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A brief selection from this month’s compendium of South/Southeast London based or related poetry events. To subscribe to the full newsetter or send details of relevant events, email pnsel.enews@yahoo.co.uk or leave message here.

Friday 21 April in SW9

Fourth Friday
Poetry & Acoustic Music

Continues in its temporary location (until Poetry Café re-opens in May) at
Bar 48 – Wine Bar and Eritrean Tapas Restaurant (48 Brixton Road, SW9 6BT. Nearest station Oval)

Entry: £6/£5
Further details: http://www.fourthfriday.wordpress.com

Thursday 11 May in SE10

World Poets – Edward Thomas

Latest in ‘World Poets’ series of lecture-performances-with-readings by poet/poetry lecturer Graham Fawcett. Other poets – Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, and Rupert Brooke – will also feature as part of Thomas’s story, as will his friendship with US poet Robert Frost. Graham will talk about the life connected with the work, particularly Thomas’s discovery of himself as a poet – and encourage audience involvement, as ever.

Starts: 7pm
Cost: £12.50
Venue: Upstairs Bar, The Prince of Greenwich,  72 Royal Hill, London, SE10 8RT (with food available for purchase downstairs).

Information and bookings: http://www.in-words.co.uk or email:  irena@in-words.co.uk

POETRY COMPETITIONS

Lots of interesting-looking poetry competitions (including a ‘flyting’ (Scottish verbal poetic battle) contest on the Poetry Library Newsletter website on www.poetrylibrary.org.uk/competitions.