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Jim

About Me

Jim was born and still lives near Liverpool in England. He grew up in Liverpool during the years of the Liverpool Sound and the Liverpool Poets and it is from this tradition that he developed his own unique style and voice.He is the author of 57 books including books of poetry, books for children, and technical training manuals. In addition his CD "Down in Liverpool" a selection of poetry and music has brought Jim to the notice of a much wider audience.In January 2004 Jim took over as Editor of the Poetry Internet site, Poetry Kit (www.poetrykit.org ) and he has been able to see its visitors rate climb to over 4000 every day.In a career spanning 35 years Jim has been invited to read at Royal visits to Liverpool, represent his city in international events, read at events for both Liverpool and Everton Football clubs and has won many accolades for his performances and writing.Recent awards include; 2 DaDaFest Awards 2003 – awards for Individual artist, and established artist In December 2004 Jim won the DaDaFest Individual Performer Award for the second year in succession. In September 2005 Jim was appointed Birkenhead's Poet in Residence to help create a Poem for Birkenhead. Later he was honoured with the post of Poet in residence for Liverpool's Historic Waterfront and as visiting poet for New York's (US) Waterfront. A two year project to explore the bonds between the two cities.He has been called “the best performance poet in Liverpool” and “the uncrowned king of Merseyside poetry”. (and lots of other things.)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, John Fante, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, but unfortunately they are all dead.

My Blog

Poetry at New Brighton

  Merseyside Poetry Project in conjunction with Jim Bennett, The Poetry Kit and New Bright Art present   POETIC LICENCE   an open floor poetry evening   open floor po...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:20:00 GMT

poem; from end to beginning

from end to beginning..:   from backwards to front it all makes sense in a none sort of way we're all bits of a puzzle without a solution perhaps or because it's quite hard to say. there was a...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:51:00 GMT

POETIC LICENCE OPEN FLOOR - NEW BRIGHTON

Merseyside Poetry Projectin conjuction with Jim Bennett,The Poetry Kit and New Bright ArtpresentPOETIC LICENCEan open floor poetry eveningopen floor poetry nightwith host Jim Bennett8pm Wednesday 12th...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Feb 2008 03:37:00 GMT

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  autumn arthritic branches reach down into the river   fish refract lying safe in the quiet shallows   out in the white water is the flotsam of Empire   the Union Flag driven...
Posted by on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:44:00 GMT

Courses Newsletter 5

NEWSLETTER FROM JIM BENNETT - POETRY KIT COURSES To celebrate Liverpool as European Capital of Culture in 2008   THE POETRY KIT - Poetry Competition.   This is a poetry competition wi...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:26:00 GMT

Christmas Poetry Challenge

Christmas Poetry Challenge   Gary's Blankenship's long sequence of poems based on Whitman's "Song of Myself" is to form the basis of an edition of my on-line magazine "Transparent Words...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:56:00 GMT

Courses Newsletter 3

NEWSLETTER FROM JIM BENNETT - POETRY KIT COURSESThis is a newsletter that goes out free to everyone who is on or who has been on one of the Poetry Kit (www.poetrykit.org) courses.  Here I will g...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:26:00 GMT

Call for submissions

Call for Submissions: Art, Poetry and Short fiction for Trespass magazine New Deadline for Trespass 2: November 25 2007. Loose theme: 'Out of Body' www.trespassmagazine.co.uk..:namespace prefix = o ns...
Posted by on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:29:00 GMT

Courses Newsletter

This is a newsletter that goes out free to everyone who is on or who has been on one of the Poetry Kit (www.poetrykit.org) courses.  Here I will give news of new courses,  readings, other se...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:28:00 GMT

Call for submissions

- Vulgata Magazine. We are looking forwell written fiction -- specifically works that involve a strongfusion or form and content. Upon publication, we pay a $100(Canadian) honorarium for first electro...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:48:00 GMT