Event type: Performance

Book Launch – LEECHCRAFT by Davi...

David Ward’s new book, LEECHCRAFT, is a poetry collection rooted in ancient mythical and folkloric traditions.

With guest readings from poets Colin Watts, Eleanor Rees, Freda Davis and Judy Mazonowicz, and music from Peter Davis.

“These poems are for these times – and as surely will have long lives.” – Kevin Crossley Holland

“Mesmerising… deeply felt, singing poems.” – Natalie Linh Bolderston (The Protection of Ghosts)

“Wraiths in the mist… pinned to the page by acute observations.” – Freda Davis (Write Out Loud)

“Haunting images… alive with sensory detail and evocative imagery.” – Tamiko Dooley (Seasons of Love around the Rising Sun)

This is a free event, and tea and refreshments will be provided.

Writer Info: David Ward, originally from Northampton, co-founded Merseyside organisation The Windows Project in 1976, which has been supporting writers across the region ever since. David’s poems appear in over 200 publications, including Poetry Review, Abridged, Ambit and Poetry Wales.

YUNGMORPHEUS with MC Nelson, Ralph and...

QUARRY in collaboration with Conduit Sound are super pleased to bring you YUNGMORPHEUS, MC Nelson,  Ralph & Conduit Selectas  join them on the 11th May!

Conduit Sound Record Label // Event Promotion // Community, based in Liverpool, founded by Beat Detective & Benno. Connecting the Liverpool scene and wider community, with a focus on the dance floor at the forefront of all their gatherings. Showing love to local Musicians, Artists & Selectas through collaboration.

Exploring the sounds & connections of Hip-Hop, Jazz, Broken Beat, House & Beyond – Conduit Sound, 2024

Poetry reading: Coast to Coast to Coas...

Join Open Eye Gallery for the launch of Coast to Coast to Coast prize winner Sarah Mnatzaganian’s Slow Movement and readings from Clare Best a previous Coast to Coast to Coast prize winner (2020/1)

Slow Movement is a sensuous sequence of love poems expressed through the colours, sounds, materials, and obsessions of the metamorphoses of wood, cello making and sailing.

There will be readings, refreshments and an opportunity to talk to poets and to buy hand-made limited edition journals.

Event organised by artist and poet Maria Isakova-Bennett:  https://www.mariaisakova.com

Coast to Coast to Coast: https://www.mariaisakova.com/coast-to-coast-to-coast

Rhod Gilbert and The Giant Grapefruit

When life gives Rhod lemons…

In his last show ‘The Book of John’, Rhod Gilbert was dealing with some pretty pungent life citrus, and an idiot called John. Little did he know that things were about to turn even more sour…

But Rhod’s not bitter; he’s bouncing back and feeling remarkably zesty. Hilariously dark, passionate and way too personal, this is classic Gilbert, squeezing every last drop out of life’s latest curveballs…with a little help from an old adversary.

Henry Normal & Nigel Planer

Join comedy legend Nigel Planer and Henry Normal, BBC Radio 4‘s ‘poet in reticence’, for a special evening of poetry, stories, jokes, fun, knitwear and maybe a few surprises.

Described by The Scotsman as “‘the Alan Bennett of poetry”, Henry Normal is the BAFTA award-winning writer, poet, TV & Film producer, founder of the Manchester Poetry Festival (now the Literature festival) and co-founder of the Nottingham Poetry Festival. Normal became a pivotal force behind some of the most iconic British TV comedy shows, with production and script editing credits for Mrs Merton, The Royle Family, Gavin & Stacey, Red Dwarf, The Mighty Boosh, and Alan Partridge.

Nigel Planer was an original member of the comedy groups at the centre of the ‘Alternative Comedy’ movement in the 1980s and starred in the seminal TV series The Young Ones, and The Comic Strip Presents. As well as novels, plays and TV and Radio scripts, he has been writing poetry for over fifty years.

Tickets for this event include a £1 venue restoration levy, included in the ticket price. This fee supports building investment at the Grade II-listed Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

Sandi Toksvig: Friends of Dorothy

Following the sell-out 2022 tour of Next Slide Please, the comedian, broadcaster, writer and campaigner returns to theatres with an evening to celebrate the publication of her new novel.

The show will be packed with silly stories, profound truths, fascinating facts, readings from the book and a quick-fire Q&A. Life affirming, wise and funny, Sandi investigates what it really means to be a ‘Friend of Dorothy’.

