Other Poetry Events
If you are organising a poetry event in or within reach of the Moor Poets area, you are welcome to post details here. To do so, please see contact page.
If you are organising a poetry event in or within reach of the Moor Poets area, you are welcome to post details here. To do so, please see contact page.
Poetry Teignmouth. Every month, "Poetry From the Mill" Zoom Open mic event.
Visit http://www.poetryteignmouth.com/ for more details and other PT events.
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Visit http://www.poetryteignmouth.com/ for more details and other PT events.
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Events featuring Moor Poets members Jennie Osborne and Steve Day
Day Evans Dale Ensemble
Ashburton Arts Centre
Friday 18th March 2022, 7.30pm
Tickets available from Ashburton Arts Centre website or on the door.
Steve Day, words, percussion; Peter Evans, 5-string electric violin, loops; Julian Dale, double bass, bowed bowls, voice; Mark Langford, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, piano; Andy Williamson, tenor & soprano saxophone, piano; Roger Hall, gongs, percussion, double bass. Plus special guest Jennie Osborne, words.
Day Evans Dale bring their larger ensemble into play – the massive yet subtle gong choir of Roger Hall from Dartington, balanced against the reeds and piano of UK maestro musician Mark Langford and the maverick marvel that is Andy Williamson, both swapping their keys and reeds roles throughout. Julian Dale is Bristol’s star bassist, partnered with the violin supremo Peter Evans, who has been described as “beguiling”, “awesome”, “incredibly unique”. Amnesty International called poet/percussionist Steve Day “one of the best performance poets in the UK”. Tonight most of the material will be from his new collection of poetry Diamonds In Streams.
Special guest is vibrant and hard-hitting poet Jennie Osborne, for the first time performing her own work with the Day Evans Dale Ensemble.
Jennie Osborne & Steve Day
Shared Poems For Benefit Concert in aid of Refugee Support Devon
Live Sound Installation: Ric White, EWI & synthesisers
Ashburton Arts Centre
Sunday 3rd April 2022, 2.00pm – 4.00pm
This is not so much so much a poetry reading as a declaration of war. In the Osborne/Day rationale, poetry is not a polite execution of literature, although they are both published poets presenting new work. Instead, it involves words as potential peace-weapons in the war against complacency and lack of tolerance towards displaced people. Jennie Osborne will be reading Steve Day’s poems and vice versa, an attempt to get a different perspective on their own work. The presence of Ric White’s ‘live’ audio soundtrack instantly places these poems closer to the word/music performances associated with jazz, avant-rock and post-modern composers/improvisers such as John Cage, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson. There will be no fixed entrance fee for this event. It is hoped that you will feel able to give a generous donation to the work of Refugee Support Devon, who will be attending. Come in peace, and prepare to take on the language of frontline resistance.
Steve Day
POET & percussion
with Mark Langford, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet; Julian Dale, double bass, bowed glass bowl; Roger Hall, gongs, percussion
The Alice Cross Centre
1 – 3, Bitton Park Road, Teignmouth, Devon, TQ14 9BT
Saturday 14th May 2022, 7.30pm – 10.30pm
Benefit Concert in aid of Refugee Support Devon
Steve Day – Poet, Writer, Musician
Steve Day is immersed in poetry and music, from Ornette Coleman through to Yeats, Snyder, Plath, Dickinson and Heaney. “Eventually you realise you are somewhere on your own and have to let them all go.”
Steve moved to Devon in April 2021 after being based in Bristol for many years. In the past he’s worked with a number of key poets - U.A. Fanthorpe, Evangeline Paterson, James Stallard, Julie Tippetts & Phil Madden.
His poetry publications include The Edge Of England, Curving Sentences, Pairing and his new 2022 book, Diamonds In Streams. He has also written extensively on jazz - books, articles & liner notes; recorded eight albums for Leo Records (two with Keith Tippett). In 2022 Leo release a new duo album, Rib Music; nine poems integrated with bespoke improvisations by Italian master vibraphone player Sergio Armaroli.
The performance at the Alice Cross Centre is a prelude to a studio session for Discus Records featuring Steve Day and his long- term collaborator, the stunning bassist Julian Dale, in a version of their Day Evans Dale Ensemble. DEDE will also be performing live in the coming months. As well as Julian Dale, Steve is proud to be joined tonight by maestro reeds player Mark Langford. Mark has a huge portfolio in his own right. The mercurial Roger Hall is on gongs & percussion. Roger is a classy improviser of subtlety & nuance.
Tonight’s performance is dedicated to Steve’s partner, award-winning poet Jennie Osborne. In the coming months Osborne and Day will be playing a number of concerts, both in tandem and individually. All profits from tonight’s event go to Refugee Support Devon.
POET & percussion
with Mark Langford, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet; Julian Dale, double bass, bowed glass bowl; Roger Hall, gongs, percussion
The Alice Cross Centre
1 – 3, Bitton Park Road, Teignmouth, Devon, TQ14 9BT
Saturday 14th May 2022, 7.30pm – 10.30pm
Benefit Concert in aid of Refugee Support Devon
Steve Day – Poet, Writer, Musician
Steve Day is immersed in poetry and music, from Ornette Coleman through to Yeats, Snyder, Plath, Dickinson and Heaney. “Eventually you realise you are somewhere on your own and have to let them all go.”
Steve moved to Devon in April 2021 after being based in Bristol for many years. In the past he’s worked with a number of key poets - U.A. Fanthorpe, Evangeline Paterson, James Stallard, Julie Tippetts & Phil Madden.
His poetry publications include The Edge Of England, Curving Sentences, Pairing and his new 2022 book, Diamonds In Streams. He has also written extensively on jazz - books, articles & liner notes; recorded eight albums for Leo Records (two with Keith Tippett). In 2022 Leo release a new duo album, Rib Music; nine poems integrated with bespoke improvisations by Italian master vibraphone player Sergio Armaroli.
The performance at the Alice Cross Centre is a prelude to a studio session for Discus Records featuring Steve Day and his long- term collaborator, the stunning bassist Julian Dale, in a version of their Day Evans Dale Ensemble. DEDE will also be performing live in the coming months. As well as Julian Dale, Steve is proud to be joined tonight by maestro reeds player Mark Langford. Mark has a huge portfolio in his own right. The mercurial Roger Hall is on gongs & percussion. Roger is a classy improviser of subtlety & nuance.
Tonight’s performance is dedicated to Steve’s partner, award-winning poet Jennie Osborne. In the coming months Osborne and Day will be playing a number of concerts, both in tandem and individually. All profits from tonight’s event go to Refugee Support Devon.
