One of the leading figures in performance poetry in the UK is coming to the Word Up night at the Cellar Bar, Cardigan, on Thursday September 6th thanks to generous financial support from the Welsh Academi. Marcus Moore has been a key figure at the Cheltenham Festival for the last fifteen years, where he hosts the UK Allstars Poetry Slam and contributes to the ‘Voices Off’ programme he initiated ten years ago. He also helped to establish the prestigious Ledbury Poetry Festival. He writes and performs regularly for radio and television, including Call My Bluff, and his work is published by Macmillan Books. He has performed at venues as diverse as the Oxford Union and Her Majesty’s Prisons, countless schools, Arts Centres, theatres, festivals and bus queues. There will be a competition on the theme ‘Locks & Keys’ or ‘Lochs & Quays’ or any other spelling or interpretation you can think of. Anyone wishing to enter should arrive at the venue by 8.00pm. As usual members are welcome to read their own poems on any topic in the early parts of the evening. To book in advance for this event telephone 01239 621621 or call in at the Castle Café, The Shire Music Department, or Cardigan Music. Tickets are £5.00 including meal.
