THE BRIAN DEMPSEY MEMORIAL PRIZE COMPETITION open now
– closes 29th February 2020 – details here on our COMPETITIONS page
Results will be announced on 31st March.
WHAT THE MOON WAS TOLD, the Competition Anthology
will be launched in the Poetry Café, London, on May 21st 2020
NEWS: The Keep in Guildford will not be available to us in March, so we've had to cancel that month's event. We're back there, in the upstairs room, in April, but from then on our open mic events at the Keep will be on the first TUESDAY evening of each month.
Tuesday March 3rd: Cranleigh Arts Festival Poetry Open Mic
Our free Poetry Open Mic to open Cranleigh Arts Festival on Tuesday March 3rd will feature three new performers from the Dorking side of Surrey. Mark Barnes, Chris Ross and Isabel Morris will join Trisha Broomfield, Dónall Dempsey and Heather Moulson as featured poets. Entry is free and there's a good bar presided over by our favourite sound and lights man, Paul. Sign up at the door to read a poem at the mic. (poems only, please.) The Crane Room, Cranleigh Arts Centre, 1 High Street, Cranleigh GU6 8AS
Our free Poetry Open Mic to open Cranleigh Arts Festival on Tuesday March 3rd will feature three new performers from the Dorking side of Surrey. Mark Barnes, Chris Ross and Isabel Morris will join Trisha Broomfield, Dónall Dempsey and Heather Moulson as featured poets. Entry is free and there's a good bar presided over by our favourite sound and lights man, Paul. Sign up at the door to read a poem at the mic. (poems only, please.) The Crane Room, Cranleigh Arts Centre, 1 High Street, Cranleigh GU6 8AS
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Wednesday March 11th:
D&W Showcase event The Poetry Society Café, 22 Betterton Street, London WC1 Featured readers: William Bedford; Fiona Cartwright; Georgia Hilton; Jenna Plewes; Margaret Jennings. Open Mic (sign up at the door) £5.00 at the door (Poetry Society members £4.00) |
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UPCOMING EVENTS AND FEATURED POETS
Hosted by Dónall Dempsey downstairs at THE KEEP, 29 Castle Street, Guildford GU1 3UW ON THE FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH (except where changed below) February 3rd 2020 Open Mic at the Keep featuring Margaret Jennings, Geoffrey Pimlott and Lorri Pimlott
No Open Mic at the Keep in March (but we're in Cranleigh on 2nd March hosting a free Open mic at the Arts Centre to open the Arts Festival that week)
If you would like to read in the Keep Open Mic, come and sign up between 7.00 and 7.30 for one of the 12 five-minute open mic spots. Or just come and listen, over a designer gin or a glass of wine.
Free entry but you might like to bring some cash for buying books and SuperRaffle tickets! DATES AT THE KEEP, GUILDFORD in 2020
Tuesday 7 Apr 2020: Callum James & Georgia Hilton
Tuesday 4th May:
Tuesday 2nd June
Tuesday 7th July
Tuesday 4th August
Tuesday 7th September
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The Keep,
29 Castle Street, Guildford GU1 3UW Tuesday 7th April 2020 7.30 - 10.00 Callum James and Georgia Hilton at The Keep with Open Mic 
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THE ROUTE FROM GUILDFORD STATION TO THE KEEP
(10 minutes on foot) DRIVING? There is an underground car park right next door to the Keep Pub and 50 yards away is the Castle Car Park (both cost £1 for the evening after 6pm) or, in the evenings, there's often space to park free on the High Street, nearby. |
Other spoken word events in the Guildford area
Write Out Loud's open mic event is hosted in the Lightbox Café , Woking, by Greg Freeman and Rodney Wood, on the third Thursday of each month. (Free, with voluntary contribution to the Lightbox)
Isabel Morris hosts "Dorking is Talking" at the Viva Restaurant, 55 West Street, Dorking, on the second Thursday of each month (£15, including food).
