READINGS AND OTHER NEWS

I have some readings lined up for this season, three in London, one in Essex. To make sure the Spring really gets underway, I am presenting my new work under the title, The Fifth Season. Here are the details:

Saturday 21 March, 7 for 7.30pm:

AMBIT reading at NORTH HOUSE GALLERY, Manningtree, Essex

Donald Gardner, Dr Martin Bax (fiction) and local poet, Sally Festing

Art work: Dale Mann: Collages.

Entrance: £6, or £5 concessions (includes wine).

Venue: North House Gallery, TheWalls, Manningtree, Essex.

Contact: 01206 392717 www.northhousegallery.co.uk

Friday 27 March, 8 pm

Fourth Friday event, a regular at the Poetry Cafe, hosted by Hylda Sims and Liz Simock. Includes musicians and open mic.

Donald Gardner & Kate Foley, two UK poets from Amsterdam

Venue: The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2 (Covent Garden tube)

Contact: tel: 0207 420 9880; www.fourthfriday.co.uk

Entrance: £6, £5

Sunday 29 March, 7.30 pm

Donald Gardner & Kate Foley, two UK poets from Amsterdam. Plus Torriano’s famous open mic

Venue: Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, London NW5

(Kentish Town tube)

Contact: 0207 267 2751

Entrance: £4, £3, £2 or £1

Sunday 26 April, 8 pm

Donald Gardner and Naomi Foyle, two poets of stage and page

Venue: Pentameters Theatre, The Horseshoe, 29 Heath Street, Oriel Place, London NW 3 (1 minute, Hampstead Tube, buses 46 or 268)

Contact: 0207 4353648

Entrance: £8, £5

2008

Wednesday 11 June

Venue: Poetry International, Rotterdam, Rotterdamse Schouwburg, 8 minutes walk from Rotterdam Central Station.

Panel discussion: Donald Gardner (Remco Campert) with Hilde Pach, translator of Israeli poet Natan Zach, Adriaan van der Hoeven, translator of Finnish poet Risto Oikarinen. The panel will be chaired by Victor Schiferli, poet and former editor of De Bezige Bij publishers.

The idea is that each of the three translators will read a short paper on one poem by their chosen poet, after which there is time for questions and discussion. While the programme is in Dutch, my paper on Remco Campert’s poem ‘Op de Overtoom’ will be in English.

Entrance: Pay what you think appropriate when you leave. (This is a new idea introduced this year by Poetry International.)

For the rest of the festival programme and of this day in particular, go to here

Wednesday 7 May

Venue: Songbird Club at Cross Kings, 126 York Way, London N1 0AX. Kings Cross St. Pancras tube

Tuesday 6 May

Venue: Maggie’s Klinker, Maggie’s Bar, 98 Stoke Newington Church St, London N16 0AP. Bus: 73

Monday 5 May

Venue: Boat-Ting (New Music and Poetry Club), The Yacht Club, Temple Pier, Embankment, Opposite Temple tube

Sunday 16 March, 4 pm

An afternoon of poetry and music in Amsterdam with DONALD GARDNER, John Sinclair, Hans van Pinxteren, Kristian Kanstadt, Carla Boogards and Diana Ozon and The Kelvinators (acoustic punk)

Sunday 2 March, 7.30 pm

An evening of poetry and comedy by DONALD GARDNER, JOHN HEGLEY AND HELEN LEDERER. With musical interludes (guitar & harmonica) by Godfrey Old and Conrad Blakemore. Intr. Léonie Scott-Matthews. This is a special evening to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Pentameters.

Venue: Pentameters Theatre, The Horseshoe, 29 Heath Street, Oriel Place, Hampstead London NW3 (1 minute Hampstead tube, Buses 46 and 268)

Bookings: 0207 4353648

Entrance: ₤ 8; ₤ 5 concs.

Thursday 24 January, 6.30 for 7 pm.

Launch of Ambit 191. Poetry by DONALD GARDNER and JULIAN STANNARD, fiction by JUDY GAHAGAN, intr. DR MARTIN BAX.

