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THE SHOP: POP UP POETRY ON PORTOBELLO ROAD JULY 1-7 FROM CB EDITIONS/EYEWEAR!

Wow - Paddington Bear would have loved to get his paws on this shop's books on the fabled Portobello road he so loved to visit...

COME BY AND ENJOY SOME WINE, SOME POETRY, SOME POETRY BOOK BROWSING/ BUYING. 201 PORTOBELLO ROAD, NOTTING HILL, LONDON, JULY 1-7 2013....

HERE ARE THE COOL EVENTS (POP UP TEN MINUTE READINGS)...



Monday  1st July



Evening: 7 pm-8 pm: Eyewear party, with reading by Mark Ford



Tuesday 2nd July   



Day readers: 2.30 pm, Leah Fritz; 3.30 pm, Kimberly Campanello; 4 pm, Christopher Reid;  4.30 pm, Astrid Alben



Wednesday 3rd July



Day readers: 1.30 pm, Tim Dooley; 2.30 Tim Wells; 3 pm, Fiona Curran; 3 pm Andrew Motion; 4 pm, Sandeep Parmar & James Byrne 



Evening: Flipped Eye event:

6 pm: Sarah Westcott – runner up in the first Venture Award, reading from her new pamphlet Inklings for followed by Q&A/signing.

6.45pm Introducing The mouthmark Book of Poetry – a hardback anthology of all the single-author pamphlets produced under the mouthmark series, including Jacob Sam-La Rose’s Communion, Denise Saul’s White Narcissi, Inua Ellams’ 13 Fairy Negro Tales and Warsan Shire’s Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth



Thursday 4th July  



Day readers: 3.30 pm, Anthony Howell; 5 pm, Harry Man; 5.30 pm, Michael Horovitz and friend



Evening: 6.30 pm, Laura Del Rivo and Cathi Unsworth

Laura Del Rivo has been living in the Portobello Road area for over fifty years. She still runs a market stall. In 2011 Five Leaves reissued her debut novel, The Furnished Room (1961; filmed by Michael Winner in 1963 as West 11): ‘an evocative taste of black-coffee blues ... a perfect encapsulation of that shady, shifting Ladbroke Grove on the cusp of profound social change’ (Guardian). She has a story in the new Salt anthology of Best British Short Stories 2013, and a new collection will be published by Holland Park Press this year.

Cathi Unsworth is also a local author. Her novels include Bad Penny Blues, an exploration of the unsolved ‘Jack the Stripper’ murders of eight working girls in along the Thames in the1960s, The Not Knowing and The Singer (‘Cathi Unsworth has written the Great Punk Novel’ – David Peace). Her most recent novel, The Weirdo, was published in paperback in June. In the book of essays on London Fictions (Five Leaves, 2013) she writes on Lynne Reid Banks’s The L-Shaped Room (1960). 





Friday 5th July



Day readers: 1 pm; Tamar Yoseloff ; 1.30 pm, John Greening; 3.30 pm, Steven Fowler; 4 pm, Michael Horovitz

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