Ordinary Magic - now available!

If you would like to purchase Ordinary Magic please email:

poetsunlimited@gmail.com

£7.00 plus P&P per copy

Also, please email if you would like to arrange a reading

Thank you

Poets Unlimited

Jim Alderson * Fay Avsec *  Margaret Beston

Angela Croft * Susan Hughes * Sylvia Rowbottom

Fraser Southey * Norman Staines * Wisty Thomas

Karina Vidler * Linda White

UNLIMITED POET PUNCHES ABOVE HIS WEIGHT

Fraser Southey, one of our eleven, will be reading a couple of his poems from Ordinary Magic, along with new material,  at Torriano Meeting House in Kentish Town on Sunday 29th April - kick off at 7.30pm.

Also featured is Joe Cullen - a good friend of Poets Unlimited. All welcome. Details below:

Join us at our next reading of ORDINARY MAGIC

Poets Unlimited

Jim Alderson  Fay Avsec  Margaret Beston

Angela Croft  Sylvia Rowbottom

Fraser Southey  Norman Staines  Wisty Thomas

Karina Vidler  Linda White

invite you to a reading from their new anthology

ORDINARY MAGIC

Thurs 17 November 2011 at 7.00 pm

at The Poetry Cafe

22 Betterton Street, WC2

Tube: Covent Garden

Doors open at 7.00 pm for 7.30 readings

Admission: £2.00

Open mic: If you would like to read, please arrive by 7.00 pm to register.

Limited spots. One poem, 40 lines max.

Poets Unlimited at Rhythm & Muse - 29 Sept 2011

Rhythm & Muse

celebrates publication of the anthology

ORDINARY MAGIC

by Poets Unlimited

@ The Ram Jam Club

Thursday 29 September 2011

8.00pm for 8.30pm

Admission £6 (£5 concessions)

Venue: The Grey Horse, 46 Richmond Road, Kingston KT2 5EE

Poets reading:

Jim Alderson, Fay Avsec
Angela Croft, Sylvia Rowbottom
Fraser Southey, Norman Staines

http://www.rhythmandmuse.org/

Duncan Forbes' review of Ordinary Magic

This new anthology presents a rich variety of poems from a range of eleven different writers. By turns, frank, moving and thought-provoking, poems here look beneath the ordinary surfaces of life to reveal its mysteries, depths and tragicomedies.

Good wishes to you all and many thanks for inviting me to the evening of the launch which I felt went so well.



Duncan Forbes' work includes ‘Lifelines: Selected Poems’ (Enitharmon) drawn from five previous collections. Recipient of a Gregory Award, TLS/Blackwells Prize, Stephen Spender Times Translation Prizes and a Hawthornden Fellowship, he is also a painter.

Jane Draycott comments on Ordinary Magic

' ... many congratulations to all of you - a real achievement. The poems all work very well together, but also have a kind of incremental unity in the way they work almost in 'chapters' of each individual poet.  You're obviously a strong group - keep the torch burning... '



Jane Draycott's translation of Pearl has just been published by Carcanet Oxford Poets

Ian Duhig reviews Ordinary Magic

...'Ordinary Magic' brings together a selection from poets who are anything but ordinary: they draw on a truly international experience of different cultures and many languages including that of flowers. They represent all corners of the societies of these islands and a host of styles, from the formally accomplished through to experimental mirror-writing, with every mood from the humourous to the heartbreaking. They have, in their own words, collectivised and stepped outside the mainstream so they may be heard on their own terms. We should be grateful for their bravery.

Ian Duhig

Ian Duhig's latest collection, Pandorama, is published by Picador