TALKING RHYTHM! welcomes two extraordinary featured guests for its Summer session on Wednesday 30th July at The Prince Of Greenwich Pub.
SUE JOHNS originates from Cornwall where she started performing as a punk poet, in the 1980’s. Publications include Hush (Morgan’s Eye Press, 2011) , Rented, Poems on Prostitution and Dependency (Palewell Press, 2018) and Track Record (Dempsey & Windle, 2021). She was highly commended in the Prole pamphlet and the Amnesty International competition. She has an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University/ The Poetry School
Her work has appeared in anthologies such as can You Hear the People Sing (Palewell Press, 2020), Alter Egos (Bad Betty, 2019) Welling Up (Palewell Press, 2019) and Time for Song, Contemporary Cornish Poetry ( Morgan’s Eye Press, 2009), Ver Prize anthology, 2022 and magazines including Poetry News, The Morning Star, Southbank Poetry, Dreich, The Atlanta Review, Prole, The Alchemy Spoon, Brittle Star, The Big Issue, London Grip, Dream Catcher, Black Iris, Tears in the Fence and Magma
https://www.suejohns.co.uk (Books available from this site)
Sue has also written and performed theatrical monologues and worked on numerous art/poetry collaborations including Spectre of Abandonment with visual artist Lorraine Clarke, 2014. She is a veteran of the Performance Poetry circuit and has performed at readings and festivals around the country including The Edinburgh Festival and St Ives literary festival.
CHARLOTTE GLASSON is an award winning multi instrumentalist, composer and band leader. Since winning the ‘Best Newcomer Award’ in Marlborough Jazz Festival, the Charlotte Glasson Band have been wowing audiences from many jazz festivals including- London Jazz Festival, Love Supreme, Southport Jazz Festival, Swanage, Teignmouth,and Lincoln festival. Stylistically Charlotte's compositions draw on influences from all around the globe, but she has the vision to combine these into something that is uniquely her own, upbeat and bouncy on the surface but with all sorts of interesting twists and turns as a sub-text. And she uses the enormously varied instrumental resources at her disposal in an unfailingly imaginative way - her own armoury alone contains a small orchestra's worth of sonic possibilities.
Charlotte has worked with Nick Cave, Oasis, John Martyn, Unkle, Jah Wobble, The Lost and Found Orchestra, The Waeve, Stornoway, Camille O’Sullivan and The Divine Comedy amongst many others.
More info at
Website: www.charlotteglasson.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/charlotteglasso/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Glasson
Press quotes
“If you’ve ever wondered what smiles sound like, this is it”. - Jackie Hayden Hot Press
“Multi instrumentalist Charlotte Glasson will restore your faith in jazz. Witty, exuberant & genre defying stuff” @LocalSCambridge
“If you could bottle this band’s music, how wonderful it would be to inhale it”
And it YOU at the Open Mic. Bring poems and songs for two 5 minute spots.
Contributions for the evening £5/£7 at the door.
With thanks as always to the amazing and generous Prince of Greenwich Museum Pub. Arrive early to sample the best Sicilian pizza in South East London!. Bring poems and songs for two 5 minute spots.
Contributions for the evening £5/£7 at the door.
With thanks as always to the amazing and generous Prince of Greenwich Museum Pub. Arrive early to sample the best Sicilian pizza in South East London!
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