WestEustonPurplePoets
Kim Morrissey
Writer-In-Residence
West Euston Time Bank
Purple Poets
HEAR KIM READING POEMS FROM ATLAS 02:
http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/issue.asp?id=642
MOST RECENT READINGS BY KIM
(including)
Kim
read at the digital book launch of
Atlas 02 at the Poetry Library
South Bank Centre, 5th Floor
Royal Festival Hall
July 9th 2008 at 8 p.m.
| UPCOMING READINGS:
DECEMBER 14 - 18, 2008 – KIM
MORRISSEY
Delhi International Literary Festival Festival [DILF}
The DILF events will take place as part of the wider month-long multi-arts
multi-venue Delhi International Arts Festival [DIAF] events in India's capital
city of New Delhi and at the Neemrana Fort Palace in Rajasthan. During these
days writers are invited to read from their work, meet Indian writers, editors,
critics, publishers, and other international guest writers. In addition they
will be able to visit sites in the historic Mughal city of Delhi (and
Rajasthan). |
Kim read at the book launch of
DIVERS by the Poetry Workshop
(25th Anniversary Anthology)
Pentameters Theatre
June 29th 2008
If he won
he won
if you won
it was only a game.
(from Batoche, Coteau Books, 1989)
"At first, the new Prairie poets were mostly
male, but in time a number of important women poets have appeared, including
Anne Campbell, Lorna Crozier, Leona Gom, Kim Morrissey and Anne Szumigalski.
"
The Canadian Encyclopedia
"Poetry in English"
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/ |
'I have been meeting with the West Euston Purple
Poets, since May 2005. Every week they bring something to the workshop to
astonish me. I am amazed, amused and delighted by the Purple Poets; they
are generous, funny, courageous, good-tempered, flexible, hard-working, witty,
and lively. They are such pleasant company, the Workshop should be
called a Poetry Playshop.
Come play! Thursdays at The Crypt, Munster Square, 1 - 3.'
--- Kim Morrissey, National Poetry Day, Bloomsbury, 2006.
Kim is a poet, playwright, editor, researcher and radio
dramatist. Her most recent stage play is Mrs Ruskin , produced by
Theatre Metropolis (Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, 2003).
Kim was a commissioned writer for BBC Radio 4's political satire comedy sketch
show WeekEnding (1994-1995) which also aired on the BBC World Service.
She researched and wrote "This is My First Wife: a Hundred Years of James
Thurber " (BBC Radio 4 documentary, Christmas 1994, producer Gareth Edwards).
She has done readings and workshops at the Open University Summer School
in York and taught Play Analysis at Rose Bruford College for Drama (Sidcup,
England).
Kim gave a rare poetry reading at the launch of Atlas 01, the Literary
Magazine (edited by Sudeep Sen), Lauderdale House, Highgate on June 8th 2006
and then again at the Nehru Centre, Mayfair, on June 9th 2006. She read again
at the launch of Atlas 02, in 2007, at the Nehru Centre,
with Rose Hacker in attendence.
Kim
Morrissey
Imagine
Rose Dancing
(for Rose Hacker)
read by the poet at the southbankcentre
recorded 09.07.2008
at the Saison poetry Library
Also read at the London launch
of Atlas 02 (edited by Sudeep Sen)
with Rose as an invited guest
Nehru Centre, 14.07.2007
London
Imagine
Rose Dancing:
Rose Hacker's Dance Performance in Bloomsbury
February 24, 2007
Imagine Rose dancing
white lace at her throat
dark dress falling shoulders
to floor
the lights catching stage dust
the slow curve of thin wrists
suspended
Rose dancing,
still turning heads
each breath that she takes
lemon-sweet
imagine Rose dancing
to one-hundred-and-one
imagine Rose dancing
and dance!
BOOKS:
Batoche
(Regina: Coteau Books, 1989)
Poem For Men Who Dream of Lolita
(Regina: Coteau Books, 1992)
Dora: A Case of Hysteria
(London: Nick Hern Books 1994)
Clever as Paint: the Rossettis in Love
(Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 1998)
CHILDREN'S PLAYS:
Raisins and Almonds
(adapted from the novel by Fredelle Maynard)
available from Playwrights Guild of Canada
Snow White and the Three Dwarves
Christmas Play
available from Playwrights Guild of Canada
PUBLIC READINGS:
ATLAS 2 Launch July 14, 2007
Nehru Centre, South Audley Street, London
(Guardian review)
Thursday, February 15th 2007
Lauderdale House, Highgate, at 8
p.m.
OTHER INTERNET SITES FEATURING
KIM MORRISSEY'S WORK:
Coteau Books in Schools (Secondary School Level)
Batoche Study Guide
http://www.cenlyt.com/Batoche/start.htm
(includes first nation lesson plan suitable for
secondary students by Wilma Riley)
Hypertext Poetry Workshop (London, England) Site
http://www.btinternet.com/~carpenter/home1.htm
University of Toronto 'Canadian Poets' Site
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/morrissey
Playwrights Guild of Canada Site
http://www.playwrightsguild.com/pgc/main.asp
The Comedy Collective (UK)
http://members.aol.com/playscript/Comedy/Britain/Writers/
HISTORY OF THE POETRY PROJECT
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West
Euston Time Bank
Time Broker:
Shahanara Begum
020 7383 4382
Poet-in-Residence
Kim Morrissey
London Time Banks
are supported by The Community Fund,
the Association of London Government,
the King's Fund and Bridge House Estates Trust
TBUK
the 2007 London Time Bank National Poetry Day
Celebration was co-sponsored by the
West Euston Time Bank
and the
West Euston Third Age
Project
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