BRIGHTON POEM-A-THON - Sunday 11th December

Seasonal greetings!  This Sunday I shall be one of 60 poets (including Grace Nichols, Sarah Howe & Sasha Dugdale) raising funds for the Refugee Council. Take a look at our Just Giving page:  https://www.justgiving.com/teams/brightonpoemathon. Please come and support us 

( I'm reading at 6.50pm). 

Meanwhile, apologies for the long blog silence. I have been in Australia, USA and South Korea this year, accompanying Chris on three major art projects (see his website  http://chrisdrury.co.uk/.

But we're back now and working on a new spring programme for VERT Institute (watch this space) http://www.kaysyrad.co.uk/vert-institute.php and trying to make sense of the new (or one might say, now-illuminated) political landscape.

I am also reading my poetry at the Needlewriters, Lewes, on Thursday 12th January:

NEEDLEWRITERS

FINE WRITING
and delicious food and drink, at the Needlemakers Café, 

West Street, Lewes

Doors open 7 pm  –  readings begin 7.45 pm

Matthew De Abaitua (prose) Kay Syrad (poetry)   Colin Bell (prose)  

www.needlewriters.co.uk

NEWS...

I shall be one of the featured poets reading at Perth Poetry Club,
Western Australia, on Saturday 11th June, 2-4pm

                                       http://www.perthpoetryclub.com/

EXCHANGE - Chris Drury & Kay Syrad

Exchange, the exhibition based on our Cape Farewell rural residency, will be shown at Schumacher College, Dartington, during the Symposium on Language, Landscape and the Sublime,

29-30th June 2016 

https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/events/symposium-language-landscape

VERT INSTITUTE

The next VERT event will take place on Saturday 
3rd September, details to follow.

                      Further poetry readings at Poetry in the Crypt,

Islington, London, November 2016 (date tbc)           

                           https://www.facebook.com/PoetryInTheCrypt/timeline

http://mikeb-b.blogspot.com.au/#pinc

and also at the Needlewriters' Cafe in Lewes on 12 January 2017

http://www.needlewriters.co.uk