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HeavenTree is a Coventry UK based Poetry Press |
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Events
The Official Launch At Nightblue Fruit at the Tin Angel, Medieval Spon Street Tuesday 1st May, 8pm onwards. Free. Join Festival organisers The Heaventree Press for their monthly open mic session. All welcome. The inaugural Coventry Festival of Literature & Liberty 2007 has been created by the Heaventree Press, a community publishing house, and coincides with the bicentenary year of Britain abolishing its slave trade. Its activities have been initiated on a limited budget, with the organisers and performers relying on the generosity of local venue managers and on good attendance for events to break even on costs. The Organising Committee are: Jonathan Morley, Keisha Thompson, Lynne Macedo & Ziqian Chan. We would like to thank the following individuals and organisations for their generous assistance and support: Lee House, Coventry City Council; Colin Scott, Positive Images Festival; Peter Walters, CV One; David Dabydeen, Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick Jeremy Treglown, the Warwick Writing Programme; Nick Gillard, Macmillan Caribbean; Emma McCormack, Warwick Arts Centre; Jo Whitford, The Herbert; Amanda Bicknell, Central Methodist Hall; Barrington and Jane, Liquid Cafe & Wine Bar; Jenny Brown, Browns Cafe-Bar; Rich Guy, The Tin Angel; Kyla Craig, Dialectic Arts; Ali Arman (website); Barry Patterson (programme design); Leila Rasheed (research). The Heaventree Press, The Koco Building, Spon End, CV1 3JQ The Herbert, Jordan Well Friday 4th May, 7pm £6.50. Tickets for this event can be bought in person or over the phone from The Herbert reception, please call 024 7683 2386.
Brian will be reading from his new book, Collected Love Poems. A poet who needs little introduction, Brian Patten sprang into the national psyche in 1967 alongside Roger McGough and Adrian Henri as one of the three ‘Liverpool Beats’ published in The Mersey Sound: Penguin Modern Poets 10. A forerunner of the current wave of ‘performance poets’, Patten is a well-known figure on TV and radio, and continues to delight audiences young and old with his vigorous, accessible verses.
At The Herbert to mark an exhibition of photographs from 1960s, Brian will take you on a hilarious, sometimes heart-rending journey through a chaotic boyhood, a lovestruck adolescence and a disrespectful middle age, to leave you teetering on the brink of his second childhood. Coventry and Warwickshire Fusion Browns Café-Bar , Jordan Well Saturday 5thMay, 11am-4pm , Free.
A live poetry and music showcase, featuring local literary talent from small presses and writing groups in the region. Take your turn on the stage to perform your best work alongside an array of musicians including Si Hayden and Lewis Garland. Local publications available for sale at discounted rates. No booking necessary, but to get involved contact the compere, Keisha Thompson on 02476 713 555 or events@heaventreepess.com A Celebration of World Literature Methodist Central Hall Saturday 5th May, 7pm £2.50 Booking: Events Dept on 02476 713 555 or www.heaventreepress.com/lit-fest. Advance bookings advisable! Poets and novelists from around the globe present their latest publications. David Dabydeen is Professor of Caribbean Literature at the University of Warwick and Guyana ’s ambassador to UNESCO. Recent projects include The Oxford Companion to Black British History and the controversial novel Our Lady Of Demerara, set in Coventry . He will read from the Selected Poems of Egbert Martin, the newly rediscovered mulatto poet from the nineteenth century Caribbean colony of Demerara, published by Heaventree. Tessa McWatt was born in Guyana and raised in Toronto . Her new novel, This Body, published by Macmillan Caribbean Writers, weaves together the stories of Victoria, a Caribbean woman living in London , and Derek, her orphaned nephew sent to stay with her, as they struggle to adjust to each other’s lives. Lebanese writer Hisham Matar was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2006 for his first novel, In The Company Of Men, an unsettling evocation of living under the perils of dictatorship, set in Libya . “This sad, beautiful novel captures the universal tragedy of children caught in their parents’ terrors.” – The Washington Post. “A timely reminder of the brutal methods that Gadaffi employed to become the Arab world’s longest-serving leader... a growing atmosphere of suppressed hysteria underlies the sparse prose.” – The Financial Times. Elizabeth Walcott was born in Trinidad in 1964. She is a Lecturer at the University of the West Indies , St Augustine , Trinidad , specialising in francophone Caribbean literature and
Books available from Bloodaxe, Flambard, Heaventree, Macmillan Caribbean Writers, Peepal Tree and others! Warwick Arts Centre Sunday 6th May, 7:15pm Tickets: £7 (£4.50 concessions).
