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Three Urban Poets: admission free – all welcome

Created by Carmel Shortall (See other events)
  • May 13, 2022 from 7:30pm to 9:00pm
  • Location: All Good Bookshop, 35 Turnpike Lane N8 0EP
  • Latest Activity: May 10, 2022

This Friday - free event at the All Good Bookshop.

Welcome to the world of modern urban poetry!  Anna Robinson, Selina Rodrigues and Ruth Valentine all write about places and scenes we know –  a housing estate, a call centre, Grenfell Tower – with insight and humour and poetic skill.

Anna's third collection, Whatsname Street, tells the story of the estate in Waterloo where she still lives, in the voices and encounters of her predecessors. 

In the shadows and whoops of the last party

she slipped back indoors and took down the curtains,

brown with war and the filth of outside 

The Mother in Law's Nets  

 

Ferocious is Selina's first full-length collection. She explores the world of work and the way we create our lives with and without it.  

With a forest of hair a man

sleeps through this concertina

of noise, a body-length away. 

Loose Change  

 

Ruth's If You Want Thunder centres on a long poem celebrating the imagined lives of the residents of Grenfell Tower.  

In the burning high-rise hive there are alphabets,  

Arabic Tamil Ge’ez, there are apricots 

A Grenfell Alphabet   

Hear how the themes and styles of the three books both merge and contrast, as poems are woven together into a story of contemporary London.  All three poets are published by Smokestack Books, which aims to revive the tradition of radical poetry in the UK.    

Admission free – all welcome. Arrive from 7pm for a 7.30 start

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Posted by Admin on November 21, 2016 at 12:37pm

from 13 April 2024

 

Plant sales in April at Broomfield Park.


April Jazz every Thursday evening at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green.

Saturday 13 April – Learn how to do scrappy patchwork at Stitch crafts, 2 Hazelwood Lane Palmers Green, 1.30-3pm.

Saturday 13 April – Collage Kids presents: Old McDonald and the Three Pigs Plus at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road Wood Green, 2-4pm.

Saturday 13 April – London Vegan Mixer at Karamel, Coburg Road Wood Green, from 7pm.

Wednesday 17 April – Movement and Ease: Alexander Technique with Tanya at CUFOS, Top of the Avenue N10 2QE, 11-12pm.

Wednesday 17 April – Talk/discussion: Seniors: Lively up yourselves! at Hornsey Parish Church Hall, Cranley Gardens (bottom) N10.

Wednesday 17 April – Is London Dying? London Assembly Election Hustings at Karamel/McQueens Theatre, Coburg Road Wood Green, 6.30-9pm.

Thursday 18 April to 2 May – Your Community Choir needs You! Try some taster sessions at Bounds Green School (upstairs hall), 6.45pm. Bowes Park Community Choir rehearses every Thursday, 7.15pm.

Thursday 18 April – Learn to use a sewing machine at Stitch crafts, 2 Hazelwood Lane Palmers Green, 7-9pm.

Thursday 18 April – Kaiyo 3 with Helena Kay at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road Wood Green.

Saturday 20 April – Sewing machine confiedence-boosting workshop at 2 Hazelwood Lane Palmers Green, 10.30-12pm.

Saturday 20 April – Patchwork workshop: learn to sew a Dresden plate at Stitch crafts, 2 Hazelwood Lane Palmers Green, 10.30-2.30pm.

Saturday 20 April – Muswell Hill Creatives Spring Makers Fair at St. James Square Muswell Hill, 10.30-5pm.

Sunday 21 April – Geekstraveganza: regular boardgame meetup on the third Sunday of every month at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, 1-6pm.

Sunday 21 April – Crows at Bowes Park Folk Club, Shaftesbury Hall, N11 2QN, 2.30-5pm.

Saturday 27 April – Granny Squares workshop at 2 Hazelwood Lane Palmers Green, 1-3pm.

Saturday 27 April – Fortismere Community Choir and Orchestra Concert – All-Mozart Programme, at St. Andrew’s Church, Alexandra Park Road N10 (corner of Windermere Road).

Saturday 4 May – Introduction to blackwork embroidery at Stitch crafts, 2 Hazelwood Lane Palmers Green, 10.30-12.30pm.

Saturday 4 May – Learn to make a crochet basket at 2 Hazelwood Lane Palmers Green, 10.30-12.30pm.

Saturday 11 May – Puppet making workshp at Stitch crafts, 2 Hazelwood Lane Palmers Green, 12-3pm. 

Ongoing courses and activities

Geekstravaganza – regular boardgame meetup on the third Sunday of every month at Karamel, 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green, 1-6pm.

After School Sewing Club on Fridays at Stitch crafts, 2 Hazelwood Lane Palmers Green, 4.30-6pm. Term time.

Em Power fitness classes – Monday, Thursday and Friday mornings in OR Tambo Rec, 9-9.30am (term time only). The main focus is on core and legs.

Bowes Park Community Choir - Thursday evenings during term time at Bounds Green School, 7.15-9.15pm.

Life drawing sessions – alternate Saturday mornings at Rhodes Avenue Primary School, 10-12pm.

Zumba and fitness classes – Zumba is on Wednesday evenings, 7-7.50pm. All classes are at Bounds Green Bowls and Tennis Club, Goring road N11.

Salsa Wednesdays – Wednesday evenings at Bounds Green School, Bounds Green Road N11 2QG, 7-8pm. 

V&J Ensemble: Vocal group for ALL Singers on Wednesdays at St. Andrew's Church, Alexandra Park Road N10 (corner of Windermere Road), 6.50-8.30pm.

Enjoy your painting – Thursdays at CUFOS Community Centre (the old railway station), Top of The Avenue N10, 10-12.30pm or 1.30-4pm.

 

All Good Bookshop has many regular events - book groups of course, also music, writing, yoga - and special events .... at 35 Turunpike Lane.

Many Music and Art events are held at Karamel, including Collage Kids performance events on Saturday mornings at 11.30am. At 4 Coburg Road, Wood Green N22 6UJ.

 

 

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