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- Sun 5th Feb: 12 – 3.30 pm, The Magic of Realism: Neruda, Vallejo and Paz with C.L. Dallat
for Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
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Sun 5th Feb: 12-3.30 pm, The Magic of Realism: Neruda, Vallejo and Paz with C.L. Dallat
for Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
I’ll die in Paris in a shower of rain/ On a day I already remember (Vallejo); Hammers pound there above/ pulverized voices/ from the top of the afternoon (Paz); Taut and dry Spain was/ a day’s drum of dull sound (Neruda)… Discover three major Latin American poets (in translation), all three major world artists engaging with the local and universal, each from a particular perspective, Peruvian, Chilean or Mexican, yet all approachable, immediate, profoundly influential: a chance to spend Sunday in Santiago, Lima, Mexico City, the world…
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2011
Sun 27th Nov: 12-3.30 pm, The Magic of Realism: Neruda, Vallejo and Paz with C.L. Dallat
for Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
I’ll die in Paris in a shower of rain/ On a day I already remember (Vallejo); Hammers pound there above/ pulverized voices/ from the top of the afternoon (Paz); Taut and dry Spain was/ a day’s drum of dull sound (Neruda)… Discover three major Latin American poets (in translation), all three major world artists engaging with the local and universal, each from a particular perspective, Peruvian, Chilean or Mexican, yet all approachable, immediate, profoundly influential: a chance to spend Sunday in Santiago, Lima, Mexico City, the world…
Sun 10th Jul: 12 – 2.30 pm, Land of Heart’s Desire: a W.B. Yeats Walk with C.L. Dallat
for Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
Sublimely inspired, poets nonetheless need a world of publishing, poetry groups, and literary connections in which to develop. Join C.L. Dallat, on a Sunday stroll (starts Hammersmith, ends Turnham Grn Tube) to London’s 19c artists’ colony, Bedford Park, where the young W.B. Yeats’ poetry flourished: a walk that takes in, en route, Pissarro, Pope, Thackeray, Wm. Morris, “Whistler”, Stepniak, Shaw, Holst, W.E. Henley, other Yeatses, sundry poetry presses, and much more.
Location: Hammersmith to Chiswick, meeting-point details on booking
Sat 7 May, 2.30 pm, Collective Amnesia and the Age of Absurdity
C.L. Dallat in conversation with Michael Foley as part of Ninth John Hewitt/Glens of Antrim Spring Festival at Londonderry Arms, Carnlough, on the Antrim Coast: full Sat-Sun programme also includes Rita-Ann Higgins, Eoin McNamee, Mairide Woods, Moyra Donaldson, Anne-Marie Fyfe, Iggy McGovern, Kate Newmann plus Great Northern Novel debate, creative writing and Glens-of-Antrim literary tour
Venue: Londonderry Arms, Carnlough, on the Antrim Coast
Thu 3 Feb, 8pm, Dalriada Festival: Poetry Reading with Anne-Marie Fyfe and Cahal Dallat
A reading by two Glens of Antrim poets, now London-based: arts-organiser and freelance creative-writing teacher, Anne-Marie Fyfe, from Cushendall, and her husband, musician and critic, C.L. Dallat, from Ballycastle.
Venue: Thyme & Co, Quay Road, Ballycastle
Mon 31 Jan, 8pm, The Importance of Music to Poets: Coffee-House Colloquies III with Lavinia Greenlaw, Katharine Towers, Will Eaves and C.L. Dallat
Venue: Troubadour Coffee-House, 263-267 Old Brompton Rd, London SW5
Sun 30 Jan, 12 noon—3.30pm, There Were Four of Us: Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Tsvetaeva & Pasternak
Seminar with C.L. Dallat for Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
Venue: Troubadour Coffee-House, 263-267 Old Brompton Rd, London SW5
2010
Wed 29 Sep, 7pm, Back To School: 7 Poets for Oxfam
Autumn 2010 Fundraiser at Oxfam Marylebone featuring Carole Baldock, Anthony Thwaite, Charles Boyle, Anna Smaill, C.L. Dallat, Evan Jones and Helen Oswald, hosted by Todd Swift
Venue: Oxfam Books and Music Shop, 91 Marylebone High Street, London W1
Sun 26 Sep, 7pm, Aspects Irish Literature Festival in Bangor, County Down
Closing event of Aspects Irish Literature Festival (22nd-26th Sep) features Poetry & Song with Ciaran Carson, Anne-Marie Fyfe and Silhouette with Open-Mic session for local writers.
