Also featured is Joe Cullen - a good friend of Poets Unlimited. All welcome. Details below:
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
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:
Also featured is Joe Cullen - a good friend of Poets Unlimited. All welcome. Details below:
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
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.
Friday, 9 September 2011
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/
Thursday, 18 August 2011
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.
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.
Friday, 15 July 2011
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
Jane Draycott's translation of Pearl has just been published by Carcanet Oxford Poets
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
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
Ian Duhig
Ian Duhig's latest collection, Pandorama, is published by Picador
Saturday, 9 July 2011
Review of Ordinary Magic
Ordinary Magic
Abegail Morley | July 7, 2011 at 9:44 am | URL: http://wp.me/p11yXb-eP
Ordinary Magic is the first anthology of Poets Unlimited, a group of 11 poets who met through workshops in London. The title poem comes from Fraser Southey and tells of the wonderful goings on in Lampmead Road – a fly on the wall piece acutely observed. Each poet conjures up a healthy selection of poems in this 104 page book.
From the wonderful Uriah Heep’s unsent letter to Miss Wickfield (The Love Song of Uriah Heep, Jim Alderson) I rummage through the magician’s box of tricks, pull out Eye of the dog by Fay Avsec. A lovely piece, I recognise that tragic look, the unconditional love. Next, the Mecca ballroom in Margaret Beston’s The day he left – a poem that resonates because of its rattling, clattering and screeching. We slip easily into Angela Croft’s poems and I found the shoes under the stairs was the poem that stayed with me. When I closed the book I could still see the boy who leapt naked off the quay to rid himself of lice.
Susan Hughes’ A London bridge is a beautifully rich plumped-up poem – I felt I was wading knee deep through warm mud. I couldn’t help but feel moved by Sylvia Rowbottom’s The arthritic condition; the opening line “Take my unrecognisable hand in yours,” is heart-breaking when “it still leads to me” follows on the next line. The iron men of Crosby Beach by Norman Staines stunningly tells of “one hundred patient men/emotion missing from their sea-ward faces/waiting for time to unpick their atoms/to become the objects of nature’s alchemy”.
In Wisty Thomas’ colourful Temple I was struck by the image of how “Your mum’s blue silk dressing gown/covers an altar made of books” and in Karina Vidler’s Offering to my father we need an A-Z of geography as the “bus swelters through unknown London streets” before we travel on to the next poet. I’ve journeyed through this bewitching anthology finally arriving in the “almost dawn” of Linda White’s Before dawn and step in to her world just long enough to see “the imprint of your head” in the last poem Leaving.
Ordinary Magic, Poets Unlimited, Blissett Bookbinders (2011), 978-1-905912-27-8, £7
For further information and to buy the anthology visit: http://poetsunlimited.blogspot.com/or email: poetsunlimited@gmail.com
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Abegail Morley | July 7, 2011 at 9:44 am | URL: http://wp.me/p11yXb-eP
Ordinary Magic is the first anthology of Poets Unlimited, a group of 11 poets who met through workshops in London. The title poem comes from Fraser Southey and tells of the wonderful goings on in Lampmead Road – a fly on the wall piece acutely observed. Each poet conjures up a healthy selection of poems in this 104 page book.
From the wonderful Uriah Heep’s unsent letter to Miss Wickfield (The Love Song of Uriah Heep, Jim Alderson) I rummage through the magician’s box of tricks, pull out Eye of the dog by Fay Avsec. A lovely piece, I recognise that tragic look, the unconditional love. Next, the Mecca ballroom in Margaret Beston’s The day he left – a poem that resonates because of its rattling, clattering and screeching. We slip easily into Angela Croft’s poems and I found the shoes under the stairs was the poem that stayed with me. When I closed the book I could still see the boy who leapt naked off the quay to rid himself of lice.
Susan Hughes’ A London bridge is a beautifully rich plumped-up poem – I felt I was wading knee deep through warm mud. I couldn’t help but feel moved by Sylvia Rowbottom’s The arthritic condition; the opening line “Take my unrecognisable hand in yours,” is heart-breaking when “it still leads to me” follows on the next line. The iron men of Crosby Beach by Norman Staines stunningly tells of “one hundred patient men/emotion missing from their sea-ward faces/waiting for time to unpick their atoms/to become the objects of nature’s alchemy”.
In Wisty Thomas’ colourful Temple I was struck by the image of how “Your mum’s blue silk dressing gown/covers an altar made of books” and in Karina Vidler’s Offering to my father we need an A-Z of geography as the “bus swelters through unknown London streets” before we travel on to the next poet. I’ve journeyed through this bewitching anthology finally arriving in the “almost dawn” of Linda White’s Before dawn and step in to her world just long enough to see “the imprint of your head” in the last poem Leaving.
Ordinary Magic, Poets Unlimited, Blissett Bookbinders (2011), 978-1-905912-27-8, £7
For further information and to buy the anthology visit: http://poetsunlimited.blogspot.com/or email: poetsunlimited@gmail.com
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