CRASH Cardiff Poetry Night

16/02/2020

Thank you to everyone who came to CRASH last night!

Despite the storm causing havoc, we still had a completely packed night - so many people turned up that we ran out of chairs and it was standing room only.

Thomas Stewart, Jessica Mookherjee and Peter Daniels delivered fantastic, funny (and some pretty dirty) poems and the audience loved it!

Looking forward to our next event in May...

15/02/2020

‪Unfortunately some of our poets have had to pull out, understandably, due to this awful storm - David Turner, Maria Stadnicka and Luke Kennard.‬

‪CRASH will still go ahead with Thomas Stewart, Jessica Mookherjee & Peter Daniels - plus we will have open mic.‬

‪If you can, do come!‬

11/02/2020

After months of build-up, CRASH 2 is finally upon us!

Cardiff’s brand new alternative poetry night with a passion for all that is experimental, imaginative, risk-taking and left of the middle.

Six fantastic poets will perform, followed be an open mic segment. The event is entirely free - in the spirit of accessibility and community.

It will be a fantastic night!

09/02/2020

Our night is now listed on the Literature Wales website!

https://www.literaturewales.org/lw-event/crash/

Category / Poetry CRASH An evening of alternative, imaginative, experimental poetry held in the cosy atmosphere of the Flute and Tankard pub. Featuring a lineup of phenomenal poets Luke Kennard, Jess Mookherjee, Thomas Stewart, David Turner, Maria Stadnicka and Peter Daniels. Open mic slots availabl...

07/02/2020

1 week to go!!!

06/02/2020

CRASH poet Luke Kennard’s latest collection ‘Cain’ is available from Penned In The Margins

Check out the book then come and see Luke perform on 15 February at CRASH Cardiff!

http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2017/01/cain-2/

Tricksy, acerbic and laugh-out-loud funny, Cain is the dazzling new collection from Next Generation Poet Luke Kennard.

05/02/2020

Maria Stadnicka slows time in these haunting, beautifully detailed poems. Read, enjoy, then come and see Maria perform her work at CRASH on 15 February!

https://mollybloom19.weebly.com/maria-stadnicka.html #

Poetry by Maria Stadnicka

05/02/2020

David Turner, mastermind of the long-running Lunar Poetry Podcast, will launch his new book of experimental poetry ‘Contained’ at CRASH on February 15.

The book is published with the excellent Hesterglock Press - link to the book below:

https://hesterglock.net/David-Turner

Contained David Turner 15 x 23 colour paperback due Feb 8 2020 ISBN: 9781916159464 78 pages paperback £10 / PDF £4 ︎ BUY 8 February –...

28/01/2020

CRASH poet Peter Daniels has a new collection available from Salt - ‘My Tin Watermelon.’ Available directly from the Salt website below. Pick up a copy then come and see Peter perform his poems in February!

https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/my-tin-watermelon-9781784632090

Synopsis In this collection, Peter Daniels looks at his life as an older gay man, his London neighbourhood, his furniture, other people’s gardens and London’s creatures. His distinctive voice ranges through tight rhyming to looser meditations and prose poems, always skilfully crafted as words to...

27/01/2020

‪CRASH poet Thomas Stewart’s pamphlet ‘empire of dirt’ is available here at a bargain £6! Grab a copy so that you can familiarise yourself with Tom’s work before seeing him perform in February! ‬

‪https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/empire-of-dirt-by-thomas-stewart‬

empire of dirt is an unflinching debut interrogating toxic masculinity and the male body. This collection exposes issues of mental health and grief while the darker aspects of nature—the rotting flowers, taunting moths and cracked conkers—are the means of freedom. Within these poems we uncover t...

24/01/2020

CRASH poet Jessica Mookherjee’s collection ‘Tigress’ is only £5.99 on the Nine Arches website now - grab a copy and familiarise yourself with these wonderful poems ahead of Jessica’s appearance in February!

ninearchespress.com/publications/p…

21/01/2020

‪David Turner, who runs Lunar Poetry Podcasts, will be launching his experimental poetry book ‘Contained’ at CRASH on 15 February/ Flute & Tankard/ Cardiff/ 7:30‬

‪You can check it out/ buy here:‬

‪https://www.blurb.co.uk/b/9771405-contained‬

Contained is a multi-media project which straddles art forms. Through prose poetry, essay-writing, visual poems and audio recordings it explores the themes of class and mental health – in terms of both the author’s lived experience and a wider discussion. The text and images in book form are acc...

20/01/2020

‪After a little bout of cold we’re back to showcasing our CRASH poets. Today, read ‘Landscapes with Buses’ by Maria Stadnicka originally published at Ink Sweat & Tears ‬

‪http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?p=18116‬

On both sides of the frontline, people buy and sell goods, occupy central squares and the shops are open. Buses run on schedule.