Each ticket includes a hardback copy of Sandi Toksvig’s brand-new novel, Friends of Dorothy. (RRP £22.00)

Tiny Tim’s – Biggest Adven...

7 years ago Tiny Tim decided to go on his own adventure navigating through adult life and posting about his calls on social media.

With over 120 million views on YouTube and over 10 million followers on all social media platforms, at some point you will have seen the hilarious videos of the legend that is Tiny Tim’s Adventures.

Now it’s your turn to join the man behind the voice on his BIGGEST adventure to date.

Head along for a night with Tiny Tim LIVE.

Blast! #22

The New Mersey Poets present spokenword, comedy and music live at The Excelsior.

The event is free entry and features Saint Vespaluus, Sally Porter and Cath Holland amongst a host of other performers.

MC for the evening will be The Queen of Heartbreak

Alasdair Beckett-King

Flame-haired star of Mock The Week, Alasdair Beckett-King will perform The Hot Water Comedy Cub on Saturday 20th April 2024.

Alasdair is a familiar face on television screens and was a Mock the Week favourite for the final two seasons. He’s an award-winning comedian, and last year, won Chortle’s Breakthrough Act of the Year Award.

But he’s perhaps even better known for his online sketches and distinctive animated shorts, many of which have gone mega-viral on YouTube, reaching millions of viewers, you can watch a classic here

With several viral internet hits, appearances on Mock The Week a debut performance on Comedy Central Live and an upcoming debut on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown later this year, two sensational children’s books and a sell-out UK tour last year under his (vegan leather) belt, Alasdair Becket King is thrilled to be bringing his total sell-out Edinburgh Fringe show “Nevermore” to Hot Water Comedy Club on Saturday 20th April 2024.

Sea levels have been rising Alasdair’s whole life. But for the first 16 years he was getting taller, so he didn’t notice. Now 6″2, Alasdair Beckett-King is the only comedian brave enough to speak out against that wet b*stard: The North Sea.

Nevermore is more than an anti-sea diatribe. As a 500-year-old man ABK is uniquely poised to draw parallels between the history of the ever- shrinking British Isles, and his own childhood in the swinging 1990s. The multi award- winning stand-up comedian unravels some of life’s shallowest mysteries:

What are train guards actually guarding?

Why wasn’t Jaws set in County Durham?

Does his hair do that on its own?

Out of the swirling maelstrom he steps, his sword of jokes, his shield of mischief and his armour made of a third amusing thing. The show that many people are calling “Nevermore“ is an island in a sea of existential terror and entirely justified fears. It is silly, faintly mystical and does not (at the time of going to press) feature any ravens. It is also a real show with jokes and everything.

Alasdair Beckett-King won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year in 2017 and garnered a very enthusiastic critical response plus Amused Moose Comedy Award nomination with his debut Edinburgh show of the same year. Alongside his TV appearances and YouTube fame, he has featured on BBC radio as a comedian and sketch writer and performed stand-up across the UK, at Glastonbury, Citadel Fest, the Udderbelly Southbank and the Fringe. He once won a student RTS award and was nominated for a Student Oscar, but quit filmmaking for stand-up on realising it was a cheaper medium to be unsuccessful in.

 

 

A Lovely Word featuring Shaun Fallows

A Lovely Word, downstairs at the Everyman, is Liverpool’s most eclectic poetry night. It features two halves of open mic poets, and a headliner beginning the first half. Hosted by Alex Ferguson and team, this free event is a fun, relaxed and friendly evening of performance poetry.

HEADLINER

Shaun Fallows is a poet born with cerebral palsy. Real and raw, expect potholes, speed-dating and Amsterdam in this exploration of disability, relationships and travel.

He will be touring his new book ‘Redundant Butties’ which defines what it means to grow up as a working-class man and wheelchair user today. Our hearts are not desolate, just the tyre tracks are muddied.

TAKE PART

Whether you are a new poet performing for the first time or a seasoned poet who wants to try out some new stuff, sign up to perform by

I) emailing alovelywordpodcast@gmail.com with a confirmation of your full name, mobile number
II) turning up to the Bistro at 7.30pm for an 8pm start (slots are VERY limited so emailing is a preference)

When signing up to perform, you are signing up to these principles of the open mic.