THURSDAY 21st SEPTEMBER

Guest Poet Will Hames cannot attend. Who Cares?
As usual when this happens, Sue Hamblen and myself step into the breach and the whole evening degenerates into the thoroughly ramshackle and shambolic affair that a good poetry night should be. See you there! If you want a theme for writing, it's PHOBIAS, OK?

GET IT OUT THERE!

Once you've done it, there's nothing quite like getting it out and showing it to people, is there?
Of course I'm referring to writing a poem...
People who take advantage of the WORD UP! open mike spot and air their poems in front of the discerning and attentive CELLAR BAR audience can also now feature their poems on this here BLOG so the whole wide world can read them!
How?
Give us a copy of your poem, either in person on the night (preferably typed), or you can email it to jimboharwood@gmail.com (title your email wordup poem) and if you wish to include a jpeg photo of yourself so much the better!

WORD UP AUGUST

The next WORD UP! Poetry Night is on Wednesday August 16th, starting around 8pm as usual.
Guest Poet is A F Harrold:
Finalist in Spoke-Fest, UK Slam Championship, 2006 and winner of poetry slams
including Chippenham Festival of Arts Slam 2005 and Hammer & Tongue November
Slam 2005, A F Harrold is a performance and literary poet who will engage
you in a show of works ranging from compassion and sensitivity to an outrageous
and comedy packed performance. He recently featured in Mean Fiddler?s Latitude
Festival (with such poets as John Cooper Clarke and Patti Smith) and at WOMAD
comedy stage. He is currently based in Reading where he has been running
a regular poetry cabaret. Be prepared for a wonderful evening?s entertainment.

As always, Word Up is delighted to welcome local poets to the stage. Please
arrive by 8.15 if you wish to perform.
A F Harrold has selected a competition theme for the evening. Can you write
a poem entitled ?POISON.? ? There will be prizes, so get writing!

A BIT ABOUT ME

I'm a recent addition to Wales having moved from Leicester to Pembroke Dock 3 years ago. Back in England I'd run a few poetry clubs and toured around quite a bit, publishing a couple of books and recording a couple of CDs along the way, which is a great life for a single bloke.
I'm now married with 4 young children so my priorities have changed somewhat. I met up with Sue at a poetry night someone organised in Pembroke Dock, and she invited me to perform at her new club. I shared the bill with my old mate Rob Gee and we had a fine old time, so I decided to "get involved".
I haven't had the time/space/energy to write anything new for a long old time, so the material I do at the moment is all vintage stuff, but no-one round here has heard it before, so what the heck?

WELCOME

Welcome indeed to WORD UP! CARDIGAN.
WORD UP! is a monthly Poetry Night held in the Cellar Bar of THE CASTLE CAFE, CARDIGAN, CEREDIGION, WEST WALES, hosted by veteran performance poets SUE HAMBLEN (pictured) and JIM HARWOOD (not pictured).