Pleanty of #poets will be performing on Sunday at Tutus #festival in Palmer Park #rdguk Please come and support local artists.
#rdguk
Passing on the thanks from the organisers of the #spokenword #Stage at the East #Reading #festival to all the #poets and #storytellers who performed last Sunday.
The #poet alongside David the host in this pictu is the Mayor of #RdgUK .
Thanks to Adrian of #Caversham #writers for his generosity, allowing me to keep the #Reading #Poetry Writers group on Meetup.com
Join the group to stay informed of #spokenword events in #RdgUK #Berkshire
thanks to all the #poetrylovers (including the mayor of #rdguk ) who came to Palmer Park #RdgUK to see the #poets from Dreading #slam ,my word #poetry and park #poets
and the castle tap #storytellers
Two popular local (to #RdgUK ) #openmic
Every Wed is Boho in the Fisherman;'s cottage (with good food available)
And Mon 30th (note change from normal pattern) is #openmicnight at the Castle Tap on Castle Hill
Both these #spokenword friendly, to watch or take part
Don’t forget amongst the festival fever the regular #openmic and other #poetry events continue.
Next Dreading #slam is Sunday July 6th @risingsunartscentre 19:30 RG1 2ST
#free to watch #freeentry to take part
Help keep poetry fun
#RDGuk #Berkshire
What a difference a day makes.
Palmer Park #RDGuk today, before the East #Reading #Festival is set up
and as it will look tomorrow with ic from #spokenword #stage in 2023
funday for all the family
and #poetrylovers drop by and talk to the #poets
Dreading Slam #poets will be at 3 #festivals this summer
This Sun East #Reading #Festival in Palmer Park
June 29 Tutu’s #Commmunity festival
Aug 9 Rising sun #arts centre for Here come the sun #fest
Tickets for last
https://wegottickets.com/event/665881/
On Sat June 21 we meet in SirenRG1 on Friar street #RdgUK to discuss all things poetry over a drink and food (food optional) with a focus on the writing process. We will also have a prompted #writing session
Topic for this month is how to get published
Please Join us
#creative #community #amwriting
Put a name to the #poetic face
Meet us this weekend, on Sat in siren rg1 13:00 in Friar Street #RDGuk
On Sun at East #Reading #festival in the Afternoon we will be on the #spokenword stage
Help make #poetry fun
#EastReadingFestival returns to Palmer Park on Sunday June 22th. As last year Dreading #slam will be heavily involved in the #Spokenword stage and the Park #poets will be making their first show.
If you wish to help set up turn up around1 10:00 on the Morning.
Thanks to Reading Today for their excellent coverage last year.
pleas come along and chat to us
Next week #Bards in a Bar
at Siren RG 1 inFriars Walk, #RdgUK RG1 1EP for a #poetry #workshop Sat Jun 21 13:00
Plan is to meet up on a regular basis to discuss all things #poetry over a drink and food with focus on #writing process. The month we will talk about which #poem to select for which event .
Another friendly park #poets this morning Tutus Ethiopian table , Palmer Park, #RdgUK, #berkshire
We will be back, same place, on July 19 11:00 for another friendly #poetrycircle
Why not join your fellow #poetrylover of a cup of tea.
The MY Word #Poetry group show for #poetryhour for @RG2Radio could not go out live for technical reasons.
It was recorded and we will let you know if there is a broadcast date. Meanwhile some pictures from the RG2 Studio
local poetry #communtiy, working with #community radio in #RdgUk #Berkshire
Alexander Herd was a neighbour to the Hearns in Three Mile Cross in the 1920s.
Looking through some archives, Alex, as he was apparently known, was born in nearby Grazeley in August 1878 to Alexander, a shoemaker originally from Chelsea, and Caroline, from Brompton.
Census returns show him as being a tin worker and, latterly, a builder's labourer. He was married to Elizabeth, and had a son, Arthur, who was a gardener at University College, Reading.
#OnThisDay 99 years ago, 13 June 1926, Alex went out on his motorbike, Arthur riding pillion. "As he emerged from a lane into the main road, apparently going towards Twyford [on the London Road, east Reading], he came into collision with another motorcycle proceeding in the opposite direction."
Both motorcyclists and their pillion passengers were thrown from their bikes, with Arthur and the other passenger being seriously injured whilst the other biker was able to go home the same day. Alex, however, sustained a fractured skull and died from his injuries that night. He was 47 years old.
This photo, taken a few days later, shows the horse-drawn hearse being loaded with his flower-covered coffin outside his home in Church Lane, Three Mile Cross.
When the inquest into Alex's death was opened three days after he died, Arthur was still in a "semi-conscious and serious condition". I'm pleased to say, though, that he recovered and went on to live until the age of 76, passing in 1983.
Quotes taken from a contemporary news article, "Motor cycle tragedy." The Reading Standard, 19 June 1926, p9.
#JackAndMaryArchive #death #funeral #RDGUK
Looking through some archives, Alex, as he was apparently known, was born in nearby Grazeley in August 1878 to Alexander, a shoemaker originally from Chelsea, and Caroline, from Brompton.
Census returns show him as being a tin worker and, latterly, a builder's labourer. He was married to Elizabeth, and had a son, Arthur, who was a gardener at University College, Reading.
#OnThisDay 99 years ago, 13 June 1926, Alex went out on his motorbike, Arthur riding pillion. "As he emerged from a lane into the main road, apparently going towards Twyford [on the London Road, east Reading], he came into collision with another motorcycle proceeding in the opposite direction."
Both motorcyclists and their pillion passengers were thrown from their bikes, with Arthur and the other passenger being seriously injured whilst the other biker was able to go home the same day. Alex, however, sustained a fractured skull and died from his injuries that night. He was 47 years old.
This photo, taken a few days later, shows the horse-drawn hearse being loaded with his flower-covered coffin outside his home in Church Lane, Three Mile Cross.
When the inquest into Alex's death was opened three days after he died, Arthur was still in a "semi-conscious and serious condition". I'm pleased to say, though, that he recovered and went on to live until the age of 76, passing in 1983.
Quotes taken from a contemporary news article, "Motor cycle tragedy." The Reading Standard, 19 June 1926, p9.
#JackAndMaryArchive #death #funeral #RDGUK
#spokenword stage includes performance by Dreading Slam #poets , park poets and My Word #poetry so see the #RDGuk #poetrycomunity live for #free
Lovely evening out with 3 mates (one I've not seen in yonks). Met at our usual coffee place, then to a Thai restaurant most of us haven't been to since the Beforetimes™️.
Best prawn pad thai I've had at least 10 years, and cheaper and better than the food+gaming venue we've frequented for a couple of years. Perfect early summer evening. 😍
Now can't move. Halp... 😄
#rdguk
#Poetry This Weekend in #rdguk with #poets cafe in South street #arts 20:00 Friday
and the #poetrysocial of Park #poets (picture )at Tutus Ethiopian Table 1100 Sat
please join us
#poetrycommunity #Berkshire
#poetry hour tomorrow on rg2 radio soon after 5pm
#poets will include Dreading Slam host, the Legend that is Richard Stephenson
listen live on
https://www.rg2radio.com/
#Poetry next weekend with @reading_poets_cafe in @southstreetarts on Friday 14th (8pm) and the #poetrysocial of #Parkpoets on Saturday15th (11:am) at @tutusethiopiantables in Palmer park
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