Infinite Forms
An evening with the Back Room Poets to celebrate National Poetry Day
An evening of natural history inspired poetry to celebrate National Poetry day 2018. Oxford-based Back Room Poets and friends will be reading a selection of newly written poetry inspired by the Museum's collections.
For this year's National Poetry Day, which is has the theme of 'Change', Oxford Back Room Poets are hosting this event together with the Oxford University Natural History Museum. The phrase 'Infinite Forms' was used by Darwin to express the endless change that natural selection generates among living organisms. Poets from Oxford and surrounding areas will read recent work inspired by the museum's collections, exhibitions and research. Readings will be followed by an open mic session for which you can sign up on the door. All welcome, but if you would like to read in the main section, rather than the open mic, please contact us through our website and submit your poem in advance by 29 September.
There will be an open-mic opportunity at the end of the event for anyone who would like to read their own natural history inspired poetry.
on Thu, October 4, 2018
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
at Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PW
Admission is free, tickets can be obtained from Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/infinite-forms-tickets-49212572128
An evening with the Back Room Poets to celebrate National Poetry Day
An evening of natural history inspired poetry to celebrate National Poetry day 2018. Oxford-based Back Room Poets and friends will be reading a selection of newly written poetry inspired by the Museum's collections.
For this year's National Poetry Day, which is has the theme of 'Change', Oxford Back Room Poets are hosting this event together with the Oxford University Natural History Museum. The phrase 'Infinite Forms' was used by Darwin to express the endless change that natural selection generates among living organisms. Poets from Oxford and surrounding areas will read recent work inspired by the museum's collections, exhibitions and research. Readings will be followed by an open mic session for which you can sign up on the door. All welcome, but if you would like to read in the main section, rather than the open mic, please contact us through our website and submit your poem in advance by 29 September.
There will be an open-mic opportunity at the end of the event for anyone who would like to read their own natural history inspired poetry.
on Thu, October 4, 2018
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
at Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PW
Admission is free, tickets can be obtained from Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/infinite-forms-tickets-49212572128
A poetry reading featuring Jane Griffiths and Back Room Poets
With Rip Bulkeley, David Burridge, Lou Hough, Jenyth Worsley,
also Alice Willington
Music by : Julia Hollander and Peter McMullin
At the
Vaults and Garden Cafe
University Church of St Mary the Virgin
(entrance from Radcliffe Square)
Friday 28 September, 2018
7:30 pm
Entrance: £6
BRP Members & concessions £ 4
With Rip Bulkeley, David Burridge, Lou Hough, Jenyth Worsley,
also Alice Willington
Music by : Julia Hollander and Peter McMullin
At the
Vaults and Garden Cafe
University Church of St Mary the Virgin
(entrance from Radcliffe Square)
Friday 28 September, 2018
7:30 pm
Entrance: £6
BRP Members & concessions £ 4
Back Room Poets present a poetry reading featuring
Jane Draycott also featuring the launch of Veronica Beedham's pamphlet A Sense of Place
with Mark Leech and David Olsen.
Saturday March 10th, 2018 at 7PM
Friends Meeting House 43 St Giles, Oxford. OX1 3LW
Entrance £ 4.00 (£2.00 BRP Members)
Workshop with Jane Draycott
A workshop will take place from 3-6pm at the Friends Meeting House (43 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3LW).
There will be an upper limit of 14 full participants (that is, with poems to be workshopped), although it will be possible for others interested to attend as audience-only. Please submit your poems for consideration by email to Agnes Kocsis at aekocsis@googlemail.com by 20 February. Poems can be on any theme. They will be selected with a view to obtaining a good balance for productive discussion as well as quality. You will be notified of your poem having been selected by email. The fees will be: full participation (workshopping a poem): £20 (concessionary rate for BRP members: £15); participation as audience-only: £5. All fees to be paid on the door on the day.
Jane Draycott also featuring the launch of Veronica Beedham's pamphlet A Sense of Place
with Mark Leech and David Olsen.
Saturday March 10th, 2018 at 7PM
Friends Meeting House 43 St Giles, Oxford. OX1 3LW
Entrance £ 4.00 (£2.00 BRP Members)
Workshop with Jane Draycott
A workshop will take place from 3-6pm at the Friends Meeting House (43 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3LW).
