Reviews
Brendan Cleary and Paul; Summers - Friday, November 19, 2010
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Off the Rails - Friday, May 15, 2009
Q: What do you get if you put ten poets together in a railway museum with a brief to read poems about trains and journeys?
A: A really brilliant night, with fascinatingly varied range of work and styles.
As part of Colpitts Outreach programme, we put on a show at the Head of Steam Railway Museum in Darlington. One gem of the evening was Les Thomas, ex railway worker and octogenarian, who recited poems he had written to advise his colleagues about safety. He brought some props with him,too, but declined to wear them. Andy Croft took the opportunity to preview his coming collection with Bill Herbert and Paul Summers, with poems about the Moscow Metro: fascinating and illuminating. Jackie Litherland brought out the poignancy of meeting and greeting, which is a feature of the poetry organiser's lot. Annie Wright managed to work the declension of Latin verbs into a train journey through Kent. Jo Colley read a poem about mysterious Allen's West to the background of a short film. All in all, the poets were able to look at the subject from all angles and produce some lovely colourful and powerful work, all brilliantly em ceed by Simon James.
Readers were, in order of appearance:
Les Thomas
Ian Horn
S.J.Litherland
Joanna Boulter
Annie Wright
Andy Croft
Jo Colley
Tom Kelly
Marilyn Longstaff
Kate Fox
Peter Armstrong and Kathy Towers - Friday, January 30, 2009
Gareth Reeves - 10 October 2008 - Friday, October 10, 2008
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