Readings have taken place throughout a variety of venues around Liverpool such as Central Library in the Hornby Room, 33-45 Club, Bluecoat, The Planetarium and The Walker Art Gallery. Details listed below.
Neon Highway poetry readings
2004
Thursday July 8th
Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll
Matt Fallaize: Featured poet
Dave Ward
Alice Lenkiewicz
Carole Baldock
Dam Robinson
Bruno Darcy
Eugenie Kelly
August Thursday 19th
Postmodernism and Urban Life
Bill Griffiths: Featured poet
Eleanor Reese
Robert Sheppard
Scott Thurston
Andrew Taylor
Angela Keaton
Dave Ward
September Friday 17th
Dreams Myth and Magic
David Greygoose: featured poet
Eugenie Kelly
Eleanor Reese
Ursula Hurley
Jane Darcy-Lewis
Geraldine Green
Chas Johnson,
Joan Poulson
Stazia Lenkiewicz
Alice Lenkiewicz
Thursday October 14th
Secrets and Diaries
John Hall: featured poet
Robert Sheppard
Alice Lenkiewicz
Jane Darcy Lewis
Cath Nicols
Janine Pinion
Sudley House
A Text Performance by Robert Sheppard.
An alternative guide to the art collection at Sudley House, Liverpool.
To be performed in Sudley house itself by the author.
6th and 12th November 2004
2pm and 3pm
Robert will be reading his text performance as a guided tour.
Supported by the Learning Department of National Museums: Hosted by Neon Highway.
November Friday 19th
Journeys Near and Far/Health and identity
Sam Smith: featured poet
George Wallace: featured poet
Eugenie Kelly
Ursula Hurley
Alice Lenkiewicz
Carole Baldock
Carol Thislethwait
Dee Mcmahon
Poetry in the City
Capital of Culture.
April 10th, 2005
Allen Fisher
Guest Poet
The Walker Art Gallery
William Brown Street
Liverpool
Room 12
Poets from the Edge Hill Poetics Research Group will also be reading their work.
Robert Sheppard, Scott Thurston, Angela Keaton, Cliff Yates, Andrew Taylor, Alice Lenkiewicz and Matt Fallaize.
Steve Sneyd
The Planetarium
World Museum Liverpool
Saturday 29th April 2006
12-2pm
Philip Davenport with Tony Trehy and Ben Gwilliam:
performances and versions
A poetry event
at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Saturday 13th May
2.30pm - 4.30pm
Readings from The Fifth Floor
Sunday 25 January 2009, 16.30–17.50
Performance and reading. Jane Marsh (Editor of Neon Highway) and The Public Service Announcer played by Alice Lenkiewicz and Nigel Harrison, read poems influenced by text and thoughts concerning The Wall Street Crash of 1929. Their poems will be a response to artists and their work throughout The Fifth Floor project concerning the credit crunch and present day Liverpool. Listen to poets and writers reading their poems and prose in response to this theme, and musician Duncan Stuart will be performing.
Performance curated by Alice Lenkiewicz. Music composed by Duncan Stuart.
Performance will take place on the fourth floor as part of International Festival.
Tate Liverpool Fourth floor galleries
Free, no bookings taken
This event is related to the The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space exhibition