Monday 29 September 2014

Reading with Fiona Sampson, 17 October

Friday October 17

Back Room Poets host a reading featuring FIONA SAMPSON

With Back Room Poets members Jennifer A. McGowan, Jane Spiro, Paul Surman & Pat Winslow

@ the Albion Beatnik Bookstore 
34 Walton Street
Oxford OX2 6AA

Starts: 7:30 PM

Admission: £ 4.00 (£2 BRP Members)

Tuesday 26 August 2014

THE PITY OF WAR (13 September)

THE PITY OF WAR  -  A CONVERSATION BETWEEN POETS
Reflections, memories & experiences of war and its aftermath

St Michael at the Northgate (Cornmarket Street, Oxford, OX1 3EY)
Saturday 13 September
5.30 - 6.30pm
FREE ADMISSION


Devised by Jenyth Worsley
with Mark Leech
Inge MilfullDavid Olsen
Kathleen M. Quinlan
Gina Wilson
Merryn Williams

Wednesday 30 July 2014

Back Room Poets Host: A Bird is not a Stone

Back Room Poets present a poetry reading in support of a major new anthology of poems by Palestinian poets translated by Scottish poets:
A Bird is not a Stone
(follow the link to find out more about the anthology and its contributors)

Time: August 22nd at 7.30 pm
Venue: East Oxford Community Centre

Further details to be confirmed.

Monday 9 June 2014

Book Launch by Back Room Poets member, 10 June

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Sophia Argyris (Back Room Poets member) and Rachael Clyne, winners of the Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize 2013, will read from their new collections. 
There will also be readings from other members of Back Room Poets: David Olsen, Deborah Mason, and Louise Larchbourne. 
Tuesday 10th June at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore. 7pm for 7:30pm start. 
£2.00 on the door.

Friday 23 May 2014

The Pity of War, 6 June

THE PITY OF WAR -  A CONVERSATION BETWEEN POETS 
at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore, 6 June 2014 at 7.30pm
- memories, thoughts and experiences of war in the 20th century  -
devised by Jenyth Worsley.
 With Liz Birchall, Louise Larchbourne, Mark Leech, 
Inge Milfull, David Olsen, Kathleen M. Quinlan, Averil Stedeford
Gina Wilson, Merryn Williams and Pat Winslow

Entry: £4 (£2 BRP members)

An Oxford Fringe Event

Monday 24 March 2014

Oxford Fringe: Reading with Jo Bell, 31 May, plus planned workshop

Back Room Poets present: Reading with Jo Bell
with Sophia Argyris, David Burridge, Jennifer A. McGowan and Tina Sederholm
An Oxford Fringe event
Date: Saturday, 31 May
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: Albion Beatnik Bookstore
£4 (£2 BRP members)

Workshop with Jo Bell
Subject: ME ME ME - quickfire exercises to get you writing well from personal experience of place, relationships and daily lifeDate: Saturday, 31 May
Time: 3:00 pm
Venue:  Library at Friends Meeting House, 43 St Giles, OX1 3LW
Remaining slots for sign-up on the door: £20