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Themes for next Spoken Words: 26th March – Nonsense (absurdités, idiotes, sans sens, dire de n’importe quoi) 2nd April – Lost/Found (perdu/trouvé) 23rd April – The City (la cité/la ville) All 3 dates are at 9pm on Wednesdays at L’Ogre … Continue reading →

Halelujah brothers and sisters, we have a venue! Downstairs in the cellar atThe Highlander Pub8 rue de nevers(a very small street on the left bank starting opposite the Pont Neuf bridge that crosses the western tip of the Isle de … Continue reading →

1oth Spring of the Poets festival is 8th March to 1st April.Programme here, in French. http://www.matthiasvincenot.net/printemps_poetes_2008.pdf

By the way, this bar up in Belleville do all kinds of French slam nights & music jams and stuff. Even a haiku open mic. Let’s go and do our stuff! They were warm and welcoming when I read there … Continue reading →

Liam, Erica, Conrad & Stefanos Sergio Alixandra & Stefanie I’ll do a full report when I get back from London. But next Spoken Word is 13th Feb at the Bistrot des Artistes and the theme will be masks.

Some mornings I wake up after Spoken Word and wonder what last night was all about. Not this morning – that was exactly what it’s all about! A (smoke-free!) cellar crammed to bursting with enthusiastic people, the distance between readers, … Continue reading →

Back in the day this was where we used to do Anglophonics, a music-plus-some-spoken-word open mic night. It was run by Nancy Magarill when I arrived and featured people like David Bowie’s band! That scene was one of the main … Continue reading →