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SUMMARY:This Is Just To Say: spoken word open mic
DESCRIPTION:Oxford Poetry Library presents a spoken word open mic night! Join us in the library on the first Tuesday of every month to enjoy all manner of word-weaving\, story-sharing\, and spell-casting. \nWe welcome poets\, storytellers\, and writers of all kinds to share their work (or the work of others) in a safe\, supportive\, and inclusive space. Slots are 5 minutes long\, and performers sign up on the door – first come\, first served! \nThe theme of this month’s session is CLOSE\, CLOSER. We’ll be getting up close and personal\, so bring your poems that are nice and intimate\, draw us in for the winter night\, and hold us near. \nEvery month we feature a performer with a slightly extended set and this month’s featured performer to grace our stage will be Rency Jumaoas Raquid. Rency was born and raised in Quezon City\, Philippines. Currently based in Oxford\, he is a DPhil student studying plant development and evolution\, and a volunteer at the Oxford Poetry Library. His poem was awarded third prize in the 2023 National Poetry Competition. Recently\, he was selected for a full scholarship to attend the Arvon Foundation’s Advanced Creative Writing Programme. His work has been featured in The Poetry Review\, Winchester Poetry Prize 2024 and OPL’s Drafting Table (kill your darlings) anthologies. \nThe session starts at 7.30pm (performers are advised to arrive from 7pm)\, at The Community Works (21 Park End St\, OX1 1HU). \n£5 entry (£2 concessions)\, performers free. \nThere will be a bar at this event\, so it is no longer BYOB! \nThe building is accessible\, but if you have any specific access needs\, please drop us an email at oxfordpoetrylibrary@gmail.com beforehand!
URL:https://oxfordpoetrylibrary.com/event/this-is-just-to-say-spoken-word-open-mic-24/
LOCATION:The Community Works\, 21 Park End Street\, Oxford\, OX1 1HH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Poetry with Carrie Etter\, Harry Man\, Claire Crowther and Jenny Lewis
DESCRIPTION:On 5 December at 7.30pm in The Community Works\, we welcome 4 excellent local poets to showcase their newest publications! \nWarm up with an enticing evening of new and recent poetry featuring Oxford book launches and readings from – Real Lear: New and Selected Poems (Shearsman\, 2024) by Claire Crowther\, Popular Song (Nine Arches Press\, 2024) by Harry Man\, Grief’s Alphabet (Seren\, 2024) by Carrie Etter and From Base Materials (Carcanet 2024) by Jenny Lewis. \nTickets are £5 each (£2 concessions) and all proceeds go to Oxford Poetry Library. Get yours in advance here to avoid disappointment! \nClaire Crowther’s sixth collection is Real Lear New & Selected Poems. Her first collection was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Prize and her fourth was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in 2020. She teaches Creative Writing at Oxford University Department of Continuing Education and is Deputy Editor of Long Poem Magazine.  \nCarrie Etter has published five collections of poetry\, most recently Grief’s Alphabet (Seren\, 2024). Individual poems have appeared in The New Republic\, The New Statesman\, The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem\, Poetry Review\, and The TLS. She edited Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman\, 2010)\, Linda Lamus’s posthumous collection\, A Crater the Size of Calcutta (Mulfran\, 2015)\, and Claire Crowther’s Sense and Nonsense: Essays and Interviews (Shearsman\, 2024). She also writes essays\, fiction\, and reviews\, and is a member of the creative writing faculty at the University of Bristol. \nJenny Lewis has published five collections including Gilgamesh Retold (Carcanet\, 2018) which was a New Statesman Book of the Year and Carcanet’s first audiobook. She has collaborated for 10 years with the exiled Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh on the award-winning\, Arts Council-funded ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ project aimed at fostering friendships between English and Arabic-speaking communities. Her recent work includes From Base Materials (Carcanet\, 2024) and a sequence of ecological poems for Mandala Theatre Company’s Seed Guardians. She teaches on the Oxford University Creative Writing MSt. www.jennylewis.org.uk \nHarry Man’s Lift (Tall Lighthouse\, 2014) won the UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award. His second pamphlet\, Finders Keepers\, was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. His co-collection\, authored with Endre Ruset\, Deretter(‘Thereafter’\, Flamme Forlag\, 2021) won the Stephen Spender Prize and was a Dagblaget and Broken Sleep Books Book of the Year. He was shortlisted for Tees Valley Artist of the Year 2024. His first collection Popular Song (2024) is published by Nine Arches Press. He has translated Endre Ruset’s poetry collection Noriaki into English which is available from Broken Sleep Books. He is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University and lives in County Durham. www.manmadebooks.co.uk \n  \nThe building is accessible\, but if you have any specific access needs\, please drop us an email at oxfordpoetrylibrary@gmail.com beforehand.
