Tag: Tongues and Grooves

Sticky post
Poetry in Portsmouth, Tongues and Grooves Events

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

Unknown's avatartongues&grooves2 Comments
Community, Open Mic, Poetry in Portsmouth, Tongues and Grooves Events

From the Heart Poetry Recital

February 2024 ‘Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary …’ Looking for a challenge to carry you through the winter months? Then this could be the answer! Following the success of our From the Heart Poetry Recital 2020, we’ve decided to organise another, and we’d love it if you took part. All you have to do is pledge to learn a published poem … Continue reading From the Heart Poetry Recital

Unknown's avatartongues&groovesLeave a comment
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

Unknown's avatartongues&groovesLeave a comment
Poetry in Portsmouth

The Portsmouth Literary Map Project

Welcome to the city where Charles Dickens was born and where Arthur Conan Doyle first unleashed the world’s most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, on a grateful world. Welcome also to a city whose literary stories go far beyond these more familiar examples – a city whose literary character and complex identity isn’t just about the past, but about a community of talented writers beavering away … Continue reading The Portsmouth Literary Map Project

Unknown's avatartongues&groovesLeave a comment
Poetry in Portsmouth, Tongues and Grooves

Thursday 13 February 2020: Snow Q

Thursday 13th February 2020 Square Tower Old Portsmouth, PO1 2ND Tickets: £8 advance / £10 door Advance ticket purchase through Eventbrite Welcome to our first show of 2020: SnowQ – a troubled fairy tale for troubled times. A collaborative project inspired by The Snow Queen story by Hans Christian Andersen through poetry, film and performance. Snow Q re-imagines this richly symbolic story as a vehicle … Continue reading Thursday 13 February 2020: Snow Q

Unknown's avatartongues&grooves