Open Mic poetry and song – bring your funny poems or songs and give us a laugh! A gaggle of local poets will be there doing it!

Raffle tickets for Peace Poetry prizes will be on sale.

This year is the centenary of the end of World War 1; and 11 November – Armistice Day – still represents peace in most of Western Europe, and in North America. To mark the occasion an event, Peace Poetry, will take place on 11 11 18 at 2.45. p.m. at Beckley, Oxford. A number of respected poets and musicians will be appearing, and each will produce a poem, in response to a World War I poem, with a vision of what peace is – for sure it isn’t just ‘no war’. To reach any goal, you need to know what it looks like.
On that date donations will be invited for Peace Direct, a brilliant charity working on the ground in conflict-ridden countries.

To put that event on will cost around £1000, including travel expenses for 2 poets coming from Europe, posters and programmes, minibus hire and ads in 2 national journals. (The venue provide a PA system.)

To cover these costs I am inviting contributions and holding a raffle; prizes include a week’s stay in a beautiful ‘trullo’ in Southern Italy, a month’s gym membership, prizewinning poetry books, wine, meals for 2, and much more. Tickets will be on sale at 'Laughter for Peace', this free event at Common Ground; come and enjoy sharing a laugh!