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Brilliant Pighog Poetry starts a new season at the Redroaster

I rushed off to the latest Pighog Poetry event at Redroaster to find that the programme featured poets with poems related to breast cancer. Ummm… plenty of food for thought! How often do we think about this topic unless someone … Continue reading

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‘The Echo Room’ relaunch at The Red Roaster

 Great hat, great guy, a man with a  mission! Tonight Brendan Cleary relaunched his cult classic poetry magazine of the 80s and 90s ‘The Echo Room’ at the Redroaster. He  compered  the evening’s proceedings himself as one of  the Pighog … Continue reading

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Piggy poets at it again at the Roaster last night.

Hugh Dunkerley writes ecological poetry which is well observed and often  scathing. Tonight he was well on form with poems about DNA the world and everything. In his second session he changed his tone and included a  wonderful three part … Continue reading

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Pighog poets come up trumps at the Redroaster!

Fantastic night a the Redroaster tonight, a completely full house for the warm, touching and often witty poetry of Maria Jastrzebrska, widely translated and with several books to her name. Tonight she was well on form, two of the poems she … Continue reading

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Pighog’s new season of ‘piggy’ poets.

Tonight we have the lovely Robin Lawley hosting, whose deadpan delivery is full of wit and humour. reads his own poetry,  improvises to cover changes with mics etc and is a good time keeper. The two poets featured are Jackie … Continue reading

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