Venue: Vin Café, 132 Main Street, Bangor, Bangor, BT20 4AG
Sun 19 Sep, 12-2.30pm, Land of Heart’s Desire:
A guided W.B. Yeats walk with poet C.L. Dallat for Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
Mon 26—Fri 30 Jul, The 23rd John Hewitt International Summer School, in Armagh
including Sharon Olds in conversation with Anne-Marie Fyfe, keynote lecture from Eavan Boland, Boland/Olds in joint reading, plus poetry from Michael Longley, Paul Perry, Dennis O’Driscoll, Eoghan Walls and Chris Agee, plus Blake Morrison, Terry Eagleton, Glenn Patterson, Louis de Bernieres, fiction, drama, poetry workshops, music, dicussions and much more.
Venue: Marketplace Theatre, Armagh
Sun 27 Jun, 12noon, Akhmatova, Mandelstam & Tsvetaeva
seminar with C.L. Dallat for Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
Venue: Troubadour Coffee-House, 263-267 Old Brompton Rd, London SW5
Thu 24 Jun, 7.30pm, Bedford Park Festival Poetry Event
The Poetry of Gardens in the world’s first Garden Suburb
…with special guest Polly Devlin, plus themed music, refreshments, hosted by local poets Anne-Marie Fyfe & Cahal Dallat
Sat 19 Jun, The Wolf Poetry Magazine Launch at the Poetry Society Studio
Featuring editor James Byrne and contributors including Alfred Corn and Anne-Marie Fyfe
Venue: Poetry Society Studio, upstairs at the Poetry Café, 22 Betterton Street, St. Covent Garden. London WC2H 9BX
Mon 14 Jun—Fri 16 Jul, 7-8.30pm, 15th Irish Writers in London Summer School
Sat 12—Sun 13 Jun, Bridlington Poetry Festival
with Simon Armitage, Carole Bromley, Colette Bryce, Pat Borthwick, James Byrne, C.L. Dallat, Antony Dunn, Paul Durcan, Anne-Marie Fyfe, Martha Kapos, Daljit Nagra, Heather Phillipson, Jacob Polley, Robin Robertson and David Wheatley
Venue: Sewerby Hall & Gardens, Bridlington
Sat 12 Jun, 4pm, Seminar, Relishing Difficulty: C.L. Dallat discusses John Ashbery, Medbh McGuckian & Jorie Graham
Venue: Goodin Room
Sun 13 Jun, 1.30pm, Poetry Reading, James Byrne and Anne-Marie Fyfe
Venue: Orangery
Sun 13 Jun, 3.15pm, Poetry Reading, Martha Kapos and C.L. Dallat
Venue: Orangery
Mon 24 May, 8pm, Vetcherniy Zvon/Evening Bells
at Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
vetcherniy zvon/evening bells: russian poetry in translation from pushkin, khodasevich, shvarts, lipkin, mandelstam & ratushinskaya with peter daniels, sasha dugdale, robert chandler, c.l. dallat, yvonne green and xenia dennen with Russian music from david juritz and milos milivojevic
Venue: Troubadour Coffee House, 263-267 Old Brompton Rd, SW5
Fri 7 May, 8pm, Poetry at Ware Arts Centre
with poetry from C.L. Dallat plus local poets
Venue: Ware Arts Centre, Kibes Lane, Ware, Herts
Sat 10 Apr, all day, Eighth John Hewitt Spring Festival
Back to Uncertainty: Considering Other Possibilities
with Linda Grant, Ciaran Hinds, John Walsh, Frank Ormsby, Sinead Morrissey, Hector McDonnell, Anne-Marie Fyfe and C.L. Dallat
Venue: Londonderry Arms, Carnlough, Co. Antrim
Thu 25 Mar, 8.30pm, Poetry & Jazz
with Deborah Brown Quartet & poetry from C.L. Dallat & Richard Douglas Pennant (courtesy of Global Music Foundation & Cegin Productions) Venue: Pizza Express Jazz Club, 10 Dean St, LONDON W1D 3RW
Thu 25 Mar, 6pm, Oxfam Books in Bloomsbury
Anne-Marie Fyfe reads with Owen Sheers and Ben Crystal
Venue: 12 Bloomsbury Street, WC1B 3QA (near Tottenham Court Road & British Museum), phone 020 7637 4610 for details
Sun 21 Mar, 12noon, The Art in the Everyday
writing workshop with C.L. Dallat (first presented at Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2009)
Venue: Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
Wed 17-Fri 19 Mar, StAnza, Scotland’s Poetry Festival
