The Cambridge Poetry Page
Welcome
to the Cambridge Poetry Page - a guide to poetry events and activities in and around Cambridge UK. Here you'll find listings of events and classes, details of regular poetry venues, contact names, poetry bookshops, publishers, magazines,Cambridge poets, poetry web sites, publications and anything else to do with poetry in Cambridge. If you have information you think belongs on this page, send it to me here
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Note that this page only covers the Cambridge area. For information about events in other areas of the UK and beyond, I recommend the excellent Poetry Kit site.
Any comments about the arrangement, readability, usefulness or any other aspect of the site are very welcome.
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Events
Poetry events taking place in or around Cambridge. Please help to keep the section up to date by sending me details of any events you hear of as early as possible. Submit information here
Come and celebrate the launch of Peter Howard's new poetry book: !!! WEIGHING THE AIR !!! on Wednesday, 8th October 2008, 6:45 for 7 pm
Peter Howard is a prize-winning poet living in Cambridge, combining science and art in a highly readable and enjoyable way. He is a member of the Joy of Six performance poetry group. "Weighing the Air is a delight" - Kit Wright |
cambridgewordfest Go to www.cambridgewordfest.co.uk for details of this splendid annual festival. |
The Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry is a weekend of poetry readings, performances, discussion and other events. Emphasis is on modernist developments in contemporary poetry. See http://www.cccp-online.org/ for further details. |
| Cambridge Poetry Summit is another weekend festival. Visit http://www.cambridgepoetry.org/ for the latest information and much else. |
Readings at CB1, 32 Mill Road Full details of CB1 readings and instructions on how to get there are now listed at: CB1 Poetry |
Cambridge CB1 Poetry at Michaelhouse. Guest poets plus floor spot 2nd Tues every month, Michaelhouse, Trinity Street, CB2 1SU, 8pm, £5/£3. Also open mike every 4th Tues at CB1 Café, 32 Mill Road, CB1 2AD, 8pm, £3/£2. CB1 Poetry |
Classes
Poetry classes in Cambridge. Send details of any others here
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Venues
Places for poetry in Cambridge. This section is for regular venues, writing groups and so on. Let me know about your group or favourite venue by sending details here
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Cambridge Poetry Group.
Full Members meet on the first Thursday of each month, except August, at St Luke's Church, Victoria Road, Cambridge from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Members are encouraged to write a poem to a set subject each month, though poems on any subject are acceptable. Correspondence Circle members send their poems to the Correspondence Circle Secretary who brings them to the meeting. These poems are distributed among those attending the meeting and read aloud after they have read their own poems. This is not a workshop or critical event and poems are not edited. All types of poetry are accepted. Every member receives a booklet each month containing all the poems that have been received and or read. You are welcome to turn up and join in a meeting before making a decision. Bring along a few poems to read! Subscriptions: Full Members £15 p.a.; Circle Members £9 p.a. Contact Paulina Gooding, telephone number 01223 210711, email l.gooding at btinternet.com |
| Cambridge Writers Poetry Group is a subgroup of Cambridge Writers
(annual subscription 16 pounds) which meets monthly. Contact Tim Love via tl136 at cam.ac.uk
Friends Meeting House
Cambridge Writers website is here. Contact harry.huguette at ntlworld.com for further details. |
| The Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB. Tel: 01223 332900 Fax: 01223 332923
holds occasional poetry events. Email fitzmuseum-enquiries at lists.cam.ac.uk Tickets for events are available from the Museum shop or by phoning 01223 332993 |
| Stanza group - organised by The Poetry Society and open to Poetry Society members in Cambridge. Bring along poems to workshop. Contact Helen Mort - hm317 at cam.ac.uk |
Magazines
This section of the page is for details of poetry magazines and journal with a Cambridge connection. Send details of any you know, edit, love or hate here
| InPrint is a creative and critical magazine of students' work edited by Zoe Trodd and Jo Eastwood (jeie2 at cam.ac.uk). |
Bookshops
Bookshops selling poetry in Cambridge. You're welcome to send reviews of shops. Where are the best (and the worst) places to buy poetry in Cambridge? Let me know here
Good sources of (cheap) books include:
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| G. David is in St.Edward's Passage, on the north side of the church, between the Guildhall & King's College.They have a vast selection of poetry titles some new 'at reduced prices', some secondhand and many, finely bound, antiquarian items. |
| Borders 12-13 Market Street, has a selection of US lit mags that at least equals the Univ Lib's. Biggies like Poetry (Chicago), Prarie Schooner, etc, as well as Poetry London. The mags aren't cheap though... |
| There are apparently good poetry books to be found on the second hand book stall at the Sunday market in the market square. |