This issue contains a set of my poems as well as a review by Paul Binding of ‘I Dreamed in the Cities at Night’.

Venue: The Owl Bookshop, 209 Kentish Town Road, London NW5. Turn left out of Kentish Town tube, walk for 5 minutes, the Owl is on the right. Buses: C2, 134, 214 and 46. Metered parking, free from 6.30pm.

Sunday 4^th November 7.30 pm

DONALD GARDNER and JOHN HEGLEY read/perform

Venue: Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, London NW5. (Kentish Town tube).
Tel: 0207 267 2751,
Entrance: £4, £3, £2 or £1

Wednesday 17th October, 6.30 pm

DONALD GARDNER will be reading for AMBIT magazine again. Other reader tobe announced later. Watch this space.

TIME: Starts 6.30 for 7pm
VENUE: The Bath House, 96 Dean St, Soho, London W1D. ENTRANCE ₤ 5 or ₤ 4 concs.

Tuesday 25 September, 8 pm

Remco Campert reads from his new book, ‘Dagboek van een poes’. In the second half of the programme Donald Gardner will read translations from ‘I Dreamed in the Cities at Night’, with Campert reading the originals.

Venue Nassaukerk, De Wittenkade 111, Amsterdam
Information: 0206389252 (Island Bookshop)
Entrance: € 6,50 and € 5.

Sunday, September 9

Recent weblinks

Interview: Donald Gardner was recently interviewed on a page of Scottish poet Dee Rimbaud’s website, ‘What Makes Poets Tick?’. This is an excellent series of interviews on a site that is full of information for poets. Check it out!

The site of Poetry International, Rotterdam (from 1 September) now includes pages about Remco Campert with an introduction by Donald Gardner and a selection of translations by Donald Gardner including some new ones. Check it out!

Friday 17 August 8 pm

Donald Gardner and Alan Brownjohn will be reading poetry at Pentameters on Fri 17 August. With musical interludes (guitar & harmonica) by Godfrey Old and Conrad Blakemore

Venue: Pentameters Theatre, The Horseshoe, 29 Heath Street, Oriel Place, Hampstead
London NW3 (1 minute Hampstead tube, Buses 46 and 268)
Bookings: 0207 4353648
Entrance: ₤ 8; ₤ 5 concs.

Sunday 12^th August 7.30 pm

DONALD GARDNER reads with Christopher Morgan and Rosemary Norman

Venue: Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, London NW5. (Kentish Town tube).
Tel: 0207 267 2751,
Entrance: £4, £3, £2 or £1

DONALD GARDNER is interviewed (in Dutch) by Joost Baars on Radio PingPong, a programme of Salto, a local Amsterdam radio station. He will talk about his translations of the poetry of Remco Campert and read from the book, 'I Dreamed in the Cities at Night'.

DONALD GARDNER presents his book of translations of poems by Remco Campert, ‘I Dreamed in the Cities at Night’

Venue: Perdu Bookshop, Kloveniersburgwal 86, 1012 CZ Amsterdam, Tel: 020.6276295

‘I Dreamed in the Cities at Night’, published in February 2007 by Arc Publications, Todmorden, U.K. is no. 18 of their ‘Visible Poets’ series of Modern Poets in Translation. For further details: www.arcpublications.co.uk

The event is free and there will be drinks after the reading. I will be reading and talking about my versions of Campert’s poems, and Joost Baars will be reading the original Dutch poems.

There is no need to make a reservation for this event.

DONALD GARDNER joins a number of Dutch poets (Thomas Möhlmann, Nachoem Wijnberg, Erik Linder, Bart F.M. Droog, Hagar Peeters and Ilse Starkenberg) in the programme, ‘Dutch Poetry for Dummies’, an introduction to Dutch poetry for an expatriate audience.

Reservations for this event (admission: 6 euros; 5 euros) at: perdu@perdu.nl or by phone: 020 - 627 6295.

