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Poetry Link

Working in collaboration with five independent live literature producers, Writers’ Centre Norwich, through its previous programme New Writing Live, have set up a touring network across the East of England that will allow Live Literature in all its forms to thrive.

Visit the below venues for our June headliner, Aoife Mannix.

AOIFE MANNIX
Using her winning combination of strong images and lyrics, Irish writer Aoife Mannix offers her collection of lyrically intense poetry with gentle, self-deprecating humour.  She has published four volumes of poetry with Tall Lighthouse (www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk) and her first novel Heritage of Secrets was published by Lubin & Kleyner in November 2008. (http://tiny.cc/lnFES)

Venues:

Monday 15 June
St Gregory’s Centre for the Arts
Pottergate, Norwich, Norfolk
8-10pm | £4/5
www.stgregorysart.co.uk/

Tuesday 16 June
Speakeasy @ The Glass Onion, Peterborough
2 Burghley Road, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
8-10pm | £5
www.myspace.com/speakeasypoetry

Wednesday 17 June
Oral Cabaret @ The Maltings Arts Theatre, St Albans
The Maltings, St. Albans, Hertfordshire
8-10pm | £5
www.myspace.com/maltings

Thursday 18 June
Wax Lyrical @ Colchester Arts Centre
Church Street, Colchester, Essex
8-10pm | £5
www.colchesterartscentre.com

Me and Janie are just about to head off on our Phrased & Confused tour.  We’re very excited cos our CD ‘Different Words For Snow’ has just arrived!  You can get a flavour of it at www.myspace.com/aoifemannixandjaniearmour.  Tour details below.

The other good news is that the paperback of my novel ‘Heritage of Secrets’ is coming out in July.  If you pre-order it from Foyles the postage is free ?   Here’s the link

http://www.foyles.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781905233243&sf_01=kword_index&st_01=heritage+of+secrets+Aoife+Mannix&sort=eh_nbd_rank%2Fd&x=0&y=0&m=2&dc=2

I’ll be reading from the novel on May 20th at the Royal Festival hall.  Here’s the link and further details are below.

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/literature-spoken-word/productions/f8-roger-robinson-niall-o-su-45708

F8: A LITERARY GALA EVENING AT THE ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
7:45pm – 10:45pm
Spirit Level, Royal Festival Hall
Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX
Start time: 7.45pm
Door: £7.50
Complimentary refreshments available

To mark their eighth year of operation, flipped eye publishing is hosting a special gala night featuring, for the first time ever, their own live band, the l’8 quartet alongside some of their most celebrated writers, including Agnes Meadows, Charlotte Ansell, Inua Ellams, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Niall O’Sullivan, Nick Makoha, Niki Aguirre, Roger Robinson PLUS Aoife Mannix, Zena Edwards and Malika Booker.  There is an auction of special editions of their eight best-selling titles with covers illustrated by the authors in pen, and previously unreleased audio recordings as giveaways.

The event marks the launch of an eight-month long series of readings – the f8 tour – by flipped eye authors across the UK, including events at Borders and partner libraries such as the Westminster Reference Library

PHRASED AND CONFUSED TOUR
Phrased and Confused heads off on a national tour next week.  Check it out here: www.phrasedandconfused.co.uk.

On the tour bus will be gorgeous Canadian folk collective Woodpigeon, darkly funny satirist Murray Lachlan Young, poet Aoife Mannix, accordionist Janie Armour and The Dead Poets.

Below is a full list of all of our tour dates:

9 May, Phrased & Confused, Southill Park, BRACKNELL (Tickets: 01344 484
123 / http://www.southhillpark.org.uk)
10 May, Phrased & Confused, Cross Kings, LONDON (Tickets:

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/45343)

11 May, Phrased & Confused, Norwich Arts Centre, NORWICH (Tickets: 01603
660352 / htp://www.norwichartscentre.co.uk)
12 May, Phrased & Confused, Arc, STOCKTON ON TEES (Tickets: 01642
525199 / http://www.arconline.co.uk)
13 May, Phrased & Confused, Assembly Rooms, DERBY (Tickets: 01332
255800 / http://www.derbylive.co.uk)
14 May, Phrased & Confused, Exeter Phoenix, EXETER (Tickets: 01392
667080 / http://www.exeterphoenix.org.uk)

Phrased & Confused UK Tour

Woodpigeon, Murray Lachlan Young

Aoife Mannix & Janie Armour, Dead Poets

9-14 May 2009

www.phrasedandconfused.co.uk

Phrased & Confused heads off on tour this May, taking an irresistible mix of song-writing genius and spoken word to venues in Bracknell, London, Norwich, Derby, Stockton and Exeter.

