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| John McCullough, Maria Jastrzebska, Michaela Ridgway and Jeremy Page at the NVT |
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| John McCullough wriggling his toes |
Frogmore celebrated thirty
years of publishing this month with events at the New Venture Theatre, Brighton
(compered by Managing Editor, Alexandra Loske) on 5 May and the Poetry Café, Betterton Street, Covent Garden (compered by Frogmore
Papers editor Jeremy Page) on 15 May. Readers in Brighton – JohnMcCullough, Maria Jastrzebska, Jeremy Page and Michaela Ridgway – had the
surreal experience of reading from the set of Sartre’s Huis Clos, which
was mid-run at the NVT.
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| Managing Editor Alexandra Loske on a faux Regency phone cabinet |
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| Maria Jastrzebska reclining on the chaise-longue |
Readers in
London – John Mackay, Abegail Morley, Jeremy Worman and Tamar Yoseloff –
provided both poetry and prose between them, the evening concluding with
founding editor Jeremy Page reading a short selection of favourite poems
published in The Frogmore Papers down the years.
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| Jeremy Page and André Evans at the Folkestone Amphiteatre |
An
appreciative audience heard André read from his introduction to the first issue of The
Frogmore Papers and also his co-founder’s 1983 ‘Requiem for Frogmore’. Jeremy read a poem originally commissioned by
Kent Arts and Libraries for its ‘Century of Kent Writers’ project, evoking
Folkestone’s unlikely associations with Charles Dickens, Samuel Beckett and
Philip Larkin, before concluding his reading with a selection of
Flexostructuralist poems by Bob Mitchell. Mitchell’s work was championed by the
Frogmore Press in the 1980s and 1990s, culminating in the publication of the
now very rare and much sought after classic Bush Klaxon Has A Body Like
A Trio Sonata in 1991.
Coming next from Frogmore:
On 1 July issue 7 of morphrog,
Frogmore’s online journal, will go live.
In July, the results of the
27th Frogmore Poetry Prize, adjudicated by Stephanie Norgate, will
be announced. The deadline for entries
is 31 May.
In September number 82 of The
Frogmore Papers will be published.
The issue will feature the Frogmore Prize shortlist and a cover by
Rye-based artist Leah Fusco.
