Readings from the OUBURST Queer Poetry Night are now available to listen / download at
QUEER POETRY SHOWCASE
Sun. 15th Nov.
Black Box
8pm £3 at door
In partnership with poetcasting.co.uk
OUTBURST gets lyrical in partnership with acclaimed
poetry podcasting website, poetcasting.co.uk, as LGB poets step up to the mic for a fantastic chilled-out evening of readings that will be recorded on the night and later showcased on the poetcasting website.
We are also inviting new and emerging writers to take part, just come along to our workshop on the day before the event.
Performing poets include…
Paula Cunningham: Paula’s poems have been widely anthologised in Ireland and beyond. Her book, A Dog Called Chance, was published by Smith Doorstop in 1999. She has also written plays for Tinderbox and Radio 4, and a short story appeared in Faber’s Best New Irish Short Stories 2004-5.
Vincent Creelan: Vincent describes himself as “an ex-gamekeeper, scientist and peeler, a parent and an activist with a small ‘a’.” He recently appeared on the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar Sq. as part of Antony Gormley’s art project, where he read his poetry, put the world to rights and challenged people to share the love.
Hayley Fox-Roberts: Liverpool-born poet Hayley pulls on your emotions and sensibility with her unique blend of lyric poetry, Goddess-worship and polemic rant. She has published two collections, Songs of Lust (Windows Publications,1985) and Nine Muses on a Night Out, (Bradshaw Books, 2001.
Pádraig Ó Tuama: Pádraig has worked as a community poet for a number of Corrymeela’s storytelling projects, writing poems about people’s experiences of Ireland and conflict. He likes poems that rhyme and poems with rhythm. Sometimes they have both. He has a new book coming out this winter and some of his poetry can be found at www.corkman.tumblr.com
Hello there again, will there be an opportunity to perform ones one poetry that night?
Hi Connor, yep in addition to the poets in the programme, we’re encouraging other people to read on the night. Check out the workshop on the day before the event. If you’d like to read your work, just come along to that.