EVENTS PAGE UPDATED THURSDAY 06 FEBRUARY 2025
We have no specific plans at the moment, but I shall be considering another Zoom event fairly soon.
Our most recent Poetrywivenhoe Zoom was on Thursday 12 December with a selection of invited readers: Anthony Watts, Gordon Hoyles, Christine Vial, Sue Wallace-Shaddad, Chik Duncan, Clive Donovan, Fiona Clark, Christine Shirley. Another great selection of new poetry.
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LIVE POETRY RETURNED TO WIVENHOE ON 21 NOVEMBER, with Martin Figura and Helen Ivory – two wonderfully accomplished poets at Old Grocery, together with poets Martin Newell, Alex Toms and MS Bewick. A great evening, all on form …
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Our Poetrywivenhoe Zoom on Thursday 31 October was a truly exceptional evening, with special guest Chrys Salt who read her moving Home Front/Front Line – a dialogue in poetry and prose exploring what it meant to be a life-long pacifist and mother whose son was fighting in the Iraq war. Also reading were: Clive Donovan, Jenna Plewes, Gordon Hoyle, Christine Vial, Sandy Goldbeck-Wood, Colin Pink, Andy Treacher, Ray Pool and Peter Ualrig Kennedy.
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Our Poetrywivenhoe Zoom on Thursday 26 September was an exceptional evening, with guest reader Sue Wallace-Shaddad, whose new book ‘Once There Was Colour’ features poems about the current crisis in Sudan. So descriptive and moving. Also reading were: Simon Banks: Colin Hopkirk: Tony Watts: Fiona Clark: Audrey Ardern-Jones: Rosemary Drescher: Peter Ualrig Kennedy.
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The Poetrywivenhoe Zoom event on Thursday 27 June was just one more excellent evening. Our readers were:
Simon Banks: Jenna Plewes: Christine Vial: Gordon Hoyles: Colin Hopkirk: Andrew Treacher: Rosemary Drescher: Jack Rossiter: Peter Ualrig Kennedy.
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On Sunday 28 April we hosted a POETRYWIVENHOE SPECIAL at Old Grocery, Wivenhoe, with live readings by poets Les Bell, Alex Toms, Kathleen Wenaden, Walter Paul Kennedy, Marian de Vooght and Peter Ualrig Kennedy.
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Lorraine Barfoot’s Wivenhoe-based group Poetry by Heart meets on the first Thursday morning of each month at St Mary’s Church Annexe.
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