16/01/2020

‪How is your Thursday?‬

‪Make it better with this video of Luke Kennard reading ‘Cain Reverses Time.’‬

‪Catch Luke reading at CRASH on February 15 at the Flute and Tankard in Cardiff, 7:30‬

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‪https://youtu.be/AVZ_FvGZHSg‬

Poet Luke Kennard reads 'Cain Reverses Time' from his new book Cain (Penned in the Margins, 2016) Order now: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/20...

14/01/2020

‪This morning we turn our attention to upcoming CRASH poet David Turner, who has brand new audio-visual poetry here:‬

‪https://burninghousepress.com/2020/01/13/2-visual-audio-poems-by-david-turner/amp/?__twitter_impression=true‬

Visit the post for more.

13/01/2020

‪CRASH poet Peter Daniels reads his poem ‘Pears.’ ‬

‪See Peter perform at the Flute and Tankard, Cardiff, Saturday 15 February, 7:30.‬

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‪https://youtu.be/agRAjFYeYOE‬

Commended poet Peter Daniels London, England - Pears More at hippocrates-poetry.com About the inspiration for ‘Pears’ he said: ” At 63 I take my body less fo...

13/01/2020

Kick off your morning with this video poem by CRASH poet Jessica Mookherjee - ‘Song of the Soil’ from her 2019 collection Tigress. Filmed by Chaucer Cameron and Helen Dewbery.

http://movingpoems.com/2019/08/song-of-the-soil-by-jessica-mookherjee/

“Song of the Soil” expresses a deeply felt connection to the Earth in an elegy of lost origins and disappearing ground.

10/01/2020

Ok, our 6th CRASH poet reading in February is Luke Kennard - more info about Luke below, plus a video of his poem ‘The Journalist’s Prayer.’

Luke Kennard is a poet and novelist who lives in Birmingham. His 5th collection, Cain (Penned in the Margins, 2016) was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and his first novel, The Transition, was published by 4th Estate in 2017. His latest publication is Mise en Abyme (Tungsten Press, 2019).

https://youtu.be/4Or1BAxcAjs

10/01/2020

CRASH poet number 5 is Maria Stadnicka! More info on Maria here:

Maria Stadnicka is a Romano-British writer, journalist and PhD researcher at University of the West of England. She explores socio-cultural trauma, the ethics of poetry, semiotics and the metaphors of the social discourse.

She is winner of twelve Romanian National Prizes for poetry and her work is published by Beats Literary Journal (Canada), Dissident Voice (US) International Times (UK), Ofi Press (Mexico), Social Alternatives (Australia), TEXT (Australia), The Journal(Wales), The Moth (Ireland), Shearsman (England), Tears in the Fence, The Poets’ Republic (Scotland).

She recently performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Pembroke College Oxford University, Tears in the Fence Poetry Festival, Cheltenham Literary Festival, Plymouth Language Club.

She is the author of Short Story about War (2014), Imperfect (2017), The Unmoving (2018), Somnia (2019) and Bearings 2 (2019). Her latest poetry collection, Somnia, is considered ‘one of the best poetry books of 2019’ by writer and critic Ian Seed, winner of TLS prize in 2018.

Her forthcoming collections are: Uranium Bullets (2020, Cervena Barva, U.S.) and Buried Gods Metal Prophets (2021, Guillemot Press, U.K.

Watch a video poem by Maria here:

https://youtu.be/x7Rue5mK5GY

09/01/2020

More info on poet #4 - Peter Daniels!

Peter Daniels has now had his third collection, My Tin Watermelon, published by Salt. His translations of Vladislav Khodasevich from Russian (Angel Classics, 2013) were shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld translation prize, and as q***r writer in residence at the London Metropolitan Archives he wrote the obscene Ballad of Captain Rigby.

Read a poem by Peter here:

https://www.peterdaniels.org.uk/mr-luczinski-takes-a-tram

08/01/2020

More info on poet number 3 - David Turner!

David Turner is the founding editor of the Lunar Poetry Podcasts series, has a City & Guilds certificate in Bench Joinery along with the accompanying scars, is known to the Bristol, Kristiansand and Southwark Community Mental Health Teams as a ‘service user’ and has represented Norway in snow sculpting competitions. Widely unpublished. Working-class. Picket line poet.

He recently published his first book of 'poetry', Contained through Hesterglock Press.

lunarpoetrypodcasts.com
twitter.com/Silent_Tongue

Photo by Naomi Woddis

08/01/2020

Check out our poster for CRASH 2 designed by co-organiser Alex Stevens!