We’ve invited some of our favourite songwriters and poets to climb aboard the tour bus, get lyrical and explore the spaces between poetry and music.  Expect a night of blissed-out pop, dark satire, exuberant wordplay and new collaborations from four very different artists working together for the first time.

Championed by Steve Lamacq, and described by the Guardian as ‘Canada’s best kept secret…the most unjustly overlooked band in Canada’, music collective Woodpigeon are rapidly gaining a cult following for their laid back and lush folk pop.

Next up, the brilliant, darkly funny satirist, Murray Lachlan Young who is a regular at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, penned the cult hit ‘simply everyone is taking cocaine’, supported the Pet Shop Boys and is a resident rhymer with the BBC’s Saturday Live.

With nods to Patti Smith, John Cooper Clarke and Tom Waits poet Aoife Mannix and accordionist Janie Armour mix live and recorded sounds to create beautifully haunting soundscapes.  We first worked with Aoife and Janie when they wrote new work for our Phrased & Confused stage at Summer Sundae festival last August.

We’re also pleased to be unleashing on a national audience for the first time Dead Poets, a cheeky fast-paced and laugh-out-loud mash up of ‘proper’ poetry and sharp-eyed MCing, courtesy of Mr Mark Grist and MC Mixy.

For more information and the full tour dates visit www.phrasedandconfused.co.uk or join our group on Facebook: http://bit.ly/facebookp_c09

Phrased & Confused 2009 is supported by Sound and Music and Arts Council England.

Me and Janie have been having fun recording tracks for ‘Different Words For Snow’ in Goldsmiths recording studios.  We’re hoping to have a CD ready in time for the Phrased & Confused tour in May.  They’ve set up a facebook group for the tour – check it out here http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=63881632812#/group.php?gid=63881632812

I also had a very good time performing at the launch of London’s newest literary salon The Book Club Boutique.  It was a packed house in an uber trendy Soho bar.  It’s on every Monday night and it’s free.  Find out more here -

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=63881632812#/group.php?gid=55814894329&ref=ts

For any aspiring novelists out there, I’m hosting this novel pitching event for Spread The Word.  Come down and see how it’s done!  You can find out more about my novel ‘Heritage of Secrets’ here – http://tinyurl.com/c62wf3

Novel Pitch Live Final
Saturday 25 April
11am-4pm
Stratford Circus, Theatre Square, London E15 1BX
Tube: Stratford £7/£5 (concessions)
www.spreadtheword.org.uk

Come along to the live final if you’re interested in hearing top tips from the experts or would like to put your own key questions to the panel.  You could also try your luck at the open-mic slot and pitch your writing for quickfire advice.

I’m also performing at another literary salon in a couple of weeks and then at the Southbank Centre on April 20th.  Details below -

Polari Home & Abroad Night
Wednesday, April 15
6:30pm – 11:30pm
Freedom, 66 Wardour St, London W1
info@paulburston.com

Paul Burston’s gay literary salon returns to Freedom with authors Christopher Fowler (home boy), Nick Alexander (boy living abroad) and Aoife Mannix (Irish woman who’s lived all over the world).  Plus DJs Dom Agius and Paul Burston playing tailored sounds, louche lounge and dirty disco.

Foreign Trade
Monday, April 20
8:00pm – 9:30pm
Level Five Function Room, Royal Festival Hall
Belvedere Road, London
www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Why do queer people from all over the world make their home in London? What do they find when they get here – and what do they leave behind? We’ll hear from Nigeria, Ireland, Singapore, Russia and Brazil and many other countries in an event of testimony and performance.