Previous Events
Friday 14th Dec 2007 - North End Writers - Performance evening at St Michael's Irish Centre, Liverpool 6.
1st November 2007 AGM at The Village rooms, Anfield - with guest speaker, author of The Cameo Conspiracy, George Skelly who is also a trustee of North End Writers.
National Poetry Day 2007 - October - Poetry Marathon at Picton Library - organised by North End Writers - with support and help of Liverpool Libraries - an all day celebration with 38 poets reading their work - including Gladys Mary Coles, Brian Wake, Colin Watts, Mohammed Jumai and many more.
28th September 2007 an evening of readings from North End Writers and friends to Friends of Bowring Park.
Friday July 20th 2007 - North End Writers first Performance evening - at St Michael's Irish Centre.
Thursday 15th February 2007 - Ian McMillan in his Big Family Show
For one night only on Thursday 15th February at 7.30 pm at The Lighthouse, Oakfield Road, Anfield.
Ian McMillan is poet-in-residence for Barnsley FC and the Academy of Urbanism. He is the UK Trade and Investment poet, C5 News Poet and Humberside Police's Beat Poet. He is a Royal Literary Fund Associate Fellow at Northern College Barnsley, Rotherham College and South Yorkshire WEA and an honorary doctor of both Sheffield Hallam University & former North Staffs Polytechnic. "You can call me Doctor Doctor..."
Thursday 5th October - National Poetry Day readings 2006
Identity: LIVERPOOL - City of Poets
North End Writers read 10 poems in 5 Liverpool libraries in the north end of the city on starting at Fazakerley (10 am), then Walton (11.30 am), Breck Road (1 pm), Norris Green (2.30 pm) and Kensington (4 pm).
These readings were designed as a celebration of many wonderful poets from Liverpool on a day that has taken Identity as its theme; also, for North End Writers, the readings had other purposes - to take poetry to people in the North of the city which, they believe, often misses out on cultural and creative opportunities and to raise some funds to help develop the work they are already doing, through sponsorship from friends and local businesses.
They read from the work of Felicia Hemans, John Tessimond, Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten, Deryn Rees Jones, Matt Simpson, Mohammad Khalil, Michael Murphy and Paul Farley. The reading concluded with a spoken version of the Beatles In My Life - performed as a love poem to the city itself.