Booking: Warwick Arts Centre Box Office 02476 524524 or www.warwickartscentre.co.uk The 1986 Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka was born in 1934 at Abeokuta , near Ibadan in Western Nigeria . After becoming a dramaturge at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959, he was awarded a Rockefeller bursary and returned to Nigeria to study African drama where he also taught drama and literature at various universities in Ibadan , Lagos , and Ife . He founded two theatre groups, "The 1960 Masks" in 1960, and in 1964, the "Orisun Theatre Company", and is a world-renowned playwright, his many plays including A Dance of the Forests, The Road, and Death and the King’s Horsemen. He was jailed during the 1960s Biafran War (for urging Nigeria to make peace) and in the 1990s lived in exile in Ghana , having been sentenced to death by the Abacha regime. Soyinka has written two novels, The Interpreters (1965), in which six Nigerian intellectuals discuss and interpret their African experiences, and Season of Anomy (1973). His autobiographical works include The Man Died: a prison notebook (1971), Aké: the years of childhood (1981) and Ibadan , The Penkelemes Years: a memoir 1946-1965 (1994). His critical witing include Myth, Literature and the African World (1976), Art, Dialogue & Outrage (1988) and The Open Sore of a Continent (1996). His poetry includes the masterful collections Idanre, A Shuttle in the Crypt and most recently Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known. He writes in English and his literary language is marked by great scope and richness. He will read both poetry and prose at Warwick Arts Centre, and answer questions from the audience. This event has been sponsored by the Warwick Writing Programme, the Royal Society of Authors and the British Council. Liquid Café and Wine Bar, City Arcade Monday 7th May, 2-4pm Free. No booking necessary. Adrian Urmanov and Elena Vladareanu, in Coventry to celebrate the launch of David Morley’s anthology “no longer poetry”, published by city press Heaventree. “This is the first anthology to give a platform to a rising generation of poets from post-Communist Romania . The sole criteria or selection has been the extent to which these newcomers have distanced themselves from poets of the previous era. The young poets featured in “no longer poetry” are notorious in Romania for their experimental poetry and unorthodox lifestyles. Before heading to London for their Embassy launch, Urmanov (the translator of the book) and Vladareanu will stop in Coventry to showcase their shocking, avant-garde work to local audiences. The poetry will be presented in English and Romanian. Aimed at the local Asian communities, this workshop seeks to overcome the barriers to accessing healthcare experienced by speakers of different languages. Come along and help design posters about diabetes and heart disease for use in surgeries and community centres. Devised by Coventry poet Lucy Aphramor & Facilitated by Arts Exchange and H.E.L.P. St Peters Centre, Hillfields Saturday 5th May, 10:30am-2:30pm Free. Booking 02476 713 555 or www.heaventreepress.com/lit-fest Join West Midlands rapper Steve Camden (Polar Bear) as he leads this high energy performance poetry workshop. Participants will explore styles of rhythm, delivery, syllabic control and movement as a performance device. Using their own written material developed during the afternoon, they will then get the opportunity to use those skills in a performance event, hosted by Steve, in The Herbert Café. Suitable for ages 11+ Limited spaces available so early booking is advised. The Herbert Saturday 5th May, workshop: 2-5pm , performance: 6pm £6. Booking: 02476 713 555 or www.heaventreepess.com/lit-fest This practical workshop is for anyone interested in exploring and learning more about the dynamic art and creative storytelling technique of Manga. Sonia Leong and Emma Viceli of Sweatdrop Studios will lead this 2-hour workshop where participants will adapt Romeo and Juliet into the Japanese cartoons format. This is for ages 12 and over. Limited spaces available so early booking is advised. The Herbert Monday 7th May, 2-4pm £7.50 Bookings: 02476 713 555 or www.heaventreepress.com/lit-fest |
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