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Apples & Snakes

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About Me

We've been around for 24 years. Over this time we've worked with loads of poets and writers such as Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Francesca Beard, Beyonder, Malika Booker, BREIS, Charlie Dark, Roger Robinson, Jacob Sam-la Rose, Zena Edwards, Lucy English, Mat Fraser, John Hegley, Jonzi D, Patrick Neate, Lemn Sissay, TY, Luke Wright, Ross Sutherland and Benjamin Zephaniah to drop just a few names.
We're one of Englands leading poetry organisations (not that we want to big up ourself too much). Our work covers outreach projects in schools, prisons and community groups. The other side of the organisation deals with the shows. We've co-ordinators based in SW, NW, NE and midlands of England which makes us truly national.
In short our focus is on working with emerging artists and commissions and produces new work.
So ... there you have it.
Our Spring Season - London Events:
Apples & Snakes in Soho
Wednesday 4 April @ 8pm
Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street W1
Featuring Kat Francois, Julian Fox, Stacy Makishi and the D’Archetypes
Malika Bookers’s Unplanned
10-29 April, Tuesday-Saturday at 8.30pm, Sunday at 6.30pm
BAC, Lavender Hill, London SW11
Malika Likes...
Friday 20 April @ 9.30pm
BAC, Lavender Hill, London SW11
Featuring Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Karen McCarthy and Denise Saul
Apples & Snakes in Soho
Wednesday 9 May @ 8pm
Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street W1
FeaturingFour-Pack Thursday 10 May @ 9pm
BAC, Lavender Hill, London SW11
Featuring Joseph Coelho, Rhian Edwards, Inua ‘Phaze’ Ellams and Niall O’Sullivan
Open Mic Thursday 17 May @ 7pm
Whitechapel Gallery, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1

My Interests

Producing, Showcasing, Promoting, Developing, Teaching.

I'd like to meet:

Creative people and those that love creative people and what they do.

Books:

There's so many! Here's a selection from the office collection: From the Devil's Pulpit(Agard), Mangoes and Bullets(Agard), Transformatrix(Agbabi), Blood Sugar(Blackman), Hot like Fire(Bloom), Whoop an' Shout(Bloom), All Day Saturday(Causley), Adult Entertainment(Poems), Poetry for the People(Herovitz), Jazz and other Religions(Clarke), Travelling without Arriving(Clarke), Weatherman(Cropper), Mean Time(Duffy), Selling Manhattan(Duffy), Standing Female Nude(Duffy), Immaculate Conceit(Duffy), Thirteen Fairy Negro Tails(Ellams), Sky Over Bedlam(French), Fishers of Men(Gale), Selling the Hammock(Gale), Psychicbread(Gwynne Jones), My Dog is a Carrot(Hegley), The Ecstasy of Sceptics(Heighton), The World's Yar Lobster(Henri), Death Wish(Slim), Doom Fox(Slim), Pimp(Slim), On the Edge of an Island(Breeze), The Arrival of Brighteye(Breeze), Errors of the Spirit(Joolz), The Adoption Papers(Kay), Off Colour(Kay), Entries on Light(Khalvati), Stormy Emotions(Landesman), Adventures in 3D(Robinson), Poems from the Tired Lips of Newspapers(McGrath), All Shook Up(Mitchell), Blue Coffee(Mitchell), The Mammoth Sails Tonight(Mitchell), The London Pigeon Wars(Neate), Twelve Bar Blues(Neate), Ghostly Verse(Orme), Lost in a Mirror(Ovejuna), Rags and Ragas(Rajendra), Shrapnel Silence and Sand(Rajendra), Hard-Boiled Legs(Rosen), Smelly Jelly Smelly Fish(Rosen), Under the Bed(Rosen), I Am(Scally-Clarke), Urban Fox(Sebold), Pizza Curry Fish and Chips(Sedgwick), Relections(Simeon), Morning Breaks on the Elevator(Sissay), Rebel Without Applause(Sissay), South East of Eden(Stafford), The Task of Time(Winterburn)

My Blog

Is performance Poetry Dead?

It's worth getting your hands on a copy of the summer issue of Poetry Review to read a very interesting article that poses the question 'Is performance Poetry Dead?' Performance poets Luke Wright and ...
Posted by Apples & Snakes on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:29:00 PST