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20 March 2024: 20 Years of Tongues& Grooves

Tongues&Grooves celebrates twenty years of top notch poetry and music with a special event at Portsmouth’s iconic Square Tower. Please join us! FLYWEIGHT  Work in progress performance of a new live literature production by Maggie Sawkins, featuring new poems by Maggie exploring the theme of female boxing alongside video and audio material by MattParsons created at boxing clubs on the Isle of Wight. Directed by Mark C. Hewitt, who … Continue reading 20 March 2024: 20 Years of Tongues& Grooves

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Thursday 16th May: Words and Music for Mental Health Awareness Week

WORDS & MUSIC FOR MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK Thursday 16 May | 6.30pm The Square Tower Old Portsmouth PO1 2ND FREE EVENT TICKETS are available here.  LOUISA CAMPBELL’S experiences as a Mental Health Nurse and psychiatric patient come to life in her new collection The Ward, where people with catatonia, schizophrenia, depression, paranoia, mania, anorexia and alcoholism speak out from the pages, with the nurses trying to care … Continue reading Thursday 16th May: Words and Music for Mental Health Awareness Week

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Past Events: Sunday 21st August 2016: Paul Birtill, Sue Apicella & Dave Jordan, and The Four Saxes

SUNDAY 21 AUGUST THE SQUARE TOWER 7.30 – 10pm Doors 7pm £5 | £4 Liverpool poet and playwright, PAUL BIRTILL Read a review of this event >> ‘Bleedin’ fabulous!‘ John Cooper Clarke ‘A kind of anti-laureate who makes Philip Larkin sound life affirming.’ Robert Lloyd, Ham & High “His stark and hard-hitting verse skillfully echoes the neuroses of 90’s life” Irish Post “Serious and deadpan, … Continue reading Past Events: Sunday 21st August 2016: Paul Birtill, Sue Apicella & Dave Jordan, and The Four Saxes

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