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07/01/2020

So, let’s look at our next poet - Jessica Mookherjee!

Jess is a poet of Bengali origin. She grew up in Wales and now lives in Kent. She has been published in many print and online journals including Agenda, The North, Rialto, Under the Radar and Poetry Wales. Her pamphlet “The Swell” was published by TellTale Press in 2016. Her poems appear in various anthologies including Best of British and Irish Poets 2017. She was highly commended for best single poem in the Forward Prize 2017. Her first collection is ‘Flood’ (2018, Cultured Llama) and her second full collection, Tigress is published by Nine Arches Press (2019). She is co-editor of Against the Grain Poetry Press.

Read her poem ‘Honey Shot’ here:

http://www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?p=17187

06/01/2020

‪As a taster of Tom’s work, here’s ‘real boy’ originally published at ‬

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‪https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/andotherpoems.com/2018/01/19/real-boy-by-thomas-stewart/amp/‬

this is a true story: they said you’re not a real boy until you cut the wizard out of the tree, it’s a question of which tree: real boys might pick oak, birch or beech, and the…

06/01/2020

‪Thomas Stewart is a welsh writer based in Edinburgh. His work has been featured in The Glasgow Review of Books, Ink, Sweat & Tears, among others. He was highly commended in the 2020 Verve Poetry Competition. ‬

‪Tom’s pamphlet ‘empire of dirt’ is here:‬

‪https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/empire-of-dirt-by-thomas-stewart‬

30/12/2019

‪ANNOUNCEMENT!‬

‪The sixth & last poet confirmed for CRASH 2 in February is Peter Daniels!‬

‪More info on Peter & our other fine poets soon.‬

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29/12/2019

‪ANNOUNCEMENT!‬

‪The fifth poet confirmed for CRASH 2 in February is Maria Stadnicka!‬

‪More info on Maria soon.‬

‪Keep your eyes peeled as we reveal the final poet tomorrow.‬

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28/12/2019

‪ANNOUNCEMENT!‬

‪The fourth poet confirmed for CRASH 2 in February is Thomas Stewart!‬

‪More info on Tom soon.‬

‪Keep your eyes peeled as we reveal the rest of the lineup over the coming days.‬

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27/12/2019

ANNOUNCEMENT!

The third poet confirmed for CRASH 2 in February is David Turner of Lunar Poetry Podcasts!

More info on David soon.

Keep your eyes peeled as we reveal the rest of the lineup over the coming days.

26/12/2019

‪ANNOUNCEMENT!‬

‪The second poet confirmed for CRASH 2 in February is Jess Mookherjee!‬

‪More info on Jess soon.‬

‪Keep your eyes peeled as we reveal the rest of the lineup over the coming days.‬

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23/12/2019

‪ANNOUNCEMENT ‬

‪The first poet performing at CRASH 2 in February is Luke Kennard! ‬

‪More info on Luke to follow. ‬

‪We will be revealing more poets as the week unfolds. ‬

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22/12/2019

‪We have now responded to everyone who sent us work for consideration. ‬

‪The response was huge & we could only take a handful of poets. ‬

‪If you sent us work but haven’t heard back please get in touch. ‬

‪We have an amazing lineup planned - more news soon!‬

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19/12/2019

Team CRASH will be meeting up today to discuss all the brilliant responses we received to our call out for poets. Should have a confirmed lineup shortly...

16/12/2019

‪Since putting our call out for poets this morning we’ve been swamped with messages - it’s fantastic. ‬

‪We may have to close doors tomorrow while we consider the best fit for February’s lineup. ‬

‪We will endeavour to update everyone who has contacted us over the next few day‬s.

16/12/2019

CALL OUT FOR POETS

We’re looking for poets to read at CRASH 2, which will take place February 22 in Cardiff.

We’re looking for women poets, q***r poets & BAME poets who write experimental/ imaginative/ weird poetry.

Get in touch if this sounds like you.

15/12/2019

Don’t miss our call out tomorrow for poets to perform at the next CRASH!

We already have some extremely exciting poets booked in (who will shortly be announced) - this is your chance to join them.

Spread the word.

01/12/2019

29/11/2019

Do you like weird poetry?

Do you like mash-ups & collage?

Do you like supporting the arts in the company of good friends & good drink?

Come to CRASH!

Saturday 30 November/ Flute &Tankard/ 7:30/ FREE

25/11/2019

This is your reminder that the first night of CRASH Cardiff starts on 30/11/2019 - Flute & Tankard - 7:30.

An evening of alternative poetry. It will be lively, experimental, funny, strange, & something we hope you will cherish.

Plus it’s FREE!

23/11/2019

1 week to go...