LANGUAGE CLUB XMAS MEETING

The Language Club will hold their Xmas meeting at Plymouth Arts Centre on Saturday 5th December, 7.30 to 10pm. There will be the usual open mic and the special guest for December is Plymouth poet Steve Spence, one of the Language Club organisers. Steve's poetry and reviews have appeared in various magazines including Great Works, Stride, Tears in the Fence and The Rialto. He completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth in 2007; his first poetry collection will be published by Shearsman in 2010.

     The Language Club is a friendly and tolerant writers performance platform that meets regularly at Plymouth Arts Centre. Readers and musicians and audience are all welcome. Entry is £5, £3 concessions, your first glass of wine is free, xmas meeting with mince pies.

GILES GOODLAND IN PLYMOUTH

The next guest reader at the Language Club, Plymouth Arts Centre, Looe Street, at 7.30pm on Saturday 3rd October, will be Giles Goodland, author of highly original poetry collections conceived as coherent books rather than arbitrary collections. His most recent books are What the Things Sang just published by Shearsman, and Capital, published by Salt in 2006. Giles works in Oxford as a lexicographer and lives in London. The Language Club is a tolerant and friendly performing writers' scene, a Plymouth open mic event with a bar. Musicians, poets and singers, and their friends are all welcome.

KENNY KNIGHT

Among the new books from Shearsman of Exeter is The Honicknowle Book of the Dead, a first collection by Plymouth writer and Language Club regular Kenny Knight, the editor of the Plymouth magazine Tremblestone. Kenny has been working on this book for years and I have heard some of the poems at readings in Exeter and Plymouth, they are entertaining and unpretentious, zany and intelligent, definitely his own original and idiosyncratic voice. I recommend this collection as a necessary purchase. Kenny is an excellent poetry performer with a great sense of timing and very funny delivery, he ought to be more widely known.