2018 INSPIRE POETRY FESTIVAL - TUESDAY 25 - SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER - CULTURE, LEARNING, LIBRARIES
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INSPIRE
POEtRy
FEStIvAL
2018
tuesDAY 25 - sAtuRDAY 29 septembeR
PERFORMANCES
READINGS
WORKSHOPS
FILM
POEtRy tAKEOvER
delivered by
iNspiRe poetRY FestiVAl
booKiNG
WelCome to the tickets for events can be booked online,
iNspiRe poetRY and by phone or in person at the
FestiVAl 2018 individual libraries. For full booking and
venue information please see page 15.
BrINgINg POeTry
TO SOuTHWeLL,
WeST BrIdgFOrd,
MANSFIeLd CeNTrAL,
WOrkSOP ANd
BeeSTON LIBrArIeS
ANd THe OLd LIBrAry
MANSFIeLd
The festival is back, with two new venues
and a new slot in the calendar, but there’s iNtRoDuCiNG the VoiCes
no change to our mission: to bring great pRoJeCt
This year our poet in residence is writer
poets and wonderful poetry to Inspire and actor ben Norris. As well as reading at
libraries across the county. The Old Library, Mansfield (27 September)
Ben will be working with groups from local
From prize-winning slam and spoken-word artists communities to create a poem or collection
Vanessa Kisuule and ben Norris to well-established of poems which will be celebrated with
poetic voices including Jo bell, maura Dooley and a launch later in the year. The groups’
Kei miller, the festival celebrates poetry in all its members will be people whose voices,
forms, with a programme built on quality and variety for health, social or age-related reasons,
for audiences of all ages. A strong local flavour is in are rarely heard. The poetry they create with
evidence – don’t miss the brilliant Andrew Graves Ben will give voice to their experiences and
and up-and-coming stars Georgina Wilding and thoughts in a new work.
Raphael blake - and we have stand-up comic verse
provided by rebellious sixty-year-olds, the Glummer Community events
twins. Local writers and community groups will
present some of their own work at Southwell
There’s a range of workshops on offer for both Library during and after the festival. Not all of
readers and writers – who wouldn’t want to learn How these events can be booked online; please
to be a Poet with Jo bell?! - and an opportunity to see individual listings for full details.
benefit from One to One sessions with expert coach
and poet Cathy Grindrod.
With dramatic performances, engaging workshops, a nottslibraries #inspirepofest
screening of Dead Poets Society, a special translations
event, the ever-popular Afternoon Tea in Southwell
and a Poetry Takeover on the last day of the festival, A large print version of this brochure
A large print version of this brochure
Inspire is diving into five days of full-on poetry is available on the website, and can
immersion! Come on in – the words are lovely. is available on the website, and can
be made available at the libraries.
be made available at the library.
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WoRKshop WoRKshop
poetRY GettiNG iNto
piCK-me-up poetRY
mANsFielD CeNtRAl libRARY WoRKsop libRARY
10.30am – 12.30pm 2 – 4pm
£5 £4
booking advised booking essential
Always fancied having a go at New to poetry? Mystified?
writing your own poems, or Interested, but don’t know
already writing and wanting to do where to start? Or already
more? In this friendly, supportive hooked?
workshop led by writer Cathy
grindrod, we will read, write and In this Poetry reading
share poetry, and talk about Workshop, we will have fun
where you might go with your looking at a range of poems –
poetry writing from here. approaching them in different
ways - and will share our
responses and experiences.
Led by writer Cathy grindrod.
“...at the most basic level,
poetry is important because it
makes us think, it opens us up
to wonder and the sometimes
astonishing possibilities of
language. It is, in its subtle yet
powerful way, a discipline for
re-engaging with a world we
take too much for granted.” Cathy Grindrod is a
widely-published east
John Burnside, Daily Telegraph Midlands writer and former
derbyshire Poet Laureate,
and is also an experienced
facilitator of poetry reading
and writing workshops. She
specialises in writing for
wellbeing and is a writer
coach and mentor.
