SPOKEN WORD ANTICS
www.access-space.org/antics
Tuesday 11 March 2008, 8.30pm start
Upstairs in the Red Deer (Pitt St, off Mappin St, Sheffield centre)
£2/£1 in the hat

Ever thought Spoken Word Antics was too wordy? Well this month we’re getting short and poignant! Matt Clegg roams Sheffield’s outlying areas with a series of tanka, sound effects courtesy of Brian Lewis; and Chris Jones reads haiku from Cells, a collaboration with the painter Paul Evans, as well as a sequence of haiku and tanka to do with the river Don.

There will also be a number of open spots for you to come and perform your own poetry, stories, urban fairytales…or something you admire. Let me know when you arrive if you’d like to perform.

The latest Antics radio show is currently available to listen to as a podcast. It features Rob Hindle reading poems based on his experiences of Spain in the early 1990s; they deal with the unease both of the foreigner immersed in another culture, and of a modern Spain still coming to terms with its turbulent recent past. Allegra Holbrook and Corinne Salisbury read two stories about the body, and you can hear details about how to take part in Body Image, a new creative writing project. There is also a recording of Zoe Lambert reading ‘Thermal Vest’, and an interview with her from when she visited back in January.

To listen, click on ‘podcasts’ on the Antics homepage: www.access-space.org/antics.