Poetry reading 27 July, Lampeter

We are reading as part of the Lampeter Food Festival



Organiser: Josie

Venue: the quadrangle

Suggestion that we have a series of 10-minute slots among the music, with poems about food or festivals


Readers: Jane, Maj, Gilly, Sue, Kathy

Audience feedback:

I don't normally do poetry, I don't like it very much, but I was surprised, I really enjoyed it, and well done to everyone who read.


I didn't know there was going to be poetry at the Food Festival, but I really appreciated you guys reading, it was great to have poetry there, and I loved everything that was read. It was a real treat.


 

Poem for Tony

The Quiet American

For Tony Kendrew

Just as the swifts swoop in

and the woods are awash

with bluebells, Anthony

is leaving Trinity Saint David.

I remember the first time

he entered the Wolfson room

tall as a Lombardy poplar

eyes the colour of fiords

and weather in his voice.

Around this table of poets

this circle of friends

he has listened

with the ear of a birder

and heard

all the notes behind the words.

Amanda Pickering

21/5/13

Is the slim volume dead?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/24/salt-poetry-market-slump

Interesting article about Salt abandoning single-author poetry books.   In a way this isn't that surprising - even people whoe write poetry don't buy many books, and I think one major issue is that while people do buy novels online sight unseen, you really need to browse through a poetryt book befoe you buy it, so now there aren't many bookshops, and those there are don't stock poetry, nobody will.

A Star fell from Orion (2011)

A Star fell from Orion: an anthology of poetry and prose, 2011, 101pp  ISBN 978-1-908846-00-6   Peter, Bridge &Stepehn, Lampeter
Available from Red Heron, £6.50

Featuring:
Gillian Clarke
Kathy Miles
Sue Moules
Anne Grimes
Brenda Old
Carol Manwell
Mary Overton
Collette Power
Josie Smith
Simone Mansell Broome
Carole Powell
Charlotte Symons
Corinne Pollard
Will Martin


"The group have recently published an anthology of poetry and prose called A Star fell from Orion which reads like a merging of souls. " Judith Arnopp

Poetry reading, Carmarthen Old Town festival, June 22, Time Coffi bar

Organiser: Sue
 30 minutes

 Confirmed readers: Sue, Kathy, Gilly, Martin, Carol, Carole

 The Old Town Festival programme is now out. We are on the programme to read from 1.40pm-2.20pm. The whole event starts at 12noon and goes on until 4.30pm, but Red Heron should be upstairs in the Time Coffi Bar by 1.30 ready to start at 1.40.

It has been suggsted that we all wear something red - I will be wearing my Red Heron T shirt.

If you want to get something printed with the logo, I can send you the file.

Poetry from Strata Florida (2013)

The anthology includes poems about Strata Florida by Red Heron members alongside historical poetry, in Welsh and English, and poems by Harri Webb, Ruth Bidgood, R S Thomas and Gwyneth Lewis.

Includes poems by:

Gillian Clarke
Anthony Kendrew
Martin Locock
Carol Manwell
Kathy Miles
Sue Moules
Mary Overton
Amanda Pickering
Josie Smith

Published 2013.  £10.  ISBN 978-0-9565067-5-7. 123pp.  Available from Carreg Fflyfan Press


One of the other poets featured, Caroline Gill, has written about the anthology:

<http://carolinegillpoetry.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/anthology-alert-poetry-from-strata.html>