Poetry with the 1000 Monkeys
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A loose community of poets who like to read their poems at local events and to welcome visiting poets as guest readers. Events free
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The 1000 Monkeys
The 1000 Monkeys is an open and welcoming group which has formed organically over the past seven years, of people who write poems and enjoy reading them aloud, and people who enjoy listening to poems read aloud. Janice and Dónall Dempsey first set up their regular events in venues that are offered to them one evening a month, without fee, with the encouragement of Susie Campbell, then working with Guildford’s local government to enhance culture in the town.
All the events are free to enter, because the aim is to foster the practice of writing, reading and listening to poetry among people of all walks of life. Poetry should be available to everyone (the name of the group is from the anonymous aphorism: ‘If you give 1000 monkeys 1000 typewriters and an infinite amount of time, they will in the end write all the works of Shakespeare’ – and its variants.)
We’ve moved within Guildford from the now defunct Bar Des Arts on Millbank, to the Keystone Pub at the bottom of the Godalming Road, now also under new management and a new name, to the Keep Pub in Castle Street, where Jane Lyons has been very supportive for the past two years or so, even allowing us the sole use of the lounge bar on Monday evenings, their day off, during 2019.
Most recently, from Tuesday April 7th, following a refurbishment, we’re back in the intimate and cosy upstairs room of the Keep Pub. We’ll be meeting on Tuesdays in 2020, as we began back in 2013 at the Bar Des Arts. It’s the first Tuesday of the month , now.
