DODO MODERN POETS
Dodo Modern Poets was founded in 1986 by Patric Cunnane with the intention of bringing new and established poets to as wide an audience as possible and especially to venues off the beaten track.
The name Dodo Modern Poets is an ironic tribute to Penguin Modern Poets, a now extinct series of anthologies featuring new poetry which were published in the sixties and seventies. Like the dodo, poetry is always in danger of extinction but somehow rises again to challenge the values of modern society.
The group hosts a regular evening at the Poetry Café in Covent Garden where it presents the most vibrant, entertaining and challenging poets writing today.
DMP has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, the St Ives Literature Festival, the Hastings Festival and many others including a number of Dylan Thomas inspired evenings in Laugharne, South Wales for which it received funding from the Welsh Arts Council. Other London shows included several appearances at the Wimbledon Studio Theatre and at the Croydon Clocktower arts centre. In October 2007 it hosted a gala evening in Wimbledon as the culminating event in the first Wimbledon Book Festival and it returned to Wimbledon on 5 October 2008 for the second Wimbledon Book Festival.
Its founder Patric Cunnane is involved in many other poetry activities, He ran a day school on performance poetry in the New Forest. He has created poetry with elderly people and disabled people in day care centres in the London Borough of Merton. He ran school workshops in the same borough as part of the Big Arts project for several years and a poetry workshop at Merton´s arts festival for adults with learning difficulties.
Patric Cunnane´s poems have appeared in many publications including The Guardian and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. His latest collection Baltimore was published in 2006.
DODO MODERN POETS BOOK LAUNCH
Free event
Friday 17 February 8pm
LOOKING FOR EDEN
Patric Cunnane
The bard of SW19 launches his new collection, Looking For Eden.
GUEST READERS
Emile Sercombe
Verbal & visual pyrotechnics from the eminent poetry doctorLisa Hitchen
Finely judged verse from superb poet
PR Murry
Apocalyptic visions meet crustacean liberation theology
The Poetry Café
22 Betterton Street, WC2
0207 420 9880
Covent Garden Tube
WORLD BOOK DAY
Free Event
Sue Johns
Celtic cocktail from Mitcham-based Cornish poet
Ardella Jones
Vital & dynamic verse from Colliers Wood diva
Patric Cunnane
The bard of SW19 launches his new collection.
Thursday 1st March at 12.30pm
Morden Library, Merton Civic Centre, London Road, Morden SM4 5DX.
tel. 020 8545 4040
Morden tube
DODO DATES 2012 at the Poetry Café
Friday 13 April 8pm
Friday 18 May 8pm
Friday 15 June 8pm
Friday 14 September 8pm
Friday 19 October 8pm
Friday 14 December 8pm
POETS tba
The Poetry Café
22 Betterton Street, WC2
£6/5 0207 420 9880
Covent Garden Tube
dodo modern poets letting fly with words 0208 687 1930 07769 777022
patric.poet@zen.co.uk
http://dodomodpoets.com/dodo.shtml
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DODO MODERN VIDPOETS :
A Blog of video clips of poets performing at Dodo at
http://dodovidpoets.blogspot.com/
Watch this site for details of performers
Poetry Café, 22 Betterton Street
London WC2 £6 and £:5 (concessions)
Covent Garden Tube
dodo modern poets letting fly with words
0208 687 1930
mobile 07769777022
DODO MODERN VIDPOETS :
A Blog of video clips of poets performing at Dodo at
http://dodovidpoets.blogspot.com/
XMAS CRACKERS
ALISON WINCH
Terrific verse from fine emerging talent
JILL ABRAM
Wham Bam Poetry Slam champ & organizer of Malika´s Kitchen
CHARLIE DUPRE
Mixed literary influences meet kinetic verbal onslaughts
PATRIC CUNNANE
Politics, passion & powerful perception
Friday 9 December 2011 8pm
EATLATINANDIE POETS at the Astor Theatre DEAL
PR Murry, Emile Sercombe, Patric Cunnane, Zolan Quobble
Compered by Berni Cunnane Compere without compare
DODO MODERN POETS
OCTOBER ODES
AGNES MEADOWS
First-rate writer and poetry driving force
PR MURRY
Razor-sharp wit meets apocalyptic visions
KATRINA NAOMI
Spirited performer in her Dodo debut
PATRIC CUNNANE
Passionate verse from the universal to the personal
Friday 21 October 2011 8pm
The Poetry Cafe
22 Betterton Street, WC2
£6/5 0207 420 9880
Covent Garden Tube
dodo modern poets letting fly with words 0208 687 1930 07769 777022
patric.poet@zen.co.uk
http://dodomodpoets.com/dodo.shtml
£6/5 0207 420 9880
Covent Garden Tube
dodo modern poets letting fly with words 0208 687 1930 07769 777022