URL:https://oxfordpoetrylibrary.com/event/jenny-lewis-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Community Works\, 21 Park End Street\, Oxford\, OX1 1HH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Drafting Table Workshop Session
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to our poetry drafting group\, where we share our emerging poems with each other and provide feedback in a safe and inclusive environment. \nMaybe you have been attending the Getting Started sessions and feel ready to edit your work and develop your ideas. Maybe you’re an experienced but unpublished poet who wants to take those next steps in your poetry career. If you feel you’d like to join us\, please bring along at least one unfinished\, unpublished work-in-progress that you’re willing to share with the whole group. We are normally able to hear and give feedback to around 6 or 7 poets per session. \nRegular attendance is encouraged\, to help us build a trusting and collaborative community. \nFeel free to email queries to opldraftingtable@gmail.com \nWe meet: \n1-3pm \nFirst Saturday of every month at The Community Works\n \n21 Park End Street OX1 1HH
URL:https://oxfordpoetrylibrary.com/event/drafting-table-workshop-session-22/
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SUMMARY:Getting Started With Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Whether you’ve never written a poem before\, have just started to write\, or aren’t sure if what you’re writing is poetry\, this monthly workshop is a chance to carve out some time for writing. \nIn each workshop\, we’ll read a poem together\, and use it as our starting point. We’ll suggest some prompts you could take from the poem\, and ideas you might like to borrow. There will be plenty of time to write\, and plenty more prompts if you get stuck. At the end of the session\, you’ll be able to share what you’ve written in a supportive environment. \nAll you need to bring is yourself – these workshops are here for you to enjoy writing and build confidence in your voice. The workshop is open to anyone aged 16+. \nTell us you’re coming by booking your free ticket here. \nThe Oxford Poetry Library is an accessible space but please do contact us in advance if you have specific requirements. You can email us about this or with any questions about the workshop at oxfordpoetrylibary@gmail.com
URL:https://oxfordpoetrylibrary.com/event/getting-started-with-poetry-23/
LOCATION:The Community Works\, 21 Park End Street\, Oxford\, OX1 1HH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Shape of Poetry workshop
DESCRIPTION:Note that until further notice\, these sessions will happen online – links to the Zoom session will be circulated to those who have registered in advance of these events. \nMany of us feel intimidated by formal poetry: Some of us consider it too restrictive and governed by rules\, while others write exclusively in form. This workshop is an invitation to all writers of poetry\, whether you’re just starting out or have been writing for years\, to explore the creative potential of poetic forms. \nOur monthly sessions happen on the second Saturday of the month from 2pm til 4pm online. During each of our workshops\, we will look at the conventions of a particular form such as the sonnet\, ghazal\, or haiku\, read example poems\, and write our own versions. This workshop will be a collaborative space for us to explore how experimenting with limitations or restrictions in our writing can give us whole new ways of expressing ourselves\, and open unexpected doors! Whether you’ve never written a poem before\, have just started to write\, or aren’t sure if what you’re writing is poetry\, this monthly workshop is a chance to carve out some time for writing. \nIn each workshop\, we’ll read a poem together\, and use it as our starting point. We’ll suggest some prompts you could take from the poem\, and ideas you might like to borrow. There will be plenty of time to write\, and plenty more prompts if you get stuck. At the end of the session\, you’ll be able to share what you’ve written in a supportive environment. \nAll you need to bring is yourself – these workshops are here for you to enjoy writing and build confidence in your voice. The workshop is open to anyone aged 16+. \nTickets are priced at £5 for general admission (£10 for those able to donate a bit more\, £2 for those on lower income) and registration is required. If this cost would be prohibitive to your attending\, please email us at oxfordpoetrylibrary@gmail.com and we can allocate you one of our limited free spots in the workshop. \n 
URL:https://oxfordpoetrylibrary.com/event/the-shape-of-poetry-workshop-8/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:LIT Reading Group- December Online
DESCRIPTION:Got started with poetry but not sure where to go next?  Need some support and feedback for a specific piece of writing that is bugging you right now? Just looking for a friendly\, low-pressure space to hang out and chat with folks who love words as much as you do? \nWhy not join us at LIT? \nWe are a reading and writing group for cis and trans women\, trans men\, non-binary people\, and people of other minority genders to share their own work and the work of others. We take the broadest\, most inclusive interpretation of what this means- if you feel like you might fit with us\, you probably do! \nWe are a group of writers who host twice-monthly friendly sessions around different themes. We meet in person and online. \nFor more information about us\, you can read our statement of aims and values on our group page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/223789834941256 or email francesca_moll@hotmail.co.uk to request to join our WhatsApp group. \nThis is the event for our December online session. There’s no need to book or buy tickets- feel free just to join us on the zoom link here:\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/85006693701?pwd=TzJpeTBRZGdudlBQTlM0OWJQcVZxdz09
URL:https://oxfordpoetrylibrary.com/event/lit-reading-group-december-online-2/
LOCATION:Online
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