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An extract from April’s London Snakebasket

By: russell
03-04-2012
London
An extract from April’s London Snakebasket

This is an extract from April’s London Snakebasket, to view the full version, click here.

Ah, spring: season of mists and mellow fruitfull… – no, hang on, that’s autumn. Nevertheless, spring is an equally fine season, and just as worthy of poetic celebration.

For us, April really kicks in after Easter. It’ll be something to take your mind off all the money you’ve spent on purple foil and cubic centimetres of air. We present another Creative Salon on Thursday 12th, when we invite you, the public,…

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An extract from April’s South East Snakebasket

pete
By: pete
03-04-2012
South East
An extract from April’s South East Snakebasket

This is an extract from April’s South East Snakebasket, to view the full version, click here.

Hi all,

April brings the next 451 to Southampton bringing electric poetic-storyteller Rachel Rose Reid and quiet word-storm Kayo Chingonyi to the Nuffield Theatre stage on Monday 16th. There’ll also be the usual open mic to sign up for from 7pm.

I’m only just recovering from March’s Alphapoetica outing at the City Gallery in which Matt West, Ben Lawrence, Angela Chicken and Sean Douglas performed their work to a rapt…

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Photos from Shake the Dust

Dan
By: Dan
21-03-2012
Featured Homepage, News
Photos from Shake the Dust

We’re well underway with Shake the Dust, the biggest youth poetry slam the UK has ever seen! We have poets working in school and out of school settings in every region in England, helping young people create, learn and perform their words. That’s ninety artists delivering spoken word workshops for around a thousand young people!

Before they began their epic task, the Poet Coaches and their Shadows (artists who are developing their skills and just starting to work in education) undertook some training with Jacob Sam-La Rose, Shake the Dust’s…

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Elvis’s Big Love Poetry Night

beth
By: beth
20-02-2012
London
Elvis’s Big Love Poetry Night

Beth Dunant, our Arts Administrator, writes about Elvis’s Big Love Poetry Night, a gig supported by Apples and Snakes last week.

I was very excited to be working at Elvis’s Big Love Poetry Night. Living in East London and working in the South East, it was a bit of a treat to go to Southfields – a very nice area in West London – and to help out at a gig at The Earl Spencer gastro pup. The venue was lovely and, as we had partnered with theatre company SherGer…

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Poet of the Month: Simon Mole

By: applesandsnakesblog
10-02-2012
Featured Homepage, London
Poet of the Month: Simon Mole

A guest post from our Poet of the Month, Simon Mole.

So my mum has started a creative writing course. I know. If she gets published before me I will never live it down. One of her first bits of homework for this course was to interview somebody about their job. With her being my mum and all, she picked me. The poet.

We were on a train, I was slightly hungover, and grumpier than I might have been. And maybe I had just finished a particularly admin-heavy week but…

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An extract from February’s West Midlands Snakebasket

bohdan
By: bohdan
06-02-2012
West Midlands
An extract from February’s West Midlands Snakebasket

This is an extract from February’s West Midlands Snakebasket, to view the full version, click here.

Hello all! To be perfectly honest, I am rarely enthusiastic at the prospect of February. Dark, cold, and unnecessary are adjectives that come to mind. But this year, I feel positively thrilled, and that’s because poetry-wise, things are stirring; they’re stirring like nobody’s business.

Poets’ Place has begun, for one. We’ll see how it will evolve, but the initial responses of the participants have been very positive, and seeing all those poets…

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An extract from February’s South East Snakebasket

pete
By: pete
03-02-2012
South East
An extract from February’s South East Snakebasket

This is an extract from February’s South East Snakebasket, to view the full version, click here.

Hello!  A busy month for Apples and Snakes South East this month as we welcome A Roo in my Suitcase, a poetry and song show for 3 to 6 year olds to the Nuffield Theatre. Then, for the slightly more mature, we’re mixing verse with digital gaming by supporting Grand Verse Quarto, a show that features poems about games as part of the Games Expo East Kent.

Then…

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An extract from February’s North East Snakebasket

kirsten
By: kirsten
03-02-2012
North East
An extract from February’s North East Snakebasket

This is an extract from February’s North East Snakebasket, to view the full version, click here.

Here it is, the month we’ve all been waiting for!! The month when Hannah Silva comes to ARC with her superb one-woman show!! I saw Opposition at the Edinburgh Fringe, and was staggered at Hannah’s energy, talent and innovation. She takes the jargon of politics and warps it into something first satirical, then surreal, then purely musical. Her unique style uses repetition and electronic looping, plus a high-speed physical theatre that is…

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An extract from February’s London Snakebasket

By: russell
02-02-2012
London
An extract from February’s London Snakebasket

This is an extract from February’s London Snakebasket, to view the full version, click here.

Hello folks,

Well – February already. And what a full month it is, after the almost ominous calm of January.

We’ve got another Creative Salon on Thursday 9th: your chance to hobnob with other practitioners from the spoken-word industry (it’s official: we’re now an industry). And the following night, we venture to darkest Southfields (where the Wimbledon tennis is, basically) with our intrepid guide Elvis McGonagall. With Valentine’s fast approaching, he’ll…

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An extract from February’s South West Snakebasket

gina
By: gina
01-02-2012
South West
An extract from February’s South West Snakebasket

This is an extract from February’s South West Snakebasket, to view the full version, click here.

This month we begin by welcoming the splendid touring children’s show Spin, set to get children and their families all fired up about the fun of poetry. With a spectacular selection of top notch poets, storytellers and rappers, it’s one show you won’t be forgetting in a hurry.

We have two amazing shows at Studio@QT this season, starting with the ground-breaking Opposition by Hannah Silva. With everything from…

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