Events and Readings 2010

7th January at Oxford Central Library.  RV Bailey, Kate Foley, Christine Webb, Joy Howard and Pat Winslow.  Lesbian poetry event.   This reading cancelled due to severe weather.  Re-sceduled for 12th March - new venue - see below

19th January at Queens Park Books, Kilburn.  Angela Kirby, Gerda Mayer, Joy Howard, (and Eve Featherstone reading poems by Berta Freistadt). Poems from ’Cracking On’. Special guest Michele Hanson

12th February 2010 at Hebden Bridge Library. Pamela Coren, Meg Peacocke, Joy Howard and Gina Shaw read poems from ’Cracking On’

6th March at the Friends Meeting House, Leicester.  Alice Beer, Christine Coleman, Pamela Coren and Hermione Sandall read poems from ’Cracking On’

12th March 6.30 - 8pm at The Jam Factory, Oxford.  RV Bailey, Kate Foley, Christine Webb, Joy Howard and  Pat Winslow.  Lesbian Poetry event (NB new venue and time.)

13th March 2-3pm at The Women’s Library, Old Castle St London E1. As part of the Women’s Library Wisewords Bookfest, Angela Kirby, Dinah Livingstone, Ruth O’Callaghan, Alwyn Marriage, Joy Howard, Kate Foley and Diane Tang will read from ’Cracking On’.

9th June 6.30 - 8 at Heffers Bookshop, Cambridge.  Hilary Elfick, Pam Coren, Kate Foley and Joy Howard read poems from ’Cracking On’

24th July 2010 2-3.30 at the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh. A C Clarke, Lyn Moir, Margaret Wood and Rosemary McLeish give a reading from ’Cracking On’

July 09 - Dec 09

21st July 2009 at the Bluebell Bookshop, Penrith

Kate Foley, Joy Howard and Meg Peacocke

13th August 2009 at Saltaire Bookshop, Saltaire

Joy Howard reads from Exit Moonshine

8th October at  Ilkley Literature Festival

Second Bite poets Joy Howard, Hilary J Murray and Gina Shaw will be headlining an open mic session (National Poetry Day)

17th October 2009 at Chester Oyez

Pamela Coren, Ann Drysdale, Joy Howard, Gill McEvoy and  Gina Shaw will read from ’A Twist of Malice’ 

13th November 2009.  Launch reading from ’Cracking On’ at Central Library, Leeds.  Various poets from the anthology

18th November 2009.  Reading at Gay’s the Word, Marchmont St London WC1 with Kate Foley, Cherry Potts and Joy Howard.  Women only event

28th November 2009.  Launch reading from ’Cracking On’ at Morrab Library, Penzance.  Joy Howard, Ann Alexander, Ann Drysdale, Christine Webb, Pat Simmons and Elisabeth Rowe

12th December 2009 at Todmorden library.  Janet Loverseed, Joy Howard, Gill McEvoy and Gina Shaw

A series of readings by poets featuring in A Twist of Malice was  organised around the country from December 2008 to July 2009. The poets read from A Twist of Malice plus selections from their other work.

6th December 2008, at Todmorden Library.

Char March, Gina Shaw, Clare Shaw, Joy Howard .

8th January 2009 at Borders, York

Carole Bromley, Helen Burke, Thelma Laycock, Hilary Murray

22nd January 2009 at Queen’s Park Books, Kilburn NW6

Berta Freistadt, Marianne Burton, Angela Kirby, Gerda Mayer

11th February 2009 at Waterstones, Leicester

Christine Coleman, Kathryn Dszkiewicz, Pamela Coren, Alice Beer

 21st February 2009 at Waterstones Kendal

Meg Peacocke, Rosemary McLeish, Gina Shaw, Carole Bromley

12th & 13th March at Waterstones in Amsterdam and Brussels

Kate Foley, Christine Webb, Gina Shaw, Angela Kirby, Ann Drysdale, Marianne Burton, Anne Stewart.

28th March at Hebden Bridge Library

Gill McEvoy, Pamela Coren and Gina Shaw

23rd April at Watersones Cheltenham

Angela France, Ann Alexander, Ann Drysdale and Ruth Sharman

30th April at Borders Charing Cross Rd WC2

Joanna Ezekiel, Gerda Mayer, Jenny Morris, Ruth O’Callaghan, Anne Stewart, Diane Tang and Christine Webb

21st May at Borders Oxford

Gill Learner, Judith Priestman, Angela France and Christine Webb

6th June at Housmans, Caledonian Rd NW1

Berta Freistadt, Gerda Mayer, Angela Kirby, Marianne Burton

5th July at Walpole Old Chapel, Walpole, Suffolk

Angela Kirby, Marrianne Burton, Anne Stewart, Kate Foley, Joy Howard, Ann Drysdale, Christine Webb

Books - Published and Planned

Second Bite