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Category: Open Book
GUNPOWDER, TREASON AND PLOT…..TUESDAY 5TH NOVEMBER THE FINAL ACT….
COME AND JOIN THE CONSPIRATORS AS OPEN BOOK CLOSES ITS DOORS FOR THE FINAL TIME. AFTER THREE YEARS WE ARE CLOSING THE BOOK AT THE ORGAN GRINDER AND MOVING ON TO NEW…
1st October : Rory Waterman V Andrew Taylor – The Bardic Clash
ENVOI I tried to open your gate. It was huge,an oblong snug in the wall, covered in curlsand blisters of thick green paint, and creaked a bit but wouldn’t budge from its…
3 September 2024 – Shaun Belcher & Trevor Wright
TREVOR WRIGHT HS2 Haiku New high speed train link Gets you faster to where you Cant afford to go Or Out of the Mouths We started out in along the tree lined…
Leanne Moden & Sonia Burns: Tuesday 6th August
LEANNE MODEN Leanne Moden is a poet, theatremaker and educator, from Nottingham. She’s been performing poetry for over fourteen years, and she was a semi-finalist at the BBC Edinburgh Fringe Slam in…
Anthony R. Owen, Rich Goodson and Cae Capurro: Tuesday 2nd July Open Book Election Special
Join your host with the most* Neil Fulwood for an evening of poetry, politics, proselytising and probably a few more things starting with P. *The most what we’re not sure. CAE CAPURRO…
Hannah M Teasdale, Adrian Buckner and Rick Hall: Tuesday 4th June Open Book
‘If Anais Nin and Shane Meadows met at a bar to write prose and poems it may well end up like this. An awareness of vulnerability is a strength that Hannah Teasdale…
Aaron Kent and Stuart McPherson – Empty Vessels Tour : Tuesday 7th May
Released 31st May, 2024 // 120 pages // 978-1-916938-19-9 // RRP £11.99 All Empty Vessels is an urgent, emotional commentary on what it is to exist in our contemporary world. Aaron Kent…
Charlie Bayliss and Neil Fulwood – Tuesday 2nd April
Charlie Baylis is one of the headlining poets at next month’s Open Book. Go here to snaffle a copy of his collection: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/…/charlie-baylis-a… Check out the Open Book Page on facebook here…
Submit to the Medusa
SUBMIT TO THE MEDUSA Kathy Kieth, tireless editor of ace American online journal Medusa’s Kitchen, having recently published work by Open Book host Neil Fulwood and regular Open Book attendee Hongwei Bao,…
Becky Cullen and Birgit Friedrich – Tuesday 5th March
BECKY CULLEN I am @beckycullen on Twitter @drbeckycullen on Instagram (not on the latter as much) Becky Cullen is fond of all kinds of potatoes. Her poems dip in and out of…
Guy Jones and Shaun Belcher – Tuesday 6th February
GUY JONES Guy is the Writer In Residence for Hothouse Theatre, a community theatre and film project in Nottingham. He has written several fringe-style plays and short films for Hothouse. He also performs…
5 December 2023 – Andrea Bowd & Neil Fulwood
Andrea Bowd and the Poet now known as Tractor Killer…..Merry Xmas everybody..
Tuesday Shannon & Alan Baker: Open Book 7th November
ALAN BAKER Alan Baker was born and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and has lived in Nottingham since 1985, where he has been editor of the poetry publisher Leafe Press for the last twenty years, and editor…
2nd Anniversary of Open Book: Tony Challis and Shaun Belcher – Tuesday 3 October 2023
Come and celebrate the “2nd anniversary of OPEN BOOK readings with Neil Fulwood . TONY CHALLIS Tony Challis has been writing poetry since the 1980s, as well as short stories and memoir….
Forthcoming in September – Andrew Button and Jade Moore
Tuesday 5 September 2023 Andrew Button Originally from Nottingham, Andrew Button currently lives in Leicestershire. He has had many poems placed in magazines and a pamphlet, Dry Days in Wet Towns, was…
August Poets – Fiona Robertson and Andy Sutton
Fiona Robertson began writing poetry in 2013. In 2019 she was a top ten finalist in the Nottingham round of the UNESCO City of Literature Slamovision poetry slam. She has been a…
INDEPENDENCE DAY POETRY (No not the film yet again on C4)
Do androids dream of electric poets? Come along to Open Book at The Organ Grinder, Nottingham on Tuesday 4th July at 8pm to find out. We have an amazing triple bill lined…
6 June 2023 – Claire Meyrick & Kathy Pimlott
CLAIRE MEYRICK Claire Meyrick (nee Hancock) is originally from East Anglia and now resides in West Bridgford ,Nottingham. She is a writer, spoken-word performer and singer. Claire has performed in a number…
Martin Stannard and Jo Dixon: 2nd May….
Next reading is 2 May 2023 – Martin Stannard & Jo Dixon ’27 Poems’ is what it says on the tin: 27 short poems – twelve and a half lines each, to…
Tuesday 7 March 2023 – Julie Gardner & Rory Waterman
Next Reading: Tuesday 7 March 2023 – Julie Gardner & Rory Waterman
OPEN BOOK IS OPEN AGAIN…
Yes the open book is open again….. A star-studded jamboree of wordy rappinhoodness… Your Commisar Neil Fulwood Joined by Sue Dymoke https://suedymokepoetry.com/ Sofi Tahira https://bones-of-a-girl.blogspot.com/ Caroline Stancer https://writingeastmidlands.co.uk/caroline-stancer/
Happy New Year
Coming soon a wordtastic triple header.. Sue Dymoke, Sofi Tahira & Caroline Stancer Tuesday 7th February 2023
happy holiday from the open book
OPEN AGAIN SOON……KEEP WRITING AND READING FOLKS..
December triple-header: Fulwood, Bowd and Wright
Neil Fulwood was born in Nottingham in 1972, son of a truck driver, grandson of a miner. He still lives in the city and works as a bus driver. Somewhere along the…
OPEN BOOK 1st November: Tuesday Shannon & Jeremy Duffield
1 November 2022 Jeremy Duffield & Tuesday Shannon Jeremy Duffield is a Derbyshire poet and playwright who has been writing since the mid 1970s. His work has featured widely in magazines and anthologies…
OPEN BOOK 4TH OCTOBER: Andrew Taylor & Gregory Woods
Tuesday 4 October 2022 Andrew Taylor & Gregory Woods
OPEN BOOK AT THE ORGAN GRINDER: Roy Marshall & Sonia Burns
In a change to the advertised programme, Roy Marshall will be joining Sonia Burns at next week’s Open Book event. Our original co-headliner Di Slaney will hopefully be appearing at a future…
Welcome to the OPEN BOOK readings website
Poets! Friends! Poet friends! Friends who know poets! Your attention please. This weekend, I start working on the 2023 slate for Open Book, the monthly poetry/spoken word event that I emcee at…