Cranleigh Arts Centre, 1 High Street, Cranleigh, GU6 8AS – Free open Mic events with featured poets, hosted by Dónall Dempsey and the 1000 Monkeys in March, June and October. Informal friendly events with a bar.
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ANTHOLOGIES
Once a year we publish a collection of poems, many by writers who have read at 1000 Monkeys events.
The books are available on our publishing website, www.dempseyandwindle.co.uk
Once a year we publish a collection of poems, many by writers who have read at 1000 Monkeys events.
The books are available on our publishing website, www.dempseyandwindle.co.uk
Contributors to the Anthologies
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EVENTS ARCHIVE
2020
- January 6th 2020 Open Mic at the Keep festuring Peter W. Keeble and Katie Haworth
2019
- December 2nd 2019: Open Mic at the Keep featuring Trisha Broomfield
- November 4th Open Mic at the Keep featuring Raymond
- October 7th: Open Mic at the Keep featuring Timothy Adès
- Thursday October 3rd: Poetry event forNational Poetry Day at Cranleigh Arts Centre
- September 2nd: The Brian Dempsey Prize awards and launch of the 2019 D&W Anthology and "Instead, Let Us Say", Dawn Gorman's winning pamphlet.
- August 5th: Open Mic at the Keep featuring Fiona Sinclair and Valerie Lynch
- July 1st: Open Mic at the Keep featuring Belinda Singleton and Kathryn Southworth
- June 25th: Open mic with featured poets at Cranleigh Arts Centre
- June 3rd: Open Mic at the Keep featuring Richard Woolmer,
- May 6th Open Mic at the Keep featuring David Cooke
- Monday 1st April: Open Mic at the Keep with Linda Rose Parkesst: Open Mic with Linda Rose Parkes featuring
- Tuesday March 5th 2019: Open Mic at the Cranleigh Arts Festival
- Monday March 4th Open Mic at the Keep with Alan Franks and Charlotte Moore
- Monday February 4th Open Mic at the Keep with John Wheeler and Ian McLachlan
- January 7th 2019: Open Mic with Paul A W Sutherland and Eddie Chauncy,
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2018
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2017
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2015
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November 5th 2018: Open Mic with Heather Moulson
2016
- 5th December 2016: Raymond
- 7th Nov 2016: Wendy Klein
- 3rd Oct 2016: Seamus Fox
- 5th Sept 2016: Bethany Pope
- 4th July 2016: Paul Cree
- 6th June: Chrys Salt and Alan Franks
- 17th May: Celebrating Robert Desnos poetry with Timothy Adés
- 2nd May 2016: Alex Twyman and Becky Fury
- 4th April 2016: Gary from Leeds
- 23rd Mar 2016: Launch of Paris Lit Up Magazine #3
- 7th Mar 2016: Daniel Smith
- Monday 4th Jan 2016: Eddie Chauncy at the Keystone
2014
- Tuesday 16th December 2014- Spoken Word at the Bar des Arts with A F Harrold, Amy McAllister, Jen McGowan.
- Tuesday 18th November 2014 - Spoken Word at the Bar des Arts with Graham Buchan, Graham Brown, Alwyn Marriage
- Tuesday 9th December 2014 - the Keystone Slam at The Keystone with The Dirty Carols
- Tuesday 21st October 2014 - Spoken Word at the Bar des Arts Karen Withecomb and Pete Jardine
- Tuesday 14th October 2014 - The Keystone Slamat the Keystone - Guest: Cecilia Delatori
- Friday 10th October 2014 - The 1000 Monkeys at PoetryJam at the Tea Box, Richmond (Headliner Alex de Suys).
- Tuesday 16th September 2014 - Spoken Word at the Bar des Arts - Guests: Pauline Sewards, Tom V & Friends; Harry Man.
- Saturday 20th September 2014 - The 1000 Monkeys at The Artists and Makers Guild Festival
- Tuesday 30th September 2014 - Launch party for the Pop Up Anthology 2014 at the Bar Des Arts. Readings by the contributors and a performance by the Dirty Carols.
