Tag: Maggie Sawkins

Poetry in Portsmouth

Wednesday 14 May 2025: Flyweight (Performance)

FLYWEIGHT Wednesday 14 May 2025Doors: 7pmThe Square TowerBroad St, Portsmouth PO1 2NDTickets: £10Available for purchase here: paypal.me/MaggieSawkins FLYWEIGHT is a new live literature production written and performed by award-winning poet Maggie Sawkins, that explores the unlikely theme of boxing, and in particular, female boxing. Combining poetry with nuggets of research and complemented by entertaining visuals and video sequences by filmmaker Matt Parsons, as well as audio … Continue reading Wednesday 14 May 2025: Flyweight (Performance)

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Book Launch

Tuesday 11 October 2022: Experiments across Poetry and Prose

Maggie Sawkins and George Marsh read from their new books Tuesday 11 October 20227.30pmThe Bar | Groundlings Theatre42 Kentish StreetPortsmouth PO1 3BS Live Music | Bar Hosted by Portsmouth Poetry http://waterloopress.co.uk/books/the-house-where-courage-lives-2022/ Please join us as we celebrate the publication of our new books: The House Where Courage Lives and The Angel’s Wound. There’ll be short readings, discussion, live music, and time for chit chat. We look forward to seeing you! … Continue reading Tuesday 11 October 2022: Experiments across Poetry and Prose

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Community, Workshop

Telling Tales for Grown Ups – Workshop: Saturday 9th March 2019

TELLING TALES FOR GROWN UPS ADDITIONAL CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP! SATURDAY 9 MARCH 2019 12 – 3.30PM Room F, Third Floor, Portsmouth Central Library PO1 2DX 6 places still available Tickets £7: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/tongues-amp-grooves-18157115293 Maggie Sawkins and Brighton-based writer and performer Gus Watcham delve into the dark world of folk and fairy tale for nuggets of gold to get writing ideas flowing. Come ready to embrace the weird and wonderful. Suitable for … Continue reading Telling Tales for Grown Ups – Workshop: Saturday 9th March 2019

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Poetry in Portsmouth, Tongues and Grooves

Pushkin’s Half Hour with John Agard: Sunday 30th December 2018

Pushkin’s Half Hour with John Agard Sunday 30th December 2018 16:30-1930 £8 entry Purchase Eventbrite tickets here. The Square Tower Broad Street Portsmouth Hampshire PO1 2ND A brand new production written and performed by Caribbean-British poet John Agard, winner in 2014 of the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. In this whimsical whirlwind homage to mixed race Russian poet, Pushkin, Agard transforms his famous verse novel, … Continue reading Pushkin’s Half Hour with John Agard: Sunday 30th December 2018

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Poetry in Portsmouth, Tongues and Grooves Events

Many Skies Have Fallen: 26th November 2018

‘MANY SKIES HAVE FALLEN’ BOOK LAUNCH PARTY with MAGGIE SAWKINS Monday 26 November 6.30 – 9.30pm The Square Tower Broad Street, Portsmouth PO1 2ND Maggie’s new collection, ‘Many Skies Have Fallen’, contains poems written in response to the tragic death of her daughter’s partner, Janusz Jasicki, who drowned in the River Shannon in October 2017. Others, written while Janusz was still alive, are included because … Continue reading Many Skies Have Fallen: 26th November 2018

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