SpokenWord Paris

Filippa is a 24-year-old native Swede who currently resides in Montmartre. She spent recent years in London earning a degree in English Lit and Creative Writing. Her poems have featured in magazines as well as an anthology, and she is the winner of a South-East London poetry prize. ‘Elsewhere’ is her debut poetry chapbook and is published by Corrupt Press. Beyond the rather obvious theme of wanderlust, it also seeks to interrogate questions such as transnationalism, national identity, and the relationship between self and place.

Ella & the Snowman

Open Secret ~ that intimate open mic, Wednesdays underground @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais , 5è. At 8pm nightlong sign-up starts, & at 9 the show! Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4). Theme:“Everybody fall in love, already!” 

Our special guest poet this Wednesday, visiting us from Glasgow, is Ella Russell, who knows how to distill raw feeling into fine lines, & illuminate topics like friendship & love (which Rilke, of course, told the young poet that they could only be handled in the hands of a mature poet ~ not necessarily mature in age, as Neruda & now Ella will show you, at around the same age). Lovely!

Also, the words/sounds of Didier Cornevin…who turns the poetry of Baudelaire, Rimbaud & others into music, as well as writing his own nouvelle French chanson! See you at le spectacle!

Open Secret! That intimate SpokenWord Paris open mic, Wednesdays underground @ Le Bistrot des Artistes, 6 rue des Anglais  in Paris’ Latin Quarter…At 8pm, nightlong sign-up begins, & at 9 le sptacle! Métro Maubert-Mutualité (line 10) or Saint-Michel (line 4).

This Wednesday features the return of an unprecedentedly special guest writer – the genius wordsmith Amanda Mandala! (See bio below).Theme: “Surprised by Joy,”  ~ carrying on our Christmas themes of Peace, Love & Joy. 🙂

Bio:
Amanda is a a writer and performance maker based in between London and the world. She is the author of several chapbooks, pamphlets and the creator behind Prawnstar Poems, a travelling performance/poetry/publication project, mantled in a pink hue. Prawnstar Poems finances itself with self-published chapbooks and palm readings. After travelling extensively around Europe in a nomadic mission to exchange stories for ways of travel, Amanda has now re-settled into the big smoke, where she is currently working on a new publication and an accompanying cabaret piece. Otherwise she is busy working as freelance writer, translator, part time living sculpture, and ultimately trying to make the world a pinker place one shade at a time.
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Open Secret runs every Wednesday with no holiday break.

SpokenWord:
Dec 5th NOSTALGIA — Amruta Prabhu
Dec 12th LETTERS HOME — Anna Polonyi
Dec 19th GIFTS — Filippa Bahrke

The Other Writers’ Group:
Dec 4th
Dec 11th
Dec 18th

SpokenWord will then be back on Monday 2nd Jan
The Other Writers’ Group will be back on Sunday 8th Jan

Cheers all,
David Barnes

Amruta Prabhu was born and raised in Mumbai, India, and is a Paris-based polyglot and translator by day and poet, writer, photographer and dancer by night. Drawing heavily from both her Indian culture and love for Europe, her inspiration comes from the details of everyday life and her writing aims at undiluted, honest expression. She studied English literature and Professional Translation, and her poems and prose have been published in Paris Lit Up Magazine N. 3 and the online literary and arts journal Canopic Jar. She will be returning permanently to India next week and hopes that her creative streak finds new inspiration there.

Multilingual poet/performer Philip Meersman (1971) pushes boundaries of poetry in both written and spoken form, drawing on current affairs, socio-political and environmental issues. He is the author of the poetry collection This Is Belgian Chocolate: Manifestations of Poetry. He is a cofounder of DAstrugis- tenDA, artiestencollectief JA!, and received in 2012 the “D. Buliuk award for outstanding achievements in the field of avant-garde art and the avant-garde in research.” In 2016 he starts a PhD in the Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp: “the oral performance of visual poetry” based upon the work of the Russian Cubo-Futurists and René Magritte. http://threeroomspress.com/authors/ philip-meersman/