Crafty Crows May 2024 Edition – Featuring Frank McMahon
Wednesday, 1st May 2024, 7 pm to 9 pm.
Hosted by Genevieve Ray
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FREE tickets will be available from 30 days before this event. Available from Helm Tickets: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/gloucestershire-poetry-society/t-avkoqve
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Frank McMahon was born and raised in Birkenhead, Merseyside. After graduating he began his career in Social Work/ Welfare as a practitioner and manager, working for three Local Authorities, British Red Cross and ActionforChildren. He also served for nine years as a school governor. He is married with two children and six grandchildren.
Since moving to Cirencester, writing poetry has become an important part of his life. He is a member of two writers' groups and has been published online and in print. Palewell Press published his first two books, “At the Storm’s Edge” and “A Different Land.” He has won the Gloucestershire Writers Network poetry prize in 2022 and a second prize with Indigo Dreams.
His third book, “The Light will Always Return” was published in April by Tim Saunders Publications.
With others, he established Writers in the Library in Cirencester.
In 2023, he was involved with the National Initiative, Poetry Together, working with two schools that read their poems to audiences of older people and who were then shortlisted out of over 400 entries, winning £250 for their school library.
He keeps an allotment, enjoys walking, travel, sport. He is now a volunteer with the Cheltenham Poetry Festival.
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Please come along and enjoy an evening of poetic expression. Please note that open mic slots will be open 30 days prior to the event.
Event Housekeeping
1) This is an online event hosted via Zoom. The link to this event will be emailed to ticket holders and will be posted on the corresponding Facebook Page Event https://www.facebook.com/TheGloucestershirePoetrySociety on or shortly before the day of the event.
2) Please arrive 10 minutes early to help us to start on time - we aim to start at 7 pm or shortly after.
3) Please mute your mic during poetry readings/performances to enable everyone to enjoy the poet's work.
4) As a supportive space for poets, we allow attendees to clap each poet after they have finished as a show of appreciation.
5) A video recording will be made available on the Gloucestershire Poetry Society (GPS) YouTube Channel.
6) An audio recording and chat transcript will be made available on the GPS website.
Open Mic signup - 3-minute slot
1) Email craftycrows@gloucestershirepoetrysociety.co.uk to apply for an open mic slot.
2) Open mic slots become available from 30 days before the event.
3) Open mic slots are given on a first-come, first-serve basis.
4) A reserve list is held in case of cancellations.
5) If you have an open mic slot, please keep it within the 3 min allotted time. You may read 1-2 poems as long as they fit into your minutes.
6) Please be mindful of others and provide content warnings where necessary.
7) Your work will be classed as being published if shared during our events. This may affect submission opportunities for that work, so please only share work that you are happy to have published.
The society is run as a voluntary group by passionate poets. We rely on the goodwill and donations of our members and wider audience. Please spare a donation to help the society continue to run its events and bring people together in celebration of the written and spoken word.