Publishers
Publishers of poetry in Cambridge. Send details and appraisals here
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Salt Publishing operates from its offices in Great Wilbraham, Cambridge and publishes over 40 books a year focussing on poetry, biography, literary criticism and text books by authors from the US, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the Caribbean and mainland Europe. The press has solid left-field leanings and an interest in contemporary poetics and culture. Sales from their booming catalogue are doubling year on year. Stocks of their large, award-winning catalogue are held with major distributors in the UK, USA and Australia and sold in bookstores around the world. Salt has a diverse, pluralistic list which includes poets Sue Hubbard, Ian Gregson, Simon Smith, Adam Czerniawski and John Wilkinson. Bestsellers include Vanishing Points - Rod Mengham and John Kinsella's modernist anthology, Eugenio Montejo, John James and John Tranter. They were awarded the title 'Publisher of the Year' for their outstanding contribution to the publishing of Native American writing in 2005 by the Woodcraft Circle of native Writers and Storytellers in the USA. Salt's excellent Web site, full of poetry news and reviews is at www.saltpublishing.com, a substantial online poetry shop is also available at the same location. Expect more titles, more collections and more criticism. An innovator to watch. "If Wordsworth and Coleridge were starting out today, only Salt would risk Lyrical Ballads"
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Landfill (based in Cambridge and Norwich) is an occasional poetry publishing press, specialising in high-quality pocket-sized editions of new poem sequences. Its first batch of titles is available now from www.landfillpress.co.uk |
| Everyone at Bad Press Serials lives in London now, but they get a mention because Cambridge Universtity is still their main supplier of baffling copy. They've published poetry by several dons and students. They promise (eventually) to use the web site to archive recordings of readings given in Cambridge |
Poets
Poets with a Cambridge connection. If you want a mention here, send (reasonably brief) details to me. Please make it clear which information you want to appear on this page. Send your details here
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The Joy of Six is a group of performance poets, based around Cambridge, UK. Their dazzling show has delighted audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. For more information, see The Joy of Six To contact the Six, email: info@joyofsix.co.uk |
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Clare Crossman is a poet and playwright. Publications include Landscapes Redbeck Press (1996)
and Going Back (2003) Firewater Press
Cambridge. She also runs writing workshops.
Contact: claremcphee at netscape.net |
| Judith Bishop took an MPhil in European Literature (French) in 1994-1995 (resident at Pembroke College), was published in the 1995 May Anthology of Poetry, and has since been published in numerous anthologies and journals including The Oxford Book of Modern Australian Verse (ed. Peter Porter), Agenda (U.K.), Verse (U.S.), Talisman (U.S.), and The New Republic (U.S.). Her first book, Event, will appear with Salt Publishing in the U.K. on June 1, 2007 |
| John Greening is an award-winning Cambridgeshire (or at least Huntingdonshire) poet, and his website is at www.johngreening.co.uk |
| Stan Hedges is a writer and poet, who has been associated with Cambridge Writers since 1994, serving twice on the
committee. He's won numerous prizes for poetry and short stories. He is a keen supporter of anything which keeps the name of poetry alive. Web site: http://homepage.virgin.net/stan.hedges Email: stan.hedges at virgin.net |
| Peter Howard is a poet and telecommunication systems design consultant. He is a member of
The Joy of Six. Publications include Low Probability
of Racoons (1994). He used to write an Internet poetry column for Poetry Review, which is archived here, and he maintains the Cambridge Poetry Page. Web site: http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/ |
| John Kinsella is a poet, novelist, critic, publisher, and editor. His many volumes of poetry include The Silo,
Poems 1980-1994, and The Hunt. Email: jvk20 at hermes.cam.ac.uk |
| Tim Love writes articles, short stories and poems. He works with computers. Web site: Tim Love's literary references Email: tpl at eng.cam.ac.uk |
| Jude Simpson is a performance poet and slam poet. She has performed on radio and TV and won national slam contests at Cheltenham and Edinburgh Literature festivals. Jude grew up in Cambridgeshire and moved back in Autumn 2005 after 10 years living in London. She also does schools work and workshops. See www.judesimpson.co.uk |
Web Sites
Web sites relating to Cambridge poetry. Send relevant URLs here
| cambridgepoetry.org are a bunch of happy bunnies writing and publishing high-tech poetry in Cambridge. |
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Cambridge Writers' Guild This is the home of the Cambridge Writers' Guild, a broad association of Societies, Clubs and Friendly People who want to help the cause of creative writing, in Cambridge (UK) and elsewhere. To be added to their mailing list, e-mail cambridgewritersguild at yahoo.org.uk. |