The Terrier

“Aes­thet­ica”, a great arts magazine, which star­ted in York but is now national (and avail­able in Bor­ders and WH Smith), holds an open mic poetry even­ing at the York­shire Ter­rier on Stone­g­ate, York, every 2^nd Wed­nes­day of the month.

The Ter­rier does great beer, all York Brewery’s products plus a vari­ety of guests, and the upper room has a great ambi­ence for poetry read­ing (and for a quiet pint when the poets aren’t there).

Last night was good — star­ted with Adrienne read­ing her sequence inspired by a song about York­shire fishermen’s super­sti­tion, and good con­tri­bu­tions from Oz, Dave, Sue, Rose and sev­eral oth­ers. And two amaz­ing sets from a bald Cana­dian, Jeff Cot­tirll, with a prodi­gious memory (so few of us com­mit our poems to memory) who gave us per­form­ance poetry includ­ing “the greatest per­form­ance poem”,“Sally dumps ?Johnny”, and “Oth­ello and the frog”. It’s quite com­mend­able that Aes­thet­ica sup­ports this little local event, now the magazine itself has become such a big player.