Name: TALKING RHYTHM! Poetry and Music Open Mic with Features
Start: 2024-10-29T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-29T22:45:00+01:00
Location: The Prince of Greenwich Pub

TALKING RHYTHM! Poetry and Music Open Mic with Features

October’s Talking Rhythm! on TUESDAY 29th October is delighted to welcome as featured guest: presenter, performer and poet JILL ABRAM bringing a reading from her beautiful debut pamphlet “Forgetting My Father". And for his first visit to Talking Rhythm! we warmly welcome legendary locally based and internationally acclaimed musician JOE WILKES.
JILL ABRAM is autistic, has Jewish heritage and lives with fibromyalgia. She grew up in Manchester, travelled the world and now lives in Brixton, having retired (early) from a long career as a BBC Radio Studio Manager, specialising in making sound effects for comedy and drama programmes.
She won the inaugural Poetry Pulse competition and the 2016 Elmbridge poetry competition, and was Highly Commended in the Liverpool Poetry Prize 2021. She has been shortlisted for the Live Canon, Coast to Coast to Coast and Wigtown pamphlet competitions, and long listed in the Live Canon International Competition 2022 and 2023, The Rialto Nature and Place competition 2023, and in Cinnamon, Poetry Wales and Against the Grain pamphlet competitions.
Print publications include Under the Radar, The Rialto, Magma, Finished Creatures, Poetry Scotland, Poetry Wales and The North, and online at Propel, Ink Sweat &Tears, And Other Poems, Atrium and Harana.
She has performed her poems across London and beyond, including at Ledbury, StAnza, and Verve Poetry Festivals and in Paris, New York, Chicago and online.
She produces and presents a variety of poetry events, including the Stablemates series of poetry and conversation, and was Director of the influential collective Malika’s Poetry Kitchen for 12 years.
Jill’s debut pamphlet, Forgetting My Father, is published by Broken Sleep Books.
http://jillabram.co.uk/

Before East London was the hipster get-together it is today JOE WILKES would travel up from his native Deptford to cut his teeth on the Spitalfields live music scene peddling an up-tempo brand of fingerstyle guitar, self-deprecating humour and political storytelling. 4 albums followed, the latest, Japanese Elvis receiving 5 star reviews. Currently working on a set of traditional folk pieces entitled: Hope in my Chest, Fire in My throat he has received support from Robert Wyatt and airplay from Cerys Matthews.
Over a 20-year career Wilkes has travelled to most corners of the UK as well as regular jaunts to France, Spain, Germany and both US coasts. “he has the advantage of being instantly memorable" Maverick Magazine "Joe Wilkes is one of those all-too-rare musicians who, when they play, make you believe in them instantly" Americana UK "Wilkes is a major talent" R2 Magazine "Finally getting some serious attention" Acoustic Magazine
https://www.facebook.com/joewilkesmusic
And it’s YOU at the two Open Mics which open and close the evening. Please bring poems and songs for 5 mins maximum spots. Doors open 6.30pm for 7.00pm start. Tickets: £5/£7. As always generously hosted by the Prince Of Greenwich Pub in the room upstairs.