​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.
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Poetry Teignmouth. Every month, "Poetry Teignmouth at the Mill" Zoom Open mic  event. 
Visit http://www.poetryteignmouth.com/ for more details and other PT events.
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RIVERS & OCEANS
With The Seals and The Stars * 
Poetry Reading
at the Alice Cross Centre, Teignmouth, Devon TQ14 9BT
​Benefit Concert for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Three Men In A Boat – Roger Philip Dennis, Steve Day, Ian Royce Chamberlain The watery edge  – a long way from Kingston Upon Thames but very near the Teignmouth Estuary.

The Sea, The Sea * – Sue Proffitt, Jennie Osborne, Dana Littlepage Smith. Women in a depth of ocean above and below the waves –  write the deep and eschew the shallows.
 
Ian Royce Chamberlain is a founder member of Poetry Teignmouth and long time resident of Teignmouth.  Over the last three years his poetry collection Not Forgotten (Mudlark Press) has become a ‘must read’ for people interested in non-fiction seafaring literature; wonderful evocative poems about the Scilly Isles shipwreck of 1875…. “No-one hears the lifeboats’ fatal battering against the hull.”  Ian Royce Chamberlain is most definitely a ‘contemporary’ poet yet his flair for interpreting the historical implication is sharply drawn.

Sue Proffitt was the 2023 winner of the Rosemary McLeish Poetry Prize at the Rainham Poetry Festival, she lives in a former coastguards cottage in Hallsands, a place that “isn’t haunted./No-one died on the night the sea fell in/through windows, down chimneys/but the cliffs remember.”  Sue is a wild swimmer, sailor and one of our leading poets. Rebecca Gethin made the observation that Proffitt poetry “is a quest for truths caught in the lighthouse flash”…  The statement echoes Virginia Woolf, a worthy comparison.

A winner of the prestigious Kent & Sussex Poetry Prize, Jennie Osborne is known throughout Devon as a poet who inhabits the content of her work on stage.  However, in April 2022 she played a short solo set in Cambridge in front of a young Rock music audience, she received a standing ovation despite the fact that the majority of the audience had never hear of her!  Four months later Caroline Carver called Jennie’s new book Signals From The Other (Dempsey & Windle), ”A really important collection…”  Signals is now already in its second edition.

Roger Philip Dennis, National Poetry Prize winner 2014, and Steve Day, shorted listed for the Bridport Prize in 2023, brought out their collaborative collection Portraits And Invocations (Wylde Publications) in January.  Last month the book got the Extravaganza treatment at Ashburton Arts Centre.  The poems were performed to a backdrop of screened images, live dance choreography and a full 11-piece band. Rigobert Dittman called Steve’s poetry an “enchantment of bittersweet sophistication.”

“The boy was intent/though silent; this was the kind of place he’d like/to stop, to drift down under, in the copper water/coined with emerald weed and slow moving fishes”, an intimate description by the American poet Dana Littlepage Smith, now living in Exeter.  We're fortunate to have her reading in this programme, for the first time in Teignmouth.  She was recently featured in Poems For A Broken World with Jennie and Steve, commissioned by Exeter Quakers.  Her books include Women Clothed with the Sun (Louisiana State Press), The Skin of Mercy (Cinnamon Press) and Black Elk Dances for Queen Victoria  (Cinnamon Press).