DONALD GARDNER reads
At the Salon des Mots in Utrecht
Other performers (poets and musicians) during this evening are: Esther Mugambi (Aus), Maria Thijssen (NL), Al Galidi (Iraq), The Woodwards (NL).
Venue: Hofman Café, Janskerkhof 17a, Utrecht
Entrance: Free

DONALD GARDNER AND SUZI RAPOPORT read for AMBIT
Our regular series of readings featuring Ambit writers at Roxy Beaujolais' The Bountiful Cow pub in Holborn continues, introduced as ever by Ambit Editor Dr Martin Bax.

From the Ambit flyer:
Donald Gardner is an extraordinary reader of his work and this promises to be an extremely entertaining evening. He is author of the collections How To Get The Most Out of Your Jet Lag (Ye Olde Font Shoppe, 2001), and The Glittering Sea (Hearing Eye, 2006). Donald will be over from Amsterdam for a short time only so don't miss this event!

Suzi Rapoport is an engaging love poet whose work has appeared in Ambit for many years. She is also an artist whose work has been widely exhibited. She is from the UK, spent much of the 1970s living in Hollywood, and has travelled extensively, but now lives in North London.

VENUE: The Bountiful Cow pub, 51 Eagle Street, London WC1R
NEAREST TUBE: Holborn
ENTRANCE: £5 or £4 concs.
FOOD AND DRINK: full bar upstairs & excellent food available (not just steak!)

Up to 10 readers from the floor welcome to read a poem after the interval!

Publication of “I Dreamed in the Cities at Night” by Arc Publications as no. 18 in Arc’s ‘Visible Poets’ series (Editor: Jean Boase-Beier)

This is a selection of Donald Gardner’s translations of the poetry of Remco Campert with a translator’s preface by Donald Gardner and an introduction by Paul Vincent.

Bilingual text: Dutch / English on facing pages. See for buying this book and more information about it: www.arcpublications.co.uk

SUNDAY, 4TH FEBRUARY 8 pm.

Venue: Pentameters, The Three Horseshoes, 29 Heath Street, Oriel Place, Hampstead London NW3 (1 minute Hampstead tube, Buses 46 and 268)
Donald Gardner and Jehane Markham read their poetry. Musical interludes by Peter Cadle (guitar).
Tickets: £ 5. Box Office 020 7435 3648.

SUNDAY, 28TH JANUARY, 8.00 pm

Venue: Tongues and Grooves poetry, The Florence Arms, Florence Road, Southsea, Portsmouth
DONALD GARDNER, Michael Henry, Maggie Sawkins, and Tricia Torrington.
Music by Nick Molyneux and Tricia Torrington. Hosts Maggie Sawkins and Bluechrome Publishing. Launch of 'The Book of Hopes & Dreams' (Bluechrome), an anthology featuring Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Margaret Atwood and others. Funds to Spirit Aid, a charity providing medical support for people in villages in North East Afghanistan.
Entrance: £ 2.50 Enquiries: Maggie Sawkins: 02392 734180

2006

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH, 8 pm

DONALD GARDNER and other poets and musicians
Venue: Nachttheater Sugar Factory, Lijnbaansgracht 238, Amsterdam
Admission: 5 euros

SATURDAY, 28TH OCTOBER, 7:00 pm

DONALD GARDNER and others in the London Launch of 'The Book of Hopes & Dreams' (Bluechrome), an anthology featuring Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy, Margaret Atwood, and other contemporary poets. Funds go to Spirit Aid that provides medical support for people in villages in North-East Afghanistan.
Venue: The United Reform Church, Buck Street. Camden NW1 (1 minute Camden Town Tube ).
Tickets: £4 / £3(conc.) M.C. Ruth O'Callaghan

SUNDAY, 8 OCTOBER, 3pm

Amsterdam launch of The Glittering Sea
Venue: Island Bookstore, Westerstraat 15, 1015LT Amsterdam
Entrance free

SATURDAY, 16 SEPTEMBER, 4 pm

Amsterdam launch of The Glittering Sea
Venue: At Boekie Woekie artists’ bookshop, Wolvenstraat 16, Amsterdam
Entrance free..