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tuesDAY 25 septembeR
“Jo Bell is one of
the most exciting
poets now writing
and no time is
wasted in the
company of her
work.” Carol Ann duffy
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WoRKshop
hoW to be A poet “Witty, sexy and deft,
WITH Jo bell
West bRiDGFoRD libRARY
2.30 – 5pm
Jo Bell’s verse has
£10
booking essential
an easy charm that
Adults hides a sometimes
referring to her book of the same name, Jo Bell
leads a session for poets of any level who are serious
painful honesty…
about their writing. Through exercises and discussion,
this workshop will delve into the challenges and
Kith is a wonderful
realities of writing poetry, with the aim of helping
participants become the best poets they can be.
collection.” Stuart Maconie
“How to be a Poet is a manifesto of sorts. It is an
exploration, both practically and creatively, of what
it is to write poems, read poems, share poems and peRFoRmANCe
publish poetry. It is a guide to writing well, and
aims to be bold and upfront about the realities of
Jo bell
West bRiDGFoRD libRARY
writing poetry and being a poet in the 21st century.
7.30pm
It contains advice, but also a healthy dose of
£10 / £8
myth-busting, plenty of challenging ideas and some
booking strongly advised
thought-provoking proposals that are designed to
licensed bar
stretch both new and more experienced writers of
under 18s to be accompanied by an adult
poetry.”
Jo bell was born in Sheffield and grew up on the
Jo Bell and Jane Commane, co-authors
fringes of the derbyshire Peak district. A winner of
the Charles Causley Prize, the Manchester
Cathedral Prize and the Saboteur Award, she was
the first Canal Laureate for the uk. Her latest book
is Kith (Nine Arches Press), other books include
52: Write a Poem a Week and How to be a Poet.
She has been commissioned by the National Trust,
Canal and river Trust, Stratford Poetry Festival and
glastonbury Festival and has written for Heritage
magazine and Country Walking. She is a tutor for
The Poetry School, Poetry Society and Arvon
Foundation and has appeared on BBC radio 4 and
6 Music Live. Jo was awarded an honorary doctorate
for services to poetry in 2015. She will be familiar to
audiences as a poet featured in the current
Nationwide Tv adverts.
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WeDNesDAY 26 septembeR
Film peRFoRmANCe Poet, writer and performer
DeAD poets liVe At the poetRY CAFÉ: Jo bell is a ‘unique force’ in
soCietY (pG) Jo bell AND poetry – she was the director
of the uk’s National Poetry day,
mANsFielD CeNtRAl libRARY GeoRGiNA and the first-ever Canal
2pm WilDiNG Laureate. Her poem The
£2 WoRKsop libRARY Currency of kindness features
6.30pm on the Nationwide Tv adverts.
The chance to revisit the 80s £5 See page 5 to read more
favourite that ignited an interest booking advised about Jo.
in the wonder of poetry for many.
licensed bar
under 18s to be accompanied Georgina Wilding is Nottingham
Set in an exclusive boys’
by an adult born and bred, and the city’s first
preparatory school in 1959,
a newly appointed english young Poet Laureate 2017/18.
Join us for wonderful words live She has written and performed
teacher uses unconventional
at the Poetry Café! What better for radio and Tv and has toured
techniques to inspire his students
way to enjoy the wit and wisdom her poetry in the uk and
to look at poetry with a different
of two brilliant poets than with germany. A former member
perspective. Poetry, he says,
refreshments? of Mouthy Poets, she is the
is about, ‘sucking marrow from
the bones of life.’ Watch the founding editor of Nottingham
wonderful robin Williams at his publishing house Mud Press.
finest on the library’s big screen, Includes the opportunity for three
and enjoy poetry from Byron, poets to take to the stage in the
Frost, Whitman and more. open mic.
“We didn’t just
read poetry, we
let it drip from
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Dead Poets Society
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peRFoRmANCe
WoRD! WITH “The main poet
VANessA Kisuule
AND Guests I read and
PLuS opeN miC think… I wish
beestoN libRARY
7pm
£7 / £5
I’d written that.”
booking strongly advised Hollie McNish
licensed bar
under 18s to be accompanied by an adult
WOrd! – the longest running
poetry night in the Midlands -
returns to Beeston Library for
this very special festival edition,
featuring the mighty vanessa
kissule. Hear her read from her
latest spellbinding collection,
Recipe for Sorcery, along with
guest poets. To perform on
the open mic, email compere
and WOrd! organiser,
Lydia Towsey in advance via
secretagentartist@hotmail.com.
