POETRY & PROSE

AT THE PUB

Sunday 28th February, 2pm

PREPARE YOUR PERFORMANCE FOR POETRY AND PROSE

AT THE PUB

Poetry and Prose at the Pub kicked off last November at Filthy McFadden’s Irish Pub, Green Square Kingston. Held on the last Sunday of the month from 2 pm onwards, this year promises to be more rip-roaring than ever. Each meeting features an Irish writer where a guest reader performs excerpts of their work, and then readers perform their own poems or prose loosely related to the theme.

As February is the month for lovers with St Valentine’s day on the 15th, the theme this month is love lust and romance inspired by;

Pamela Pounce; a tale of tempestuous petticoats, by Agnes Castle and In these Shoes? A saucy song about what a girl can achieve in the most irresponsible of footware.

Watch the Kirsty MacColl version:

We especially want to encourage the women poets and romance writers of Canberra. We don’t seem to get out much to perform around town (I suspect we are up in our airless garrets squirreling away at our next best seller), so as much as we love the men they do tend to dominate the readings and slams around town, so girls, ladies, women, step up!

Do you have poems of sweet swooning memories of your first love? Lamentations of love gone wrong? A treatise on the meaning of love? What about a humorous look at internet dating for the unwary? What about just sticking the boot into that ex with a performance poem? Could you read an excerpt from your romance novel? (Limit of 500 words)

So by way of encouragement … women come dressed in your most outrageous shoes. There will be prizes including 3 6 month memberships to the ACT Writers Centre and you will be entertained by some saucy music and performances.

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if you would like to read, or just turn up for open mike.

For more information on Poetry and Prose at the Pub call Lorese Vera on 0421 599 112

Poetry and Prose at the Pub is sponsored by :

ACT Writers Centre,

Filthy McFadden’s Irish Pub

and CIT Union Bookshops.