COSHAM LIBRARY
PORTSMOUTH PO6 3EB
THURSDAY 6 JUNE
Workshop: 3pm – 5pm
Public Reading: 5.30 pm
Join Tongues & Grooves in the Community and Journeys Festival International for a free poetry workshop with poet Robyn Bolam, exploring themes of home, hope and journeys.
The workshop will take place
3pm – 5pm at Cosham Library, Portsmouth with a public reading by
Robyn Bolam at
5.30pm. There will be an opportunity for poems written during the workshop to be exhibited during
Journeys Festival International, 18– 27 October.Robyn Bolam writes about surviving in difficult circumstances, love and loss, change in the natural world and places and societies. She is originally from Northumberland but now lives and works in Hampshire and is the Hampshire Poet.
Community Conversations is a project which explores how poetry can facilitate conversations across communities. A selection of poems written by members of the refugee and asylum-seeking community will be touring to libraries around Portsmouth until September 2019. Keep an eye on our website for exhibition dates and upcoming workshops.
Tickets: https://www.facebook.com/events/1393420874138807/
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WORDS & MUSIC FOR MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK
Thursday 16 May | 6.30pm
The Square Tower
Old Portsmouth PO1 2ND
FREE EVENT
TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crossing-lines-words-music-for-mental-health-awareness-week-tickets-59067969888
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 for them. The Ward is a Poetry Book Society recommendation.
JOHN O’DONOGHUE’S memoir Sectioned: A Life Interrupted won MIND Book of the Year in 2010; and his latest book, The King from the Water, tells linked short stories set during childhood summer holidays in Ireland. John O’Donoghue was Chair of Survivors’ Poetry 2000-2005 and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Brighton.
CROSSING THE LINE are Martin Heys (guitar, harmonicas, vocals), Martin Kennard(bass, fiddle, accordion, ukulele, harmonicas, vocals) and Nick Manley (mandolin, guitar, vocals). Expect an eclectic mix of Americana, blue-grass, folk and blues.
http://www.squaretower.co.uk/exhibition_art_venue_portsmouth_hampshire.html