Wed 17 Mar, 7pm, StAnza Festival Launch with Dr Louise Richardson, poetry from Anne-Marie Fyfe & Kei Miller, traditional Irish music from C.L. Dallat
Wed 17 Mar, 10pm, Inklight Poets with music from C.L. Dallat
Thu 18 Mar, 5pm, Five O’Clock Verses: Anne-Marie Fyfe & Luiz Munoz with John Burnside (translator)
Fri 19 Mar, 10am, Poetry Breakfast: “How Poets Develop” with Anne-Marie Fyfe, Jacob Polley, Monika Rinck & Swithun Cooper
Mon 15 Mar, 9pm, North Beach Poetry Nights
with Anne-Marie Fyfe
Venue: Crane Bar, Sea Road, Galway
Fri 12 Mar, 8pm, Over The Edge
with C.L. Dallat, Orla Higgins, Moya Roddy & Kate Dempsey
Venue: Over The Edge at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, 14-16 Church Yard Street, Galway
Thu 18th Feb, 8.30pm, Poetry & Jazz
Charles McPherson Quartet and Anne-Marie Fyfe, introduced by C.L. Dallat (courtesy of Global Music Foundation & Cegin Productions)
Venue: Pizza Express Jazz Club, 10 Dean St, LONDON W1D 3RW
Tue 16th Feb, 8pm, Kent & Sussex Poetry Society
with C.L. Dallat plus open-mike
Venue: the Camden Centre, Victoria Pl, TUNBRIDGE WELLS TN1 2SW
Thu 11th Feb, 7.30pm, Poetry Matters
with Anne-Marie Fyfe & C. L. Dallat
Venue: Artsbar, Wellington Rd, WOKINGHAM RG40 2AN
2009
Sat 12th Dec, 8pm, “Celtic Poets” at Café Ibsen, Limassol
Reading by Welsh poet Richard Douglas Pennant (Alabaster Jar, 2008, & CD, Old Stones, New Tales, 2004) & Irish poet/broadcaster C.L. Dallat (The Year of Not Dancing, Blackstaff Press, 2009) plus music, food, etc
Venue: Café Ibsen, Chrysanthou Mylonas 16, Ag. Zoni, Limassol
Thu 26th Nov, 8.30pm, Rhythm & Muse at the Lion
Poet C.L. Dallat reads with Kavita Jindal, with music from singer-songwriter Liz Simcock
Sat 7th Nov, 2-3pm, Reading: Emerging Voices
with Annie Freud, Sasha Dugdale, C.L. Dallat & Roger Robinson at The Twenty-First Aldeburgh Poetry Festival at Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh (plus, at Peter Pears Gallery Aldeburgh, 5.45-6.00pm, FREE, Join Cahal Dallat as he scrutinises a favourite poem…)
Sat 24th Oct, 3.15pm, The Act of Creating at Torbay Festival
with Mike Barlow, C.L. Dallat & Maggie Sawkins
Venue: Torbay Festival of Poetry, Grosvenor Hotel, Belgrave Rd, Torquay
Sun 27th Sep, 7.00pm, Over to You/Poetry & Song at Vin Café
with Enda Wyley, C.L. Dallat, Anthony Toner & Open-Mike with Malachi O’Doherty (as part of Aspects Irish Literature Festival 23rd to 27th September 2009, Bangor, Co. Down)
Sat 19th Sep, 7.30pm, Poetry Reading at Poetry in the Crypt St Mary’s Church, Upper St, Islington,
featuring Anne Berkeley, C.L. Dallat and Siriol Troup
Mon 27th — Fri 31st Jul, Unfettered Thought: Belief in the Future: the 22nd John Hewitt International Summer School in Armagh’s Marketplace Theatre
with Helen Dunmore, Lewis Wolpert, Eugene McCabe, Daljit Nagra, Yang Lian, Siobhan Campbell, Donal O’Kelly, Leontia Flynn, Ian Sansom, Joyce Sutphen, Claire Kilroy, Joe McWilliams, Lucy Caldwell, Brian McGilloway, WJ McCormack, Joe McWilliams, John Wilson Foster, Claire Keegan plus creative writing (drama/fiction/poetry), panel discussions, readers’ group, music, drama, exhibitions, receptions…
Sun 14th Jun, Gift of Tongues – a Michael Donaghy seminar with C.L. Dallat
for Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
Five years since London poetry circles were deprived of the intellectual conjuring and amiable company of Irish-American poet/musician, Michael Donaghy, Picador have now launched his Collected Poems and Collected Prose. C.L. Dallat, who shared a workshop with Mike, as they frequently shared poetry and music gigs, will lead a seminar on one of the most pleasurably dazzling poets of his generation.
