Spring and Summer Programme
The venue for evening meetings below is St Michaels Parish Centre, St Albans; unless otherwise stated.Meetings start at 8 pm, apart from those associated with the St Albans festival.
We have some additional pub nights, so it is always worth phoning up someone to find out what's happening.
Map
Postcode: AL3 4SJ
Grid Reference : TL 136 072 - St. Michael's / Museum Car Park
St Albans Festival, 2008, 21st June - 6th July
The Following Events are offered as part of the St Albans Festival, and will also be included in the festival programme:Saturday, 21st June at 7.30pm – Poetry Reading by David Constantine
As part of St Albans Arts Festival, David Constantine will be reading from recent and published work - Collected Poems (Bloodaxe) 2004. David Constantine is a celebrated poet and translator, who lives and works in Oxford. He was born in Lancashire in 1944. He has won the Alice Hunt Bartlett award for poetry, and, more recently, the European Poetry Translation prize. He is currently working on a translation of Goethe’s Faust, for Penguin Books.
Where: St Michaels Parish Centre, St Albans AL3 4SJ St Michaels / Museum Car Park (***FREE PARKING***)
Cost: £5 (non-members)
Ver Poets - Open Mic
Thursday 26 June at 7.30pm - White Hart Hotel (Holywell Hill) - Open Mic - FreeCome along and read your favourite poem (perhaps one of your own) and listen to the verse of our members and all comers. Important - Would you limit your initial reading to 5 mins max.
Where: White Hart Hotel (Holywell Hill) (***SOME FREE PARKING AT REAR OF WHITE HART THROUGH ARCHWAY TO LEFT OF HOTEL***)
Saturday, 05 July at 2.30pm – Maltings Arts Theatre - Open Adjudication and Readings - Free
Ver Poets present a lively afternoon featuring award winning poet Maggie Butt, who will read poems from her first collection, Lipstick. Maggie Butt is the Head of Media at Middlesex University, London, where she has taught Creative Writing since 1990. She lives in North London with her husband and two daughters. She will also present prizes and give her report on Ver Poets' annual Open Poetry Competition. Readings of prize winning and short-listed poems from local young poets will follow.
Ver Poets are supporting Open Door and the Chair of their Trustees will be present to receive the cheque.
Where: Maltings Arts Theatre, Maltings off Victoria Street (Parking: Maltings Car Park - Paying)