Some spots will also be available
on the night.
Vanessa Kisuule has won
numerous slam titles and
featured everywhere from the
Southbank Centre, rAdA and
radio 4’s Woman’s Hour to The
guardian, Sky Tv and Blue Peter…
Lauded by her peers her
performance credits include
glastonbury, royal Albert Hall,
The British Library and
internationally.
WOrd! is supported by “One of the
Arts Council england.
most powerful
performers of
her generation.”
Joelle Taylor,
The Poetry Society
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thuRsDAY 27 septembeR
Ben Norris
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georgina Wilding
raphael Blake
liVe At the olD libRARY Raphael blake is a spoken word ben Norris is a poet, playwright
beN NoRRis, poet and visual artist living in and actor. He is two-time
Nottingham. He has performed at National Poetry Slam champion
RAphAel blAKe LOveBOX and Splendour Festival and has appeared all over the uk
AND GeoRGiNA 2016 with full six-piece live band, including at Latitude Festival and
WilDiNG and has garnered support from the Proms at the royal Albert
the olD libRARY, leemiNG various BBC radio stations and Hall. He has also written
stReet, mANsFielD been playlisted on kemet FM. He commissions for BBC radio 4,
7.30pm is constantly putting together Southbank Centre, IdeasTap, and
£6 / £4 various video releases, shooting ditch the Label, among others,
booking advised music videos and running and was recently writer in
creative writing and visual media residence at Theatr Clwyd. He is
A special performance workshops in schools and the currently developing a new show
showcasing some of the county’s community. for the roundhouse. Ben was
most talented young poets. born and raised in Nottingham.
Georgina Wilding is Nottingham
born and bred, and the city’s first
young Poet Laureate 2017/18.
See page 6 to read more about
georgina.
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peRFoRmANCe A troubled teenage son and his Whether a teen or not, everyone
GoD sAVe aloof single father pick their way will relate to this honest and
nostalgic prayer to that joyously
through a bitterly indifferent
the teeN relationship in a funny and painful, pimple-faced period in
West bRiDGFoRD libRARY moving coming of age show our lives where everything and
7.30pm about growing up and getting it nothing seems possible; where
£8 / £6 wrong. ex-youth worker and poet you can be earnest, awkward,
booking advised Andrew graves relates a drama beautiful and ridiculous all at the
licensed bar of gob-smackingly embarrassing same time.
under 18s to be accompanied first dates, imagined rock-n-roll
by an adult supermarkets, divorce, disillusion Andrew Graves regularly
and working-class rebellion. performs his work throughout
expect disappearing goths, the uk and has appeared on
sadistic Pe teachers and a search 6 Music’s Cerys Matthews Show
for the truth and somewhere to and the recent BBC 4
belong. documentary Evidently John
Cooper Clarke. He has performed
alongside Henry Normal, John
Hegley and Sleaford Mods and
has been praised by the likes of
comic book legend Alan Moore.
Supported by funding from Arts
Council england.
“Graves’ vital and
visceral voice
burns bright on
behalf of an
under-represented
community.”
Toria garbutt
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thuRsDAY 27 septembeR
peRFoRmANCe Thirty years after they first
FRiDAY 28 septembeR
the GlummeR appeared together with the
tWiNs: legendary Circus of Poets, iNViteD
tAKiNG it bADlY
they’re back to put the 21st
century to rights. Two old blokes.
sChools
WoRKsop libRARY One guitar. rock and rhyme and eVeNt
7.30pm poetry - this is stand-up spoken mANsFielD CeNtRAl AND
£8 / £6 word from the Beat generation. WoRKsop libRARies
booking advised Celebrated children's poet
licensed bar A delightfully downbeat John dougherty will be
under 18s to be accompanied double-act with a unique take performing for invited
by an adult on stand-up spoken word schools audiences in
comedy and music. Nominated Mansfield and Worksop as
david Harmer and ray globe Best Spoken Word Show Buxton part of the festival.
have just turned 60. They’re Fringe 2016 and 2017.
taking it badly. Come and join
the irrepressible glummer Twins Coach parties welcome.
as they celebrate the joys,
absurdities and indignities of Warning: May contain ‘dad
getting older. dancing’.
