Autumn Poetry Events

10^th-31^st October, Sheffield Off The Shelf

Festival: 

See www.offtheshelf.org.uk for all the gen.  Including Poetry Business Highlights:

Writing Days with the Poetry Business. Sat 26 September and Sat 24 October 2009  10.15pm-4pm at thePremier Inn, Angel Street & Bank Street Arts.  £25/£18 (cons) each

Poetry Business writing days are always special – experienced and beginning writers alike create new poems in an intensive but highly enjoyable morning session; then after lunch there is a supportive critical workshop on one of your own poems – see our website or ring for details.

Poet Stars! 12 October, 8pm at the Hub, £4/£3 on door or from Sheffield Theatres 249 6000

12 poets give a 5 minute peformance in front of a live audience and judges Cheryl Cole and Simon Cowell (aka Ann and Peter Sansom), with hosts Ant & Dec (John Turner).  To perform, win prizes & be this year’s POET STAR, email offtheshelf@sheffield.gov.uk or ring 2734400. 

Poetry Reading:  Sally Goldsmith, John Lyons, Mike di Placido

Tue 13 October 2009, 7pm at the Showroom Cinema

Tickets £6/£4 (cons) on the door or from The Showroom - Tel. 275 7727

Sheffield’s own incomparable Sally Goldsmith, legendary Trinidadian poet John Lyons, and ex-footballer Mike di Placido (on the Man Utd days of Dennis Law and George Best).  Unmissable.

Poetry in Motion with Noel Williams

Thu 15 October 2009, 10am-5pm at Bank Street Arts, Admission Free, no need to book.

Noel Williams, Bank Street Arts’ resident poet, with drop-in poetry workshop and exhibition of interactive poems. Help Noel with poems-in-progress, explore computer poems and quirky poetry objects, or/and bring your own poems to work on. 

Poetry Reading: Michael McCarthy and Michael Schmidt

Fri 16 October 2009, 7.30pm at the Showroom Cinema – £6/£4 tickets 0114 275 7727

Michael McCarthy grew up in West Cork, Ireland. His first collection won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, and his new book At the Races was overall winner of the 08/09 Poetry Business Competition. He works as a priest in North Yorkshire.

Michael Schmidt is a major figure in contemporary poetry. His books include PBS Recommendations and Special Commendations, and his astonishing Resurrection of the Body was a critical and popular success. He will be launching his Collected Poems.

Masterclass with Michael Schmidt

Sat 17 October 2009, 10.15am-1pm at Bank Street Arts £20/£15 (cons)

Tel. 0114 3463037 or email office@poetrybusiness.co.uk

An advanced, critical workshop focusing on poems in a stringent but constructive atmosphere. This is a very rare chance to work with perhaps the most authoritative figure in poetry today. Michael Schmidt is editorial director of Carcanet Press and PN Review, and is Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University. Limited places: apply by submitting three poems to Michael via The Poetry Business at office@poetrybusiness.co.uk.

The Poetry Business receives financial assistance from Arts Council England.