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what we should have said: #poetrymondays at the Troubadour

An entertaining, enlightening, innovative and unpredictable spoken-word shindig with Stephen Sexton, Hannah Lowe, Richard Douglas Pennant, Stuart Silver and Peter Foggitt plus 20 Troubadours with new poems on the theme of words, spoken or unspoken.

Watch these wordsmiths’ web of words and wit weave their way through the air in and around impromptu musical interludes and improvisation. 

 
Weaving the word-wide-web will be:
 
Stephen Sexton who won the National Poetry Competition and teaches at Belfast’s Seamus Heaney Centre — his If All the World and Love Were Young (Penguin 2019) is on this year’s Forward Best First Collection shortlist.
 
Hannah Lowe has published two Bloodaxe collections, latest Chan (2015), a chapbook, The Neighbourhood from Outspoken (2019) and a family memoir Long Time, No See which featured as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week.
 
Richard Douglas Pennant who divides his time between Cyprus and his native North Wales: his latest collection Lines in the Sky (Cinnamon, 2017) is accompanied by a CD of poems set to music.
 
All interwoven with pianist/composer Peter Foggitt’s imaginative improvisatory soundscape and sparkling philosophical intrusions/infusions from Perrier-Award-winning writer/perfomer/director Stuart Silver.
 
Plus word poems from  Michael Dench, Fran O’Leary, Mark Chamberlain, Katy Mack, Angus Strachan, Barney Ashton Bullock, Ingrid Leonard, Adam Buckley, Matthew Paul, Ian McLachlan, Elaine Baker, Steve Kendall, Warren Czapa, Katarina Grabowsky, Eleni Cay, Stuart Carswell, Lady Poe, Charlotte Baldwin, Scarlett Sabet and Jude Vermeulen.
 
Sponsored by Cegin Productions.
Dates and times
8:00 pm to 10:00 pm | Mon 18 Nov 2019
Where
Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
Troubadour Coffee House
263-267 Old Brompton Road
SW5 9JA
London
Pricing
£7