FRIDAY, 17 JUNE, 7.30 pm. 6:30 for 7:00pm.

DONALD GARDNER and MIMI KHALVATI
Venue: Trinity United Reformed Church, Kentish Town Road (corner Buck Street), Camden Town, NW1 8JN.
Tube: Camden Town.
Wine available, Proceeds to the Cold Weather Shelter for the Homeless.

SUNDAY, 11 JUNE, 7.30 pm.

Book Launch of DONALD GARDNER 's new collection, The Glittering Sea (Hearing Eye Press).
Venue: Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, London NW5. (Kentish Town tube).
Tel: 0207 267 2751,
Entrance: £4, £3, £2 or £1

SUNDAY, 5 FEBRUARY, 8 - 11 PM

DONALD GARDNER and other poets and musicians
Venue: Nachttheater Sugar Factory, Lijnbaansgracht 238, Amsterdam
Admission: 5 euros

MONDAY, 27 FEBRUARY, 7 PM

AMBIT READING. Donald Gardner, introduced by Martin Bax.
Venue: Chelsea Arts Club, 143 Old Church St. London SW
Admission: £5 (including glass of wine). Dinner available afterwards.

2005

FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER, 8 PM

Fourth Friday reading. DONALD GARDNER, Anna Robinson, John Godfrey and musicians Dave Ellis & Boo Howard.
Venue: The Poetry CafÚ, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H PBP. Tel: 020 7420 9888.
Admission £5 or £4 (concessions).
Plenty to consume beside the poetry. www.fourthfriday.co.uk æ

SUNDAY 30 OCTOBER, 7.30 pm.

Torriano Poets reading series. DONALD GARDNER with Ros Kane and Nicolette Golding
Venue: Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Ave, London NW5. (Kentish Town tube).
Tel: 0207 267 2751,
Admission: £4, £3, £2 or £1

THURSDAY 20th JANUARY 6.30pm.

Launch of AMBIT magazine, no. 179, with 3 new poems by Donald Gardner.
Donald Gardner and Jehane Markham will read poetry, and Dai Vaughan fiction.
Venue: The Owl Bookshop, 209 Kentish Town Road, London NW5.
(Left out of Kentish Town tube, walk for 5 mins, the Owl is on the right.)
Entrance: free

2004

SUNDAY 5 DECEMBER, 7.30 pm.

Donald Gardner will be reading new poetry with Mira Mehta in the Torriano Poets reading series
at the Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Ave, London NW5. (Kentish Town tube).
Tel: 0207 267 2751,
Entrance: £4, £3, £2 or £1

THURSDAY 11 NOVEMBER 8.00 pm

Open Stanza reading. DONALD GARDNER other poets and musicians
Volta, Houtmanskade 336, Amsterdam
Entrance: 5 euros

MONDAY 5 JULY 8 pm

DONALD GARDNER reads with Martin Bax.
Venue: the Chelsea Arts Club, 143 Old Church Street, London SW3

FRIDAY 18 MAY

DONALD GARDNER, Naomi Foyle and Maria Jastrzebska, 8 pm read in the Brighton Festival.
The Open House, 146 Springfield Road, Brighton.

2003

SATURDAY AUGUST 9

DONALD GARDNER, John Rety and Paul Birtill.
PENTAMETERS 35th anniversary celebrations.
Venue: Pentameters Theatre, the Three Horseshoes, 28 Heath St, Hampstead NW3

MONDAY 28 APRIL

7pm for readings 7.30pm followed by dinner 8.30pm until late.
Venue: the Chelsea Arts Club, 143 Old Church Street, London SW3
Tickets: £28 (dinner and wine included)

TUESDAY 4TH MARCH DONALD GARDNER and D C Jeffreys read for Ambit Magazine.

