm – FREE.

(*off the A390  between Lostwithiel and St Austell.)

Lorna’s debut pamphlet was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and her first collection, A GHOST INMY HOUSE, received critical acclaim. She has been called ‘a distinctive and powerful talent whose poetry conjures love, lust and music with naturalistic anecdotal brilliance.’ Of her work Alison Brackenbury said, ‘I have rarely read work with such a compelling emotional rush,’ while Linda France says of the new book: ‘With a tang of Frank O’Hara – ambivalent, allusive, ecstatic – Lorna Thorpe’s new collection toys with death and disappointment but ultimately is on the side of life, love  and the perfect Martini.’ Lorna will read some poems from the book in what promises to be an informal and entertaining evening.Find out more on her website, where there is also a video of her reading a poem from her last book –                                                             www.lornathorpe.com

Saturday 10^th December  Please see Saturday 5th November and Indian King Poets

Reading in Camelford (venue t.b.c.): Saturday 10 December open mic session with visiting poet Lorna Thorpe reading from her second collection, Sweet Torture of Breathing, out soon from Arc. Entrance by donation; do bring a couple of poems in case your name gets drawn out of the hat. Time t.b.c. but usually 2.30-4.30 pm.

INDIAN KING POETS, CAMELFORD

Indian King Poets meet most Monday mornings at Garmoe Cottage,                                     Camelford, from 10 am – 12/12.30 pm for writing together and to bring                                     poems for peer criticism. Become a member for £12 p.a. and then £6 per session (and occasional day long workshops for £15 instead of  £30 or £25).

Penzance Poetry Society Stanza meets the first Monday in the month (second Monday when there is a Bank Holiday)  at The Orchard Room   The Centre – Newlyn

Chywoone Hill  Newlyn  TR18 5AR   01736 365890

The cost will be £2.00 per session to be paid on the day and will  include tea and coffee.   Please get in touch with Jenny Hamlett if you need directions.  01736  363146 jenny.kanow@hotmail.co.uk

Liskeard Poetry group meets second Monday of month at Stuart House. Barras St. Liskeard 4.30pm to approx 6.30 More details

contact sec: annfoweraker@yahoo.co.uk

The Falmouth Poetry Group meets every second Monday of the month at 7.00pm in the library of Cornwall Polytechnic, Church Street, Falmouth, (the Poly),

FPG members £2, non-members £3 per session. Poems are read aloud by the poet, then discussed and work-shopped before the poet comes back in. Criticism is acute and professional, (always friendly), but can be very helpful. (FPG annual subscription is £10.)

For more information go to: moira.andrew@uwclub.net.

I remember

we met

in the birthing pool

our Genes collided

and welded together

like a virus and its host

I gave you a piece of my mind

You gave me love

And over time

We seriously considered

making

beautiful music together

Yet, after all that

many years later,

we were still left

wondering

who came first?

 © Md 2011

It’s the Unspoken Word episode about ‘entropy’.

-the one where I try to make order out of the chaos of my kitchen-

recorded for radio with a live audience at Telltales  XXV  in Falmouth,

The one about Entropy

• Saturday  24th September  POEMS AT THE EQUINOX

                                                The Poetry School Seminar · 6:30 to 8:30 pm   £3.00  refreshments, THE COOKBOOK· ST JUST · PENWITH, RING AHEAD TO BOOK * 01736 787 266

• Tuesday September 27th Telltales at The Rum Bar, Falmouth, 7pm free

• Saturday 15th October:  St Endellion Church 

with Revd Judith Pollinger on

rev.judith(at)btinternet.com.       They cost £10.00 per day.

Nicholas Sagovsky until recently Canon Theologian Westminster Abbey on Eliot’s ‘Four Quartets.’

• Saturday 12^th November:  Trebah Gardens Workshop    

with Caroline Carver and Tom Scott.  Cafe Annexe on Saturday November 12^th.  As it’s the day after Armistice Day, and remembering Trebah’s close links with the Normandy landings, the theme will be Departures, not just of war but departures in every sense you can think of, perhaps even threatened  departures of much beloved species,due to diseases like Sudden Oak Death.

• Date coming later for Poetry and Percussion Evening – in support of St. Julia’s Hospice – to be held at:

Fradgan House,

The Fradgan,

Newlyn,

TR18 5BE

For details and confirmation of the date please contact:Diana Dixon on 01736 333180,

email address: artemisdd@tiscali.co.uk

Please come and read some poetry to us and join in the drumming too, if you like…

Buffet supper inclusive but please bring drink of your choice.  Retiring collection.

• Poetry Cornwall Issue 31 in available. £4.50 for a single issue or £12 for the next three.

This unfunded poetic voice for Cornwall is read around the world, don’t miss out order today from: Poetry Cornwall. 11a Penryn St, Redruth, TR15 2SP.