May 14th, 2008
Ssshh littlest birds is a secret.
May 26th from 8 til 10.30 with the bar open to 11pm.
The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden.
Entrance is £3.50 or £2.50 concessions
The lineup will include poetry from Aoife Mannix, music from Bilkis and performance artist Zoe Darling.
Aoife Mannix is an Irish writer and poet based in London. Her first collection of poetry ‘The Elephant In The Corner’ was published by Tall Lighthouse (www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk) in 2005 and her second ‘Growing Up An Alien’ in 2007.
Shane Blanchard of Tasty Fanzine writes of Bilkis that the tracks are ‘…quite beautiful, stark, pared-down harmonic (tracks) quite unlike anything else I’ve listened to this month. There’s a kind of devil may care attitude at work here where tracks stop when you think they will carry on, where vocals harmonies spiral in all sorts of directions and where guitar parts are and percussion are only used as an aside to the vocals. Reminiscent of early PJ Harvey without the obvious angst, this makes for sublime listening.’ I agree.
Zoe Darling is a contemporary performance artist and often sings songs, sometimes accompanied by her Dad.
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May 12th, 2008
APPLECART – Poets in a Pool
Over the next five weeks Apples and Snakes poets Aoife Mannix and Joseph Coelho will be creatively engaging in the rehearsal process of Oily Cart’s new show Pool Piece. This blog will be a record of their experiences over the rehearsal period - a place to share thoughts, reflections and of course poetry. After the rehearsal period both poets will spend four days devising and performing at Amwell School alongside the Oily team and six regional artists. Please join us on this journey – www.applecart.wordpress.com
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May 12th, 2008
Buy my CD at www.poetrybookshoponline.com/soundblast
Launch date: Tuesday 13 May 2008
The Poetry Book Society and Apples & Snakes are delighted to announce that SoundBlast goes live today. This lively new section on the Poetry Bookshop Online is dedicated to CDs from some of the UK’s best performance poets.
In addition to selling all poetry books currently in print in the UK and all 97 of the CDs featured on the Poetry Archive website, the Poetry Book Society’s online bookshop is now extending its range to include CDs from UK-based performance poets, many of which have been sourced by Apples & Snakes. We are also pleased to include in our collection CDs from the many popular poets and performers available through 57 Productions.
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May 5th, 2008
All Lady line up at New Blood.
On May 21st, At 7.30pm
£5/3
The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton St.
Covent Garden, London
Feat: Charlotte Runcie, Aoife Mannix and Excentral Tempest.
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April 27th, 2008
FOUNDLING MUSEUM SPEAKING CHAIRS – a spoken word installation featuring the voices of young women living in London and the poetry of Aoife Mannix
Tuesday, May 6th 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ
FREE
RSVP alice@foundlingmuseum.org.uk
Tel: 020 7841 3605 www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk
Speaking Chairs on display throughout May 2008
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