The Violet Hour June 2017

THE FULL LINE-UP FOR JUNE'S POETRY ISLAND!
COMING SOON!
THURSDAY 8 JUNE 2017 8pm

Ian Beech hosts and performs alongside a full cast of talented
performance poets from across the South West, plus star headliners Jinny Fisher & Ken Beevers.

Still seats available. To reserve seats, please email ianbeechpoetry@btinternet.com or contact Ian's mobile 07866-181384 £6.00 entry.

Jinny Fisher lives in Glastonbury and is a member of Taunton’s Juncture 25 and Wells Fountain Poets. She has been a violinist and a psychotherapist but is now happy tending her poetry garden. Her poems have been published in magazines including The Interpreter’s House, Under the Radar, The Broadsheet, Prole and Domestic Cherry. Online publications include Strange Poetry, Clear Poetry, Ink, Sweat & Tears and Spilling Cocoa over
Martin Amis. She has been three times shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, and Commended in Battered Moons and Fire River competitions. In 2016, she gained a Highly Commended in York Mix Competition and 2nd Prize in The Interpreter’s House Competition. Her most fun activity is pushing around the Poetry Pram, which she invented last year. She and her Juncture 25 mates fill it with their poems and read them to drunken festival-goers. Outreach!

‘This is accessible writing which packs a great punch, engaging the brain, and then the heart.’
Jonathan Edwards

‘Taut, precise, and highly charged, Jinny Fisher's poems weight the silence in which they are read; they slow time, pause over the otherwise neglected detail, and convey how much is at stake in the smallest of exchanges.’
Carrie Etter

Ken Beevers retired to Torbay in 2011 from Bolton, and in his poems, he looks back fondly on the past. The Devon effect led him to do something creative, so he enrolled on a writing course at Paignton Library and discovered poetry. This led to the Blue Walnut Cafe and the wonderful world of Poetry Island, where he listened, and finally performed on its gentle shores, considerably helped by the tutoring and support of Chris Brooks, Robert Garnham, and Ian Beech, and encouragement from members of Poets Friday in Torquay. He has also performed at numerous other Devon venues.
Poems by Ken have featured in the last two editions of The Broadsheet magazine and he is currently working on his first book, due to be published by Poetry Island Press later in 2017.
A former librarian, he once shared the top job in poetry – responsibility for the care of Walt Whitman’s stuffed canary, one of Bolton Libraries and Museums most prized possessions. Beat that.

"Ken dances with language and takes the listener to places we recognise yet see afresh. His mix of autobiography and humour is a constant delight. An earnest, softly spoken calm mannered giant of the westcountry poetry scene."
Robert Garnham

"Ken Beevers captivates audiences with his charming, poignant poetry, often vividly evoking byegone days. A master storyteller - you'll hang on his every word."
Ian Beech

Part One

Simon Williams

Shelley Szender

Alexander Rhodes

Antonia Eastwood

Nick Kitto

Part Two

Ruth Butler

Ian Royce Chamberlain

Virginia Griem

Robert Garnham

Part Three

Ken Beever

Jinny Fisher

For more information visit http://www.beckynuttall.com/