BEING BEASTLY: Late Shift
Poets: Don Barnard, Christine Coleman, Bob Evans, Susan Utting
Booking information: Don Barnard don@semicolon.demon.co.uk
Runs: 1h 30m, one interval
Review: Rod Dungate, 3 August 2002, Crescent Theatre, Birmingham

A gentle but acutely observed look at 'beastly' matters, always good-humoured and sometimes discomforting.

Frances Spalding on Stevie Smith
(with Anne Harvey reading from the poems)
Cheltenham Festival of Literature

Review: Don Barnard: 18 October 2002

Death was her friend from the age of eight. An entertaining and illuminating experience.

Coming Poetry events where poets perform their work. To add your own events, submit details and we'll add them to the Poets Board.

Robert Hamberger
mac, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham (0121 440 3838)
Review: Rod Dungate 10 July 2003

Male emotionally charged vulnerability: a delicacy that belies its power

Liz Lochhead reads at the Orange Studio, Birmingham
(Part of the Birmingham Book Fair)
24 October 2003
Review: Rod Dungate

Lochhead's poems care about you

WHEN BROKEN IS BEAUTIFUL
CK Williams and Lavinia Greenlaw
University of Warwick 12.11.03
Review: John Alcock

Two poets entertaining, thought-provoking and beauty searched out in surprising places

OFF AT A TANGENT
Roy Fisher and Ian Duhig
University of Warwick 14.01.04
Review: John Alcock

Depth, wit and dramatic landscapes

GEOFFREY HILL
Words' Series, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

Review by John Allcock: February 13 2004

Now 72, the poet described as 'the most enigmatic' and the 'greatest English' returns to his home ground

DEREK WALCOTT
University of Warwick Arts Centre March 4 2004

Review: John Alcock

An eclectic ancestry: a poetic perpetual quest for identity

Andrew Wilson: TEXT MESSAGES
mac, Birmingham (Poetry Bites): 11 March 2004
Review: Rod Dungate

An unexpected surprise

A CAPITAL OCCASION
Baylit Festival, Cardiff 2005

Review of Gillian Clarke's installation as Cardiff Capital Bard

John Alcock: May 2005

Through the tall, narrow window of the Norwegian chapel I can see a small, inflatable craft crossing the bay, its huddled occupants swathed in yellow oilskins against the slanting rain.

THE GLORIOUS GIFT
Poetry Of the Brontës
Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival
Review by John Alcock: 07.08.05

Acting talents that match the literary ones of the three authors

London

UNCUT CONFETTI
by John Hegley

bac (Main theatre) To 30 April 2006
Runs 1hr 55min One interval
Review: Timothy Ramsden 30April

Neatly-crafted combination of wit and reflection.