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GIRL’S NIGHT OUT! BOYS JUST GET TO WATCH.. LOADED LINE UP – BE ON TIME! FREE NIGHT!

AFTER LAST WEEK’S SUCCESSFUL COMEDY NIGHT THE TIME HAS COME FOR A REAL BITCHES BREW, SOME OLD SCHOOL GENDER APARTHEID – LADIES NIGHT AT BEAT! LADIES ONLY – MEN ARE, OF COURSE, WELCOME TOO, JUST NOT ON STAGE – BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME! X

FREE AT LAST – OF COURSE AS USUAL, THE NIGHT IS FREE AT LAST AND AGAIN AS ALWAYS!

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GET READY FOR AN ALL STAR FEMALE LINE UP WITH SOME OF THE FOREMOST POETS/PERFORMERS THIS NATION HAS TO OFFER, FROM MILTON KEYNES TO ISLINGTON AND BEYOND!:

+ Melissa Mann – An aptitude for word play was apparent from the age of two when in her first game of Scrabble she managed to get ‘turd’ on a triple word score. Since then Melissa has successfully moved on to words in excess of four letters, proof of which is available in various print and online literary publications including The Loose Canon, Everyday Genius, Decongested Tales, The Book Club Boutique Newspaper, 3:AM Magazine, Dogmatika, Scarecrow, Succour Magazine, The Laura Hird Showcase, Zygote in My Coffee, Outsider Writers, Radgepacket, Six Sentences, Straight from The Fridge, The Beat, Parasitic 101, Open Wide Magazine, Savage Manners, litup magazine, The Smoking Poet, Heroin Love Songs Journal, Literary Tonic, Up the Staircase, Gold Dust, Red Peter, minimalbooks (translated into Polish) and Thieves Jargon. So, it can only be a matter of time, then before The Pigeon Fanciers’ Gazette finally accepts a piece from her.

Melissa’s new poetry collection, baby i’m ready to go was published in Sept 09 by Grievous Jones Press. Follow the links to read a selection of Melissa’s published and (a few exclusive) unpublished poems and stories. Failing that, head to your nearest bus shelter or public convenience.

Some of Melissa’s stories have been short-listed and highly commended in various writing competitions – the Harpers & Queen/Orange Prize for Fiction short story competition, The Asham Award twice and the London Arts New Writing competition.

Finally, Melissa’s lit gig UK tour t-shirt currently reads Tokyo (Paint Your Teeth 5, Nov 09), Hackney (London Lit Plus Festival event, Jul 07), Brighton (Sparks Flash Fiction night, Oct 08), Clerkenwell (Succour Magazine launch, Nov 08; 3:AM/Beat the Dust/Lost Elation Showcase – The Recession Session Live!, Apr 09; Beat the Dust/3:AM Love & Hate lit gig, July 09), South Bank (Tate Modern’s shambolic, highly pretentious pile of doggy-doo-doo aka the House of Fairy Tales, part of the UBS Openings Long Weekend, May 09) Shoreditch (Jonny Woo’s Storytelling Night, Dec 09; Glitterbeast, Sept 09) and Soho (Book Club Boutique, Jun 09.)

+ Patricia Foster – As well as writing poetry & short stories, performing (across London, Europe and parts of the US), dancing and teaching, she is part of The Art Of Words Poets collective. Founded by legendary UK producer Ray ‘Opaz’ Hayden who promptly made me the A&R of the project (crazy or wot?). Their founder members include Zena Edwards, Janett Plummer, Sifundo and Aisha Omar. Together, we co-host The Art Of Words Poets Radio Show on SolarRadio.Com, which goes out every Monday morning, 2-4am GMT (or every Sunday night, 9pm if you live in NYC). Member of the acclaimed writers’ collective and community Malika’s Kitchen, facilitated by established writers Malika Booker, Roger Robinson and Jacob Sam-La Rose. We are now international, with branches in Chicago, New York and New Delhi. After six years, we are still going strong, blazing a trail across London and The UK. With the collective, I have also had the opportunity to tour some amazing poetry venues and Universities in Chicago. Check out our debut offering from the ‘Kitchen’, a chapbook entitled ‘Handmade Fire’. It’s now available on Amazon. In winter 2006, we released our latest anthology of poetry ‘A Storm Between Fingers’ in Chicago. The UK release and book tour was summer 2007.

