Produced and presented by The Cockpit
Live literature every third Sunday at 5.00pm.
The world changes: we make new poetry to vandalise literary forms or retrieve those we need to renew. We make new poetry to hybridise new species of understanding and reframe consciousness.
We make new poetry to have a good time.
Readings, recitations, incantations and events from established and upstart poets, word artists, ranters, spell-casters, rappers……and you if you want.
This month we have readings from Anna Robinson, Peter Marinker and Owen Gallagher.
Anna Robinson is a great poet of Lambeth working-class life . Her work “Pulses with Cockney Vernacular, it’s an elegy for working-class communities. There is something reminiscent of William Blake’s ‘Holy Thursday’ in these poetic portraits of praise for a lost way of life.’-Malika Booker”
Owen Gallagher writes of growing up in the Gorbals in the 1950s and 1960s – poverty, pawnshops and sectarianism, carbolic soap and lice, Saturday morning at the pictures, violent teachers, razor gangs and blacklists. of Red Clydeside,of dreamers, fighters, singers and rebels. “Gallagher is a trouble-making poet, stirring things up. He’ll keep you asking yourself which side you’re on.’-Michael Rosen
Peter Marinker is a London-based actor well known for his work on BBC Radio, and his association with publisher John Calder and the works of Samuel Beckett, who writes poems exploring memory, environmental destruction and hope.
Plus performances in our open mic slot.
To apply for the open mic click here.
Curated and introduced by Nick Moss in collaboration with The Cockpit
