A monthly smorgasbord of poetry, music, art, dance and theatre.
January brings a fresh helping of cultural kedgeree to set you up for the year ahead. Poetry, theatre, music, art, it’s all here ─ we just need you to join us!
For your delectation this month…
Sue Spiers lives in Hampshire and works with Winchester Poetry Festival. Sue’s poems have appeared in Acumen, Dawn Treader, Dreich, Fenland Poetry Journal, The North, Obsessed with Pipework, Poetry and all that Jazz and Sarasvati. She is the profile poet in South issue 70. Sue’s on-line poems are at Broken Spine, Dust, The High Window and Ink, Sweat & Tears. Her 2023 collection is De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da. Sue is a Wave 17 iamb poet. Her pamphlet: A Wallet of Creature Poems was published by Hedgehog Press in June 2024. In December Mark, the editor at Hedgehog Press, announced ‘Dandarabilla’ from the collection was one of his nominations for a Pushcart Prize. Sue Tweets @spiropoetry and on Bluesky @spiropoetry.bsky.social
Alan Bush lives in Chichester, England with his wife and two (almost) grown-up children with whom he walks the chalk hills of Sussex. Bad weather however, is only an excuse to extend his stamp collection of GB counter labels. He has worked as a bank-teller, watermelon-picker and funeral director but now works in a specialist vintage thrift store, all of which is a great source of poems, which appear occasionally in local and national magazines such as Reach and Poetry & All That Jazz.
Phil Gravett plays a mixture of Americana, Ragtime, Blues, Gypsy Swing and originals on acoustic guitars.
Heading up the Improbables, the High Priestess of Comedy Improv herself, Jo Scott puts her disciples to the test once more. Tonight you’ll enjoy comedy improv at it’s most improbable…