There will be an upper limit of 14 full participants (that is, with poems to be workshopped), although it will be possible for others interested to attend as audience-only. Please submit your poems for consideration by email to Agnes Kocsis at aekocsis@googlemail.com by 20 February. Poems can be on any theme. They will be selected with a view to obtaining a good balance for productive discussion as well as quality. You will be notified of your poem having been selected by email. The fees will be: full participation (workshopping a poem): £20 (concessionary rate for BRP members: £15); participation as audience-only: £5. All fees to be paid on the door on the day.
Back Room Poets present a poetry reading
featuring Tony Curtis
with John Daniel, Louise Larchbourne, Gina Wilson and Merryn Williams
Thursday 12th October, 2017 at 7:30 pm
at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore 34 Walton Street. Oxford. OX2 6AA.
Admission: £ 4.00 (BRP Members £ 2.00)
Back Room Poets & Members of the University Church Choir in
The Pity of War
Reflections, memories & experiences of war and its aftermath.
In support of Parkinson's UK Oxford branch and the Endeavour Fund for wounded soldiers.
Devised by Jenyth Worsley with Louise Larchbourne, Elizabeth Birchall, Mark Leech, Inge Milfull, David Olsen, Merryn Williams, Gina Wilson and Felix Leach, Julia Hollander, Lucy Matheson, Katie McMullin (Harp), Peter McMullin.
Guest Reader: Paul Mayhew Archer
at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
High Street, Oxford. OX1 4BJ
7:30pm Friday 17 March, 2017
Entry: £ 15.00 Concessions £10.00
at door, or from www.ticketsoxford.com
The Pity of War
Reflections, memories & experiences of war and its aftermath.
In support of Parkinson's UK Oxford branch and the Endeavour Fund for wounded soldiers.
Devised by Jenyth Worsley with Louise Larchbourne, Elizabeth Birchall, Mark Leech, Inge Milfull, David Olsen, Merryn Williams, Gina Wilson and Felix Leach, Julia Hollander, Lucy Matheson, Katie McMullin (Harp), Peter McMullin.
Guest Reader: Paul Mayhew Archer
at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin
High Street, Oxford. OX1 4BJ
7:30pm Friday 17 March, 2017
Entry: £ 15.00 Concessions £10.00
at door, or from www.ticketsoxford.com
Back Room Poets present a poetry reading
featuring Kieron Winn
with Rip Bulkeley, David Olsen, Sarah Watkinson and Pat Winslow
Friday 3rd February, 2017 at 7:30 pm
at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore 34 Walton Street. Oxford. OX2 6AA.
Admission: £ 4.00 (BRP Members £ 2.00)
‘The level of craft in these poems is a delight. Meticulous balancing means that a seemingly straightforward line rides on a wave of its own music, and the stanza jump (it needs a name: the hitch-kick?) has redoubled force when a line is succeeded only after a deep pause for breath. Larkin, of course, was a master of that manoeuvre, but Winn’s version of it is all his, and particularly seductive in its timing, like a pause and glide in a well-danced tango.’
Clive James
Back Room Poets present a poetry reading to launch their new anthology
Infinite Riches in a Little Room
Poems from the Back Room Poets Oxford 1999 - 2016
Editor: Merryn Williams
At the Albion Beatnik Bookstore
34 Walton Street. Oxford. OX2 6AA.
Friday 2 December, 2016 at 7:30pm
Admission £ 4.00 (£ 2.00 BRP Members) Tickets on the door.
Latest BRP news. Our member Pat Winslow has won the 2016 Stanza Poetry Competition with her poem The Contract. The following is a link to more information on the Poetry Society's website:
http://poetrysociety.org.uk/membership/poetry-society-stanzas/stanza-poetry-competition/
http://poetrysociety.org.uk/membership/poetry-society-stanzas/stanza-poetry-competition/
BRP News. Our member Veronica Beedham has won the 2016 Overton Prize
Back Room Poets present a poetry reading
featuring Sean Street
Saturday 23rd July 2016 - 7.30pm
at Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles
Admission £ 4.00 (£ 2.00 BRP Members) Tickets on the door.
