SUNDAY 29 DECEMBER 2019 THE SQUARE TOWER OLD PORTSMOUTH 4.00 pm |: £8.00 An Adult Dr Seuss is a one man show by performance poet Geoff Allnutt AKA The Speech Painter. It takes the work and world of Dr Seuss and re imagines them for adults using the rhythms and tongue twisting alliteration of Seuss’s classics to create a show of mind altering poetry. Along … Continue reading Sunday 29 December 2019 – An Adult Dr Seuss
Sunday 27th October 2019: Project Adorno – Brontë Beat The Square Tower, Old Portsmouth PO1 2ND 7.00 pm £8 on the door Buy tickets http://www.tonguesandgrooves.com Brontë Beat by Project Adorno The Brontë sisters’ contribution to literature is the stuff of legend: their work has a unique flavour, mingling domestic realism with wild romance, the personal with the peculiar. This, coupled with their extraordinary life story, … Continue reading Sunday 27th October 2019: Project Adorno – Brontë Beat
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
South Downs Poetry Festival presents THE BLOOD JET OF POETRY Sunday 28 October 6.30 – 9.30pm The Square Tower Broad Street, Portsmouth PO1 2ND A celebration of words, music and song from acclaimed and multi-prizewinning SPRING POETS with live music from LES KAZOOS D’AMOUR and WORDBASS Marianne Barber, Denise Bennett (Inaugural Hamish Canham Prize) Robyn Bolam (Hampshire Poet 2018), Lydia Fulleylove (Two Ravens Press) Eve … Continue reading The Blood Jet of Poetry: October 2018
SUNDAY 15 OCTOBER THE SQUARE TOWER 7.30 – 10PM Doors 7pm £5 | £4 THE POETRY OF SUCHNESS An evening of Taoist and Zen inspired poems of selflessness, emptiness and enlightenment hosted by GEORGE MARSH. With Taoist and Zen inspired music. TWO POETRY WORKSHOPS with GEORGE MARSH 8 places THURSDAY 12 OCTOBER 2 pm £10 Venue tbc Taoist inspired yin-yang writing workshop. Build the circadian rhythms … Continue reading October 2017: Taoist and Zen inspired poems – Readings and Workshops
SUNDAY 17 SEPTEMBER THE SQUARE TOWER 7.30 – 10PM Doors 7pm £5 |£4 Launch of FIFTY WAYS TO FLY – an anthology of poetry and lyrics in support of The British Women’s Pilots Association, featuring over 45 voices and edited by ALISON HILL. Guest Poets include: STEPHEN BOYCE and MATTHEW WEST Music with FLY AWAY PETER. Two poetry workshops on the theme of flying are … Continue reading Sunday 17th September 2017: Fifty Ways to Fly
Poetry and Music in Portsmouth and Southsea 