Frogmore poet Maria Jastrzębska at Needlewriters 24 January 2013

Frogmore poet Maria Jastrzębska will read at Needlewriters in Lewes on 24 January 2013. Maria will read from her new collection At the Library of Memories (Waterloo Press).
Details here: http://www.needlewriters.co.uk/#/whats-on/4539813579

morphrog 6 - Poetry in the extreme - goes live

 On 1 January the latest issue of morphrog  - poetry in the extreme - went live.
http://www.morphrog.com/

Contributors to the sixth number are Liz Adams, Francine van den Berg, Clare Crossman, Robin Daglish, Antony Johae, Jack Little, Robert Miles, Martin Myers, Jeremy Worman and Aprilia Zank.

Submissions for morphrog 7 will be considered from now until 31 May 2013 and should be sent in a single word document to morphrog@gmail.com

Last call for submissions for morphrog 6

morphrog 6 will go live on 1 January 2013. 
The deadline for submissions of 'poetry in the extreme' is 30 November 2012. Please send up to six poems in a single word file to morphrog@gmail.com

morphrog 5 can still be viewed at  http://www.morphrog.com/

morphrog is an online poetry journal. It publishes poems that operate at the extremes of experiment and tradition and welcomes submission of both very long and very short poems. Copyright in every case will remain with the poet.

Free lecture on Frogmore anthology Languages of Colour at University of Sussex on 20 November 2012

Frogmore Managing Editor Alexandra Loske will be talking about the joy of editing the recent Frogmore anthology Languages of Colour. Details below, all welcome:

Tuesday 20 November:

Languages of Colour

17:30 until 18:30
University of Sussex

Language Learning Centre, Arts A
Speaker: Alexandra Loske
Part of the series: SCLS Language and Culture series

Alexandra Loske recently edited and published an anthology entitled Languages of Colour, comprising poetry, prose, critical writing and art work on the theme of colour. The title might suggest a discussion of linguistic aspects of colour, but in this context 'languages' stands for the many different approaches and attitudes to colour and how colour is used as a tool in various art forms and disciplines, just as actual languages vary and interact with each other. In this lecture art historian and erstwhile linguist Alexandra Loske will talk about the idea, concept and inspiration behind the anthology, the selection and commissioning of material, and observations on the theme of language, colour, poetry and art made during the editing process.

Alexandra Loske is a doctoral researcher at the department of Art History at the University of Sussex and is currently investigating the use of colour in the interiors of the Royal Pavilion in Brighton. She also has a background in languages and linguistics and is the managing editor of the Frogmore Press.

Poems from Russia: Sasha Dugdale and Irina Mashinski reading at the University of Sussex

On Monday 15 October 2012 the inaugural event in the Sussex Centre for Language Studies ‘Language and Culture’ series will take place at the University of Sussex. Poems from Russia will feature readings by British poet Sasha Dugdale and Russian poet Irina Mashinski.
 

Language and Culture Series 2012/2013

Poems from Russia

in association with Russoc

 Sasha Dugdale and Irina Mashinski will read recent work.

Sasha Dugdale

 Monday 15 October 2012, 17.30

in room 4, Language Learning Centre, Arts A

Free event. All welcome.

The second event in the series will feature Frogmore Managing Editor and editor of the Languages of Colour anthology Alexandra Loske delivering a lecture on … languages of colour. This will take place on Tuesday 20 November, same time, same place.

Frogmore looks back over thirty years

Frogmore poets read to a packed house at Needlemakers in Lewes on National Poetry Day (4 October). At an event celebrating the Day itself, Frogmore's 30th year and the publication of Poems from the Old Hill: A Lewes Anthology, and the 80th number of The Frogmore Papers and an appreciative audience listened attentively to Lewes poets Marek Urbanowicz, Julia O'Brien, Robin Houghton and Patrick Bond and special guest Joe Sheerin, who had driven over the Downs from Rottingdean to beguile with his customary Irish wit.

The Frogmore selection available at Skylark Bookshop, Needlemakers, Lewes

The evening concluded with Jeremy Page reading a selection of poems from 30 years of The Frogmore Papers, culminating in Michael Swan's 'At the Opera', which brought the house down.

Jeremy Page reading from 30 years of Frogmore publications at Needlemakers, Lewes

Where it all began nearly 30 years ago: The Frogmore tearooms in Folkestone

Since Frogmore is celebrating its 30th year today here is a very rare (I guess we can call it 'vintage') picture postcard of where it all began in 1983: The Frogmore tearooms in Folkestone, complete with(out) spurious missing apostrophe. Now long gone and replaced by a pizza chain.
Happy National Poetry Day everyone!

The Frogmore Press was founded by Andre Evans and Jeremy Page at the Frogmore tea-rooms in Folkestone in 1983. The Press has published hundreds of writers in its now bi-annual magazine The Frogmore Papers and also in individual collections and anthologies.