Infinite Forms

For this year's National Poetry Day, which is has the theme of 'Change', Back Room Poets are hosting this event together with the Oxford University Natural History Museum. 

The phrase 'Infinite Forms' was used by Darwin to express the endless change that natural selection generates among living organisms. Poets from Oxford and surrounding areas will read recent work inspired by the museum's collections, exhibitions and research. Readings will be followed by an open mic session for which you can sign up on the door. 

All welcome, but if  you would like to read in the main section, rather than the open mic, please contact us through our website and submit your poem in advance by 29 September, 12 noon.

Details for the reading:

Thu, October 4, 2018, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW

Free entry, but register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/infinite-forms-tickets-49212572128

Reading with Jane Griffiths

A poetry reading featuring  Jane Griffiths  

With Back Room Poets members Rip Bulkeley, David Burridge, Lou Hough, Jenyth Worsley,

and also  with Alice Willington

MC: Louise Larchbourne

Music by : Julia Hollander and Peter McMullin

At the

Vaults and Garden Cafe

University Church of St Mary the Virgin

(entrance from Radcliffe Square)

1 Radcliffe Square, University Church, Oxford OX1 4AH

Friday 28 September, 2018

7:30 pm

Entrance: £6

BRP Members & concessions £ 4

Events with Jane Draycott on 10 March: Poetry workshop and Veronica Beedham's book launch

Coming up:

Reading with Jane Draycott  and featuring the launch of Veronica Beedham's pamphlet A Sense of Place, 

(Overton Prize 2016) with Back Room Poets members Mark Leech and David Olsen on the evening of Saturday 10 March at 7 pm,

at the Friends' Meeting House in St Giles.

Entry £4 (£2 Back Room Poets members)

Workshop with Jane Draycott at the Friends Meeting House (St Giles), on Saturday 10 March 3-6pm.

Poems to be considered for the workshop (on any theme) are to be submitted for selection in advance by 20 February.

Full participants (workshopping poems): £20  (concessionary rate for  BRP members: £15);

Audience: £5

More details on the workshop (including how to submit poems) to be found on our website here.