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The Purple Poets
The
Purple Poets
Bloomsbury Workshop
Kim Morrissey
Workshop Leader
Under Kim's guidance, The Purple Poets (and Friends) celebrate two
major events each year: They host The Camden National Poetry Day
Postcard Poems Reading every first Friday in October in the Camden
Town Hall, with the Mayor of Camden (everyone welcome) and they read found
poetry from the Quaker Library archives at Hiroshima Day, Tavistock
Square every August 6th. They also support festivals
celebrating International Women's Week (the first week in March) and
Camden Green Fair (every first Sunday in June). As part of the Bloomsbury
Workshop, they give readings and workshops at conferences, festivals and
poetry venues, and host communal readings to support other Writing Workshops
and their activities. Kim Morrissey, poet and playwright,
has been their workshop leader since 2005.
Kim Morrissey’s poetry books
include Batoche and Poems For Men Who Dream of
Lolita, and her plays include Dora: A Case of Hysteria (Nick
Hern Books, 1994), Clever
As Paint: The Rossettis in Love,
and Mrs.
Ruskin (forth-coming from Aark Arts, edited by Sudeep
Sen). She is the workshop
leader for The Purple Poets
(www.purplepoets.com) and was one of the long-list judges for the 2012
Mayor of London’s Young Person’s
100 Great Things About The
Olympics Poetry Contest (helping to read roughly 1200 poems
to create a shortlist of 30). Her last workshop
was Turning Purple: Poetry
in Pictures (Photographs + Poetry = Postcards) at the Margate
Turner Gallery in April 2012, working with the talented members of the East
Kent Mencap Photography Group (www.eastkentmencap.co.uk). Two of her
‘Ophelia’ poems are part of Jo Wonder’s art
installation 6 Days Good-bye
Poems of Ophelia, on display until June 7, 2012 in The Belfry
of St. John on Bethnal Green - just across the road from Bethnal Green
tube station (www.jowonder.com).
Kim's latest book review is in the Spring 2012 issue of London Grip International
Culture Magazine (www.londongrip.co.uk)
Poetry Review Spring
2012 – Peter Daniels
KIm Morrissey reviews Counting Eggs – the new collection
by Peter Daniels. COUNTING EGGS by Peter Daniels Cardiff:
Mulfran Press, April 2012 ...
www.londongrip.co.uk/2012/05/poetry-review-spring-2012-daniels/
HEAR
KIM READING POEMS FROM ATLAS 02:
http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/issue.asp?id=642
WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS BY KIM MORRISSEY:
exploring poetic techniques
collective poems
translating poetry
writing poetic drama for children
how to plan a Poetry Festival or Conference
Purple Poets Cook!
Poetry on a Platter:
PROJECT:
ARTS FOR ALL | ACCESS FOR ALL
-- working with local community galleries, libraries and
museums
PAST READINGS BY KIM MORRISSEY
August 6th 2011
Purple Poets and Friends and Peace
Hiroshima Day, Tavistock Square
Tuesday 16.10 2010
Purple Poets and Friends and Peace
Kim read in Copenhagen,
leading participating poets
(including Hether Spears and Lennox Raphael)
in a found poetry workshop, using the Hetty Bower
dvd from Camden National Poetry Day 2010
as source material.
Thursday 18.10.2010
Kim reading to the Copenhagen Poets Group
(with visiting Amsterdam poets)
Friday August 6, 2010
Purple Poets and Friends and Peace
Hiroshima Day, Tavistock Square
Thursday April 22, 2010
Purple Poets and Friends and Peace
Quaker Centre, 2:30 p.m
First Sunday in June:
Camden Green Fair
Regent's Park
Thursday October 8, 2009
Camden Town Hall
National Poetry Day Celebration
2 p.m. - 4 p.m.
(with Mayor of Camden, Councillor Ansari)
Friday, May 29, 2009
(evening)
Arch 635
15-16 Lendal Terrace,
Clapham North, London, SW4 7UX
hosted by producer: Emma Fleming
If You Dare Productions
http://www.ifyoudareproductions.co.uk/ |
If he won
he won
if you won
it was only a game.
(from Batoche, Coteau Books, 1989)
"At first, the new Prairie poets were mostly
male, but in time a number of important women poets have appeared, including
Anne Campbell, Lorna Crozier, Leona Gom, Kim Morrissey and Anne Szumigalski.
"
The Canadian Encyclopedia
"Poetry in English"
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/ |
Kim Morrissey is a poet, playwright, editor, researcher
and radio dramatist. All her books (poetry and plays) are taught at university
level; Batoche is also taught at secondary school level in Canada.
Her most recent stage play is Mrs Ruskin , produced by Theatre Metropolis
(Warehouse Theatre, Croydon, 2003).
Kim was a commissioned writer for BBC Radio 4's political satire comedy sketch
show WeekEnding (1994-1995, executive producer Gareth Edwards) which also
aired on the BBC World Service.
She researched and wrote This is My First Wife: a Hundred Years of James
Thurber (BBC Radio 4 documentary, Christmas 1994, producer Gareth Edwards)
and conceived and researched Rhymes With Orange a poetry pilot quiz
for Radio 4, taped at the Poetry Society, autumn 1996.
She has done readings and workshops at the Open University Summer School
in York and taught Play Analysis at Rose Bruford College for Drama (Sidcup,
England).
Kim gave a rare poetry reading at the launch of
Atlas 01, the Literary Magazine (edited by Sudeep Sen), Lauderdale
House, Highgate on June 8th 2006 and then again at the Nehru Centre, Mayfair,
on June 9th 2006. She read again at the launch of Atlas 02,
in 2007, at the Nehru Centre, with Rose Hacker in attendence.
