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Poetry Elections - Pre-Festival event: Thursday 29th September at the Study Gallery.
7:30 pm until 9pm
Admission £2 to include a glass of wine or juice.
Trophy prize and free entry to all of the PW&BF events. See Elections page.
Book Tagging in conjunction with WH Smith bookshop, Falklands Square, Poole, Dorset will run from August 12th for pre-booking the books, the books will be available to read from 1st September and reviews will be available online from 1st October. The booktagging will end on 9th October and the best review from all of the books will win that reviewer all six of the books. Each book will be loaned to the taggers for one week, with a three day extension if needed. The theme is MOTION to link with our Poetry & Motion DVD project.
Books to be tagged are:
Selected Poems by Andrew Motion
Ewan McGregor's Long Way Round
The Time Traveller's Wife
and more. See Booktag page for details.
Poetry Slam Saturday 8th October at Lighthouse. Rooms 1&2 first floor. 7:30pm. Admission on the door £2. Trophy prize. See slam page.
Quiz Show Have I Got a Question of Words & Lyrics For You? Saturday 1st October at Lighthouse. Rooms 1&2 first floor. 7:30pm. Admission on the door £2.50. Page
Poetry in Motion DVD Project - to be displayed during the Poole Word & Book Festival at different locations around the town. If anyone would like to be considered to take part in the filming, let us know as soon as possible. Poem in some way related to motion. And a good idea of where to be filmed to do with motion. Call Dave on 07913 029527. or email us
John Barclay - Ottakars National Poetry Day Thursday 6th October 6pm - 7pm £2. See John Barclay page.
Song Lyrics - We have music composed by young songwriter Alf Grant and we are looking for poems or lyrics to go with this music. The winning words will be performed by a local band at the next musical event in November. More details to follow.
Survivors' Poetry Evening
The brand new National Outreach Project Poole Survivors' Poetry group reading some of their work for the first time! This group will shortly be featured in the national poetry magazine from Survivors', Poetry Express. Details to follow.
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