Word Soup with Jo Bell & Blackpool Dead Good Poets, plus Stephen Jansen and Sue Seddon, aka Nigella Ladylumps.
The first Word Soup of 2012 is on the theme of Friendship, in all of its guises… and the headline act is fabulous poet, performer, and director of National Poetry Day JO BELL.
Jo will be joined by the Dead Good Poets – Shaun Brookes, Lara Clayton, Stephen Stroud, Vicky Ellis, Lindsay Barlow, and Ashley R. Lister – from Blackpool, plus the talents of Stephen Jansen and Sue Seddon, aka Nigella Ladylumps.
We’ll also have our usual Open Mic slot for your Four Minutes of Fame, and the fabulous Magic Mark. Don’t miss it!!
Jo Bell has appeared all over the UK from Glastonbury Festival, where she was poet in residence in 2010, to the Southbank Centre and all points in between. She runs National Poetry Day and performs in stage shows including her current work in progress, Riverlands - a show with storyteller Jo Blake Cave. Her poems are mostly about boats (she lives on one), archaeologists (she was one) and dysfunctional relationships with wildly inappropriate men. http://belljarblog.wordpress.com/
Stephen Jansen writes about reality distortion in all its forms. He has written a book with Harvey Bainbridge, an ex member of the rock band Hawkind. His next book, Chronophobia, is the first in a series of ten and will be on sale on Kindle very soon. A collection of three short stories, called Distortion, is available to buy on Amazon. www.thelightfromdeadstars.com & www.stephenjansen.com
Sue Seddon began writing quirky travel and guide books for publication. She progressed to performing “the rude bits” and discovered entertaining. Along came alter egos Gran the Gusset Tester, West End Wendy and Nigella Ladylumps, all fighting for the spotlight. Sue now
roadies, does the costumes, gets Gran out of fights and off the milk stout, dispenses with the collection of rough crumpet Wendy is trying to take home and prevents Nigella from litigatious assertions that she can cook. Sue’s books, performance reviews and collection of associates The Thursday Girls can be seen on www.sueseddon.co.uk and on youtube.
This month, Blackpool’s Dead Good Poets celebrate three years of working together as a collective of writers. Originally writing and performing as a student group at Blackpool & Fylde College, the group have taken their work into the local community with regular open mic nights, school workshops and enormously successful fancy dress events. They are represented at Word Soup this month by Shaun Brookes, Lara Clayton, Stephen Stroud, Vicky Ellis, Lindsay Barlow, and Ashley R. Lister.
Word Soup: Friendship – Thursday 26th January 2012 – 8pm – £3 on the door – priceless entertainment –
The Continental, South Meadow Lane, Preston PR1 8JP.