“Poets in the Afternoon” is a distillation of the best of Poetry@3 – an open mic held on the first Thursday of every month at the Poetry Café in Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London. Here is a link to the Poetry Society's Members' bookshelf, where you will find details of the book and how to get a copy.
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The idea for Poetry@3 was born early in 2013 when Paul McGrane of the Poetry Society noticed that there was comedy, jazz, even drama around in London in the afternoon but very little in the way of live poetry. Didn‘t poets like having fun in the afternoon?
Paul put on the first Poetry@3 open mic. Success was immediate and continuing. He says “Poets DID want fun in the afternoon, they just weren’t getting any!”
A year and around 700 poems later, over a post-session drink in the Poetry Café, the Poets decided they’d like a book of some of their best work of 2013-14. Patrick Newton Daley, one of the Poets, compiled, edited, designed and published the pocket-sized book “Poets in the Afternoon”. Says Patrick, "I wanted to produce something small but beautiful that brought back that childhood delight in the discovery of books. I'm glad to say, I seem to have made a lot of people happy. The Poets love their little book. Most rewarding".
What’s so good about this Open Mic (apart from being the only one they know of)?
"Watching so many performance virgins become confident writers and performers has been heartwarming. We never know whom or what poetry we’re going to get. And the standard is so high. But maybe even more important is the generosity of the audience - not all of them poets!”
One young poet, Samuel George Mitchell, having lost his performance virginity in Poetry@3, compares it with losing the actual thing, “At least this time,” he says, someone applauded!”
At the launch of the book, a baker's dozen of the poets performed their short poem from the book - they had 45 seconds each. There are six of them in this Part One video..
Publication:"Poets in the Afternoon". Thirty-two Poets, sixty poems. Published (not for profit) by Red Corpuscle. ISBN 978-0-9929396-0-1

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