With Back Room Poets: Caroline Ashley, Matt Bright,
Mark Leach, and Merryn Williams
There will be a seminar with Sean Street 3.30 - 5pm in the afternoon, see details below
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Back Room Poets present a seminar with Sean Street Sound Time and Space - Into the Universe of the Imagination Oxford Quaker Meeting House 43 St Giles, Oxford. Saturday 23rd July, 2016 3.30 - 5.00 pm Entry: £ 7.00 - BRP Members £ 5.00 click on poster to the left for more information |
Back Room Poets present a poetry reading featuring Philip Gross Saturday 20th of February, 2016 at 7:00 PM At the Friends Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford. OX1 3LW. Tickets on door. No charge: Collection for Oxford Friends Action on Poverty with Paul Surman, Sarah Watkinson, Jenyth Worsley and Stephen Yeo See below for details of the Philip Gross Masterclass in the afternoon Workshop and Reading with Philip Gross on the 20th of February, 2016 There will be a workshop with Philip Gross between 2-5 pm, followed by a reading at 7pm, at the Friends Meeting House on Saturday the 20th of February. Philip Gross says of the workshop: "Our physical bodies are where we live, what we are, in the world. There's no avoiding them. Our senses are how we experience the world, our viewpoint from the place and age and state of health we're in. For this masterclass, I am inviting poems that speak from or in awareness of the body, even if not directly about it. Other poems are not excluded, though I might give first place in the queue to ones that respond to this challenge, which simply points to one of the enduring sources of good poetry. " The workshop will cost £ 20.00 (including one year's membership of Back Room Poets for non-members), £ 15.00 for members or the unemployed, or £ 5.00 to be part of the audience. Payments can be made by Paypal to backroompoets@gmail.com or by cheque made out to Back Room Poets to Mr Matt Bright at 105 Gypsy Lane, Oxford. OX3 7PU. If paying by Paypal please send the transaction number to Agnes at her email address shown below (or simply forward the confirmation email), so we can identify the payment. Audience members may pay at the door. There will be a maximum of 18 poems considered. The deadline for submissions is January 31st. If you want to participate, please contact Agnes Kocsis on aekocsis@googlemail.com Philip will respond in writing to any poems that he is not able to discuss in detail during the masterclass. The following is a brief biography of Philip: Philip Gross is a poet, a playwright, librettist and writer for children. He won the T.S.Eliot Prize 2009 with The Water Table, and Wales Book of The Year 2010 with I Spy Pinhole Eye. Recent collections Deep Field and Later dealt with his Estonian refugee father’s final years and loss of language. Philip leads the MPhil/PhD in Writing programme at the University of South Wales. His latest collaboration, A Fold In The River, with artist Valerie Coffin Price, appeared from Seren in March, and a new collection from Bloodaxe, Love Songs of Carbon, was a PBS Recommendation in September 2015. www.philipgross.co.uk 
Tuesday 3rd November, 2015 @ The Albion Beatnik Bookstore 34 Walton Street Oxford. OX2 6AA. 7:30 PM £ 4.00 (BRP Members £ 2.00) Tickets at the door. A poetry reading of translated poetry featuring Pedro Serrano & Jamie McKendrick with Back Room Poets David Burridge, Louise Larchbourne, Mark Leech, Inge Milful, Merryn Williams, and Pat Winslow. 
Saturday 26th September, 2015 @ The Albion Beatnik Bookstore 34 Walton Street Oxford. OX2 6AA. 7:30pm £ 4.00 BRP Members £ 2.00) A poetry reading featuring thee winners of the Back Room Poets International Poetry Competition reading with the judge Pat Winslow. Readers are Michael Crowley, Maeve Henry, Alexandra Davis, M. A. Fiddes, Geraldine Clarkson, Josh Ekroy, Averil Stedeford. Back Room Poets News
Members Louise Larchborne and Jennifer McGowan have had poems included in the anthology The Very Best of 52. Fifty Two was run by Jo Bell (who read for us a while back) and involved poets writing a poem for each week of the year. Here is a link to details of the anthology on Nine Arches Press (publishers of Under the Radar magazine) http://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/the%20very%20best%20of%2052.html |
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