ECO-POETICS – book launch at ONCA Tuesday 12th February 6.30pm. Please join us. https://onca.org.uk/event/poemish-other-languages/ Our next ECO-POETICS course is at Knepp Wildland in June – sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/changing-everything-carefully
Greetings – I wanted to let you know that my new Cinnamon Press poetry collection will be launched on Wednesday 24th October upstairs at the Elephant & Castle, Lewes (7.00 for 7.30pm; free) together with the launch of two great books, The Missing List, a memoir by Clare Best, and stories and a novella by […]
ECO-POETICS COURSE – Kay Syrad & Clare Whistlerat ONCA Environmental Gallery, Brighton from 25th September We are pleased to announce our 8-week Eco-poetics course,‘changing everything carefully’ (e.e. cummings) https://onca.org.uk/whats-on/next/changing-everything-carefully-eco-poetics-course/ Other news My new poetry collection, INLAND, will be published by Cinnamon Press in October. Launches in Lewes, East Sussex on Weds 24th October and Greenwich […]
Vert Institutefor art events and writing ___________________________________ Sudden VERT – three new workshops Material language: visual and tactile writingKay Syrad & Clare Whistler Saturday 10th March, 3 – 6pm £20 Words have shapes, sounds, rhythm; to speak we must use complex interactions of our breath, tongue, lips. Words in the mouth or on the page […]
Greetings ! Please scroll down for details of three events. POETRY IN THE CRYPTSt Mary’s Church, Upper Street, Islington Saturday 22nd April, 7 p.m. Donald Atkinson, Lynne Hjelmgaard & Kay Syrad Admission £5 • Poets from the floor welcome • Free cakes & coffee!All proceeds to Hospice Care Kenya www.hospicecarekenya.com St Mary’s Church is on […]
Vert Institutefor art events and writingKay Syrad & Chris Drury___________________________________ ECO-POETICS WORKSHOP with poetry reading by Nancy Campbell& discussion with Chris Drury Saturday 6 May Kay Syrad and Clare Whistler will lead an eco-poetics workshop 10.30am – 3.30pm. At 4pm there will be a reading by award-winning artist and poet Nancy Campbell, who writes about […]
Seasonal greetings! This Sunday I shall be one of 60 poets (including Grace Nichols, Sarah Howe & Sasha Dugdale) raising funds for the Refugee Council. Take a look at our Just Giving page: https://www.justgiving.com/teams/brightonpoemathon. Please come and support us ( I’m reading at 6.50pm). Meanwhile, apologies for the long blog silence. I have been in […]
NEWS… I shall be one of the featured poets reading at Perth Poetry Club,Western Australia, on Saturday 11th June, 2-4pm http://www.perthpoetryclub.com/ EXCHANGE – Chris Drury & Kay Syrad Exchange, the exhibition based on our Cape Farewell rural residency, will be shown at Schumacher College, Dartington, during the Symposium on Language, Landscape and the Sublime,29-30th June […]
Vert Institutefor art events and writingKay Syrad & Chris Drury Vert Institute, established in 2015, operates from our house and studio on the edge of Vert Wood near the village of Laughton, near Lewes. The aim of the Institute is to offer unusual and stimulating art and writing events and workshops based on the creative […]
Vert Institutefor art events and writingKay Syrad and Chris Drury___________________________________ An experimental writing workshop Reverie and Transparency The workshop, led by Kay for poets or prose writers is designed to encourage free, clear writing by drawing on a study of ritual in creative practice by visual anthropologist, Amanda Ravetz, and the work of Swiss/Latin American […]