“Think Morecambe
and Wise crossed with
The Mighty Boosh.
★★★★★”
benhuxleyblog edinburgh 16.
“Genuinely funny”
Saga Magazine
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peRFoRmANCe
Kei milleR “… this is a beautifully voiced
southWell libRARY
7.30pm collection which struck us all
£10/£8 with its boldness and wit.
booking advised
licensed bar Many poets refer to multiple
under 18s to be accompanied
by an adult realities, different ways of
observing the world. Kei
Kei miller is a poet, novelist,
essayist, short story writer and doesn’t just refer, he
broadcaster. His poetry collection
The Cartographer Tries to Map a
articulates them.”
Way to Zion (Carcanet, 2014) won Jeremy Paxman,
the Forward Prize Best Poetry Judge of the Forward Prize
Collection. In 2010, the Institute of
Jamaica awarded him the Silver
Musgrave medal for his
contributions to Literature. He has
a Phd in english Literature from
the university of glasgow and is
currently a Professor of english
and Creative Writing at the
university of exeter.
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11sAtuRDAY 29 septembeR
poetRY tAKeoVeR WoRKshops The sessions do not include
At ouR libRARies iN beestoN, oNe to oNe: detailed feedback on work, but
you are welcome to bring along
mANsFielD, southWell, poetRY two of your poems if you think it
West bRiDGFoRD, WoRKsop
AND otheRs
CoAChiNG WITH would be useful as an example of
11am – 3pm CAthY GRiNDRoD your writing. Open to poetry
beestoN libRARY writers at all stages.
suitable for all
Just drop by Five slots available to book
Cathy Grindrod is a
between 9.15am and 4pm
widely-published east Midlands
If you go down to the library £35
writer and former derbyshire
today, you’re sure of a poetry booking essential
Poet Laureate, and is also an
surprise! Poetry trails, poems in experienced facilitator of poetry
unexpected places, writing, craft Are you writing poetry and in
reading and writing workshops.
and other activities will be need of advice, guidance or
She specialises in writing for
happening to celebrate the 2018 information about developing
wellbeing and is a writer coach
Poetry Festival and mark its final your work? Cathy grindrod is an
and mentor.
day. accredited coach for writers at all
levels and is offering hour-long
sessions during which you can
chat to her about anything and
everything to do with your poetry,
including how you feel about it,
how it fits into your life and how
to take it further.
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peRFoRmANCe Join us to celebrate international
AFteRNooN teA poetry in a reading featuring
translated works from original
WITH mAuRA languages including Farsi, greek,
DooleY russian, and irish. Members of
southWell libRARY Nottingham Poetry Society and
3.30pm Beeston Poets will share their
£10 / £8 including hot drink favourite poetic voices from
and cake around the world, and special
booking essential guest poet Maura dooley will
talk about her experience of
The ever-popular Southwell translating the work of Iranian
Afternoon Tea With… is back! refugee Azita ghahreman ,
Come to hear Maura dooley read collected in her new book of
her poetry and talk about her ghahreman’s poetry, Negatives
writing life, interspersed with hot of a Group Photograph.
drinks and a selection of
delicious cakes. A truly peRFoRmANCe
scrumptious way to spend an
afternoon in your library.
tRANslAtioNs,
WITH speCiAl Guest
maura Dooley’s most recent mAuRA DooleY
collection of poetry is The iN AssoCiAtioN With NottiNGhAm
Silvering (2016). In 2015 she poetRY soCietY, beestoN poets
was poet in residence at the AND FiVe leAVes booKshop
Jane Austen House Museum, beestoN libRARY
Chawton, and her poems from 7.30pm
the residency are published as £5 (£1 from every ticket
A Quire of Paper. This year she will will be donated to a
publish (with elhum Shakerifar) local refugee charity)
versions in english of poems by under 18s to be
the exiled Iranian writer Azita accompanied
ghahreman, Negative of a Group by an adult
Photograph. She has been
shortlisted for the TS eliot Prize
twice and received both the eric
gregory and the Cholmondeley
Awards. She is a Fellow of the
royal Society of Literature and
Professor of Creative Writing at
goldsmiths, university of London.
“…beguiling
and arresting,
but always
unpretentious.”
