Stanza News: Devon

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Exeter
Plymouth

Exeter (ExC¡te Poetry)
Contact: Rachel McCarthy 07854 598 552 or contact @ excitepoetry.org or www.excitepoetry.org)

Exeter Stanza LaunchExC¡te Poetry Launch: L to R Alisdair Paterson, Rachel McCarthy, Tony Frazer

ExC¡te Poetry is the Poetry Society Stanza for East Devon. Within 6 months ExCite became the largest group of its kind in the UK. Like all Stanzas, ExC¡te acts to increase the number of opportunities for people to read their work as well as listen to and learn about contemporary poetry. You can find out about all the activities ExC¡te is involved in by visiting our website - see above. Membership to ExC¡te is FREE, yes, you read that correctly.

You do not need to be a Poetry Society member to attend any of our events, although it often earns you discounted entry. Contact us to be added to our mailing list and kept up-to-date with poetry events in the area.

Plymouth Waterfront Writers 
Contact: Joan Bryant (j0an at cjbryant.co.uk or 01548 821 329)

Plymouth's Waterfront Writers meet in university term time at 1pm every Friday to read both prose and verse. For further information explore www.waterfrontwriters.org.uk

In addition, Stanza members hold occasional afternoon poetry readings and discussions.

In December the Plymouth Stanza enjoyed are judging the Plymouth Libraries poetry competition for adults and for three younger age groups: this is an annual delight. As Waterfront Writers the group has now published a third anthology of poems. One member, Joan Stansbury, won the Sonnet or Not competition run by Cannon Poets, and also the competition for a Poet in Residence with Baz Productions theatre company in London. Waterfront Writers meet to read verse and prose at 1.00 pm every Friday in term time - see details at www.waterfrontwriters.org.uk and have occasional extra Stanza meetings to discuss each other's poems in more detail.