Thu 28th May, 6pm, Belfast Launch at Queen’s
Venue: Queen’s Visitors’ Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, BT7 1NN
Launch to celebrate publication of C.L. Dallat’s The Year of Not Dancing
Hosted by The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry and Blackstaff Press, t:028-9045 5006, refreshments, all welcome…
Wed 27th May, 7.30pm, Limavady Launch at Books Upstairs
Venue: Books Upstairs, 11a Market Street, Limavady
Launch to celebrate publication of C.L. Dallat’s The Year of Not Dancing
Plus collection of paintings by Anne Patterson
Hosted by Books Upstairs, t: 07711-127 331, refreshments, all welcome…
Mon 25th May, 8-10pm, Reading at Coffee-House Poetry
Venue: Troubadour, 263-267 Old Brompton Road, London SW5
Poetry Reading with Maura Dooley, Michael Laskey, Lorraine Mariner, Siriol Troup and C.L. Dallat (launching The Year of Not Dancing)
Music by Paul McLoughlin and Pete Clark
Sat 18th Apr, Seventh John Hewitt Spring Festival
at Carnlough’s Londonderry Arms Hotel on the Antrim Coast:
a day of literature and the arts with Polly Devlin, Brian Keenan, Hector McDonnell, Colette Bryce, Chris Spurr, Malachi O’Doherty, Anne-Marie Fyfe and C.L. Dallat (launching The Year of Not Dancing), for info see John Hewitt Society
Sundays – 15th, 22nd, 29th Mar, 2-4pm, Land of Heart’s Desire: a W.B. Yeats Guided Walk around Chiswick/Bedford Park with C.L. Dallat
As part of Coffee-House Poetry’s celebration of Yeats’ 70th anniversary, a chance to explore the elegantly inspiring aesthetic urban environs in which Yeats first flourished.
The great Irish poet spent most of his childhood in Bedford Park, Chiswick, the world’s first garden suburb and a much-satirised 19c artists’ colony, where his poetic genius was nurtured in the company of pre-Raphaelite painters & illustrators, Celtic & Icelandic scholars/folklorists, dramatists, musicians, scene-painters, small-press printers and embroiderers…
A walk on the Yeats side – ending at Turnham Green on the District Line: a walk/talk that contextualises the multi-talented Yeats family, mentioning, in passing, Pissaro, Thackeray, Wm. Morris, Whistler, Arts and Crafts, speculative building, wallpaper patterns, peacock feathers, the Jameson Raid, Hogarth, Pope, G.K. Chesterton, Sergius Stepniak, Conan Doyle’s illustrator, Shaw’s mistress, musicians Holst & Dolmetsch, & divers printeries.
Inveterate walker of Bedford Park’s rook-delighting avenues and of the Thames’ Chiswick/Hammersmith reaches, poet, musician and critic, C.L. Dallat has long written & lectured on Irish literature and has talked on Yeats at the Bedford Park Society, Poetry Society/Poetry School and at the 49th International Yeats Summer School in Sligo in 2008.
Sun 1st Mar, in the deep heart’s core: a w.b. yeats seminar with c.l. dallat
for Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour
A chance to discover and rediscover some familiar and not-so-familiar Yeats poems—and something of the dreamer and dream-maker behind the poems—in the company of Irish poet and Yeats-enthusiast Cahal Dallat who gave the Yeats Family Lecture at last year’s 49th Yeats International Summer School in Sligo.