07/12/2021
TONIGHT ON ZOOM - starting at 7.30pm. It would be lovely to see some familiar faces. I'm co-headlining with Ruth Butler - two 15-minute sets each, so a nice opportunity to stretch our wings 🐱🕊🦉🦅🦆
http://www.poetryteignmouth.com/events.html
You are encouraged to go via the Poetry Teignmouth website for the Zoom link (though I can send it to you if you can't find it). Looks like a great night 😉
POETRY TEIGNMOUTH INVITES YOU TO:
Tues 7th December, 7.30pm via Zoom: Tim King and Ruth Butler plus Open Mic
Two of the best-loved stalwarts of the SW Spoken Word scene supported by open mic performers.
Tim King is a spoken word artist, workshop leader, event host and organiser. He was the official bard of Exeter from Oct 2019 to October this year.
In addition to hosting a monthly open mic at Exeter Phoenix, Tim has won many poetry slams and been a frequent performer at wordy nights and festivals including; Uncut, Big Poetry, WonderZoo, Word Café, Glas-Denbury and WOMAD. He spent lockdown: running a weekly online event for isolated poets; contributing to Liv Torc's Haiflu project; mourning friends and relatives and engaged in a decade-long attempt to describe the physics of Global Warming without recourse to higher mathematics.
Tim's work ranges from the comically absurd to the deeply personal, is often characterised by a combination of brutal honesty and a slavish devotion to idiosyncratic formal constraints. He published The Lore of Unintended Consequences (poems 2010-2019) and has been featured in various online and offline magazines and anthologies.
Ruth Butler has been writing poetry since the nineties, inspired by the everyday, the domestic, the changing environment, modern society, scary technology, and anything in life that seems absurd. She has also delved into history, disturbing dust.
Born on the East coast, she migrated to Devon via the West coast of Wales, picking up an agricultural degree on the way. Since then she has been involved in no more agriculture than a grow-bag in the back yard, but spent most of her working life running a Middle East library in Exeter University, giving her a wide circle of international friends, some inspiring visits to Palestine, Israel and Jordan and a closer look at Middle Eastern controversy. She joined the Devon River Poets in the mid-nineties, contributed a section to their book, Precise Angles of Light in 1998, performed with them over many years, and continues to perform at events and festivals throughout the South West.
Twisted Yarns (Burning Eye Books, 2021) is her first collection. She has never lived far from the sea, so this book starts and ends with seagulls.
'Poetry is the best words in the best order' Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