Venue: Princess Louise (208 High Holborn, WC1V) upstairs 7.30pm
£4 /£3 concessions

2009

Saturday 21 March, 7 for 7.30pm:

Friday 27 March, 8 pm

Sunday 29 March, 7.30 pm

Sunday 26 April, 8 pm

2008

Wednesday 11 June

Wednesday 7 May

Tuesday 6 May

Monday 5 May

Sunday 16 March, 4 pm

Sunday 2 March, 7.30 pm

An evening of poetry and comedy by DONALD GARDNER, JOHN HEGLEY AND HELEN LEDERER. With musical interludes (guitar & harmonica) by Godfrey Old and Conrad Blakemore. Intr. Léonie Scott-Matthews. This is a special evening to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Pentameters.

Venue: Pentameters Theatre, The Horseshoe, 29 Heath Street, Oriel Place, Hampstead London NW3 (1 minute Hampstead tube, Buses 46 and 268)

Bookings: 0207 4353648

Entrance: ₤ 8; ₤ 5 concs.

Thursday 24 January, 6.30 for 7 pm.

Sunday 4th November 7.30 pm

DONALD GARDNER and JOHN HEGLEY read/perform

Venue: Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, London NW5. (Kentish Town tube). Tel: 0207 267 2751, Entrance: £4, £3, £2 or £1

Wednesday 17th October, 6.30 pm

DONALD GARDNER will be reading for AMBIT magazine again. Other reader tobe announced later. Watch this space. TIME: Starts 6.30 for 7pm VENUE: The Bath House, 96 Dean St, Soho, London W1D. ENTRANCE ₤ 5 or ₤ 4 concs.

Tuesday 25 September, 8 pm

Remco Campert reads from his new book, ‘Dagboek van een poes’. In the second half of the programme Donald Gardner will read translations from ‘I Dreamed in the Cities at Night’, with Campert reading the originals.

Venue Nassaukerk, De Wittenkade 111, Amsterdam Information: 0206389252 (Island Bookshop) Entrance: € 6,50 and € 5.

Sunday, September 9

Recent weblinks

Interview: Donald Gardner was recently interviewed on a page of Scottish poet Dee Rimbaud’s website, ‘What Makes Poets Tick?’. This is an excellent series of interviews on a site that is full of information for poets. Check it out!

The site of Poetry International, Rotterdam (from 1 September) now includes pages about Remco Campert with an introduction by Donald Gardner and a selection of translations by Donald Gardner including some new ones. Check it out!

Friday 17 August 8 pm

Donald Gardner and Alan Brownjohn will be reading poetry at Pentameters on Fri 17 August. With musical interludes (guitar & harmonica) by Godfrey Old and Conrad Blakemore

Venue: Pentameters Theatre, The Horseshoe, 29 Heath Street, Oriel Place, Hampstead London NW3 (1 minute Hampstead tube, Buses 46 and 268) Bookings: 0207 4353648 Entrance: ₤ 8; ₤ 5 concs.

Sunday 12th August 7.30 pm

DONALD GARDNER reads with Christopher Morgan and Rosemary Norman

Venue: Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, London NW5. (Kentish Town tube). Tel: 0207 267 2751, Entrance: £4, £3, £2 or £1

Sunday 4^th November 7.30 pm

Venue: Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, London NW5. (Kentish Town tube).
Tel: 0207 267 2751,
Entrance: £4, £3, £2 or £1

DONALD GARDNER will be reading for AMBIT magazine again. Other reader tobe announced later. Watch this space.

TIME: Starts 6.30 for 7pm
VENUE: The Bath House, 96 Dean St, Soho, London W1D. ENTRANCE ₤ 5 or ₤ 4 concs.

Venue Nassaukerk, De Wittenkade 111, Amsterdam
Information: 0206389252 (Island Bookshop)
Entrance: € 6,50 and € 5.

Venue: Pentameters Theatre, The Horseshoe, 29 Heath Street, Oriel Place, Hampstead
London NW3 (1 minute Hampstead tube, Buses 46 and 268)
Bookings: 0207 4353648
Entrance: ₤ 8; ₤ 5 concs.

Sunday 12^th August 7.30 pm

Venue: Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, London NW5. (Kentish Town tube).
Tel: 0207 267 2751,
Entrance: £4, £3, £2 or £1