The Independent
13CommuNitY eVeNts At southWell libRARY
muG Without
A hANDle
thursday 27 september
10.30am
£3
booking advised
Alison Chippindale presents
‘Mug without a handle’, a poetic
observation of life after losing a
partner. Alison is a local poet
and founder member of the
Women’s Poetry group which
meets at Southwell Library. heXAmetRe
sunday 30 september
4.30pm
Not sCARY poetRY GRoup £3
pReseNts
AN iNtRoDuCtioN Hexametre is a group of six
to the seNsoRY poets from Leicester, Lincoln,
Nottinghamshire and Sheffield
WoRlD oF whose work has been published
poet/ARtists in national and international
saturday 29 september journals such as Acumen, Dream
11am Catcher, Magma and The North.
Free Join them to enjoy a range of
poetry from contemporary
Which came first? The image voices.
WiNe AND WoRDs
sunday 30 september
or the word? For some poets,
7pm (doors open 6.30pm)
a single channel of expression
£10 including welcome drink
was not enough to quench their
Adult event
artistic passion. From William
No online booking.
Blake and dante gabriel
tickets available from the
rossetti, to Mervyn Peake
promoter - please call
and gk Chesterton: join us
southwell library for details.
for a colourful presentation
of art and poems.
Local poets Jane Wyles and
Fiona Theokritoff invite you
to enjoy a flavour of the
approaching Autumn. A glass
of wine (or soft drink) on arrival,
readings from Jane and Fiona’s
lively repertoire plus some
classic favourites combine with
your chance to play ‘poetry bingo’
to create a unique poetry
experience that celebrates life in
all its seasons!
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booKiNG iNFoRmAtioN VeNues
online beeston library
Tickets for most events can be Foster Avenue
booked online at Beeston
www.inspireculture.org.uk/ Nottingham Ng9 1Ae
poetry-festival 0115 925 5168
beeston.library
in person @inspireculture.org.uk
Tickets can be purchased at
the library where the event is mansfield
taking place, except for the Central library
event at The Old Library, which Four Seasons Centre
must be booked online. West gate
Mansfield
by phone
Nottinghamshire
For phone bookings contact
“The poet is the library where the event is
taking place.
Ng18 1NH
0115 804 4363 (Ask Inspire)
the priest of tickets are non-refundable
unless an event is cancelled.
the old library
Leeming Street
programme subject to Mansfield
the invisible.” change. Nottinghamshire
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Wallace Stevens Access information Online bookings only:
All venues are wheelchair inspireculture.org.uk/
accessible. For venue specific poetry-festival
access information visit the
website. Please contact the southwell library
venue if you have access The Bramley Centre
requirements. king Street
Southwell
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Nottinghamshire
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25 pick-me-up with with Jo bell poetry with
sept Cathy Grindrod 2.30pm – 5pm, £10 Cathy Grindrod
10.30am – Performance 2 – 4pm, £4
12.30pm £5 Jo bell
7.30pm, £10 / £8
WeD Performance Film Performance
WoRD! with Dead poets live at the
26 Vanessa society (Pg) poetry Café:
sept Kisuule 2pm, £2 Jo bell &
7pm, £7 / £5 Georgina
Wilding
6.30pm, £5
thu Performance Community Performance Performance
live at Alison God save the Glummer
27 the old library Chippindale: the teen twins:
sept blake, Norris, mug without 7.30pm, £8 / £6 taking it badly
Wilding a handle 7.30pm, £8 / £6
7.30pm, £6 / £4 10.30am, Free
FRi Invited Schools Performance Invited Schools
Performance Kei miller Performance
28 John 7.30pm John
sept Dougherty £10 / £8 Dougherty
poetry Coaching poetry takeover poetry takeover poetry takeover poetry takeover
sAt with Cathy Grindrod 11am – 3pm, Free 11am – 3pm, Free 11am – 3pm, Free 11am – 3pm, Free
29 Five one-to-one
Community
sept sessions between
Not scary
9.15am – 4pm
poetry Group
£35
11am, Free
poetry takeover
Performance
11am – 3pm, Free
Afternoon tea
Performance with
translations with maura Dooley
maura Dooley 3.30pm
7.30pm, £5 £10 / £8
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