Kim Morrissey
Imagine
Rose Dancing
(for Rose Hacker)
recorded 09.07.2008
at the Saison poetry Library
Also read at the London launch
of Atlas 02 (edited by Sudeep Sen)
with Rose as an invited guest
Nehru Centre, 14.07.2007
London
Imagine Rose Dancing:
Rose Hacker's Dance Performance in Bloomsbury
February 24, 2007
Imagine Rose dancing
white lace at her throat
dark dress falling shoulders
to floor
the lights catching stage dust
the slow curve of thin wrists
suspended
Rose dancing,
still turning heads
each breath that she takes
lemon-sweet
imagine Rose dancing
to one-hundred-and-one
imagine Rose dancing
and dance!
HEAR
KIM READING THIS POEM, AND OTHERS, ATLAS 02:
http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/issue.asp?id=642
BOOKS:
Batoche
(Regina: Coteau Books, 1989)
Poem For Men Who Dream of Lolita
(Regina: Coteau Books, 1992)
five poems reprinted in Mythic Women/Real Women
(edited by Lizbeth Goodman, published by Faber,
Open University textbook, Women Studies)
Dora: A Case of Hysteria
(London: Nick Hern Books 1994)
Clever as Paint: the Rossettis in Love
(Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 1998)
(distributed by Nick Hern Books in Europe)
Mrs Ruskin (forth-coming from Aark Arts Books)
CHILDREN'S PLAYS:
Raisins and Almonds
(adapted from the novel by Fredelle Maynard)
a play for Christmas
available from Playwrights Guild of Canada
Snow White and the Three Dwarves
a play for Christmas
available from Playwrights Guild of Canada
OTHER INTERNET SITES FEATURING
KIM MORRISSEY'S WORK:
Coteau Books in Schools (Secondary School Level)
Batoche Study Guide
http://www.cenlyt.com/Batoche/start.htm
(includes first nation lesson plan suitable for
secondary students by Wilma Riley)
Hypertext Poetry Workshop (London, England) Site
http://www.btinternet.com/~carpenter/home1.htm
University of Toronto 'Canadian Poets' Site
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/morrissey
Playwrights Guild of Canada Site
http://www.playwrightsguild.com/pgc/main.asp
The Comedy Collective
(UK)
HISTORY OF THE POETRY PROJECT
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Books and Plays By Kim Morrissey
Batoche |
Poems For Men Who Dream of Lolita |
Dora: A Case of Hysteria |
Clever as Paint:
The Rossettis in Love |
Mrs. Ruskin
(forthcoming from Aark Arts) |
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POETRY |
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PAST READINGS BY KIM
MORRISSEY
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DECEMBER 14 - 18, 2008
DELHI INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL
www.atlasaarkarts.net/dilf
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Kim Morrissey was one of twenty International writers
invited to read at the Delhi International literature Festival. The DILF
reading events were part of the wider month-long multi-arts multi-venue Delhi
International Arts Festival [DIAF] with events in India's capital city of
New Delhi and at the Neemrana Fort Palace in Rajasthan. During these days
writers are invited to read from their work, meet Indian writers, editors,
critics, publishers, and other international guest writers. In addition they
visited sites in the historic Mughal city of Delhi (and Rajasthan).
August 30, 2008
Copenhagen
(www.2020visions.dk)
Kim read at the 20/20 Visions Arts Festival
Kulturhus, Islands Brygge
Copenhagen
Dennmark
Kim
read at the digital book launch of
Atlas 02 at the Poetry Library
South Bank Centre, 5th Floor
Royal Festival Hall
July 9th 2008 at 8 p.m.
Guardian
Review of the launch of ATLAS 02
July 14, 2007 at the Nehru Centre
South Audley Street, London
www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/aug/11/featuresreviews.guardianreview22
--perhaps the most heartfelt applause was for the British-based Canadian
writer Kim Morrissey. She had drawn attention to 101-year-old Rose Hacker
in the audience, a pioneering sex therapist in the 1930s (and still a feisty
columnist for the Camden New Journal) who inspired Morrissey earlier this
year to write the poem "Imagine Rose Dancing".- Nicholas Wroe
June 29th 2008
Pentameters Theatre
Kim read at the book launch of
DIVERS by the Poetry Workshop
(25th Anniversary Anthology)
(other readers included Jane Draycott,
Lesley Saunders, Sudeep Sen)
April 15th, 2008
London Book Fair
[Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. until late]
Thomas Haliburton evening
333 Club event sponsors:
Network Canada and London Book Fair
KIM MORRISSEY
[reading with: Annie Freud, Ashis Gupta, John Stiles,
Rebecca Bloom, Joey Comeau]
333 Fulham Road, London SW10 9Ql
http://www.networkcanada.org/
Thursday, February 15th 2007
poetry reading - Poetry in the House
Lauderdale House, Highgate, at 8 p.m.
(guests: Rose Hacker, Bernard Miller)
Kim gave a rare poetry reading at the launch of
Atlas 01, the Literary Magazine (edited by Sudeep Sen), Lauderdale
House, Highgate on June 8th 2006 and then again at the Nehru Centre, Mayfair,
on June 9th 2006. She read again at the launch of Atlas 02,
in 2007, at the Nehru Centre, with Rose Hacker in attendence.
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'ThePurples' create community projects promoting the 5 P's:
People, Poetry, Plants, Purple and Picnics
(our major project is Camden National Poetry
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We also are keen on International Women's Day,
Local Summer Festivals and Green Fairs,
Disability Access, Friends of the Park, Tenants' Rights
Constitutions, and anything else our members find interesting
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