Aberdeen's popular monthly poetry gathering, with special guests, book launches
and open floor spots
Last Thursday of the month
Extra events in September during
New Words
December date varies to avoid holidays
6.30pm • Admission by donation
Poetry Aberdeen is brought to you in association with
North East Writers
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New Words 2010
Poetry Aberdeen events as part of the festival
Thursdays 2, 9 & 23 September 2010
7pm–9pm
Admission by donation
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Thursday 2 September
Demented Eloquence
Sharp and comic performance poetry from Rapunzel Wizard and Amanda Aitken
An evening of performance poetry that will be both demented and eloquent. Where
stand up comedy and poetry meet are the muddied waters inhabited by Rapunzel Wizard
and Amanda Aitken. Their siren voices will entice you into the mire. Prepare for
laughter, insight, and soiled footwear.
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Thursday 9 September
Dumb Show
Poet, sound artist and light manipulator pick at the incomplete meanings of modern
life
Building on last year's Nightmare show, Knotbrook Taylor and David Liddell
have developed their sound and poetry performance as well as asking fellow artist
Anton Beaver to do a dedicated light performance to augment the show.
The work itself explores the strangeness of modern life — touching upon themes
such as online dating, mummification, identity and tattoos. It is dark, humorous
and questioning.
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Thursday 23 September
What They Say About You
Eddie Gibbons reads from his new collection, joined by Olivia McMahon and Catriona
Yule
Witty, moving and always ingenious.
If more poets wrote poems like this more people would read poems.
— some of the things that have been said about Eddie's poems. As for his performance
of them, John Hegley has said of it that this changes from sad to happy from downbeat
to zappy, all one enriching tapestry. Come and be enriched!
In this reading he is joined by poets Olivia McMahon and Catriona Yule.
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2010 Programme
Thursday 28 January 2010
Ryan Van Winkle and Grant Fraser
Thursday 25 February 2010
Rapunzel Wizard: Demented Eloquence
Thursday 25 March 2010
Judith Taylor: Local Colour
Thursday 29 April 2010
Stars of the Open Mic
Thursday 27 May 2010
Bryony Harrower: What Love is Like in Ink
Thursday 24 June 2010
Poetry Aberdeen — The Relaunch
Thursday 29 July 2010
Aberdeen Writers' Circle
Thursday 26 August 2010
New Words 2010 Preview
New Words 2010 Events
Thursday 2 September 2010
Demented Eloquence
Thursday 9 September 2010
Dumb Show
Thursday 23 September 2010
What They Say About You
Thursday 28 October 2010
Open Floor
Thursday 25 November 2010
Thursday 30 December 2010
Archive
2012 Programme
2011 Programme
2010 Programme
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the year.
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