In January 2007, she represented Malika’s Kitchen at two festivals:
Double Talk, part of the WeerWoord Festival at the world famous Paradiso in Amsterdam (visit this link for further details)
and De Nachten festival, Antwerp (click here for more details).

For further details about Malika’s Kitchen checkout: www.myspce.com/malikaspoetrykitchen

In 2008, she became co-founder of the all-female collective Thea-poets. For further information about who they are and what they do, check out www.theapoets.com .

+ Jaqueline Saphra – Has had work published in Acumen, Magma, Staple, The Interpreter’s House, Other Poetry, Orbis and other magazines.

+ Naomi Woddis – Naomi Woddis is a writer, performer, workshop facilitator and event curator. Her featured performances include Hackney’s Write to Ignite Literature Festival, O2 Wireless Festival, Theatre Royal Stratford East and the Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of the London Literature Festival.

+ Fay Roberts – Fay is a 34-year-old classically trained singer from Cardiff who started performing at the age of 4. She has been getting stuff published since the age of 18. She was bitten by the performance poetry bug in Spring 2006 after a favour to a friend turned into a place in the final of a poetry slam. She co-manages a series of live poetry events (Poetry Kapow!) with the rather fabulous Danni Antagonist in Milton Keynes, performs in various parts of the Midlands and South East, and is part of a Milton Keynes poetry collective calling themselves Bardcore. She currently gets excited by databases for a living, still sings in choirs and everywhere else and, since summer 2009, is based in Cambridge.

+ Danni Antagonist – Since dipping her toes in the water of performance poetry in London in 2005, been performing in Milton Keynes and beyond since 2006. As co-conspirator in Milton Keynes’ Poetry Kapow (with the thoroughly amazing Ms Fay Roberts) they’re trying to keep poetry associated with drunken revelry and overgrown anarchy as cultivated by our friends at Monkey Kettle magazine.Can loosely divide my poetry into “Performance-grade” and “other”, although there is occasional crossover. At the moment, ists the main inspiration as “stuff that makes me angry” although that doesn’t stop her writing about the beauty of music, the seasons and the irrationality of love. As part ofAs part of a growing crew of Milton Keynes poets, they’ve been touring various cities enjoying a range of different events, and showing off to large numbers of people. As well as finding new favourite performers to argue over, and to invite to Milton Keynes.Some of her performances to date include: Poetry Kapow and Tongue in Chic, Milton Keynes; Ripping Pages and Raising the Awen, Northampton; Pure and good and right, Leamington; Night blue Fruit, Coventry; Perverse Verse, Leicester Square; Bedford Arts Festival; Coventry literature festival; Utter at the Edinburgh Fringe;
Will always rhyme several times in the same poem, and always try to recite from memory.

+ Siofra – Oxford English Lit Graduate with work being published all over the place at the mo. A voice that puts the green into the Irish meadows and serene poetry to go with, Siofra is the winner of the Glitterbeast All Time Slam Champion title where she blew all competition to smithereens

+ Ruth Amaryllis Larbey – BEAT favourite returns!

+ Clare Saponia – BEAT debutant!

+ Michelle Madsen, producer Hammer& Tongue

+ Live Music from Megan Rose – Unique talent, a Canadian spoken word/beat/box/singer songwriter combo who sounds like a one woman jug bandit had a jam session with a hip hop choir around a campfire with an acoustic guitar.

+++++ Your host(the guy who will prob be wearing a skirt): Andreas Grant, celebrated bon vivant & mixologist of tipular fixings. “Dylan Thomas meets X-factor” according to the BIG ISSUIE.